Space tourist, Russians return from space

MOSCOW -- Space officials say a Soyuz capsule carrying an American and two Russians back to Earth has touched down on target in Kazakhstan.

Russian Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said the crew of the TMA-12 felt fine after the landing at 9:37 a.m. Friday.

A NASA TV announcer said Russian helicopters were landing at the site near Arkalyk in north-central Kazakhstan to fetch the crew.

American Richard Garriott paid some $30 million for a 10-day stay on the space station. He is the son of a NASA astronaut and the first American to follow a parent into space. Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko spent six months on the station.