MN Native Mark Vande Hei Returns To Earth After Record-Setting Stay On ISS

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a Minnesota native, has returned to Earth after a record-setting stay on the International Space Station.

Vande Hei had been on the ISS since April 2021. He landed in Kazakhstan with two cosmonauts Wednesday.

His 355-day stay in space is a new single-flight record for a NASA astronaut.

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Vande Hei first headed to the International Space Station in 2017. He graduated from Benilde-St. Margaret's high school and in 1989 earned his B.S. in physics from St. John's University.