NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson has returned to Earth from the International Space Station. During her 184 days in space, she orbited Earth 2,944 times and traveled approximately 78 million miles.
Dyson was accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, who concluded their record-breaking stay aboard the orbiting outpost. They both spent 374 days in low-Earth orbit on ISS, making that the longest time anybody has ever stayed on the station in a continuous stint. That breaks NASA astronaut Frank Rubio’s 371 day record, but Rubio maintains the longest record aboard ISS for a NASA astronaut.
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The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft launched March 23, and arrived at the station March 25, with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya were aboard the station for 12 days before returning home with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
According to NASA, following post-landing medical checks, the crew will return to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will then board a NASA plane bound for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Photo: Matthew Dominick, NASA (via X.com)
