A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and filming scenes for the first movie ever to be shot in orbit. 

The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, ferrying Yulia Peresild, Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky from the ISS, landed on the Kazakh steppe at 0436 GMT, according to live footage broadcast by the Russian space agency.