The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about 3½ hours after undocking from the space station in an apparently trouble-free descent.
Eight astronauts remain in the space station, including Americans Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have remained long past their scheduled return to Earth.
A Russian space capsule undocked from the International Space Station on Monday to take three astronauts back to Earth, two of them completing a record-long stay on the orbiting laboratory.
A Soyuz capsule carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan after undocking from the ...