Peake, the first British astronaut on the ISS, Russia's Yury Malenchenko and NASA's Tim Kopra parachuted down onto the Kazakh steppe in their Soyuz capsule at 0915 GMT after spending 186 days in orbit.
It was incredible. The best ride I've ever been on," Peake said. "It has just been fantastic, from start to finish." The 44-year-old former helicopter test pilot said he was looking forward to seeing his family.