Female Russian cosmonaut, others return to earth

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US astronaut Barry Wilmore and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova at the Baikonur cosmodrome Photo: scmp.com

US astronaut Barry Wilmore and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova at the Baikonur cosmodrome
Photo: scmp.com

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Thursday returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule after six months at the International Space Station.

Yelena Serova — the first female Russian cosmonaut to have spent time on the ISS — landed along with Alexander Samokutyaev and Barry Wilmore in snowy Kazakhstan just after sunrise.

The International Space Station is one of the few areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States that has not been hit by the crisis in Ukraine.

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Source:: PM Newspaper