On Friday, three astronauts safely returned from the International Space Station (ISS) with their parachute landing in Kazakhstan. A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the crewmembers departed from the station at 5:39 p.m. ET and it landed at 8:51 pm ET southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Inside the capsule were former station commander Gennady Padalka, 57, who is the world's most experienced space flier. He has returned from his fifth spaceflight and has a record of 879 days in orbit. Other two members were Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov and Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen they have spent less than 10 days in orbit.

Mogensen, who is the first Danish to go into space, said that they did not feel homesick. Time at the ISS passed really fast, said Mogensen. On September 2, they have travelled to space. Currently, there are six crewmembers present at the ISS.

Among the present including newly named Commander Scott Kelly with NASA and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have completed a halfway point of a planned year-long stay in space, which is the longest tour till date in the ISS's 15-year history.

Kelly said that he is well aware of the fact that staying a year is not at all easy and for it, one has to be quite determined. NASA and Russia are carrying out this mission to know how microgravity affects human physical and mental health and what measures can be used to cancel out harmful effects, if any. The mission is important as the agencies plan to send astronauts to farther places in space.