NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams will be capping off his record-breaking stay on the station, as the astronaut who has spent the most cumulative time in space.
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Crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), left to right, US NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, sit in the landing module of the spacecraft after landing some 150kms to the east of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan on September 7, 2016.
On Wednesday, September 07, 2016, sharp at 7.13 AM, the 172 days space mission wrapped off and a USA space traveler alongside two Russian cosmonauts arrived on Earth.
The most experienced NASA astronaut in history and two Russian cosmonauts have just completed a huge mission aboard the ISS. The American space agency has been in the middle of a controversy several times for cutting live feed from the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as a UFO was spotted in the video.
Last week, it was announced that Rubins had sequenced DNA in space for the first time.
NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams came home to Earth Tuesday after spending a record setting 534 days in orbit. He stayed on for Expedition 22 and took command. Since then, he has also been a flight engineer on Expedition 13 and Expedition 21.
“No other USA astronaut has Jeff’s time and experience aboard the International Space Station”. A 30-minute show called “Space Station Live”, was organized every day for years, but now it seems that the space agency has made a decision to cancel the show.
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Ivanishin and his crewmates – Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, and Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS – will operate the station for more than 2 weeks until the arrival of three new crew members.
