NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is finishing up the longest single flight in U.S. space history at 371 days.
Outgoing space station commander Sergei Prokopyev and his two Soyuz crewmates, co-pilot Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, packed up Tuesday for a fiery plunge back to Earth early Wednesday to close out a yearlong stay of 371 days in orbit — the longest flight in U.S. space history.
Outgoing space station commander Sergei Prokopyev hands over command of the International Space Station, along with a symbolic key to the laboratory, to European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a brief ceremony Tuesday. Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio plan to return to Earth Wednesday to close out a yearlong stay in space. — Soyuz MS-23/69S — last February.
During a brief change-of-command ceremony Tuesday, ISS Expedition 69 commander Prokopyev turned the lab over to European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen. "It's one thing to launch to space, knowing that you're going to be up here for a year," he added."It's a completely different thing for you and your families to find out towards the end of your six-month mission that you're going to be spending an additional six months in space. But you took it upon your shoulders, and you excelled."
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