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A US-Russian space crew landed safely Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan, greeted with extra precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Following a stint on the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan and Russian Oleg Skripochka touched down as scheduled at 11:16 am Friday. Their Soyuz landing capsule landed under a striped orange-and-white parachute about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Dzhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan. (Reuters Photo)
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The Soyuz MS-15 space capsule carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew members NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka descends beneath a parachute before landing in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters Photo)
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Russian officials said they took stringent measures to protect the crew amid the pandemic. (Reuters Photo)
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The recovery team and medical personnel assigned to help the crew out of the capsule and for post-flight checks had been under close medical observation for nearly a month, including tests for the coronavirus. (Reuters Photo)
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International Space Station (ISS) crew member Jessica Meir of NASA speaks on a satellite phone after the landing of the Soyuz MS-15 space capsule in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters Photo)
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The space crew smiled as they talked to medical experts wearing masks. (AP Photo)
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The International Space Station (ISS) crew members Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are seen inside the Soyuz MS-15 space capsule shortly after the landing in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (Reuters Photo)
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Speaking from the orbiting outpost before the return to Earth, the crew said that coming back to the world drastically changed by the pandemic will be challenging. (Reuters Photo)
Morgan said the crew has tried to keep atop the coronavirus news, but added that it's hard to comprehend what's really going on. (Reuters Photo) -
The crew returned to Earth exactly 50 years after the Apollo 13 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after an oxygen tank explosion aborted the moon-landing mission. (Reuters Photo)
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