Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
NASA’s Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest stay in space by a US astronaut. ... a landing in Kazakhstan aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-23 capsule at 5:17 p.m. local time (7:17 a.m. ET) on ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking stay for the Russian pair. The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS in an apparently trouble-free descent.
American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight — a result of the extended stay. The trio landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan, descending in a Soyuz capsule that was rushed ...
He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. [1] His combined space experience was more than 22 months. [2] Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988.
NASA’s record-holding astronaut is urging his two stuck-in-space colleagues to stay positive and “keep up the good work.” ... his Russian Soyuz capsule was hit by space junk and leaked all ...
Soyuz 11: June 6, 1971 Soyuz 11: Salyut 1: Soyuz 11: June 23, 1971 June 29, 1971 725 [11] All three crewmembers died on return to Earth. [13] [14] 17.71 Andriyan Nikolayev Vitaly Sevastyanov: Soyuz 9: June 1, 1970 N/A N/A N/A June 15, 1970 June 19, 1970 373 [15] [16] Soyuz 9 continues to hold the record for longest manned flight by a solo ...
Soyuz 9 (Russian: Союз 9, Union 9) was a June, 1970, Soviet crewed space flight. The two-man crew of Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the five-year-old space endurance record held by Gemini 7, with their nearly 18-day flight.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio who spent an unexpected 371 days in space setting an American record made it back to Earth safely landing in a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday with two Russian cosmonauts.