China News Service, April 6. According to Agence France-Presse, American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who has returned to the ground, said on the 5th local time that his cooperation with Russian astronauts on the International Space Station is very good. joy.

On March 30, local time, in the southeast of Rezkazgan, Kazakhstan, the Russian "Soyuz" spacecraft carrying American and Russian astronauts returned to Earth.

The picture shows NASA astronaut Mark van der Hae exiting the capsule.

  Previously on March 30, local time, the "Soyuz MS-" carrying Mark van der Hey and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov. The 19" spacecraft returned to Earth and landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

  "Regarding my relationship with my Russian colleagues, they were, are and will be my very dear friends," Mark van der Hey said.

  "We always support each other," he said, "and I never worry about whether I can continue to work with them."

  Mark van der Hey admitted that on the International Space Station, they did talk about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but "mainly around the feelings of the Russian astronauts on the matter", because this is what he wants them to share.

  According to previous reports, as of March 15, 2022 at 12:24 ET, 55-year-old Mark van der Hae had a single space life of more than 340 days, setting the longest single spaceflight time for an astronaut in the country record.

The previous record was set by Scott Kelly on March 2, 2013.

  In addition, the report also said that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that so far, the space cooperation between the United States and Russia has not been affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.