MOSCOW: A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and Belarus’s first-ever space traveller on Saturday (Apr 6) returned to Earth safely after a fortnight aboard the International Space Station, Russia’s Roscosmos agency reported.
“Today, at 10.17am Moscow time (07.17 GMT), the descent vehicle of Sozuz MS-24 manned spacecraft landed near the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan,” Roscosmos reported.
“The (vessel’s) deorbit and its descent to Earth went off normally,” the agency added.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and the first ever Belarusian cosmonaut, Marina Vassilevskaya, “spent 14 days in orbit”, while American astronaut Loral O’Hara completed a 204-day mission.
For Vassilevskaya and O’Hara it was their first-ever stint on the ISS.
