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Ground support personnel are seen waiting to take off in their helicopter to support the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft, landing with International Space Station (ISS) crew members NASA astronaut Steve Swanson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, at Dzhezkazgan September 11, 2014. Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut returned to Earth on Wednesday, capping a nearly six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Riding inside a Russian Soyuz capsule, former station commander U.S. astronaut Swanson and cosmonauts Skvortsov and Artemyev landed southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 8:23 a.m. Thursday (10:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday/02:23 GMT). (Photo by Bill Ingalls/Reuters/NASA)
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