Three astronauts land in Kazakhstan after seven months in space

Three astronauts spent 220 days in space, orbiting the planet 3.520 times during that time.

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Aleksej Ovičin, Photo: Reuters
Aleksej Ovičin, Photo: Reuters
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Two Russian and one American astronauts landed in Kazakhstan today, aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule, after seven months spent on the International Space Station.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that three astronauts, Alexei Ovichin, Ivan Vagner and Don Petit, landed in Kazakhstan near the city of Zhezkazgan shortly after 6.00:XNUMX this morning.

The statement added that the landing took place without complications or incidents.

The three astronauts spent 220 days in space, and during that time orbited the planet 3.520 times, the US space agency NASA announced, adding that astronaut Petit celebrated his XNUMXth birthday in space.

NASA said it would conduct routine medical checks on the astronauts after landing and that the crew would return to a "recovery zone" in Kazakhstan.

Petit will then board a plane bound for the Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Roscosmos said Ovchinin and Vagner will travel to a training base in Star City, Russia.

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