NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two crewmates made a parachute touchdown in Kazakhstan on Saturday, capping a career-total 665 days in orbit, a U.S. record. Whitson, 57, ended an extended stay of more than nine months aboard the International Space Station, a $100 billion research laboratory that f...
Record-breaking Us Astronaut And Crew Back On Earth
Reuters, Raw Story: Science
Sat, 09/02/2017 - 7:47pm
Topics: science
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