At 12:03 a.m. EST (10:03 a.m. native time), the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky orbited Earth 3,920 instances and traveled practically 104 million miles over the course of their 245-day mission. The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched and docked with the house station on April 8.
This was Kim’s first spaceflight, the place he served as flight engineer for Expedition 72 and 73. This additionally was Zubritsky first journey to the house station. Ryzhikov now has logged a complete of 603 days in house throughout three journeys to the orbital advanced, rating him thirteenth all time.
The three crew members will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, the place restoration groups are based mostly. Kim will board a NASA plane and return to Houston, whereas Ryzhikov and Zubritsky will depart for his or her coaching base in Star Metropolis, Russia.
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