Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says'Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal,' the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. 
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Soyuz MS-26 carrying the departing crew of NASA’s Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Alexey Ovchinin leaves the International Space Station (ISS) April 19, 2025, in a still image from video.
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A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday.
"Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal," the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. It added that the spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan.
The crew worked in space from September 11, 2024.