Overview
- The descent module touched down about 146 kilometers southeast of Jezkazgan after an autonomous reentry and parachute-assisted descent.
- Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan (Johnny) Kim returned on the spacecraft.
- The vehicle undocked from the ISS, performed its deorbit burn around 07:10 MSK, separated its modules, and experienced a brief plasma blackout before firing soft-landing engines.
- The mission launched on a Soyuz-2.1a from Baikonur on April 8 and docked the same day, totaling roughly 245 days in space for the returning crew.
- Ryzhikov and Zubritsky carried out October EVAs to install Ekran-M semiconductor-growth equipment and the Impulse plasma injector on the Nauka module, as Roscosmos covered the return with a live stream and a floating “73” cake.