{"id":171881,"date":"2023-09-12T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nasa-astronaut-frank-rubio-breaks-u-s-record-for-longest-spaceflight"},"modified":"2023-09-12T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:26:04","slug":"nasa-astronaut-frank-rubio-breaks-u-s-record-for-longest-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/nasa-astronaut-frank-rubio-breaks-u-s-record-for-longest-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Frank Rubio breaks U.S. record for longest spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-astronaut-frank-rubio-breaks-u-s-record-for-longest-spaceflight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rubio surpassed the U.S. space endurance record of 355 days on Monday at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months. But their stay was doubled after their Soyuz capsule <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-aerospace-technology-spacecraft-18471e3bbf2d058e2c0b257a49905c60\" target=\"_blank\">developed a coolant leak<\/a> while parked at the space station.<\/p>\n<p>The trio will return to Earth on Sept. 27 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-science-aerospace-3971c97124a60a77561bd48678718ae6\" target=\"_blank\">replacement capsule<\/a> that was sent up empty for the ride home. By then, Rubio will have spent 371 days in space, more than two weeks longer than <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-spacex-kazakhstan-space-exploration-24f16612583a55d4e504d6c6909090d3\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Vande Hei<\/a>, the previous U.S. record holder for a single spaceflight. Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov holds the world record of 437 days, set in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio surpassed the U.S. space endurance record of 355 days on Monday at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six months. But their stay was doubled after their Soyuz capsule developed a coolant leak while parked at the space station. The trio will return [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}