On a July morning in Kazakhstan, three people stepped out of a spacecraft onto the steppe after eight months in orbit. NASA astronaut Chris Williams, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, touched down safely on July 26, 2026, completing a 241-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Their Soyuz MS-28 capsule undocked from the station at 2:03 a.m. Central Daylight Time and descended under parachute roughly three and a half hours later, landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan. Recovery teams transported them by helicopter to Karaganda for medical evaluation—