Astronaut Chris Cassidy and Crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos returns safely on Earth last Oct.21 after living and working 196 days in Earth’s orbit.

They departed the station at 7:32 p.m. EDT wednesday and landed at Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan 10:54 p.m (8:54 a.m. Kazakhstan time). They will undergo medical check ups at the landing site and will return home after. Cassidy will board a NASA plane going to Houston while Vagner and Ivanishin going back to their home in Star City, Russia.

Christopher John Cassidy is a NASA Astronaut and a Navy Seal in United States, and achieved the Captain rank in the U.S Navy. He was born January 4, 1970 in Salem, Massachusetts. May 2004 Cassidy was selected as an Astronaut candidate by NASA. His first spaceflight on a Space Shuttle mission was 2009, and he was the Chief of the Astronaut Office in NASA from July 2015 to June 2017.

Cassidy served as the Commander of Expedition 63 in their latest mission with the SpaceX Demo-2 Crew members Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley of NASA. They were the first astronauts who launched in the space station of American spacecraft from American soil since the space shuttle retired last 2011.

Cassidy had spent a total of 378 days in space and was the fifth highest among U.S astronauts.