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CU Grad Steve Swanson Returns To Earth

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) - NASA astronaut and University of Colorado alum Steve Swanson is back on Earth.

Swanson had been living on the International Space Station for the last six months. He drifted back to Earth in a Russian space capsule on Wednesday and landed in Kazakhstan.

He considers Steamboat Springs home.

It took Swanson 3 hours to fall to Earth.

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