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After months on the Space Station, Russian-American crew returned to Earth

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After months on the Space Station, Russian-American crew returned to Earth

An American and Russian space crew landed safely today in Kazakhstan's steppes after an eight-month mission on the International Space Station.

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26/07/2026
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O nASA astronaut Chris Williams and his Russian crewmates, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, landed on their Soyuz MS-28, which landed smoothly in an area located southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, advance Associated Press (AP).

 

The mission, which lasted 241 days, was the first space mission for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.

The crew will be transported by helicopter to Karaganda, where Williams will board a plane to return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev will take a flight to their training base in Star City on the outskirts of Moscow.

Once fierce rivals in the space race during the Cold War, Russia and the US cooperate in space station and other projects.

This relationship was tainted by tensions after Moscow sent troops to Ukraine in 2022, but Washington and Moscow continued to work together, with American and Russian crews flying to the outpost in orbit on each country's spacecraft.

On July 14, NASA astronaut Anil Menon's crew and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina arrived at the International Space Station for an eight-month mission after taking off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, leased by Russia on July 14.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman was present at the launch, the first visit to Baikonur by a NASA officer in eight years.

The newcomer trio joined NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev under Expedition 75.

You may recall the moment you returned to Earth below: 

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