Astronaut Vande Hei Holds Press Conference After Almost Year in Space

Name: Astronaut Vande Hei Holds Press Conference After Almost Year in Space
Uploaded: 2022-04-05T14:01+0000
Duration: 28 min 46 s
Description: A spacecraft carrying Vande Hei landed in Kazakhstan on 30 March. The astronaut set a NASA record, spending 355 days in space - the longest single stretch any American has ever spent on the ISS.

14:01 GMT, 5 April 2022

A spacecraft carrying Vande Hei landed in Kazakhstan on 30 March. The astronaut set a NASA record, spending 355 days in space - the longest single stretch any American has ever spent on the ISS.

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Sputnik is live from Houston, Texas, where astronaut Mark Vande Hei is holding a post-flight event after returning to Earth on a Soyuz MS-19. The astronaut previously said this flight to the ISS was the last one for him, as he promised his wife he "will not be flying to space again".

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