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Added on the 17/10/2021 07:15:44 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
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
Russian actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) in a bid to best the United States and film the first movie in orbit. Peresild, 37, Shipenko, 38, took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan as scheduled, but they belatedly docked at the ISS at 1222 GMT after veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov switched to manual control. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX. 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 (COMPLETES VID1037241_EN)
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
Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, NASA's Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos return to earth from the International Space Station, landing safely in a field in Kazakhstan. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)