Russia will pick up an American astronaut as scheduled later in the month and deliver him to a third country, U.S. space officials said on March 14. U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei is on the International Space Station along with several Russians and other spacefarers. “The reality is Mark Vande Hei is coming home on March 30 with Anton and Pytor, period,” Joel Montalbano, an official with NASA, told reporters during a briefing. Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov are also scheduled to fly to Kazakhstan on a Russian craft from the station that day. The United States and Russia have long cooperated on operations for the station, but since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, questions have been raised about the scheduled flight. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia’s space agency, has clashed with U.S. astronauts on social media. And Roscosmos, the agency, appeared to make a video that showed Dubrov and Shkaplerov being …