Starman falls to Earth after five-month space odyssey

ALMATY/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, May 16: The Canadian astronaut who became a music sensation when his zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ went viral on the web returned to Earth along with two crewmates on Tuesday after a five-month stint on the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield landed safely in central Kazakhstan with his American and Russian colleagues. Their Soyuz space capsule descended under an orange parachute and raised clouds of dust as it ignited an engine to cushion its landing about 150 km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan. (agencies)