ISS crew members return to earth

Three crew members from the International Space Station are back on earth after landing in a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has landed in Kazakhstan, returning several crew members from a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

It took about three hours for the crew members, US astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin, to return to earth on Wednesday.

The returning crew members will be replaced by US astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who are scheduled to blast off for the space station on September 23.


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