Rubio has spent more than 355 days aboard the ISS and will spend more than a year aboard the space station before returning to Earth.
's Good Morning America, Rubio said, "It's an honor to be able to be considered one of the people that's going to have spent a year in space."
"For sure, this record will soon be broken again," Rubio said, adding that the record is "really significant, in the sense that it teaches us that the human body can endure, it can adapt and — as we prepare to push back to the Moon and then from there, onward onto hopefully Mars and further on into the solar system — I think it's really important that we learn just how the human body learns to adapt, and how we can optimize that process so that we can improve our performance...
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