KOROLEV (Moscow Region) (Sputnik) – Russian Soyuz capsule successfully landed in Kazakhstan bringing back to Earth three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Mission Control Center said
Earlier in the day, the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft with Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) astronaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson undocked from the ISS. Yurchikhin and Fisher spent the total of 136 in space, whereas Whitson was there for 290 days.
Roscosmos’ Sergey Ryazanskiy, NASA’s Randy Bresnik and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Paolo Nespoli will remain at the ISS until the Expedition 53/54 comes. The launch of the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft with Expedition 53/54 crew members is scheduled for September 13 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
#NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth, finishing record-shattering 288-day mission in space https://t.co/yHhoEUJreo pic.twitter.com/zthBW2fpWI
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 3, 2017
