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Astronauts and cosmonauts returned from space and saluted one another this week, even as the countries that sent them to the International Space Station are in conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
American astronaut Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz spacecraft alongside Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, with a ker-thunk and a cloud of dust on the soil of Kazakhstan. Vande Hei and Dubrov had been aloft for 355 days.
Both NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, say they continue to work amicably together. But there was some consternation when the Roscosmos chief posted a satirical video in which cosmonauts say goodbye to their American crewmate and then detach the Russian module from the ISS to the tune of a Russian farewell song called "Farewell."
Astronauts and cosmonauts returned from space and saluted one another this week, even as the countries that sent them to the International Space Station are in conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
American astronaut Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz spacecraft alongside Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, with a ker-thunk and a cloud of dust on the soil of Kazakhstan. Vande Hei and Dubrov had been aloft for 355 days.
Both NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, say they continue to work amicably together. But there was some consternation when the Roscosmos chief posted a satirical video in which cosmonauts say goodbye to their American crewmate and then detach the Russian module from the ISS to the tune of a Russian farewell song called "Farewell."
Opinion: The weightlessness of peace
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