India, July 27 -- Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, U.S. astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev returned to Earth on Sunday.
The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing in a remote area near the Kazakhstan town of Zhezkazgan after departing the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, NASA said.
The crew was in space for 241 days, orbiting the Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles. They launched to the International Space Station on November 27, last year. The mission was the first for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.
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