665 Days A Record Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth Daily News.
WASHINGTON - U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson landed safely back on Earth on Sunday after breaking the record for the total number of days spent in space by a woman and any American.
Whitson, along with fellow American astronaut Jack Fischer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin landed in a Soyuz space capsule near the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 9.21 p.m. Eastern, NASA confirmed.
The trio will now undergo routine medical checks, the U.S. space agency said.
Whitson, 57, had been living aboard the International Space Station since November on a 288-day mission. It was her third long-duration stay aboard the orbiting spacecraft and in total she will have spent 665 days in space, according to NASA.

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