Three Russian members of the International Space Station returned to Earth safely on Saturday with a Russian Soyuz plane, the Russian Roscosmos space agency reported.
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, a microbiologist who became the first person to sequence DNA in space in 2016, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov in Kazakhstan at 0455 GMT landed.
The three have been at the space station since mid-October 2020.
Their mission was the last scheduled Russian flight with an American crew member, which put an end to a long dependency as the US revived its own crew launch capability in an effort to reduce the cost of sending astronauts into space lowered.
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