Ground crew members helps U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in north-central Kazakhstan Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian-American crew has touched down on target in Kazakhstan after a descent from the international space station, safely delivering the first two men to follow their fathers into space.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- A Russian Soyuz capsule with two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. space tourist aboard landed safely in Kazakhstan as scheduled on Friday.

    The capsule returned at about 9:37 a.m. (0337 GMT), and the two Russian crew, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Konon, felt fine, said Russian Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin.

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott lands not far from the the Kazakh town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan October 24, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    The TV channel of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) called the on-target landing flawless.

    NASA also said Russian helicopters had arrived at the landing site of the capsule in north-central Kazakhstan to fetch the crew.

    U.S. millionaire Richard Garriott, aged 47 and son of a former astronaut with NASA, paid some 30 million U.S. dollars for the journey. He is world's sixth space tourist and also the first American to follow a parent into space.

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott lands not far from the the Kazakh town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan October 24, 2008.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

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