WATCH: Record-breaking US astronaut returns to Earth

Astronauts Christina Koch, Luca Parmitano and Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov have returned from space.


NASA’s Christina Koch returned to Earth on Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts after almost a year aboard the International Space Station.

Koch touched down on the Kazakh steppe at 9.12am GMT after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency.

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