After nearly six months in space, the Russian-US crew of the International Space Station have come back down to earth.<br /><br />The Soyuz capsule carrying American Mike Hopkins and Russians Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy came down slowly by parachute as planned and touched down in central Kazakhstan.<br /><br />They men were quickly wrapped in blankets, with heavy snow and temperatures of minus 15 degrees celsius around them.<br /><br />During their 166 days on the International Space Station (ISS), the team worked on 35 science experiments. They also carried an unlit Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Games during a spacewalk in November.<br /><br />A small crew remains in space and more members are due to arrive later this month.
