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. Watch Breathless Online Fandango. 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. 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. Video News CNNChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out whats happening in the world as it unfolds. Watch My Date With The President`S Daughter Online Full Movie' title='Watch My Date With The President`S Daughter Online Full Movie' />Reallife story of Arizona hotshots taking on wildfire blazes pays solid, oldfashioned tribute to men who lead dangerous lives Noah Baumbachs funny, literate. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration. The daughter of Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has hit back at the criticism she faced online after posting photos of herself breastfeeding her young son on. Its cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2s first Splatfest and were streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel.