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• Soyuz with crew of three lands safely in Kazakhstan (SpaceFlightNow)

On April 17th at 5:16 AM UTC, Jessica Meir, Oleg Skripochka, and Andrew Morgan landed near Jezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

From there, they were literally pulled out of the capsule and placed in reclining chairs to help them adjust to the increased gravity on Earth.  This is also a chance for flight surgeons and medical teams to take the returning spacefarer’s vitals — checking things like blood pressure, pulse and temperature.

The steppes of Kazakhstan are notorious for a complete lack of all things civilized other than rockets. There are no cell phone towers.  So instead of a cell phone, crew members use an Intelsat satellite phone to call loved ones.

The seated astronauts and cosmonaut are then carried to their all terrain vehicles for the relatively short ride to the nearby waiting helicopters.  Each crew member and their team is then loaded into individual helicopters for the two and a half hour flight to Baikonur.  This is when they finally have a chance to change out of the bulky landing suits.  Upon landing in Baikonur, American astronauts Meir and Morgan flew to Houston while Russian cosmonaut Skripochka flew to Moscow.