Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka touched down in central Kazakhstan at 0516 GMT in the first returning mission since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March. Morgan had been on the ISS since July last year, while Meir and Skripochka arrived in September. Russia's Roscosmos space agency wrote on Twitter. Unusually, Nasa and Roscosmos did not show live footage of the trio parachuting down in their Soyuz landing capsule. While the trio's landing site southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan is the same as for previous crews, the pandemic has forced changes to mission-end protocol.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 17, 2020 06:22 UTC