NEW: NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that touched down in Kazakhstan.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei inspecting a flight suit aboard the International Space Station in August 2021. Photo: NASA
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, returned to Earth from the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that touched down in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning.The landing, which concludes Vande Hei's record-breaking 355 consecutive days in space, comes as U.S.
The U.S. and Russia have collaborated in a civilian capacity in space for decades, primarily through the ISS — which can't function properly without both countries participating.Vande Hei, who surpassed former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly’s 340-day record on March 15, said inhe was "looking forward to being outside, no matter what kind of weather" and that his time in space changed the way he saw Earth.
"Having been up here, looking down at the Earth from outside the atmosphere, to me, that atmosphere right now looks so thin," Vande Hei said. "Back on Earth, it seems much clearer to me that when you're standing outside looking up at the stars, you're really in space. The only thing separating you from the vacuum of space is that precious thin layer of atmosphere that we call home."In the weeks before the landing, Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, repeatedly threatened to stop cooperating with the ISS in protest of sanctions on Moscow over its invasion.
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