Three astronauts from Russia and the U.S. returned to Earth on Monday after leaving the International Space Station (ISS). On ...

Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with NASA astronaut and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, launched 08.04.2025, Kazakhstan.© Joel Kowsky/ (NASA/Joel ...

While that is a new U.S. record, it is still short of the world record for the longest continuous time spent in space, which was set by late Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov at 437 days in orbit ...