Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov talks on a satellite phone shortly after the Russian Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule landed, southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, September 11, 2014. Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut returned to Earth on Wednesday, capping a nearly six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Riding inside a Russian Soyuz capsule, former station commander U.S. astronaut Steve Swanson and cosmonauts Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev landed southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 8:23 a.m. Thursday (10:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday/0223 GMT). REUTERS/Maxim Shipenkov/Pool (KAZAKHSTAN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY POLITICS)