A Russian space capsule landed about 420km off course in Kazakhstan on Saturday but the three-member crew was safe, an official at the mission control centre said. ”The capsule landed with an overshoot. Such things happen,” said mission control spokesperson Valery Lyndin. It landed about 20 minutes past its scheduled time.
South Korea’s first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, blasted off into space on Tuesday, prompting her mother, apparently overwhelmed by the occasion, to scream and fall to the ground. In another historic first, one of her fellow cosmonauts, Sergei Volkov, followed in the footsteps of his father, celebrated cosmonaut Alexander Volkov.