KAZAKHSTAN (TNND) \u2014 After 241 days aboard the International Space Station, a U.S.-Russian crew returned safely to Earth on Sunday, highlighting continued cooperation between the US and Russia.<\/p>\n
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev landed in their Soyuz MS-28 capsule in the Kazakhstan steppe southeast of Dzhezkazgan after a parachute-assisted descent. <\/p>\n
This mission was the first spaceflight for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.<\/p>\n
The crew is scheduled to travel by helicopter to Karaganda before Williams takes a flight to return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Russian cosmonauts fly to their training base in Star City outside Moscow.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina arrived at the space station for an eight-month mission after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the launch, marking the first visit by a NASA chief to Baikonur in eight years. <\/p>\n
The returning trio joined Expedition 75 alongside NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KAZAKHSTAN (TNND) \u2014 After 241 days aboard the International Space Station, a U.S.-Russian crew returned safely to Earth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-569382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}