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Opinion: The weightlessness of peace

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the cooperation between Americans and Russians working with the International Space Station, despite tensions on Earth over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The International Space Station (ISS) backdropped against Earth and space.

Astronauts and cosmonauts returned from space and saluted one another this week, even as the countries that sent them to the International Space Station are in conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

American astronaut Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz

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