Every three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall back to earth. The photographs in Some Worlds Have Two Suns document these comings and goings of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the local community whose lives are accidentally intertwined with this portal to space. 'I became interested in the Soyuz landing after seeing the event in a documentary in 2014. It was deep winter and the spacecraft descended under parachute into an ice world. A ground team battled the harsh conditions to open the capsule and when eventually three humans emerged my heart skipped a beat. I had just returned from covering a war and had witnessed the very worst of humanity, yet here were humans working together and achieving the seemingly impossible.' During McConnell's first visit, as the space travellers took part in the landing ceremony, he saw a group of locals from the village of Kenjebai-Samai who had come to witness the strange event taking place in their own back yard, and it was this isolated community that compelled him to return.