{"id":12140,"date":"2026-07-26T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/us-russian-space-crew-returns-to-earth-after-8-months-on-iss\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:22:26","slug":"us-russian-space-crew-returns-to-earth-after-8-months-on-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/us-russian-space-crew-returns-to-earth-after-8-months-on-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Russian Space Crew Returns to Earth After 8 Months on ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>New York Post<\/em>, NASA astronaut <strong>Chris Williams<\/strong> and his Russian colleagues <strong>Sergei Kud-Sverchkov<\/strong> and <strong>Sergei Mikaev<\/strong> completed their descent in the Soyuz MS-28 capsule, which landed smoothly by parachute in a designated zone southeast of Dzhezkazgan.<\/p>\n<p>The crew spent 241 days on the orbiting outpost, marking the first space mission for both Williams and Mikaev, while Kud-Sverchkov was completing his second journey to the station.<\/p>\n<p>The successful landing demonstrates the enduring partnership between American and Russian space agencies, which has remained intact even as bilateral relations have deteriorated in recent years. The International Space Station continues to serve as one of the few areas where Moscow and Washington maintain direct operational collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery teams were on site to assist the crew following their landing in the vast Kazakh steppes, a traditional touchdown location for Soyuz capsules returning from the ISS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US-Russian space crew returned safely to Kazakhstan after eight months on the International Space Station, demonstrating continued cooperation despite geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[5426,5423,3753,214,10215,10216,10217,209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-12140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-williams","tag-international-space-station","tag-kazakhstan","tag-russia","tag-sergei-kud-sverchkov","tag-sergei-mikaev","tag-space-cooperation","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12140"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=12140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}