10-04-2025
Soyuz spacecraft with US-Russian crew lands on ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan carrying two Russian and one US astronaut landed on the International Space Station on Tuesday where the crew are set to carry out 50 scientific experiments.
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians docked at the International Space Station Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
The MS-27 craft, which was decorated to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, took off at 10:47 am (0547 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan , according to televised images shown by the Russian Roscosmos space agency.
It entered orbit a few minutes later.
Onboard were Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, as well as NASA astronaut Jonny Kim.
They are due to carry out 50 scientific experiments in space, Roscosmos said, before returning to Earth on December 9.
A record of around 2,500 tourists watched the launch from Baikonur, Roscosmos said.
Russia has been renting the site from Kazakhstan since the fall of the Soviet Union more than 43 years ago.
Moscow pays Almaty $115 million a year and has a contract until 2050.
Space is one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States, whose relationship deteriorated significantly after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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