NASA astronaut Chris Williams spent 241 days circling Earth, completing nearly 4,000 orbits before finally returning home

• NASA astronaut Chris Williams has returned to Earth after completing an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev.
• The crew spent 241 days in orbit, during which they completed 3,856 trips around the planet and travelled more than 102 million miles.
• Their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan after undocking from the station earlier that morning, bringing to a close a mission that included two spacewalks and a wide range of scientific research.