NASA's space champ returns to Earth, logs 665 days aloft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) " Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance.Whitson's 665 days off the planet " 288 days on this mission alone " exceeds that of any other American and any other woman worldwide.She checked out of the International Space Station just hours earlier, along with another American and a Russian. Their Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan shortly [...]
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