A capsule carrying US, Russian and Italian astronauts from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan after a five-month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed.
The spacecraft brought back Randy Bresnik from NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy from Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Italy's Paolo Nespoli with the European Space Agency.
The capsule landed in the windswept and snow-covered steppe in Kazakhstan's central Karaganda region at 7.37pm (AEDT).
Smiling Ryazanskiy was the first to emerge from the capsule's hatch, assisted by rescue workers.
The trio's departure has reduced to just three the crew of the ISS, a lab that flies about 400 km above earth.
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