Astronaut breaks duration record

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has inadvertently broken the U.S. record for the longest ever space mission, after a mishap on the International Space Station left him stranded in space


International Space Station (ISS)


Frank Rubio


TOP 10 LONGEST HUMAN SPACEFLIGHTS
		Launch date
V. Polyakov 	RUS 	1994 	437.7 days
S. Avdeyev 	RUS	1998	379.6
S. Prokopyev 	RUS 	
D. Petelin 	RUS 	2022 	371 
F. Rubio 	U.S.	(assuming Sep 27 return)
V. Titov 	USSR 
M. Manarov 	USSR	1987 	365.9	
P. Dubrov 	RUS 
M. Vande Hei 	U.S.	2021 	355.2
M. Kornienko 	RUS 
S. Kelly 	U.S.	2015 	340.4
C. Koch* 	U.S. 	2019 	328.6
Y. Romanenko 	USSR 	1987 	326.5
S. Krikalev 	USSR	1991 	311.8
P. Whitson* 	U.S.	2016 	289.2	

 
Sep 21, 2022: Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin launched on six-month mission to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-22

Dec: Soyuz develops leak while attached to ISS, rendering it unsafe to fly crew home
 
Feb 24, 2023: Unmanned Soyuz MS-23 sent to ISS to bring astronauts home

Sep 27: Rubio and Russian cosmonauts set to return to Earth


*Female


Sources: Gizmodo, collectSPACE 
Pictures: NASA 
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