Down to Earth
AFP PHOTO / POOL / MAXIM SHIPENKOV
A landing module of the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M space craft carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and US NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, lands some 150 kms to the east of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan on September 7, 2016. The ISS space laboratory has been orbiting Earth at about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,400 miles per hour) since 1998.
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