NASA Astronaut Returns Home After Record 371 Days Aboard ISS
LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 11: The NASA logo is displayed at the agency’s booth during CES 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 11, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 12 and features about 3,900 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 170,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Astronaut Frank Rubio is finally home after a record stay aboard the ISS.
Rubio and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning.
His 371-day stint breaks the record for longest spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, breaking the previous record of 355 days set by Mark Vande Hei last year.
Rubio wasn’t going for the record – a spacecraft issue ended up extending his stay by six months. He admits that if he’d known the trip would last more than a year, “I probably would have declined”.
