Russian Soyuz MS-27 Crew Spacecraft Landing | International Space Station
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia aboard, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. Retrorockets on the underside of the Soyuz capsule fire moments before impact to help reduce effects on the crew.
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
At 12:03 a.m. EST (10:03 a.m. local time), December 9, 2025, the Russian Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia orbited Earth 3,920 times and traveled nearly 104 million miles over the course of their 245-day mission. The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched and docked with the International Space Station on April 8, 2025.
This was Kim’s first spaceflight, where he served as flight engineer for Expedition 72 and 73. This also was Zubritsky first trip to the International Space Station. Ryzhikov now has logged a total of 603 days in space during three trips to the orbital complex, ranking him 13th all time.
The three crew members later flew separately by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where recovery teams are based. Kim then boarded a NASA aircraft for his return to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, while Ryzhikov and Zubritsky departed for their training base in Star City, Russia.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Date: Dec. 9, 2025
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