Trio who lived on space station return to Earth safely

Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner had lived on the station since April

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Updated At : 06:04 PM Oct 22, 2020 IST

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Moscow, October 22

A trio of space travellers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, and Roscosmos’ Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 7:54 a.m. Thursday. After a medical checkup, the three will be taken by helicopters to Dzhezkazgan from where they will be flown home.

ISS crew member Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is seen on the screen during a live broadcast of the landing of the Soyuz MS-16 space capsule, at the Russian Mission Control Center, in Korolyov.

As part of additional precautions due to the coronavirus, members of the Russian rescue team meeting the crew were tested for the virus and the number of people involved in the recovery effort was limited.

Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner had lived on the station since April.

NASA’s Kate Rubins and Roscosmos’ Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov arrived at the orbiting outpost a week ago for a six-month stay. AP

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