In phase three, the helicopter crew radioed a commander to say that at least six armed men had entered a partially constructed building in a dense urban area.
After a two-day journey aboard the Soyuz capsule, the crew will dock with the space station, overlapping briefly with the current crew - station commander Mike Fossum of Nasa, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russia's Sergei Volkov - who will then return to earth.
The three crew members will join Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko until November 12, when the current crew will depart in the Soyuz.
Though Glenn had been solo commander and crew of his first ship, for this mission he wasn't even in the cockpit.
There is a crew of four: A commander and co-pilot, and offensive and defensive systems officers.
The Expedition 30 crew includes NASA's Commander Dan Burbank and Don Pettit, Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko, as well as Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency.
Space shuttle Discovery docked with the orbiting outpost Sunday afternoon, bringing up the new crew: U.S. commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
The Belgian is set to become the first European commander of the platform after a crew rotation in a few weeks' time.
"This is the time when we have to say goodbye to our friends, our colleagues, the excellent crew of shuttle Atlantis that did an excellent job performing three EVAs, installing the new Russian module, having good fun, enjoying living on the station and working in space, " the ISS Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov told Ken Ham, who leads the Atlantis crew.
Soon after, the base commander picked up the captain in a car, but most of the crew had to walk 2km (1.2 miles) back to their barracks under their own steam.
The shuttle Endeavour commander called CNN Space Correspondent Miles O'Brien on Monday from the astronaut crew quarters here at the Cape.
Commanding Officer, Commander Keri Harris, said decommissioning a fine warship and disbanding her close-knit crew was never going to be easy.
They can look to Jennifer Grieves, who made history by becoming the first woman Marine One aircraft commander, and by commanding the first-ever flight with an all-female crew -- I remember this -- proudly carrying my husband from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base back in July.
The new ISS crew, referred to as Expedition Two, includes two Americans, Susan Helms and James Voss, and their Russian commander Yury Usachev.
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