Cosmonauts, Russian bureaucrat return to Earth from Mir

Two veteran cosmonauts and a former aide to President Boris Yeltsin returned safely to Earth yesterday from the Mir orbital station, touching down on the Kazakh steppe after descending in the Soyuz TM-27 capsule. Commander Talgat Musabayev, flight engineer Nikolai Budarin and Yuri Baturin, who was...

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