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MOSCOW, April 17. / TASS /. The Soyuz MS-15 manned spacecraft with three International Space Station (ISS) crew members on board landed in Kazakhstan, 147 km southeast of the city of Zhezqazghan, the head of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. , On twitter.
“Soyuz MS-15 has landed,” he wrote.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir are aboard the spacecraft.
The spacecraft left the ISS at 04:53 Moscow time. Russian astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner remain at the station along with their NASA colleague Chris Cassidy, who has been appointed station commander.
The crew has returned to Earth due to the new coronavirus pandemic. All astronauts will undergo medical checks, after which they will be transported to Baikonur. After that, Skripochka will head to Moscow, and his American colleagues will travel to the United States. All personnel working with astronauts on the ground have been tested for COVID-19.
