I wrote about Peggy Whitson back in April. That was when the 57-year-old had just broken the record for the longest spent in space by a US astronaut. On April 24th, while on an extended stay of 288 days aboard the International Space Station, Whitson passed the prior record of 534 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes of cumulative time in space. It wasn't her first record. She has has logged the most spacewalks by a female and is the oldest woman to have traveled to space. She has also spent more than 60 hours and 21 minutes outside an airlock, engaged in spacewalks to complete projects such as adding modules to the space station.
After extending her trip by another 3 months, Peggy has touched back down to Earth. She returned with two of her colleagues on September 2nd after a 3.5 hour flight as their spacecraft touched down on the steppes of Kazakhstan. By the time she touched down, she had extended her record for cumulative time in space to 665 days. Peggy has commanded the International Space Station twice, the only female to do so.
Welcome back, Peggy. Congratulations on a successful journey and an incredible career.
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