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There’s no place like home

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

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio unintentionally established a new record for the lengthiest continuous space mission by a U.S. astronaut, having spent over a year aboard the International Space Station. Rubio, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, returned to Earth on September 27. Their journey back was aboard the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, concluding a remarkable 371-day stint in orbit.