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WASHINGTON, Mar 12 The Crew Dragon spacecraft, whose crew was Russian Anna Kikina, returned from the International Space Station to Earth, follows from broadcast on the NASA website.
The capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida. Together with Kikina, Americans Nicol Mann and Josh Kassada, as well as Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, returned from orbit. All of them arrived at the ISS on the Crew Dragon spacecraft in October last year.
Now the Russians Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, who arrived on the Soyuz MS-22, and the American Frank Rubio, as well as the Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who arrived as part of the Crew-6 mission, and NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, are now on the ISS and UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi.
Kikina spent about six months on the ISS. She became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly on an American ship under a cross-flight agreement signed last year. It was originally planned that in 2022-2024 three missions of Russian and American spacecraft would go to the ISS, later the program was expanded by one more mission.