Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 11:19 AM ET (1619 GMT)

A Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan early Thursday with three space station crewmembers on board. The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft landed at 3:37 am EDY (0837 GMT), nearly three and a half hours after undocking from the station. The Soyuz returned to Earth the American astronaut Randy Bresnik, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy. Three new ISS crewmembers will launch on another Soyuz spacecraft early Sunday.