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This handout photo released by NASA shows the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft landing in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 64 crew members Kate Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, April 17, 2021. Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut touched down Saturday April 17 on the steppe of Kazakhstan following a half-year mission on the International Space Station, footage broadcast by the Russian space agency showed.
Russia's Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov as well as NASA's Kate Rubins landed on barren land at 0455 GMT around 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan.
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The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft lands near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with three crew members after completing their six-month mission on the International Space Station. AFP

Apr 18, 2021

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