Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
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Posted on April 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 20, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft returned Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan after a mission that started on September 11, 2024.
(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday.
"Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal," the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. It added that the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan.
The crew worked in space from September 11, 2024.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Saad Sayeed)
The article discusses the return of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut to Earth.
The spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan.
The crew included Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
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