Us Astronaut Peggy Whitson Makes Space History Again

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Mon, 04/24/2017 - 5:47am

International Space Station (ISS) commander Peggy Whitson has added a new record to the list of her trailblazing achievements. At 1.27 a.m. ET on April 24 she became the U.S. astronaut with the longest cumulative time spent in space: 534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. Whitson took the crown...

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