Welcome home, astronaut & scientist Kate Rubins! 🏠⁣ ⁣ Rubins, along with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, undocked their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) at 9:34 p.m. EDT Friday, April 16th and landed safely under parachutes at 12:55 a.m. (10:55 a.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 17, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. It was the second spaceflight for Rubins and Ryzhikov and the first for Kud-Sverchkov.⁣ ⁣ During the past six months on the station, Rubins spent hundreds of hours working on experiments, talking with the researchers behind the studies, and serving as an ambassador for science in downlinks with NSFGov, NIHGov, CDCGov, and others. Rubins built on experiments she conducted during her first mission in 2016, working on new heart research and DNA sequencing. ⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls⁣ ⁣ #WelcomeHome #Landing #Astronauts #Scientists #WomenInSTEM