A NASA astronaut caught a ride back to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, bringing to an end a US record 355 days aboard the International Space Station.
Mark Vande Hei and his two Russian cosmonaut colleagues touched down on Wednesday, landing on a world torn apart by a war and their nations at loggerheads.
Space landings are always tense affairs – and it was reasonable to expect today’s to be even more so, with US-Russian relations their worst since the worst days of the Cold War.
But the smile on the face of returning US astronaut Marke Vande Hei said otherwise.
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