Mark Vande Hei has been in space continuously for nearly a full year.
A record-breaking NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will return to Earth early Wednesday , and you can watch their homecoming live.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA's Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled to undock from the Wednesday at 3:21 a.m. EDT and land back on Earth in the steppe of Kazakhstan, a vast open grassland, just over four hours later.directly via the space agency
. Coverage of the departing astronauts' farewells, and the closure of the hatches connecting the Soyuz and the station, is set to begin Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. EDT . Undocking coverage starts at 2:45 a.m. EDT , and a landing stream will begin at 6:15 a.m. EDT .Vande Hei is wrapping up a 355-day mission on the space station, the longest single stretch any American has ever spent in the final frontier.
Dubrov is coming home after 355 days in space as well, but that's not a Russian record. Valery Polyakov lived on the Russian space stationThe world has changed a great deal as Vande Hei, Shkaplerov, Dubrov and their colleagues have circled it. For example, relations between Russia and the United States are much more strained now, thanks to
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