NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei lands back on Earth after spending a record-breaking 355 days in space. Vande Hei returned with two Russian cosmonauts.
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In a Russian Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, Vande Hei and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov undocked from the International Space Station at 3.21 a.m. ET Wednesday. They touched down after a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 7:28 a.m. ET. The spacecraft experienced its deorbit burn at 6:34 a.m. ET Wednesday, which lasted over four minutes and helped slow the Soyuz down. Each step of the crew's return is streamed live on NASA's TV channel and website.
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