17 April 2021 1 Min Read
Three astronauts return from International Space Station
in News by Reuters
The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos reacts after landing with the Soyuz MS-17 space capsule in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on April 17, 2021.
Image: REUTERS/ NASA/ BILL INGALLS
Image: REUTERS/ NASA/ BILL INGALLS
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Three members of the International Space Station's crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday on a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported.
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The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, a microbiologist who in 2016 became the first person to sequence DNA in space, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov landed in Kazakhstan at 4.55am GMT.
The three had been at the space station since mid-October 2020.
Their mission was the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a US crew member, marking an end to a long dependency as the US revives its own crew launch capability in an effort to drive down the cost of sending astronauts to space.