On December 20, 2018 at 05:02 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-09” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of about 147 kilometers to south-east from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 57 – Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopiev, German astronaut Alexander Gerst and American astronaut Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor. They spent in space 196 days 17 hours and 50 minutes. Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and American astronaut Anne McClain in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 58 crew. The undocking of Soyuz MS-09 marked the end of Expedition 57 and the start of Expedition 58.