Russian cosmonauts and American astronaut return to Earth after record-breaking stay on International Space Station

The Soyuz capsule successfully landed on the Kazakh steppe approximately 3.5 hours after undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) in a trouble-free descent. The capsule descended under a red-and-white parachute at a speed of 7.2 meters per second (16 mph), with small rockets firing in the final seconds to cushion the touchdown. The astronauts on board, including Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who spent 374 days in space, and American astronaut Tracy Dyson, who spent six months on the ISS, were extracted from the capsule and placed in nearby chairs to help them adjust to gravity. They were then given medical examinations in a nearby tent.