A Russian Soyuz capsule touched down on Kazakhstan's steppes, returning an American, a Russian, and a Belarusian from the International Space Station to Earth. The Soyuz MS-25 hit ground late morning on April 6, carrying Russian Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya. Also on board was U.S. astronaut Loral O'Hara, who had been aboard the orbital station since September. The space station is now one of the last remaining areas of collaboration between Russia and the United States amid tensions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. NASA and its partners hope to continue operating the orbiting outpost until 2030.
Soyuz Capsule Lands In Kazakhstan With 3 Returning From Space Station
The Soyuz MS-25 carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 23.