Russian Soyuz MS-27 Crew Spacecraft Post-landing | International Space Station

Russian Soyuz MS-27 Crew Spacecraft Post-landing | International Space Station

Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, left, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, center, and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia are seen inside the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Russia is helped out of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft just minutes after he, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Zubritsky, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is seen outside the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft after he landed with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is helped out of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft just minutes after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

Russian Search and Rescue teams arrive at the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft shortly after it landed 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.

Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft shortly after it landed 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.

Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft shortly after it landed 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.

Matryoshka Dolls depicting NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia, are seen at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025.

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 will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where recovery teams are based. Kim will board a NASA aircraft and return to Houston, while Ryzhikov and Zubritsky will depart for their training base in Star City, Russia.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Dates: Dec. 7-9, 2025

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