The Soyuz spacecraft returned to Earth

According to RCO News Agency, The “Soyuz MS-25” spacecraft landed at 7:59 a.m. EDT with the help of a parachute in the southeastern city of Jezkazghan, Kazakhstan.

According to NASA, Soyuz landed NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Russian Space Agency astronauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko.

Dyson’s mission, which spent 184 days in space, included 2,944 orbits and traveled 78 million miles. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft was launched on March 23 and arrived at the International Space Station on March 25 with Dyson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Space Agency and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitsky and Vasiloskaya spent 12 days on the International Space Station and returned home on April 6 with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara.

Choub and Kononenko, who launched to the International Space Station last September with O’Hara on a Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, returned home after spending 374 days in space and traveling 158.6 million miles for 5,984 orbits.

Dyson spent his third spaceflight on the station as flight engineer for Expedition 70 and Expedition 71, and tied with Kononenko for his fifth spaceflight and record of 1,111 days in orbit. And Wood, having completed his first space flight, returned to Earth.

NASA announced that the three passengers will be flown by helicopter from the landing site to the recovery site in the Kazakh city of Karaganda. Dyson will return to Houston on a NASA plane; While Kononenko and Chub will go to a training base in the “Star City” region of Russia.

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