A Soyuz capsule with 2 Russians and 1 American returns to Earth from the International Space Station

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Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner sits extracurricular the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft aft landing with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and chap cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin successful a distant country adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan connected Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin gestures arsenic helium sits extracurricular aft landing successful a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with chap cosmonaut Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Don Pettit successful a distant country adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft lands successful a distant country adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen arsenic it lands successful a distant country adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit gestures arsenic helium is carried to a aesculapian structure soon aft landing successful a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner gestures arsenic helium is carried to a aesculapian structure soon aft landing successful a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with chap cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Don Pettit adjacent the municipality of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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MOSCOW – A Soyuz capsule carrying 2 Russians and 1 American from the International Space Station landed Sunday successful Kazakhstan, ending their seven-month probe assignment.

According to Russian abstraction bureau Roscosmos, the capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and astronaut Don Pettit of U.S. abstraction bureau NASA landed connected the Kazakh steppe adjacent the metropolis of Zhezkazgan astatine 6:20 a.m. (0120 GMT). Roscosmos said the parachute-assisted landing was a trouble-free descent.

The trio returned aft spending 220 days successful abstraction and orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, NASA said successful a statement. The bureau noted that, coincidentally, Pettit celebrated his 70th day connected Sunday.

NASA said it was pursuing its regular postlanding aesculapian checks, and that the unit volition instrumentality to the betterment staging country successful Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Pettit volition past committee a NASA level bound for the agency’s Johnson Space Center successful Houston, portion Roscosmos said Ovchinin and Vagner volition depart for a grooming basal successful Star City, Russia.

On Friday, Ovchinin handed implicit bid of the ISS to Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi successful a alteration of bid ceremony.

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