Rubio is shown during a spacewalk tethered to the International Space Station's starboard truss structure on November 15, 2022. “Your dedication is truly out of this world, Frank!” “As he breaks records as the longest serving US astronaut in space, he also paves the way for future generations of astronauts,” the statement reads. “Rubio’s journey in space embodies the essence of exploration,” the statement reads. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson also commemorated Rubio’s record-setting milestone in a social media post on Monday.
“The resilience that my wife and kids showed - they they faced a lot of challenges this past year, and just thrived throughout the whole entire process … I’m incredibly grateful for them and for that.” “My family has been kind of the cornerstone that’s inspired me to hopefully keep somewhat of a good attitude while I’ve been up here,” Rubio told Vande Hei. To commemorate Rubio’s feat, he recorded a conversation with Vande Hei on September 5, which aired on NASA’s media channel on Tuesday. Rubio’s return date was pushed back to September as Russia prepared the next Soyuz vehicle, which will launch with a new crew of two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut as early as Friday. And Roscosmos launched a replacement spacecraft, MS-23, that docked with the space station on February 25. Instead, the Soyuz MS-22 capsule returned to Earth without a crew on March 28. Officials at Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, later deemed the spacecraft unsafe to carry the crew back home. But the spacecraft that carried Rubio and his two Russian colleagues sprang a coolant leak in December.
When Rubio left for the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on September 21, 2022, he and his crewmates believed they were carrying out a six-month mission. Yet Rubio’s mission was not originally designed to break records. He is on the cusp of becoming the first American to spend more than one calendar year in microgravity. That means Rubio will have spent at least 371 days in orbit once he completes his mission. A Russian Soyuz capsule is not expected to return him and his two fellow crewmates - cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin - to Earth before September 27. What’s more, Rubio is on track to reach another significant milestone in a few weeks’ time. ET on Monday, according to a spokesperson for the space agency. Rubio - who has been on the International Space Station since September 2022 - bested the previous record, held by retired NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, at 1:40 p.m. Astronaut Frank Rubio has now been in low-Earth orbit for more than 355 days, breaking the record for the longest space mission by a US astronaut.
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