• Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 space capsule after it landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan. Photo: Nasa
  • The Soyuz was carrying the International Space Station crew, cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Mr Rubio. Reuters
  • The capsule parachutes in to land in Kazakhstan. Photo: Nasa
  • The three astronauts before undocking the space capsule to leave the ISS and return to Earth. Reuters
  • The Soyuz spacecraft, left, took the three men to a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan. Reuters
  • Mr Rubio peers out of a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked to the ISS. AP

As it happened: Astronauts stuck in space for a year complete return to Earth


Updated: September 27, 2023, 12:44 PM