ISS crew undocks for trip back to Earth

MOSCOW, September 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Two Russian cosmonauts and an
American astronaut undocked from the International Space Station in a
Soyuz spacecraft overnight and are scheduled to land in the steppes of
Kazakhstan in Central Asia at approximately 0400 GMT on Friday.
Returning home are NASA astronaut Ron Garan and cosmonauts Andrey
Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev. The three men lived in space for 164
days and formed half of the space station's six-man crew.
Another spacecraft, Soyuz 28, with NASA astronaut Daniel Burbank and
cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov is set to launch from
Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 14 and arrive at the space station two
days later.
Initially the liftoff of Soyuz 28 was scheduled in September but was
postponed following a failed launch of a cargo ship last month. A
malfunction in the gas generator in the Soyuz rocket's third stage engine
caused the failure. The Soyuz and its cargo ship, called Progress 44,
crashed in Siberia.
After the accident NASA and Russia's Federal Space Agency agreed to
ground all ISS-bound flights until the cause was determined.