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in response to Russia's movement into Ukraine, reigniting the conversation over whether Russia might leave the space station program now. However, NASA has said that at this time the ISS partners continue to work together and cooperate.
Burbach added that, because the nations are so interconnected in their work on the space station, it wouldn't really be possible for Russia to exit the partnership without the whole mission falling apart."It's just not built that way," he said. For example, the U.S. and Russian segments of the orbiting laboratory depend on each other for vital functions such as life support systems and communications.
The landing will be noteworthy in its own right. Upon his return,"Vande Hei will hold the American record for the longest single human spaceflight mission of 355 days," Huot noted.Although the existing station partnership between the U.S. and Russia remains, the U.S. has long planned to decrease its dependence on Soyuz capsules to ferry NASA astronauts to and from space.