NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is back on solid ground today after an American record-breaking 371 days in space aboard the International Space Station.
Rubio landed safely in Kazakhstan along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin at 2:43 a.m. CDT. He had flown to the station with the same two Russian astronauts on Sept. 21, 2022 on what was his first spaceflight.
Rubio’s flight yielded some amazing numbers: 157 million miles traveled, 5,936 orbits and the equivalent of 328 trips to the moon and back, NASA said. He saw 15 spacecraft arrive at the station and 14 depart. A single Soyuz capsule remains.
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