NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio and Crewmates Land in Kazakhstan – House Station

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio ended his record-breaking time in house with a parachute-assisted touchdown within the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan, at 7:17 a.m. EDT (5:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Wednesday, Sept. 27. Rubio, together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, started the journey again to Earth at 3:54 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the Worldwide House Station.

Rubio arrived on the International Space Station on Sept. 21, 2022, spending 371 days in low Earth orbit, and breaking the earlier American report held by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei by 16 days.

Throughout his 371 days aboard the station, Rubio skilled:

Roughly 5,936 orbits of Earth
Roughly 157,412,306 statute miles traveled (equal of roughly 328 spherical journeys to the Moon and again)
Fifteen spacecraft visiting the Worldwide House Station, together with 4 Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, two Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, two Roscosmos Soyuz, 4 crewed SpaceX Dragons, and three uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

Expedition 70 now’s underway on the house station with NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European House Company) astronaut and new station commander Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Konstantin Borisov.

Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.