Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin and two Japanese space tourists have returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS).
A Japanese billionaire yesterday returned to Earth after 12 days spent on the International Space Station (ISS), where he made videos about performing mundane tasks in space, including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom.
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant, Yozo Hirano, parachuted onto Kazakhstan’s steppe at about the expected landing time of 3:13am GMT, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
Footage from the landing site, about 150km southeast of the central town of Zhezkazgan, showed the trio smiling after being helped out of the Soyuz descent module and into evacuation vehicles in freezing, foggy conditions.
“The crew is feeling