News Archive / Tagged: Peggy Whitson

• Astronaut Peggy Whitson retires from NASA

  Derek RichardsonJune 16th, 2018

  Peggy Whitson retired from NASA on June 15, 2018, after 32 years with the space agency—22 as an astronaut. Between 2002 and 2017, she participated in three long-duration International Space Station expeditions, accumulating 665 days orbit—a record for any U.S. space flyer.

• Gallery: Soyuz MS-04 crew back on Earth

  Derek RichardsonSeptember 3rd, 2017

  Blazing through Earth's atmosphere and coming to a parachute assisted touchdown in Kazakhstan, three International Space Station crew members returned home in their Soyuz MS-04 capsule. The landing took place at 9:21 p.m. EDT Sept. 2 (7:21 a.m. local time / 01:21 GMT Sept. 3), 2017.

• Space station trio returns to Earth in Soyuz MS-04

  Derek RichardsonSeptember 3rd, 2017

  Three members of Expedition 52 returned to Earth inside their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft. The landing took at 9:21 p.m. EDT Sept. 2 (7:21 a.m. Kazakh Time / 01:21 GMT Sept. 3), 2017, in Kazakhstan.

• Contingency spacewalk required to replace failed relay box

  Derek RichardsonMay 21st, 2017

  A data relay box failure outside the International Space Station (ISS) has prompted mission managers to begin planning a contingency spacewalk. On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer will venture outside the Quest airlock to replace the failed component.

• Astronauts complete 200th ISS spacewalk

  Derek RichardsonMay 12th, 2017

  For the 200th time in nearly two decades, two people aboard the International Space Station donned spacesuits and ventured outside to perform a spacewalk. Problems during preparations for the excursion, however, ultimately caused it to be cut short by more than two hours.

• LIVE: Astronaut duo conducting 200th ISS spacewalk

  Derek RichardsonMay 12th, 2017

  Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer are performing U.S. extravehicular activity 42 (EVA-42) today, May 12, 2017. This is the 200th spacewalk in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance.

• ‘Space ninja’ Peggy Whitson sets space duration record, Trump congratulates

  Derek RichardsonApril 24th, 2017

  NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has broken the space duration record set by Jeff Williams last year by surpassing 534 cumulative days in space over her three long-duration missions.

• Peggy Whitson’s ISS stay gets 3-month extension

  Derek RichardsonApril 5th, 2017

  NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson’s stay aboard the International Space Station has been extended by three months, adding to her already record-breaking mission.

• EVA-41 spacewalkers outfit relocated docking module

  Derek RichardsonMarch 31st, 2017

  An astronaut duo stepped outside the International Space Station in the second spacewalk in less than a week. Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson ventured outside on a 7-hour long spacewalk to outfit a recently relocated docking module to ready it for commercial crew spacecraft sometime in 2018.

• 1st battery-replacement spacewalk completed at ISS

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 6th, 2017

  Two NASA astronauts on the first of two spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) made swift work to help with the replacement of old batteries with new lithium-ion units. They even had enough time leftover to perform several get-ahead tasks.

• ISS Expedition 50 crew preps for January spacewalks

  Derek RichardsonDecember 24th, 2016

  With the Japanese Kounotori 6 cargo craft firmly attached to the International Space Station's Harmony module, the six-person Expedition 50 crew is heading into the holiday weekend with images of spacewalk preparations dancing in their heads.

• Soyuz MS-03 to send trio to ISS

  Derek RichardsonNovember 15th, 2016

  A new trio of space flyers is gearing up to launch toward the International Space Station. Launching atop a Soyuz rocket, the crew in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is slated to leave terra firma at 2:20 a.m. local Kazakh time Nov. 18 (3:20 p.m. EST / 20:20 GMT Nov. 17) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

• Jeff Williams sets US space endurance record

  Derek RichardsonAugust 25th, 2016

  Astronaut Jeff Williams, International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 48 commander, recently surpassed former astronaut Scott Kelly for the all-time U.S. endurance record in space – more than 520 days as of Aug. 24. When he returns home on Sept. 6, he will have accumulated more than 534 days above Earth over four missions.