MOSCOW (AP) – An American astronaut and two Russians have returned to Earth after six months aboard the International Space Station.
A Soyuz space capsule with NASA’s Kate Rubins and the Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Saturday at 0455 GMT (12:55 EDT).
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said they were all three feeling good after being taken out of the capsule and starting to reclaim to gravity.
The three arrived at the laboratory complex around the track on 14 October.
There are now seven people aboard the ISS: NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russians Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov arrived on April 9; The Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and the Soichi Noguchi of Japan, boarded the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience in November, the first ISS landing site under NASA’s commercial crew program.