Mir crew lands

Cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and Slovak guest cosmonaut Ivan Bella returned to earth on Soyuz TM28 on 28 February. Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev began their shift aboard the Mir last August. Avdeyev is still aboard with Frenchman Jean-Pierre Haignere and new commander Viktor Afanasyev, who arrived with Bella on ...

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