Russian Soyuz brings crew of three back from International Space Station

Crew member of the ISS, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson speaks on the phone after landing in the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday (September 23).

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Moscow: A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, bringing two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut back to Earth after a stint on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson landed at 1159 GMT.

Kononenko and Chub had been part of the ISS crew since last September, completing a 374-day mission. Dyson's stay was shorter, lasting 184 days.