American astronaut Tracy Dyson and two record-setting Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz capsule.
The trio landed on the Kazakh steppe at 17 p.m. local time, dpa reports.
Before leaving, Kononjenko handed over control of the MSS to American astronaut Sunita Williams. Despite tensions on Earth, Russia and the US continue to cooperate on the MSS.
Kononjenko and Chub spent 374 days in orbit, which is the longest anyone has spent on the MSS in one piece. They broke the record on Friday, and arrived at the station on September 15, 2023, reports N1.
During his stay at MSS, Kononjenko broke another record - it was his fifth mission, so the 60-year-old became the person who spent the most time in space, the only one with more than 1.000 days of "experience" outside the Earth.
For Dyson, this was the third mission on the MSS.
She has been on this since March, which means that she has spent more than 180 days in space, writes dpa.
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