NASA Confirms US Astronaut Will Return on Russian Spacecraft Later This Month

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits in the International Space Station on Feb. 4, 2022. Kayla Barron/NASA via AP

Russia will pick up an American astronaut as scheduled later in the month and deliver him to a third country, U.S. space officials said on March 14.

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei is on the International Space Station along with several Russians and other spacefarers.