A US-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian crewmates Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev touched down of their Soyuz MS-28 that landed easily by parachute in a chosen space southeast of Dzhezkazgan.
Their 241-day stint on the orbiting outpost was the first space mission for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud‑Sverchkov.
The crew will probably be flown by helicopter to Karaganda, the place Williams will board a airplane to return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, whereas Kud‑Sverchkov and Mikaev will take a flight to their coaching base in Star City, simply outdoors Moscow.
Once bitter rivals in the space race throughout the Cold War, Russia and the U.S. cooperate on the space station and different tasks. That relationship was marred by tensions after Moscow despatched troops into Ukraine in 2022, however Washington and Moscow have continued to work collectively, with U.S. and Russian crews flying to the orbiting outpost on every nation’s spacecraft.
On July 14, the crew of NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina arrived at the International Space Station for an eight-month mission after launching from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 14.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the launch, the first go to to Baikonur by a NASA chief in eight years.
The newly arrived trio have joined NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev as a part of Expedition 75.