Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed back on Earth Wednesday after spending a year at the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said.
“Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio, who spent a year on board the ISS, landed near the city of Jezkazgan in Kazakhstan,” Roscosmos said.
It said the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft carrying them reached Earth at 11:17 GMT in a landing that took place in “normal mode.”
Roscosmos said Prokopyev and Petelin spent “370 days, 21 hours and 22 minutes in space — the longest flight under the iSS program.”
NASA also confirmed the landing.