The Soyuz MS-16 capsule has landed in Kazakhstan with Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin, flight engineer Ivan Vagner, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.

The capsule separated from the space station after nearly 196 days there before it began the return trip to Earth.

Soyuz MS-16 was a Soyuz spaceflight launched on 9 April 2020, which transported three members of the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.

This flight was the first crewed launch using the Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle, and the first crewed Russian mission not to launch from Gagarin's Start, which began modernization renovations after Soyuz MS-15, since Soyuz MS-02 in 2016. (ILKHA)