mark vande hei: Russian spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei lands in Kazakhstan

NASA medical doctors and crew have been already current on the landing web site with plans to hurry Dubrov and Vande Hei– each launched to the ISS on Soyuz MS-18 on April 9, 2021– to Texas for rapid medical consideration as a pre-emptive measure.

NASA confirms that Vande Hei, a US nationwide, spent 355 days in a row on the ISS, the longest unbroken streak by an American on the orbiting station. Whereas Dubrov (a Russian cosmonaut) too spent 355 days there, he will not be making any data for his keep because the longest steady time spent by a cosmonaut of Russia at ISS is 438 days by Valeri Polyakov, who spent greater than 14 months aboard the Mir area station, returning to Earth in 1995

The touchdown comes amid rising Russian-American tensions over Russia’s persevering with invasion of Ukraine after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed curiosity in changing into the thirty first nation to affix the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Group), a transfer which Putin has since described as a “severe safety threat to Russia.”

“This can be a very difficult time for worldwide relations. My hope is that, in our makes an attempt to additional and discover peace all through the world, these kinds of connections that now we have may be maintained and function a path ahead to attempt to discover that widespread floor that we’d like so desperately to seek out peace,” Vande Hei stated in an interview with NASA final week.

“Folks have issues on Earth. On orbit … we’re one crew,” Shkaplerov stated in a stay NASA TV broadcast Tuesday.