American and Russian astronauts are returning to Earth from the ISS

Moscow. An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Saturday after six months aboard the International Space Station.

The Soyuz capsule with NASA’s Kate Rubins and Roscosmos’s Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 12:55 p.m.

All three were fine after being removed from the spacecraft and began to re-acclimate to Earth’s gravity, explained Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency.

Rubins, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov had arrived at the orbital laboratory on October 14.

There are now seven people on board the ISS: NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russians Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, who arrived April 9; and Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi from Japan, who arrived in November aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience, the first NASA Commercial Crew Program spacecraft to arrive at the post.