Expedition 66 Landing Preparations

NASA Astronaut Office Representative, astronaut Drew Feustel, left, and Roscosmos Executive director of Human Spaceflight Programs Sergei Krikalev, give autographs to children from a local school, Monday, March 28, 2022, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The two were part of an earlier meeting where NASA, Roscosmos, and Russian Search and Recovery Forces meet to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 66 crew members Mark Vande Hei of NASA, and Pyotr Dubrov, and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos. Vande Hei and Dubrov will be returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of Expeditions 64-66 aboard the International Space Station. For Vande Hei, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in history. Shkaplerov will be returning after 176 days in space, serving as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 65 and commander of Expedition 66. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)