Expedition 69 Soyuz MS-23 Landing Day Highlights: "Rubio Comes Home" | NASA

Expedition 69 Soyuz MS-23 Landing Day Highlights: "Rubio Comes Home" | NASA

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Russia gave farewell remarks ahead of hatch closure of their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on Sept. 27, 2023. Following hatch closure, the vehicle undocked from the International Space Station’s Prichal module at 3:54 a.m. Astronaut Rubio and his two crewmates ended their record-breaking time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, today at 7:17 a.m. EDT (5:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time). 

Rubio arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 21, 2022, spending 371 days in low Earth orbit. This exceeded the previous American record held by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei by 16 days.

During his 371 days aboard the station, Rubio experienced:

Approximately 5,936 orbits of Earth

Approximately 157,412,306 statute miles traveled (equivalent of approximately 328 round trips to the Moon and back)

Fifteen spacecraft visited the International Space Station, including four Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, two Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, two Roscosmos Soyuz, four crewed SpaceX Dragons, and three uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.

Expedition 70 is now underway on the space station with NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and new station commander Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Konstantin Borisov.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Video Credit: NASA

Duration: 20 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 27, 2023

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