A rescue airplane has located the Soyuz space capsule carrying cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin and US astronauts Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit, which landed early Sunday in the Kazakh steppes 440 kilometres (270 miles) from the preset destination, rescue service officials said.The rescue teams pinpointed the precise location of the Soyuz TMA-1 vessel, and two helicopters rushed off to the site to retrieve the crew.
Russia's mission control center near Moscow confirmed the information.