Dr Frank Rubio is coming up on his one-year anniversary in orbit.
On Monday, Dr Rubio broke the US record for the longest space mission by surpassing the previous record of 355 days, 3 hours and 45 minutes set by Mark Vande Hei in 2022.
This is just the first record set by Dr Rubio, as he is not scheduled to return to Earth until September 27 meaning – he will spend a total of 371 days in space, becoming the first American to spend a year in space.. As a member of the Expedition 69 crew to the International Space Station , he left Earth on September 21, 2022 on a Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.
Dr Rubio and his crewmates – Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin – were supposed to return to Earth after six months on the space station., it was ‘no longer safe to return a crew to Earth’. In February, Russia sent a ‘rescue’ Soyuz and Prokopyev, Petelin and Dr Rubio’s stay was extended another six months.
‘Frank thought when he flew to space he would be here for six months,’ said Nasa astronaut Warren ‘Woody’ Hoburg, at a press conference. ‘And partway through his mission, he found out that it was extended to a year
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