Expedition 66 Soyuz MS-19 Hatch Closure on International Space Station

March 29, 2022Show more

Expedition 66 Soyuz MS-19 Hatch Closure on International Space Station

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov departed the International Space Station March 30 and returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft for a parachute-assisted landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Vande Hei and Dubrov completed a 355-day mission spanning more than 150 million miles while Shkaplerov spent 176 days in space on this, his fourth mission to the ISS. During his mission, Vande Hei broke the record for longest single spaceflight for a U.S. astronaut and has spent 523 days in space on his two flights working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.