The three-men crew returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on the spacecraft that landed in the Kazakh steppe Sunday, the Roscosmos press release reported.

The spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 23:57 hours (Moscow time) on Saturday, April 19. Half an hour later, the Soyuz MS-26 crew activated its braking engines to slow its orbital speed and began its descent into Earth’s atmosphere.

After slowing down, Soyuz MS-26 left orbit, entered the dense layers of the atmosphere, and separated into compartments.

Ovchinin, Vagner, and Pettit had been in the ISS since September 11, 2024. During this time, the Russian cosmonauts have performed more than 40 experiments and conducted one spacewalk in December, during which they installed the All Sky Monitor spectrometer outside the station.

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