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NASA female astronaut back from space
Updated: 2011-05-25 10:00
(Agencies)
NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman with a matryoshka doll, decorated with her portrait, attends a news conference at Karaganda airport May 24, 2011, after the landing with Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency Astronaut Paolo Nespoli in the Soyuz TMA-20, southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan.[Photo/Agencies] |
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