Three NASA Astronauts Return to Earth After One Year in Space – One America News Network

September 27, 2023 TruthUSA

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In this photo released by Roscosmos space corporation, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sits in a chair shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-23 space capsule about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin, touched down on Wednesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation via AP) — APTOPIX Kazakhstan Russia Space Station In this photo released by Roscosmos space corporation, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sits in a chair shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-23 space capsule about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation via AP)

3:45 PM – Wednesday, September 27, 2023

A United States NASA astronaut and two Russian astronauts, referred to as “cosmonauts,” returned to Earth after being in space for over a year.

On Wednesday, Frank Rubio, who set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight, and his two cosmonauts returned to earth after being in space for 371 days.

The trio reportedly landed in a remote part of Kazakhstan in a Soyuz capsule. The capsule was utilized as a replacement after their previous flight was damaged by “space junk” and lost all of its coolant while connected to the International Space Station (ISS).

Rubio’s mission was only supposed to last six months, however, on the day of a scheduled spacewalk in December 2022, an exterior leak was noticed from Soyuz MS-22, which was later revealed to be caused by a micrometeorite strike.

Since the spacecraft was unable to complete a crew return, the three astronauts’ stay was extended by six months. MS-22 returned to Earth unmanned, and MS-23 was launched in February 2023 as a replacement.

Rubio, a 47-year-old Army doctor and helicopter pilot, stated at a news conference last week that if he was given a choice, he would have never accepted a full year in space.

Rubio also said that he regretted missing major family milestones, such as his oldest child finishing her first year at the United States Naval Academy and another child’s departure to West Point.