Moscow, Muharram 29, 1438, October 30, 2016, SPA -- Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members have returned to earth Sunday, after four months in space, dpa reported. A module containing American Kathleen Rubins, Japan's Takuya Onishi and Russia's Anatoly Ivanishin landed safely in the Kazakhstan steppes on Sunday morning, a press release from Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said. All aspects of the descent from orbit, as well as the landing, passed "normally" the statement said. Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko and Robert Shane Kimbrough remain on board the ISS currently. A new mission to the space station is planned on November 19, which will see an American, a Russian and a Frenchman fly to the station, 400 kilometres above the surface of the earth. --SPA 15:55 LOCAL TIME 12:55 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w
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