NASA astronaut Jeff Williams has broken the record for the longest time in space by an American.
Williams safely touched back down to Earth yesterday with two Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, after living on board the International Space Station.
Jeff has spent a total of 534 days in space. He now holds the American record for the most time living in space.
However, Jeff still has a long way to go to beat the world record holder Gennady Padalka.
The Russian cosmonaut has spent a whopping 879 days in space, that’s nearly two and a half years!
Other top space records
* The first animals in outer space were a group of fruit flies in 1947. They reached a height of 108km above the Earth, and survived the journey back to earth.
* The first woman to fly in space was Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. She piloted the Vostok 6 spacecraft in 1963 and completed 48 orbits of the Earth on her three days in space. Before she became a cosmonaut, Tereshkova worked in a clothes factory and was an amateur skydiver!
4 Responses
That should have been a new zealander not an american:(
Good Job
nice job
very amazing! your right Jetti!