NASA stresses that the space partnership continues.
, who spent 340 days aloft in 2015 and 2016. Vande Hei is scheduled to depart the ISS in a Soyuz on March 30 with two Russian cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Petr Dubrov, and land with them in Kazakhstan.
While NASA is seeking"operational flexibility" in dealing with Roscosmos, the American agency still expects Vande Hei to come down as planned and then fly home to Houston via normal procedures, NASA's associate administrator for space operations Kathy Lueders Officials"are getting ready for Mark to return, and all of the normal operations are in place for that for us to be able to do that," Lueders said during a Feb.
This close-up of the destroyed Irpin Bridge west of Kyiv, Ukraine shows the damaged bridge and lines of cars on one side. All of this being said, NASA is already creating backups for key space station functions. For example, an already docked Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft is expected to do theReboosts, a traditional Russian responsibility performed using Progress cargo spacecraft, occur periodically to assure the orbiting complex doesn't get dragged down by Earth's atmosphere.
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