NASA astronaut returns to Earth on a Russian Soyuz

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth today aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule and accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts. Vande Hei's 355-day mission is the longest single spaceflight for a NASA astronaut, comfortably eclipsing the 340 days of Scott Kelly's mission from 2015 to 2016. Kelly's interactions with Roscosmos …

[Danny 2]

A Cloud In Trousers

His Russian pals placed a NASA cap on his head when he landed.

Scientists and engineers are just better than other people, more rational, and the further we get from earth the better we get.

I rated the ISS as the best present I've ever been given. I get an alert on my phone when it passes overhead, with video of the clouds above Scotland from above. The air that we breathe was exhaled by our so-called 'enemies', which is more apparent in a wee tin can.

[nijam]

Presumably he, also, will be arrested as soon as possible after landing, for smuggling drugs into the country (to quote a current example).