NASA ASTRONAUT ANSWERS SOCIAL MEDIA QUESTIONS ABOUT RECORD BREAKING SPACEFLIGHT

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei answered social media questions on March 10 and reflected on his record-breaking spaceflight. When Vande Hei returns to Earth on March 30 he will have spent a total of 355 days in space, the longest single spaceflight by an American astronaut. Vande Hei is living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.