Two Russian and two Belarusian cosmonauts landed safely on Earth on Saturday. American astronaut Loral O'Hara returned from a mission of 204 days.

This was the first flight of their careers on the ISS. Two weeks ago, the takeoff of the Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS, with Vassilevskaïa and MNovitsky on board, was postponed by a few days to March 23. The ISS constitutes one of the rare areas of cooperation still in progress between Moscow and Washington.