![]() “I honestly do think that it is critical that we are continuously breaking records, because that represents us moving forward in exploration,” Whitson said. She noted that she’s not totally comfortable with the attention she receives for her various records and her status as a role model. ![]() Until the end of my days, my eyes will search the horizon to see that curve,” she said, according to a transcript of the interview posted on the NASA website. In an interview before departing the space station, Whitson said she was looking forward to flush toilets (“Trust me, you don’t want to know the details“) and pizza.īut, “I will miss seeing the enchantingly peaceful limb of our Earth from this vantage point. “The best part, was that after we harvested for the science, we got to eat the rest!” she said of her greens. On this most recent mission, Whitson conducted experiments with human stem cells, blood samples and grew several crops of Chinese cabbage, according to posts on her Facebook page. She is eighth on the all-time space endurance list, NASA said.Īfter earning a doctorate in biochemistry in 1985, Whitson worked as a NASA scientist for seven years before starting as an astronaut in 1997. Upon her return, Whitson will have racked up 665 days in space in her career, more than any other American astronaut. (0122 GMT Sunday) in a Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft. She and crewmates Jack Fischer of NASA and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russian space agency Roscosmos were expected to land in Kazakhstan at 9:22 p.m. The biochemist is completing a mission at the International Space Station that began in November 2016, covering 122.2 million miles (196.7 million kilometers) and 4,623 orbits of Earth. Peggy Whitson, 57, is also the oldest female astronaut in the history of space exploration, was the first female International Space Station commander, and holds the record for number of spacewalks by a woman. WASHINGTON: A record-shattering NASA astronaut is set to return to Earth on Saturday, finishing a 288-day mission that put her over the top as the American who has spent the most cumulative amount of time in space.
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