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1. Which country’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft safely brought back its crew from the International Space Station in September 2024?
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, belonging to Russia, successfully returned two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and a NASA astronaut, Tracy Dyson, to Earth on September 23, 2024. The spacecraft landed near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, following a 374-day mission for the Russian cosmonauts and 184 days in space for the NASA astronaut. The mission underscores Russia's ongoing involvement in the International Space Station program, in collaboration with NASA and other space agencies.