  You gotta love that Russian pride! Russian space command: "...and were they close to the selected landing site?
" helicopter pilot on Russian Step: "yes, they were almost exactly on the predicted spot. " Just in case you want in on the joke, the last crew return was delayed for a few hours while helicopters roamed the Russian Step looking for the Soyuz that had drifted off course during re-entry.
All the world via CNN anxiously waited the first crew return since the Columbia tragedy and the Russian space agency lost a bit o'face. Here, in what must be a prescripted phrase, Russian Mission Control attempted to regain that face as soon as the landing site was recovered. And I can't believe I only just noticed that Russian Mission Control has small billboards along the bottom of the main screen. HP and Omega watches were among the adverts. How funny! 
