
The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying the ISS crew lands in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on 20 April 2025. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
(Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday 20 April 2025.
"Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal," the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. It added that the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan.
The crew worked in space from 11 September 2024.