NASA Astronaut May Come Up Short On Time-In-Space Record

Credit: Peggy Whitson: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson’s shot at breaking astronaut colleague Jeff Williams’ soon-to-be-established U.S. record for time accumulated in space over a career has just dimmed. Williams is to descend to Earth in remote Kazakhstan with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka aboard...

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