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NASA Astronaut And Cosmonauts Return To Earth From International Space Station. A US astronaut and two cosmonauts are back on Earth after a Russian Soyuz capsule successfully landed on the Kazakh steppe. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko along with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, touched down at 11:59 GMT on Monday. Kononenko and Chub had been part of the International Space Station crew since September of last year, completing an impressive 374-day mission. Dyson's time aboard the station was comparatively shorter, lasting 184 days. During her mission, she orbited the Earth 2,944 times and covered a total distance of 78 million miles. This marks Dyson's fourth spaceflight as she served as a flight engineer for ISS Expeditions 70 and 71. Kononenko, completing his fifth spaceflight, has now accumulated an all-time record of 1,111 days in orbit. Chub, meanwhile, concluded his first space mission. Following their landing, the three crew members will be flown by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From there, Dyson will return to Houston on a NASA plane, while Kononenko and Chub will head back to their training base in Star City, Russia.