Russian actor, director, cosmonaut back on earth

The crew of a Soyuz space capsule safely disembarked onto the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday. The craft, carrying Russian actor Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko, who returned to Earth after filming scenes for the world's first movie in orbit - left the International Space Station (ISS) earlier on Sunday.

Peresild and Shipenko rocketed into orbit in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on October 5 for a 12-day stint on the station to film segments of the movie titled “Challenge.” The pair returned to Earth on Sunday with another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Novitskiy, who also stars as the ailing cosmonaut in the movie.