European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium (R) and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko (L) take part in the traditional bread-and-salt welcoming ceremony in Star City outside Moscow, December 7, 2009. The International Space Station crew, Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, De Winne and Romanenko landed safely in the frozen steppe of northern Kazakhstan on December 1 after six months orbiting the world on the International Space Station.
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