KAZAKHSTAN-U.S.-RUSSIA-ASTRONAUTS-RETURN
(220331) -- WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- The Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft is pictured landing in an area southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, March 30, 2022.
After extending the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American to 355 days, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on Wednesday with two Russian crewmates.
Vande Hei departed the International Space Station along with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov at 3:21 a.m. Eastern Day Time (EDT), and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 7:28 a.m. EDT southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, according to NASA.
TO GO WITH: "Record-setting NASA astronaut returns from space station with Russian crewmates" (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via Xinhua)
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