A Soyuz spacecraft carrying one American and 2 Russians returned from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday.The craft touched down Sunday early morning on the Kazakh steppe, Russias Roscosmos space company said.Today at 4:20 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, the space company said.Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner and NASA astronaut Pettit invested 220 days in space after traveling to the ISS in September last year.Their time on the ISS coincided with a pair of U.S.
astronauts until March.
The U.S.
set originally came for eight days, however wound up stranded for more than nine months after the spacecraft they took a trip on was deemed unsuited to fly them back to Earth.Space is one of the last locations of U.S.-Russia cooperation in the middle of an almost total breakdown in relations in between Moscow and Washington over Moscows full-scale invasion of Ukraine.