A Russian space capsule with three men onboard has safely landed in a barren steppe in Kazakhstan after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
The Soyuz MS-08 carrying Russia’s Oleg Artemyev and Nasa’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold touched down at 5.44pm Kazakh time (1144 GMT).
There’s no place like home! Earth has 3 more people on it as @Astro_Feustel, @Astro_ricky and @OlegMKS land at 7:44am ET after a 197-day mission aboard the @Space_Station. Watch: https://t.co/ZuxLDtzW9c Ask questions using #askNASA pic.twitter.com/T0SLyTx0k7
— NASA (@NASA) October 4, 2018
The two Americans performed three space walks to carry out maintenance during their 197-day stay at the orbiting lab.
Mr Artemyev conducted one spacewalk together with a fellow Russian.
A Nasa astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are due to launch next week to join three astronauts who remain in the orbit.
