Vande Hei, who has spent longer in space than any other NASA astronaut, landed on Earth in a Soyuz spacecraft on Wednesday amid tensions between the West and Russia.
earlier this month, NASA said it was continuing cooperation with Russia to safely transport crew members to and from the ISS and that Vande Hei would be returning.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei pictured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City outside of Moscow in August, 2017. Vande Hei returned to Earth on March 30th after spending nearly a year in space.In his time on the ISS, Vande Hei orbited the Earth around 5,680 times and traveled more than 150 million miles.
He installed an experiment platform that would allow astronauts to place materials like concrete, seeds, and microbes outside of the space station, exposing them to the harsh vacuum of space to see what would happen. He also participated in the harvest of chili peppers in space, too, as part of tests of growth and watering systems that allow astronauts to grow plants inVande Hei also installed fire ignition and extinction hardware in preparation for fire safety experiments aboard the station. Such experiments could help determine the best methods for extinguishing fires in space and identify safer materials for future space facilities.
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