Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a
record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for US space
endurance.
Whitson's 665 days off the planet _ 288 days on this
mission alone _ exceeds that of any other American and any other woman
worldwide.
She checked out of the International Space Station
just hours earlier, along with another American and a Russian. Their
Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan shortly after sunrise Sunday _
Saturday night back in the US
She set multiple other records while in orbit: world's oldest
spacewoman, at age 57, and most experienced female spacewalker, with 10.
She also became the first woman to command the space station twice
following her launch last November.
Returning cosmonaut Fyodor
Yurchikhin logged even more time in space: 673 days over five missions.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer returned after 136 days aloft. The men flew
up in April.
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