soyuz lands safely, rattles nerves

from ap: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications. NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 93 miles southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan at 10 a.m. local time after 164 days in space.