Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have made a safe return from the International Space Station. Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka touched down in central Kazakhstan this morning in the first returning mission since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March. "TOUCHDOWN!
Welcome home, Oleg Skripochka, Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir!" Russia's Roscosmos space agency said in a tweet. While the trio's landing site southeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan is the same as for previous crews, the pandemic has forced a number of changes to mission-end protocol.
Roscosmos said on Tuesday that the crews meeting the trio at the landing site were tested for Covid-19 and will don full-body