Three crew members who have been on the International Space Station for 172 days will return to Earth on Tuesday. When he returns to Earth, Williams will have racked up 534 days in space on four missions dating back to 2000 – the most by any U.S. astronaut.
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The crew members have been in space since their launch in March and will be undocking the Soyuz spacecraft from the space station Tuesday afternoon and will be landing in Kazakhstan at 8:14 p-m central time. Alexey Ovchinin and flight engineer Oleg Skripochka from the Russian space agency.
Experiments the conducted research into biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.
On Aug. 24, 2016, Station Commander Jeff Williams passed astronaut Scott Kelly, also a former station commander, for most cumulative days living and working in space by a NASA astronaut (520 days and counting). He surpassed astronaut Scott Kelly’s record on August 24.
Williams handed over command of the space station to Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin Monday (Sept. 5). If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
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