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MOSCOW, May 6 American space tourist Dennis Tito s eight-day mission aboard the International Space Station ended safely on Sunday when the Russian-made Soyuz aircraft carrying the California businessman and two cosmonauts landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Tito, 60, was visibly excited but fatigued by the trip, gave a thumbs-up sign as he was helped out of the Soyuz-TM31 capsule after it landed at 12:41 p.m. local time (1:41 a.m.EDT) near the town of Arkalyk, 186 miles (300 kilometers) west of Kazakhstan s capital, Astana.
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The capsule had undocked from the space station 10.21 p.m. EDT Saturday and orbited Earth once before returning Tito, commander Talgat Musabayev and flight engineer Yuri Baturin.