US astronaut and Russian cosmonaut head home together
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11:11 30 Mar, 2022
US astronaut and Russian cosmonaut head home together
An astronaut from the US and two cosmonauts from Russia will return to earth together despite rising tensions between the two countries over Ukraine.
Qazet.az reports that a Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Nasa astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is expected to undock from the International Space Station at 06:45 GMT and land in Kazakhstan four hours later.
The joint trip home comes amid rising uncertainty about the fate of US-Russian cooperation in space.