A NASA astronaut and two cosmonaut crewmates strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship and undocked from the International Space Station on Monday, heading for landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to wrap up an eight-month mission .

"We wish you a soft landing and hope to see you on the ground very soon," a Russian flight controller radioed.

The Soyuz MS-27/73S spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian cosmonauts undocks from the International Space Station as the two spacecraft sailed 262 miles above eastern Mongolia. NASA

With Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov strapped into the descent module's center seat, flanked on his left by cosmonaut Alexey Zubritsky and on the right by NASA's Jonny Kim, the Soyuz MS-27/73S spacecraft undocked from the lab at 8:41 p.m. EST.

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