Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Has Landed
LEMON: OK. There he is and just landing after four months of floating around the earth. The Soyuz is landing now U.S. astronaut, Joe Acaba, and two Russian cosmonauts returned home at any moment now. Are these live pictures we are looking at? Yes, live pictures now. The Russian Soyuz has just landed, the spacecraft spit away from the international space station a few hours ago after 125 days in space. And they are landing now in Kazakhstan that we are looking at, you are looking at. This is coming from NASA television. The northern part of the country is where it is in a desert region. I expect an odd feeling, the affects of gravity they will feel on their body, and we are going to show now as it hit. Let's take a look. Do we have it? All right. We will bring it to you if we can. But again, a medical team is going to meet them there, and we hope that they are a-OK. But, let's take a listen now to -- there it is.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Six and a half minutes until touchdown. There's our first video of the Soyuz TMAO4M descending under its main parachute on a cloudless morning, on Monday morning in Kazakhstan. It is 8:46 of the morning on Monday at the landing site. Gennady Padalka and the southern seat of descent module at the Soyuz commander flanked on his left by Sergei Revin.</s>LEMON: Let's take a look now at the moment it landed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And once again, the final moments of the decent of the Soyuz spacecraft under its chute, and you can see one of the Russian search and recovery helicopters that will land within seconds after touchdown. And standing by for touchdown. And touchdown confirmed. The soft landing engines firing, and the touchdown has occurred at 9:53 p.m. central time, 10:53 p.m. Eastern time, just north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba back on earth.</s>LEMON: It all happened just two minutes ago. And you saw it. We turn that video around for you right here on CNN. The Russian Soyuz, just now landing in Kazakhstan. You know, he was supposed to come home from Afghanistan three months earlier, but instead, he was killed in the country's dangerous element provents. Gunned down by the very Afghan forces he was training. CNN's Davis Ariosto talked with the family he leaves behind.</s>DAVID ARIOSTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the game Greg Buckley Junior was supposed to see back home on leave from Afghanistan where he had trained Afghan forces. The 21-year-old marine had only two days left before heading home to see his brother play varsity high school football for the first time. But before getting word that he was to go home early, he phoned his dad.</s>GREG BUCKLEY SENIOR, GREG BUCKLEY'S FATHER: He told me that I have to stay here until November. He says I'm not going to come home. And I was like, well, I don't understand. He goes you've got to be able to tell mom and Justin and Shane. You know, that I'm going to be killed over here. I said, out in the field, you know, he goes, no, in our base.</s>ARIOSTO: Then it happened. Greg was gunned down August 10th by the very forces he was training. Like he said, it happened inside the base. And by his phone calls and letters, he knew it was coming. And on one particular night on guard duty, he had a run-in with the trainee.</s>BUCKLEY: A guy turned around and said to Greg, you know we don't need you here. We don't need you here. And Greg, what are you saying. He said it again. And Greg turned around said to him, you know, why would you say that? You know, I'm here giving my life for you guys to help you, to make better for yourselves. The guy just started tormenting him all night.</s>ARIOSTO: His dad said Greg spent the rest of the night with the trainee.</s>BUCKLEY: Pitch-black out. And all he kept on saying it over and over again. We don't want you, we don't need you. We don't want you, we don't need you.</s>ARIOSTO: Building up national security is considered the lynch pin of naval strategy for withdraw, but attacks by trainees have become disturbingly more frequent. Families like the Buckley say, it is a sign America's longish war has gone on long enough.</s>BUCKLEY: I basically collapsed and his mother collapse and we were both on the r floor, balling.</s>ARIOSTO: But Greg's two brothers refused to cry, at least during the day.</s>BUCKLEY: One night I went into Shane's room and he was on the end of the bed and his head was hanging over the end of the bed. I thought he dropped water on the floor. He was balling. Heart broke for him. And later on that night, I heard noise from Justin's room and I went inside and he had a pillow over his face, 4:30 in the morning, screaming at the top of his lungs, heart wrenching. And I explained to Justin, why don't you guys cry during the day, and they both turnaround and say, we can't. We have to take care of you and mom.</s>ARIOSTO: With the community behind him, the Buckley family is now coping the best they can. And Justin, Ocean Side's star running back, wearing cammo with his team to honor Greg, makes sure to salute his fallen brother each time he scores. Greg was supposed to be home for this game. What would you tell him right now?</s>JUSTIN BUCKLEY, GREG'S BROTHER: I will tell him I love him and miss him. That's about it.</s>ARIOSTO: David Ariosto, CNN, Ocean Side, Long Islands New York.</s>LEMON: We wish that family the very best. We want to show you something that happened just moments ago live here on CNN. The landing of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. It's been away from the international space station a few hours ago, 125 days in space. This was at landing in Kazakhstan. It happened in a northern part of the country in a desert region. I am Don Lemon at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for watching. Have a great week. Good night.