NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, who recently returned from the International Space Station together with two Russian cosmonauts, called it a privilege to fly with her Russian colleagues. At a NASA press conference, Dyson said, “It was a privilege and a pleasure to fly not once, but twice with our Russian partners aboard their historic Soyuz rocket, and their spacecraft, and to participate in all of their deep traditions through training and launch and landing,” she said. One of the cosmonauts she traveled with, Oleg Kononenko, became the first person to spend more than 1,000 days in space.