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Astronaut Frank Rubio and his fellow cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after more than a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Their mission was supposed to last six months, but a leak in their capsule forced them to wait for a replacement spacecraft.