Russia duo, American back from ISS duty
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Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut touched down on Saturday in Kazakhstan following a half-year mission on the International Space Station, footage broadcast by the Russian space agency showed.
Russia鈥檚 Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov as well as NASA鈥檚 Kate Rubins landed on barren land at 4:55am GMT around 150 kilometers southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan.
The Soyuz descent module carrying the trio landed upright after descending through a cloudless sky on a fine spring day in central Kazakhstan, a Roscosmos TV commentator confirmed.
Molecular biologist Rubins, 42, and former military pilot Ryzhikov, 46, were rounding off their second missions in space having both made their ISS debuts following launches in July and October of 2016, respectively.
Kud-Sverchkov, 39, another ex-military man, was completing his first mission.
Footage from the landing site showed Rubins smiling as she received a bouquet of flowers from retired cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who was there to greet the crew.
鈥淚t is great to be on this side of things,鈥 Rubins said.
She will return to NASA鈥檚 hub in Houston while Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov are bound for Moscow as they wind down their missions.
During her debut mission in 2016, Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. In her second mission she continued her sequencing activities, worked on cardiovascular experiments and oversaw a small patch of radishes 鈥渁s they grew in orbit 鈥 harvesting them for analysis back on Earth,鈥 according to NASA.
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