Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut crewmates return to Earth next Wednesday to wrap up a U.S. record 371-day stay in orbit.
If NASA had asked astronaut Frank Rubio, well in advance, if he would like to spend a full year aboard the International Space Station, he likely would have turned it down. But that's how it turned out anyway, when trouble with his crew's Soyuz ferry ship forced them to extend a six-month stay to 12 months.
But once training began for what was supposed to be a six-month flight, he was committed, and he took the mission extension in stride"because ultimately that's our job." Rubio and his two Soyuz crewmates — Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin — were launched to the space station last Sept. 21 aboard the Soyuz MS-22/68S ferry ship, kicking off a planned half-year stay, the standard duration for long-duration station crews.
Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin plan to strap into their replacement Soyuz MS-23/69S spacecraft and undock from the space station next Wednesday. If all goes well, they'll land on the steppe of Kazakhstan around 7:14 a.m. EDT to close out a 371-day mission, the third longest flight in space history and the longest ever for a U.S. astronaut.
"We're blessed enough to have kind of a quiet backyard," he added."And I think just going out in the yard and enjoying the trees and the silence. Up here, we kind of have the constant hum of machinery. ... So I'm looking forward to just being outside and enjoying the peace and quiet."
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