Astronauts Return To Pandemic Wracked Earth
April 17, 2020
2:35 pm
Two astronauts and a cosmonaut landed in Kazakhstan on Friday morning , completing their mission aboard the International Space Station.
The space travellers returned to an earthly world changed by the coronavirus pandemic since they left months ago.
Ground crews tended to them wearing surgical masks and respirators.
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan concluded nine months living and working on the ISS.
Astronaut Jessica Meir and cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka spent almost seven months in space.
After post-landing medical checks, the crew returned by Russian helicopters to the recovery staging city in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Morgan and Meir were scheduled to board a …
