The first visiting crew consisting of Talgat Musabaev, Yuri Baturin, and Dennis Tito, having completed an 8-day mission to the International Space Station and landed in the Soyuz TM-31 descent vehicle on the territory of Kazakhstan Republic, have returned to Moscow.
The airplane carrying the crew landed at Chkalovsky air field near Moscow on May 6, 2001 at 17:50 Moscow Summer Time.
At the air field the crew was met by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Republic of Kazakhstan to Russian Federation T.A.Mansurov; Technical Manager of Russian manned space program, S.P.Korolev RSC Energia Designer General, member of the Russain Academy of Sciences Yu.P.Semenov; Chairman of the State Committee lieutenant-general V.A. Grin; head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center colonel-general P.I.Klimuk, representatives of the industry, Rosaviacosmos, RF Ministry of Defense, families and friends of the cosmonauts.