Overview
- The descent module touched down about 146 kilometers southeast of Jezkazgan at roughly 08:04 Moscow time, according to the Roscosmos broadcast.
- Search-and-rescue teams opened the capsule and evacuated Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Johnny Kim.
- The return followed a standard sequence that included undocking, a deorbit burn around 07:10 MSK, atmospheric reentry, parachute descent, and activation of soft-landing engines.
- The mission spanned about 245 days and included 42 experiments plus two October spacewalks to install the Ekran‑M hardware and an impulse plasma injector on the Nauka module.
- Roscosmos shared outreach moments from the farewell and landing, including a zero‑gravity cake marked "73" and Ryzhikov’s chalk message on the capsule.