The Soyuz MS-18 space capsule carrying Russian
ISS crew member Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko
landed in a remote area outside the western Kazakhstan at 07:35
a.m. (0435 GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
The crew had dedocked from the ISS three hours earlier.
Russian state TV footage showed the reentry capsule descending
under its parachute above the vast Kazakh steppe, followed by
ground personnel assisting the smiling crew as they emerged from
the capsule.
However, Peresild, who is best known for her role in the 2015
film "Battle for Sevastopol", said she had been sorry to leave
the ISS.
"I'm in a bit of a sad mood today," the 37-year-old actor told
Russian Channel One after the landing.
"That's because it had seemed that 12 days was such a long
period of time, but when it was all over, I didn't want to bid
farewell," she said.
Last week 90-year-old U.S. actor William Shatner - Captain James
Kirk of "Star Trek" fame - became the oldest person in space
aboard a rocketship flown by billionaire Jeff Bezos's company
Blue Origin.
Peresild and Shipenko have been sent to Russian Star City, the
home of Russia's space programme on the outskirts of Moscow for
their post-flight recovery which will take about a week,
Roscosmos said.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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