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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov hug their International Space Station crewmates before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to Earth. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev closes the hatch of the capsule. NASA, earlier in March, said tensions linked to the war in Ukraine had no impact on ISS operations or the planned return of an American astronaut aboard a Russian capsule later this month. There have been fears that soaring tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine could leave the 55-year-old stranded on the outpost. There had been fears that soaring tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine could leave the 55-year-old Vande Hei stranded on the outpost. IMAGES
A ISS-bound Soyuz rocket carrying Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergei Korsakov takes off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut touch down on the Kazakhstan steppe following a half-year mission, according to footage broadcast by NASA and the Russian space agency. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins landed at 0455 GMT around 150 kilometres from the town of Zhezkazgan. IMAGES
Wrapping up a 185-day mission spanning 2,960 orbits of Earth and 78.4 million miles, NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov bid farewell to their colleagues aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as they prepare to return to Earth. IMAGES
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 53-54 crew held a pre-flight press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday. The three crew members, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, September 13 in 2017.
Roscosmos broadcasts images of Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov performing a spacewalk outside the ISS. IMAGES