First cosmonaut of sovereign Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya successfully returned to Earth from ISS

At 10:17 Moscow time, the participants of the 21st visiting expedition – cosmonaut of the Roscosmos State Corporation Oleg Novitsky, the first female cosmonaut from Belarus, participant of the space flight Marina Vasilevskaya, as well as participant of the 70th long-term expedition, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara – returned from the International Space Station to Earth, south-east of the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan.

At 09:24 Moscow time, the engine of the Soyuz MS-24 manned spacecraft was turned on to decelerate for information from orbit, at 09:52 it was divided into compartments, at 09:54 the descent vehicle entered the dense layers of the atmosphere and at 10:03 the main parachute was inserted.

At 09:24 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-24 engine switched on for deceleration from orbit. At 09:52, it separated into compartments and, at 09:54, the spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere. At 10:03, the main parachute was deployed.

The sb.by correspondents were following the stages of landing from the screen of the Main Flight Control Room of the Russian segment of the ISS in the Mission Control Centre, the scientific research division of TsNIIMash JSC in Korolev, which is part of the Roscosmos structure. At exactly 10:18 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-24 international crew landed 147km south-east of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.

Marina Vasilevskaya and Loral O'Hara have completed the first space flights in their careers today. For Oleg Novitsky, that was his fourth space flight: he has spent a total of 545 days in space. The crew of the 71st long-term expedition — Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Tracy Dyson – will continue the ‘space trip’.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Janette Epps and Tracy Dyson - will continue their "space trip" to the station.

Results of ISS-70 expedition:

-         delivery of two Progress MS cargo ship;

-         delivery of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft;

-         one spacewalk according to the Russian programme;

-         nine corrections of the ISS orbit by Russian means;

-         scientific and applied experiments, including under the Belarusian programme.