why the Americans won the space race

[Gonz]

For all the problems NASA has, at least we know where they are.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan - A Russian capsule safely returned two astronauts and a cosmonaut from the international space station (news - web sites) on Sunday, but the landing, nearly 300 miles off target, triggered a nerve-racking two-hour search in the steppes of central Asia.

The three men were finally spotted in the vast, brown, barren stretch of Kazakhstan by a recovery plane and waved to show they were fine. Helicopters arrived for them an hour or two later.

Yahoo

 

[Leslie]

wow, that's lucky, considering the BIG miscalculation on the landing

 

[chcr]

[Russian Accent]They were on the scope, Vladimir, Then they were gone![/Russian Accent]

 

[ris]

i'm using russian vehicle recovery from now on, those guys clearly can find anything. direct line rescue on the other hand, couldn't find me on a clearly marked stretch of road within a 5 mile radius.

 

[G4]

Well, I´m happy that they´re alive and well.

I´ve been told, from people that have seen Kazakhstan from the airplane on their way to China that you DON´T want to get lost there...