The Soyuz capsule drifts down to Earth under a parachute. The three crew members after being lifted from the capsuleThe first female Belarusian in space, alongside a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut, came back to Earth early this morning .O'Hara, selected by NASA in 2017, and Vasilevskaya were both on their first missions.
"I'm overwhelmed with emotions. It's something incredible," Vasilevskaya said immediately after being lifted from the Soyuz capsule."I wish all people on Earth to treasure and cherish what they have because it is precious.
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, which carried Vasilevskaya, O'Hara and Novitskiy to orbit about two weeks ago, is still docked to the ISS. It will come back in the fall with Dyson and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, after the Russians complete a year in space.
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