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NASA astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after record stay in space

By Rachel Schilke
Published September 27, 2023 3:55pm ET
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NASA astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after record stay in space
FILE - From left, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, walk to the rocket prior to the launch of Soyuz-2.1 rocket, at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The three are expected to return to Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, after being stuck in space for just over a year after their original capsule was hit by space junk. The 180-day mission turned into a 371-day stay.

One NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth early Wednesday morning after a yearlong stay in space — the longest single flight in U.S. space history.

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