Successful Landing of Spacecraft

An American astronaut from NASA and astronauts from Russia and Belarus returned to Earth today, Saturday, after a mission at the International Space Station, as announced by the Russian space agency (Roscosmos). The agency stated in a press release that "today (Saturday) at 10:17 Moscow time (07:17 Greenwich Mean Time), the landing craft of the crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-24 landed near the town of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan." Roscosmos clarified that the landing occurred "normally." The statement highlighted that Russian astronaut Oleg Novitskiy and the first Belarusian astronaut in history, Marina Vasilyevskaya, "spent 14 days in orbit," while American astronaut Laural O'Hara returned from a mission lasting 204 days. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko congratulated the "crew of the Soyuz MS-24 on the successful landing" in a statement. Despite the diplomatic tensions between Washington and Moscow, cooperation between the American and Russian space agencies continues at the International Space Station, which remains one of the few areas of collaboration between the two sides.