What is a Soyuz? It’s a capsule,isn’t it? Didn’t the American astronaut who went to space with the Russians come back to Earth in one? I remember seeing one of our astronauts being pulled out of some type of capsule.
Two US guys came down in a Soyuz (along with the Russian Cmdr) some months after the Columbia burned up, and the STS was grounded, yet again.
Soyuz is both the booster type and capsule.