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    MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A Russian spaceship carrying the world's third space tourist and an outgoing two-man crew of the International Space Station (ISS) landed successfully Tuesday in Kazakhstan, bringing the trio back to Earth after their sojourn on the orbiting laboratory.

In this image taken from video, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (L) waves just before closing the hatch aboard the space capsule Soyuz, as US scientist Greg Olsen looks on Oct. 10.  (AP Photo/NASA TV)

    Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, US astronaut John Phillips and US space traveler Gregory Olsen touched down in a Soyuz capsule on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan, the Mission Control outside Moscow said.

    Search planes and helicopters were on call to find the spacecraft, which traveled about 400 km in just three and a half hours for its return flight.

    The landing marked an exciting finishing touch for the 10-day space tour of Olsen, who reportedly paid 20 million US dollars to ride aloft on a Soyuz to visit the station.

    Krikalev and Phillips, having logged 179 days in orbit, left behind Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and NASA astronaut William McArthur, who reached the ISS on Oct. 3 and will be busy keeping the station ticking over for the next six months. Enditem