Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide waves shortly after landing near the town of Arkalyk, northern Kazakhstan, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, touched down in the dark, chilly expanses of central Kazakhstan onboard a Soyuz capsule Monday after a 125-day stay at the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Sergei Remezov, Pool)
A Russian Soyuz space capsule made a rare nighttime landing in the frigid steppes of Kazakhstan early Nov. 19, returning three astronauts to Earth after a four-month voyage to the International Space Station.