A United States and Russian space crew landed safely in the Kazakh steppes on Sunday after spending eight months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Chris Williams, along with Russian colleagues Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, touched down in their Soyuz MS-28. The spacecraft landed gently with the help of parachutes in a designated area southeast of Dzhezkazgan.
Their stay in the orbital outpost lasted 241 days. This marked the first space mission for Williams and Mikaev, while it was the second for Kud-Sverchkov.
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