According to the latest report, NASA said on Monday that US astronaut Mark Vande Hei will board the Russian Soyuz later in March as planned. The spacecraft returns to Earth from the International Space Station.
NASA reiterated that it is working closely on the International Space Station with Rocosmos, the Russian space agency, despite heightened geopolitical tensions.
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Moreover, the Russian state media TASS also reported that Russia will not throw NASA astronauts on the International Space Station, and Mark and the two Russian astronauts will return to Earth together, putting an end to the Internet rumors some time ago.
Furthermore, Mark van der Hay arrived at the International Space Station in April 2021 and is scheduled to return on March 30 this year.
It is worth mentioning that Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft has been the only means for astronauts to travel to and from the space station in the past decade, but SpaceX also has the capability of manned spaceflight and will send astronauts to space through the Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2020.
Before SpaceX stood up, the United States spent a lot of money to buy Russian spacecraft tickets for its astronauts, and there are preliminary agreements for American astronauts to fly on Russian Soyuz vehicles and Russian astronauts on SpaceX flights in the future.
