| ▲ | ceejayoz 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The article covers that. > Space station crews launching on Russian Soyuz spacecraft have to make their way to the Central Asian spaceport of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. No matter what the mission, even astronauts have to go through customs, NASA officials said. As part of their routine airline flights to other countries and back, they of course encounter airport customs. It's not to/from the ISS that's the issue there. A US-only crew on a US-launched spacecraft that lands in US territory won't need to do it. (ISS may add a few complexities, but if you stay on, say, the Shuttle, you're not leaving US-controlled territory.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sidewndr46 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For travel to Kazakhstan it makes sense to show a passport of some kind as they want to know why someone is entering the country. Traveling to Baikonur of course being a legitimate reason to enter the country. There's one aspect of this I don't understand entirely. What if the astronaut travels to the ISS from Baikonur, then used some of form return vehicle that lands in US territory? How would we handle that? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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