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The Crew-6 astronauts arriving at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida on February 21.Photo: NASA/Kim ShiflettA new astronaut crew is getting ready to cohabitate in low Earth orbit while conducting dozens of science experiments and research during a six-month period on board the International Space Station. SpaceX’s sixth operational crewed flight to the orbiting lab will include two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and an Emirate astronaut as part of ISS Expedition 69. Thefour-person crew…

NASA will run a live broadcast of the return to Earth of American astronaut Mark Vande Hei after a record-breaking 355-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Along with Vande Hei, two Russian cosmonauts — Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov — will also touch down in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz MS-19 capsule on March 30. The Soyuz will undock from the Rassvet module, heading for a parachute-assisted landing, NASA said. On March 15, Vande Hei has surpassed Scott Kelly's previously held record of 340…

A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts left the International Space Station (ISS) together on a Soyuz capsule as they headed back to Earth on Wednesday, despite heightened US-Russian antagonism over the war in Ukraine.The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying NASA's Mark Vande Hei and his cosmonaut peers Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov successfully undocked from the ISS and is set to make a parachute landing in central Kazakhstan at 1128 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.The joint US-Russian return flight…