EUROPE: ISS commander Scott Kelly has entered the record books by spending the most cumulative days in space for any US astronaut.
The Nasa astronaut has been in space for 383 days and counting, beating Mike Fincke, a two-time space station resident, who was the previous record holder at 382 days.
Breaking such a record for time in space is vital for Nasa’s research into finding out how a trip to Mars impacts the human mind and body.
Records are meant to be broken. Look fwd to one of my colleagues surpassing my end 500+ days on our #JourneyToMars,’ Kelly tweeted today.
Kelly is set to break another record October 29 on his 216th consecutive day in space, when he will beat astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria’s record for the single-longest spaceflight by an American.
Lopez-Alegria spent 215 days in space as commander of the Expedition 14 crew in 2006.
The 51-year-old launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 27 and is scheduled to return to Earth on March 2, 2016, for a total of 522 days in space.
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