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    Home - USA News - Touch down! ISS crew returns after seven months in space
    USA News Updated:April 20, 2025

    Touch down! ISS crew returns after seven months in space

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    Touch down! ISS crew returns after seven months in space

    NASA Summary – ISS crew returns after seven months in space

    • NASA astronaut Donald Pettit and Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner successfully returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-26
    • They spent seven-months science mission on the ISS.
    • The crew orbited the Earth 3,520 times during their 220 days in space
    • Conducting research on various technologies, including 3D printing and water sanitisation.
    • Pettit’s return coincided with his 70th birthday, marking his fourth journey into space, while Ovchinin’s was also his fourth and Wagner’s marked his second flight.

    Touch down! ISS crew returns after seven months in space

    A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

    A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying American Donald Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday.

    “Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal,” Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said.

    The crew had undertaken a seven-month science mission aboard the ISS, starting from 11 September 2024.

    They orbited the Earth 3,520 times over 220 days in space.

    The spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan

    Mr Pettit, who returned to Earth on his 70th birthday, had been conducting research to enhance in-orbit metal 3D printing capabilities, advance water sanitisation technologies, explore plant growth under varying water conditions and investigate fire behaviour in microgravity, according to NASA.

    It was the fourth time in space for Mr Pettit and Mr Ovchinin, while it was Mr Vagner’s second spaceflight.

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