Key Takeaways
- The mission set a new record with a 371‑day continuous stay on the ISS.
- Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin completed the longest flight program in ISS history.
- The crew returned aboard the Soyuz MS-23 and landed safely in Kazakhstan.
Vladivistok: Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos announced that two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut have safely returned to Earth on Wednesday.
The crew completed a year-long stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking a historic milestone.
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, carrying Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Frank Rubio, had undocked from the Prichal module of the ISS earlier Wednesday and landed in Kazakhstan at 14:17 Moscow time (1117 GMT), Roscosmos said on its official website.
After a 371-day stay in space, Prokopyev and Petelin made the longest flight program in the ISS history.
During his two space flights, Prokopyev accumulated more than 567 days and more than 55 hours in total for eight spacewalks. Petelin, who made his first space flight, accumulated more than 39 hours in total for six spacewalks.
