Russia will not eject US astronaut from space station with toothbrush and bus fare

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Russians to give American astronaut ride to Earth in spite of tensions

A US astronaut will now be returning to Earth - after fears his Russian lift home might not materialise.

It was originally thought Mark Vande Hei - who has been in space for 355 days - might be left behind due to heightened tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

But it has been confirmed he will travel aboard a Russian capsule to Kazakhstan.

Both the American and two other Russian cosmonauts will be brought back.

Joel Montalbano, Nasa's ISS programme manager, said: "I can tell you for sure Mark is coming home... We are in communication with our Russian colleagues. There's no fuzz on that."

He admitted astronauts were "aware of what's going on" around them in the world, but they still work as a "team".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60755328

It will be the US which pulls the plug on space cooperation.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Surely the Chinese will not let the Russian skills and knowledge go to waste...as much as they would like their effort to be Chinese only.

 

[Matt Dillon]

It will be the US which pulls the plug on space cooperation.

Putin largely is not in charge of space stuff.

 

[Legion]

Russia will not eject US astronaut from space station with toothbrush and bus fare

Haw.....haw........haw......haw.

 

[Legion]

Putin largely is not in charge of space stuff.

Who told you that?

 

[Nordberg]

It will be the US which pulls the plug on space cooperation.

Yeah right. They will not attack Ukraine either. Russias word as as meaningless as trumps.