Three members of the International Space Station crew returned to Earth on Saturday with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Russian space agency Roscosmos reported.
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, a microbiologist who in 2016 became the first person to sequence DNA in space, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud- Sverchkov landed in Kazakhstan at 0455 GMT.
All three had been on the space station since mid-October 2020.
Its mission was the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a U.S. crew member, marking the end of a long dependency as the U.S. reactivated its own crew launch capability in an effort to reduce the cost of sending astronauts into space.
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