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A Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan, bringing back NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko after record U.S. spaceflight. Rough Cut-subtitled (no reporter narration).
A record-breaking US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reach earth, with tensions between Moscow and the West soaring over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. NASA's Mark Vande Hei is returning after setting a new record for the single longest spaceflight by a NASA astronaut, clocking 355 days aboard the International Space Station. IMAGES
Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and American astronaut Loral O'Hara rocket toward the International Space Station as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise over Ukraine. The crew is expected to dock at the ISS three hours later. The launch comes after Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. IMAGES
From Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian Soyuz 2.1B rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites, from British operator OneWeb. IMAGES
A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft due to launch on December 3, 2018, from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome. IMAGES
A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft carrying French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy landed on the Kazakh steppe Friday, ending their marathon 196-day mission to the International Space Station. IMAGES OF NOVITSKIY (COMPLETES VID1037241_EN and VID1037284_EN)