EUROPE: A 38-year-old Italian astronaut has broken the record for the most time in space on a single mission by a woman.
Samantha Cristoforetti set the record on Saturday (June 6) at 11:04 a.m. EDT (1504 GMT), surpassing the 194 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes logged by NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams onboard the International Space Station in June 2007. If Cristoforetti’s flight home to Earth on Thursday (June 11) proceeds as planned, she will have been in space for 199 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes in total — give or take a few minutes based on when her Soyuz spacecraft lands on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
The record-setting stay wasn’t something that Cristoforetti was anticipating when she lifted off for the space station last year.
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