Three cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station on Thursday and returned to Earth aboard their Soyuz spacecraft, safely landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to wrap up a 195-day mission.
With outgoing station commander Oleg Artemyev at the controls, flanked on the left by co-pilot Denis Matveev and on the right by Sergey Korsakov, the Soyuz descent module, suspended under a single large orange-and-white parachute, touched down near the town of Dzhezkazgan at 6:57 a.m. EDT .
Mission duration was 194 days and 19 hours, pushing Artemyev's total time in space to 561 days over three station expeditions and moving him up to No. 12 on the list of most experienced cosmonauts and astronauts. It was the first space flight for Matveev and Korsakov.Matveev looked a bit woozy being helped from the descent module, but Artemyev and Korsakov were all smiles as they chatted with support personnel.
Soyuz commander Oleg Artemyev chats with well wishers and support personnel amid initial medical checks before the crew headed home to Star City near Moscow.Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio replaced Artemyev and his crewmates, arriving at the station on September 21.
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