Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew returning after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
NASA said in a live TV broadcast that the capsule carrying American Mike Hopkins and Russians Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy touched down as scheduled at 9:24 a.m. local time on Tuesday (0324 GMT).
They spent 166 days in orbit on the space station.