Soyuz MS-24 with an international space crew on board has returned to Earth.
The landing occurred at 10:17 Moscow time near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, one minute ahead of the predicted time. According to Roscosmos, the undocking of the spacecraft from the Rassvet module, deorbiting, and descent to Earth proceeded normally.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and the first Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, who arrived as part of the EP-21 visiting expedition on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, left the ISS.
For Novitsky, this 14-day flight was his fourth, and he has spent a total of 545 days in space. Marina Vasilevskaya spent 14 days in orbit, this is her first flight.
For Loral O’Hara, a NASA astronaut, this was also her first mission. Since September 2023, she has spent 204 days in space.
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