Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner sits outside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after landing with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin gestures as he sits outside after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with fellow cosmonaut Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Don Pettit in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
NASA astronaut Don Pettit gestures as he is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner gestures as he is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Don Pettit near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, bottom, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, middle, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Zubritskiy, top, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft for launch to the International Space Station, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)