Ax-3 returned to Earth with the Italian Villadei on board - Space and Astronomy. Ax-3 mission shuttle, the third private one to reach the ISS, landed as scheduled at 2.29pm Italian time in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Daytona Beach in Florida.

bringing back to earth after 21 days the crew composed of commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, VilladeI in the role of pilot, the Swede Marcus Wandt of the European Space Agency and the Turkish Alper Gezeravci.