MISSION CONTROL (Moscow Region), October 21 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler aboard undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday and is heading for Earth.
The spacecraft is to bring back to Earth Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov after six months of their stay at the world's sole orbiter as members of the ISS 15th expedition, along with Malaysian Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who arrived at the station on October 12.
The crew, which also includes the Malaysian space traveler, is in good health and high spirits. "Now the most important thing is that they all go through the descent and the landing," Valery Lyndin, a spokesman for the Mission Control, said.
The landing capsule Soyuz is expected to land at around 2:32 p.m. Moscow time (10:32 a.m. GMT) some 85 kilometers (53 miles) north of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, the spokesman said.
