Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan - in pictures

Russian ground support personnel arrive to meet the Soyuz craft shortly after the capsule landed outside of the town of Arkalyk Photograph: Getty Images

US astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa inside the Soyuz capsule Photograph: Sergei Remizov/AP

Russian support personnel help to get the Expedition 29 crew members out of the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft Photograph: Getty Images

A helicopter crew gets ready at Arkaly airfield in preparation for the recovery mission Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/EPA

Russia's space agency ground personnel roll the Soyuz TMA-02 capsule after its landing Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Ground personnel help Michael Fossum out of the Soyuz capsule minutes after landing Photograph: Sergei Remizov/AP

Ground personnel carry Satoshi Furukawa Photograph: Sergei Remezov/EPA

Sergei Volkov is carried out of the landing site Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AP

Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum is carried in a chair to the medical tent Photograph: Bill Ingalls/EPA

Satoshi Furukawa is attended to by medical staff Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AP

Russia's space agency ground personnel give Sergei Volkov a check up Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Russia's space agency ground personnel crowd around the three ISS members, (from left) Mike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Wearing traditional Kazakh costumes the crew attend a press conference in Kostanay after their landing Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Mike Fossum holds a matryoshka doll Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images