Russian spacecraft with 3 cosmonauts onboard lands in Kazakhstan
Xinhua, September 7, 2016 Adjust font size:
The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft with three crew members aboard has landed in Kazakhstan, the Russian news agency TASS reported Wednesday.
Search and rescue groups have set off to the place of landing to evacuate the crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) from the capsule.
Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka, and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams went to the orbit on March 19 and spent 172 days in space.
This was the first space flight for Ovchinin, second for Skripochka and fourth for Williams.
The next Soyuz spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrei Borisenko, and U.S. astronaut Robert S. Kimbraugh aboard will fly to the ISS on Sept. 23. Endi