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The capsule carrying Russians Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub
and American Tracy Dyson is expected to land in the vast
Kazakhstan steppe about 3 1/2 hours after the undocking.
Kononenko and Chub blasted off for the space station on Sept.
15, 2023, and on Friday set the record for the longest
continuous mission on the ISS. Dyson, in her third mission into
outer space, spent six months aboard.
Eight astronauts remain on the space station, including
Americans Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have remained
long past their scheduled return to Earth.
They arrived in June as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner
capsule. But their trip was marred by thruster troubles and
helium leaks, and the U.S. space agency NASA decided it was too
risky to return them on Starliner.
The two astronauts will ride home with SpaceX next year.
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