A Soyuz space capsule transporting two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in central Kazakhstan on Wednesday, live images broadcast by NASA showed. Astronaut Mark Vande Hei joined cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov on their return trip to Earth, quashing speculation that Vande Hei might not fly back on the Russian spacecraft in light of tensions over the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, Shkaplerov handed over command of the ISS to US astronaut Thomas Marshburn and in a short speech to the crew said that the ISS rema…