A Homecoming for Mark Vande Hei After Setting American Spaceflight Record
by janrinok from SoylentNews on (#5XPDN)
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A Homecoming for Mark Vande Hei After Setting American Spaceflight Record:
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei arrived at the International Space Station on April 9, 2021, and [returned] home today (March 30, 2022), after spending 355 days in low-Earth orbit. This duration breaks the previous [American] record, held by retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, by 15 days.
Vande Hei will return in a Soyuz spacecraftas scheduled alongside cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov.
The record for the longest a person has been in space is held by Valeri_Polyakov, who spent 437 days 18 hours in a single trip, and 22 months in total.
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