Mark Vande Hey NASA is at home.
Vande Hei, who has been in space for 355 days, recording a new record for the longest running American spacecraft, arrived in Houston at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in on Friday (March 31) after the sun hit Kazakhstan. used to.
“@Astro_Sabot He returned to Houston this morning, with his loved ones and friends there to greet him. He landed on Earth again yesterday after spending 355 days circling the Earth, “JSC tweeted after the day.
Vande Hei and his two Russian companions, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, landed safely in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz plane on Wednesday (March 30). According to NASA protocol, Vande Hei was returned to Houston to start his life from living for a year in microgravity.
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After the passengers arrived in Kazakhstan, they were taken to a hospital and flown by helicopter to Karaganda, a city in Kazakhstan. From there, Vande Hei was flown to Texas on a NASA plane. Now at home, Vande Hei will have time to recover from missionary work almost a year.
Vice President Kamala Harris thanked Vande Hei for his history, recording shortly after his landing. write on Twitter: “Enjoy your historic trip and 355 days in the open. Welcome home, @Astro_Sabot“
Mark Vande Hey home! 🌏 @Astro_Sabot returned to Houston this morning, with his fans and fellow @NASA_Astronauts there to greet him. He landed on Earth again yesterday after spending 355 days orbiting the Earth. pic.twitter.com/HQfLJ3WgDRMarch 31, 2022
Vande Hei’s tour was more than the single flight test of the U.S. airline, which was Scott Kelly’s 340-day tour in 2015-16. The entire history of about 438 regular days is manned by Russian cosmonaut Valery Poliyakov, located at the Soviet-Russian Mir airport between 1994 and 1995.
Prior to Vande’s arrest in Kazakhstan, some broadcasters believed that it would not return to Earth on the Russian Soyuz as planned, because the United States had condemned the Russia planned to invade Ukraine and the airfields were shut down.
However, NASA said the relationship with the International Space Station project had not changed and that Vande Hei had returned home as planned, but now it has been successfully implemented.
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