Cosmonauts, Astronauts Return Amid Record Missions

An all-volunteer crew on a simulated Mars mission has returned to Earth, contributing valuable insights for future space exploration. Meanwhile, NASA is preparing to bring stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back from the ISS via a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, after their Boeing Starliner faced technical issues. On another front, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, along with NASA's Tracy Dyson, safely landed in Kazakhstan after a record-breaking mission aboard the ISS, with Kononenko setting a new record for cumulative time spent in space. The Soyuz MS-25 capsule carried them back, marking a significant joint effort amid geopolitical tensions.