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An astronaut broke the U.S. record for the longest continuous time spent in space and will return on Sept. 27, ending over a year at the International Space Station.
After spending nearly a year in the International Space Station (ISS), record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio said he would have declined his space mission had he known he would be in orbit so long. "If they had asked me upfront before you start training, because you do train for a year or two years before your
Frank Rubio's first mission broke the record for longest U.S. spaceflight last week. The medical doctor is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and served as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.
Frank Rubio's first mission as an astronaut is the longest space flight ever for an American. Had he known he would be in space for over a year, he would have declined his mission.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has spent more consecutive days in the Earth's orbit than any other NASA astronaut before him, at over 355 days.