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Back on Earth after 371 days

Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio inadvertently set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut after spending over a year on the ISS. Rubio, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, returned to Earth and landed in Kazakhstan on September 27 via the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft after spending 371 days in orbit.

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