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  • Record-Setting Astronaut Frank Rubio Returns to Earth (Official NASA Broadcast)

    Record-Setting Astronaut Frank Rubio Returns to Earth (Official NASA Broadcast)

    Watch live as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, the new record holder for the longest single U.S. spaceflight, returns home from the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin aboard is scheduled to land on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 UTC).

    The trio will return after 371 days in space and a mission spanning 157.4 million miles (253.3 million km) and 5,963 orbits of the Earth. Rubio became the new record holder for the longest single United States spaceflight on Sept. 11, after he surpassed the former record of 355 days held by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

    Learn about the highlights of Rubio’s year in space: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/frank-rubio-year-in-space/

    Credit: NASA

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  • NASA Administrator Talks Training, Future Missions with Newest Astronaut Class

    NASA Administrator Talks Training, Future Missions with Newest Astronaut Class

    NASA’s newest class of astronaut trainees joined agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine Sept. 27 at NASA headquarters, to talk about their experiences in the training program, hopes for future missions, and more, in a live episode of “Watch This Space”.

    Astronaut candidates Zena Cardman, Jasmin Moghbeli, Jonny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Kayla Barron, Bob Hines, Raja Chari, Loral O’ Hara and Jessica Watkins were joined by Canadian Space Agency astronaut candidates Joshua Kutryk and Jenni Sidey-Gibbons. The first U.S. astronauts, the “Original Seven,” were selected in 1959. Since then, NASA has selected 21 more groups of astronauts. This latest class, announced on June 7, 2017, includes a physician, biologist, geologist, military pilots and engineers.

    Once their training is complete, they may be assigned to any of a variety of missions, including: performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by U.S. commercial companies, and departing for deep space missions on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.

    Learn more about the 2017 astronaut candidate class at: https://www.nasa.gov/2017astronauts.

    This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library:https://images.nasa.gov/details-NASA%20Administrator%20Talks%20Training,%20Future%20Missions%20with%20Newest%20Astronaut%20Class.html