FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE – The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) early Sunday, Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said.
The descent module carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, landed near Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 4:20 a.m. Moscow time (0120 GMT).
The spacecraft undocked from the ISS’s Russian segment before its return, with deorbit and descent operations proceeding as planned, Roscosmos said.
Since arriving at the ISS in September 2024, the crew conducted 43 applied science experiments, performed a spacewalk, and participated in three spacecraft dockings.
This was the third spaceflight for Ovchinin, the second for Wagner, and the fourth for Pettit.