On board the Russian spacecraft Sojuz MS-26 on Sunday, the American astronaut Donald Pettit and a pair of Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovčinin and Ivan Vagner, on the Earth of the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth. Informs TASR according to TASS. The crew returned safely to the ground and landed in the Kazakh steppe near the town of Jazzkagan.
Russian rocket Soyuz MS-26 with two Russians and one American on board It started from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the international space station on September 11 last year.
Their return to the ground occurred after skillfully 220 days spent on ISS, Exactly on the day of the 70th birthday of American Don Pettit, the website of the US National Aviation and Space Authority (NASA) is stated.
According to NASA, it was a fourth flight into space; Overall, he spent 590 days in the orbit. All three crew members will fly from the landing place in the Kazakh steppe with a helicopter to Karaganda, where Pettit on board NASA travels to Houston.
