Watch Record Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Return to Earth Tonight. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a woman this weekend, touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan at 7 2. Eastern. Whitson has spent the last nine and a half months in Earth orbit on the International Space Station, per the Washington Post, and counting her previous flights, will have logged 6. During her current mission, she also set the world record for oldest woman in space at 5. As the Post noted, she is also the only female astronaut to have commanded the ISS twice. According to the Post, one of the colleagues returning with her has spent even longer in the aether Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who has cumulatively spent eight more days aloft than Whitson at 6. The current world record holder, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, spent some 8. Russians have long dominated both cumulative and single flight durations in space the single longest spaceflight record holder is Valeri Polyakov, who spent just short of 4. Watch Mad City Streaming on this page. As Tech. Crunch noted, Whitson was scheduled to return in June but happily accepted an invitation to stay on the ISS longer when Russian space agency Roscosmos canceled a joint mission to the station earlier in 2. Also accompanying Whitson and Yurchikhin on their way home is US astronaut Jack Fischer, who will have spent 1. Whitson wrote she will hugely miss the freedom of floating and moving with the lightest of touch, especially those first few days after my return when gravity will especially SUCK, the Post reported. She will also miss the enchantingly peaceful limb of our Earth, adding, Until the end of my days, my eyes will search the horizon to see that curve. Watch Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischers return in real time via NASAs live feed below. Tech. A National Geographic documentary called Atlantis Rising, by Titanic director James Cameron, charts a search for the lost city artists impression from Santorini. Has China cracked Nasas impossible engine Propaganda video claims scientists have a working version of the fuelfree EmDrive that could take humans to Mars in. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a. This is not to say that selfdriving shuttle is lame. Its a futuristic bus that drives itself Apple even has a patent for a bendy bus with tank treads, which is a. Watch She Came On The Bus Online Ibtimes' title='Watch She Came On The Bus Online Ibtimes' />Teenager, 16, found dead near train tracks hours after receiving GCSE results The 16yearold girl was hit by a train at Haslemere station on Thursday 24 August.