Three members of International Space Station crew return to Earth

Three members of the International Space Station's crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday in a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported.

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, a microbiologist who in 2016 became the first person to sequence DNA in space, together with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov landed in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. GMT.

The three had been at the space station for 185 days, since mid-October 2020.

All descent operations and landing went normally and the crew is feeling well, Roscosmos added.

(With input from Reuters)