國際空間站3名宇航員安全返回地球

Two Russians and an American are back on Earth after nearly six months aboard the International Space Station.

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Oleg Artemiev, Alexander Skvortsov and Steven Swanson parachuted safely onto the steppe of Kazakhstan early Thursday morning, several hours after ending a nearly six-month mission aboard the ISS.

They have been replaced by a new three-person crew, including Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev, American Reid Wiseman and Germany's Alexander Gerst, a member of the European Space Agency.

Another three-person crew is scheduled to arrive at the orbital outpost later this month. The crew will include Elena Serova, who will be the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first since 1997.兩名俄羅斯人和一名美國人在國際空間站度過將近6個月後返回地球。

星期四清晨，一艘俄羅斯聯盟號飛船載着阿爾特米耶夫、斯科弗爾特索夫和斯旺森在哈薩克斯坦草原上安全着陸，在此數小時前，這3名宇航員結束了在國際空間站上將近半年的使命。

接替他們的是俄羅斯宇航員蘇拉耶夫、美國宇航員懷斯曼和德國宇航員格斯特。格斯特屬於歐洲航天局。

另外3名宇航員定於本月晚些時候進駐國際空間站，其中包括愛琳娜·謝洛娃，她將成爲第4位進入太空的俄羅斯女性，也是1997年以來的第一位。