Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday Oct 30,2016 following a 115-day mission aboard the the International Space Station, including US astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space.
Russian mission control confirmed the touchdown of NASA's Rubins, Roscosmos' Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at 0358 GMT.
The trio landed southeast of the Kazakh steppe town of Zhezkazgan in clear but frosty conditions after a flight from the orbital lab.
"Landing has taken place!" Russian mission control stated, with commentators on NASA TV noting that the Soyuz craft had landed in an upright position.
Molecular biologist Kate Rubins (USA) and Takuya Onishi(Japan) were both returning from their first missions in space, while flight commander Anatoly Ivanishin(Russia) undertook a five-month mission at the ISS five years ago.
US astronaut Kate Rubins was also the first woman aboard the ISS since Italian Samantha Cristoforetti returned to Earth with the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (199 days) in June last year.
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The ISS has been orbiting Earth at about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 miles per hour) since 1998.
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