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Tim Peake returns from space
18 June 2016
By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website
UK astronaut Tim Peake is back on Earth after a historic six-month stay on the International Space Station.
A Soyuz capsule carrying Major Peake and two other crew members touched down in Kazakhstan at 10:15 BST.
During the mission, Tim Peake found time to make the first spacewalk by a UK astronaut, remotely steer a robot on Earth and run the London Marathon.
He is the first person to fly to space under the UK banner since Helen Sharman in 1991.
His 186-day mission has taken him on about 3,000 orbits of Earth, covering a distance of about 125 million km.
"The best ride I've been on ever," was how Major Peake described the journey back, after he exited the capsule.
