3 from space station return to Earth as Soyuz lands safely

• Capsule landed Sunday night in Kazakhstan
• Williams has spent more than 50 hours spacewalking in her career
• Crew had welcomed first SpaceX Dragon capsule

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After 127 days in space, three crew members from the International Space Station are home.

The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and two space-going colleagues landed at 8:56 p.m. Sunday night northeast of Arkalyk in the steppes of Kazakhstan. It was a chilly 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

Williams, Aki Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko had spent 125 of their 127 days in space circling Earth onboard the International Space Station. While on the outpost, they welcomed SpaceX's Dragon capsule making its first official cargo delivery, which included fresh apples and chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream.

Williams and Hoshide also carried out two spacewalks.

Williams returned home a record-holder: the most spacewalking time by a female at 50 hours and 40 minutes over seven career excursions.

The trio, who undocked at 5:26 p.m. with Malenchenko at the controls, left the space station in the command of NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.

Ford and his crewmates -- Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin -- will run the outpost as they await the arrival of three more crew members, including American Tom Marshburn, in December.