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Three astronauts return to earth after a year in space

NASA's Frank Rubio (left) and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are back on earth. Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky / AAP.
By Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral / AAP

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has returned to earth with two Russian cosmonauts, setting a record for the longest US spaceflight […]

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