On December 20, 2021 at 03:13 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-20” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 148 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth 3 persons – Commander, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin as well as 2 spaceflight-participants from Japan, Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano. They spent in space 11 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. Seven other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov; US astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as German astronaut Matthias Maurer remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 66 crew. Attachments: |