Space Station 'nauts touch down on Kazakh steppe

Three International Space Station crew have made it safely back home, landing early this morning in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz TMA-04M. Astronaut Sunita Williams during Expedition 32 spacewalk Cosmonauts commander Gennady Padalka, flight engineer Sergei Revin and NASA astronaut and flight engineer Joe Acaba touched down just …

[Alister]

>>The station will get a bit more crowded up

What's wrong with being merely crowded?

[Robin]

One more thing..

The term 'naut is a bit overused as well. Once in the context of a "Nasa 'Naut" is fair enough, because it alliterates nicely.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: One more thing..

Yes, but 'naut is neutral - can be taken to mean cosmonaut or astronaut (or, in this case, both) - wouldn't want to offend people on here, would we??

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: One more thing..

Also Taikonaut, these days.

[Magister]

News item

Which of the following items will be on the main news:

"Highly sophisticated programme of space exploration continues with the safe return of 3 brave individuals"

"The wife of the heir to the British throne is a woman and has breasts"

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: News item

I eagerly await the first nude photos of a female 'naut taken with a telephoto lens from Earth.

[John H Woods]

Welcome home guys ...

... and well done.

[frankothemountain2]

Welcome Back

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