Three astronauts return from space station

A space capsule with three astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station.

U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford, and his Russian colleagues Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, safe down this morning with a capsule Russian "Soyuz" in the steppes of Kazakhstan's filled with snow.

The three men stayed for 144 days at the space station. Their return, originally scheduled for Friday, was postponed a day due to bad weather conditions in the landing area.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, now heads the crew of three persons located in the International Space Station.