Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth over the weekend, but not before she broke a few records in space.
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Whitson spent 288 days, nearly nine and a half months, aboard the International Space Station. This coupled with her previous missions means that she has spent the longest amount of time — 665 days — any American or woman has ever spent in space.
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At 57 years old, Whitson is also the oldest female astronaut.
After the 9:21pm ET landing, @AstroPeggy has a total of 665 days in space, the U.S. record and places 8th on all-time space endurance list pic.twitter.com/grVIRo3SmX
— NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2017
She also broke records by conducting ten space walks, the most any woman has conducted, and becoming the first woman to command a space station twice.
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