NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei set new record for longest single mission by an American.
, Shkaplerov called his American and European crewmates his"space brothers and space sister."
Returning from the International Space Station, Russia's Soyuz MS-19 lands on the steppe of Kazakhstan with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. "People have problems on Earth. On orbit, we are like — no, we are not like, we are one crew — and I think the ISS [International Space Station] is a symbol of the friendship and cooperation and a symbol of future exploration of space," he said.
Shkaplerov, Dubrov and Vande Hei left the space station to begin their trip home at 3:21 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, undocking Soyuz MS-19 from the Rassvet mini research module.
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