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Almost killed three astronauts today!

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-member crew, including South Korea's first astronaut, landed Saturday in Kazakhstan about 420 kilometers from the planned landing area, Russia's Interfax news agency said.

A South Korean bioengineer was on board the Soyuz capsule.

Interfax reported that the spacecraft's landing was rough. Earlier, Sergei Puzanov, the NASA representative at Russian Space Mission Control, said that all the crewmembers were fine.
The Soyuz capsule was originally supposed to land 80 kilometers north of the Kazakh community of Arkalyk, Interfax said.
A helicopter carrying a rescue team intercepted a radio signal from the landing capsule and was heading toward it, Russian Space Mission Control told Interfax.
This is not the first time a spacecraft veered from its planned trajectory during landing.
In October 2007, the Soyuz capsule landed 70 kilometers from the planned area because of a damaged control cable. The capsule was carrying two Russian cosmonauts and the first Malaysian astronaut.
The three crewmembers who landed Saturday included biosystems engineer Yi So-Yeon, South Korea's first astronaut in space. She blasted off this month for a mission to conduct scientific experiments aboard the International Space Station.
Yi returned to earth along with U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who arrived at the space station in October. E-mail to a friend