First Brazilian astronaut makes joyous return to Earth (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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A beaming Marcos Pontes has returned to Earth from an 11-day trip that made him Brazil's first astronaut, and was greeted on the Kazakh steppe by a search and rescue team and exultant Brazilian officials.

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