U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth on Wednesday after spending a record 355 days at the International Space Station (ISS).

The American space explorer clocked the single longest spaceflight by a NASA astronaut in mid-March after breaking the previous record, held by retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, by 15 days, NASA said in a statement.

Vande Hei, 55, landed in Kazakhstan at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET alongside Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, who also spent the past year in space.