BEIJING, Oct. 11-- American millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and a Russian-American crew landed early Tuesday in Kazakhstan, marking the end of the third trip by a private citizen to the international space station(ISS).

The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft that carried them covered the approximately 250 miles from the ISS to Earth in three and a half hours.

Rescuers reported that the crew's condition was¨good,〃 according to Russian Mission Control at Korolyov outside Moscow.

The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft blasts off from the launching pad at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 1, 2005.(Reuters photo) After landing, the crewmen were to spend two hours undergoing medical checks, then be shuttled by helicopter to a Kazakh staging point and ultimately back to Moscow for further examinations.

Olsen, American astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 1 and docked with the space station two days later.

Olsen, who spent two years in training and paid$20 million for his trip, conducted experiments and took videos and photos during his visit.

McArthur and Tokarev will stay aboard the station for six months, while Olsen returns with John Phillips and Sergei Krikalev, who were there since April.

John Phillips' wife, monitoring the landing at Mission Control, said her husband was launched to space on his birthday and was returning on hers.

"I guess it's the best present a person could ask for," she said. Endtiem