NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei Returns to Earth, Ending Record-Breaking Spaceflight

Mark Vande Hei, who clocked the longest single spaceflight for an American astronaut, has returned to Earth. Vande Hei spent 355 consecutive days in space, breaking retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's record by 15 days.Vande Hei traveled back to Earth in a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov. While some initially feared that Vande Hei could be left stranded due to ongoing U.S. sanctions against Russia, the Russian space agency Roscosmos gave a statem...