Soyuz capsule carrying three crew from space station lands safely in Kazakhstan

Nasa’s Loral O’Hara, left, Russia’s Oleg Novitsky and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they landed in a remote area in Kazakhstan (Bill Ingalls/Nasa via AP)

A Russian space capsule carrying two women and one man has safely landed in a steppe in Kazakhstan after their missions aboard the International Space Station.

The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia’s Oleg Novitsky, Nasa’s Loral O’Hara and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down south east of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 12.17pm Kazakh time (0717 GMT).