Astronaut Returns to Earth After Record Mission

“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,” Axios reports.

“The landing, which concludes Vande Hei’s NASA record-breaking 355 consecutive days in space, comes as U.S. and Russia’s relationship in space has become significantly damaged over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.”