{"id":22242,"date":"2022-03-31T18:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-mark-vande-hei-returns-to-earth-with-russian-colleagues-after-a-record-setting-stay-in-space\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T18:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T10:09:35","slug":"nasas-mark-vande-hei-returns-to-earth-with-russian-colleagues-after-a-record-setting-stay-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-mark-vande-hei-returns-to-earth-with-russian-colleagues-after-a-record-setting-stay-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth with Russian colleagues after a record setting stay in space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov departed the space station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at 3:21 a.m. EDT. A few hours later, the three landed via parachute at 7:28 a.m. EDT in Kazakstan. Many feared Vande Hei would end up stranded in space due to Russia\u2019s conflict in Ukraine. However, as expected, Roscosmos assisted in the astronaut\u2019s return and allowed the usual NASA contingent to be there when he landed.<\/p>\n

From the landing zone, Vande Hei was taken to the nearby city of Karaganda, where he boarded a NASA Gulfstream for the flight back to Houston. The cosmonauts took a separate ride back to Star City near Moscow. This is standard procedure for Soyuz crew returns.<\/p>\n

Final NASA\/Roscosmos flight to ISS?<\/h2>\n

Many have speculated if this will be the final time Russia and NASA will ride together to or from the space station. The answer is most likely no. While Roscosmos\u2019 directer, Dimitry Rogozin, has continued to shout anti-American rhetoric on social media, he\u2019s been doing this for years, and nothing has phased the mission controllers so far, who are still cooperating with NASA.<\/p>\n

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