When astronaut Frank Rubio blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2022, he is scheduled to return to Earth within six months. time. But Rubio’s journey to his home planet was disrupted, leaving him stranded in low Earth orbit. As a result of this accident, Rubio is scheduled to spend more than a year in space, breaking the record for the longest mission by an American astronaut.
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On Monday, a NASA astronaut will tackle… Previous record Of the 355 days identified by Markus Vandy is in 2022. Rubio will return to Earth no later than September 27, where he will spend 371 days in Earth orbit and become the first American astronaut, and one of only six people, to spend one year in space.
Even though it wasn’t intentional, Rubio made the most of his time in space. “I think so [duration] “This is very important because it teaches us that the human body can survive,” Rubio said in a recent interview on ABC. Good morning America. “As we prepare to return to the Moon and then from there, hopefully forward to Mars and then into the solar system—I think it’s really important to study how the human body learns how to advertise appropriately, and how we can improve this process so that we can improve our performance when we explore more things beyond Earth.
Rubio was launched to the International Space Station on September 21, 2022. Since then, he has become the first person to board a Soyuz spacecraft. April 2021 as a result of a seat swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos which stipulated that an American astronaut would board a Russian capsule, in exchange for a Russian astronaut boarding the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle for the first time.
In December 2022, the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Rubio, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petlin, began launch. Coolant leak into low Earth orbit While attached to the International Space Station. The exact reason behind the leak has not been officially announced, but the spacecraft was deemed unfit to return the three to Earth.
Prokopyev, Petlin, Rubio’s stay at the station has been extended for another six months, and the three-man Soyuz MS-23 crew is scheduled to return later this month. Like Rubio, the previous record holder, Vande Heij, also doesn’t know how long he will spend on the International Space Station before being launched into Earth orbit. Alternatively, Vande Heij’s stay on the space station was also extended to accommodate a two-person Russian camera crew filming on the ISS.
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2023-09-11 19:35:06
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