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Astronaut Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest in orbit mission by an American, spending more than 355 days aboard the International Space Station. Having broken the old record on Monday, Rubio said he was now looking forward to reaching 365 days. The previous US record was set in 2022 by Mark Vande, who spent 355 days in space. The world record is held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov at 437 days. Rubio is scheduled to return to Earth on September 27; at that point he will have spent 371 days in space. When Rubio traveled to the ISS last year on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two cosmonauts, the plan was for him to stay six months, which is the usual mission length.

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