ISS inhabitant Frank Rubio has set a record for the longest time in orbit by a NASA astronaut, but that wasn't the plan when he arrived there nearly a year ago.
When NASA astronaut Frank Rubio launched to space in September last year, he became the first Salvadoran-American to head to orbit.
Recommended Videos Rubio set the record at 1:39 p.m. ET on Monday, September 11, beating the 355 days, 3 hours and 45 minutes logged by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei last year. Astronaut Frank Rubio has just set a new U.S. spaceflight record, eclipsing the previous record of 355 consecutive days aboard the @Space_Station. This is now the single longest mission for any of our @NASA_Astronauts.— NASA September 11, 2023
Like most long-duration missions by professional astronauts, he was scheduled to stay aboard the ISS for six months, along with his two traveling companions, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. But an unexpected leak aboard his Soyuz capsule in December changed the course of his mission.
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