Two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko and a US astronaut Shane Kimbrough touched down safely in central Kazakhstan Monday, following a 173-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
"Touchdown confirmed," AFP cited a commentator on NASA Television broadcasting the landing.
The landing of Soyuz MS-02 craft took place in bright conditions at around 1120 GMT (1720 local time) close to the Kazakh steppe town of Dzhezkazgan.
