INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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.
