The American broke the record of stay in space among women

Peggy Whitson the owner of a new record on duration of stay in space.

Sunday, September 3, the American astronaut Peggy Whitson successfully landed on Earth after setting the record for the number of days of stay in space women-astronauts and all American astronauts, reported in the American space Agency NASA.

Whitson landed together with his American counterpart Jack Fischer and Russian Fedor by urainum on the territory of Kazakhstan. After landing all three astronauts must undergo a standard medical examination.

Whitson was on the International space station with a Nov for 288 days. Just three of the mission she spent in space for 665 days. The list of people who were in space longer, Whitson. — in eighth place, just behind Fedor by urainum. On account of his 673 days after five flights.

As previously reported, Peggy Whitson has broken the record U.S. spending in space longer than any other American astronaut in the history of flight. In total she spent in the open space of 22 hours and 27 minutes.

Recall, the world record duration of stay in space belongs to Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka participated in five flights with a total duration 878 days. In second place is cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who committed six flights with a total duration of more than 827 days, the third — Sergey Krikalev, are also committed six flights with a total duration of more than 803 days.

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