Three astronauts back on Earth from ISS: mission control

MOSCOW: Three astronauts returned to Earth Wednesday on board a Russian Soyuz capsule after a half-year mission on the International Space Station (ISS), landing in Kazakhstan, mission control in Moscow announced.

Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin landed on schedule at 8:58
am Kazakh time (0258 GMT) in the Kazakh steppes, along with American Chris
Cassidy.