Moscow, Jun 18 (EFE).– The descent module of Russian spaceship Soyuz TMA-19M, with three crew members of the International Space Station, or ISS, aboard, successfully landed Saturday on the steppes of Kazakhstan, Russia’s Space Flight Control Center reported.

Returning to Earth in the module were Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra and British astronaut Tim Peake after six months on the ISS.

The spacecraft landed as planned at some 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.

The three space travelers are well and in good condition, rescue teams reported from the place where the descent module landed.

Remaining on the ISS are another three crew members – the Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, and expedition commander Jeff Williams of the United States.

They will be joined by Russia’s Anatoly Ivanishin, the American Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi of Japan, who on July 7 will blast off aboard the Soyuz MS on a flight to the ISS.

The launch of the Soyuz MS, a new modification of the Russian manned spacecraft, was originally planned for June 24, but was postponed because of technical problems.

The International Space Station, a project in which more than $100 billion have been invested and in which 16 nations have participated, orbits at over 27,000 kph (16,800 mph) at some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the Earth. EFE