Jeff Williams Breaks U.S. Record For Most Days In Space

Cumulative record: 520 days and counting

By G. Clay Whittaker | Published Aug 25, 2016 12:12 AM EDT

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Jeff Williams Breaks U.S. Record For Most Days In Space

Congratulations are in order. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams just broke the U.S. record for cumulative spaceflight hours, previously set by Scott Kelly.

.@Astro_Jeff is now the U.S. record holder for most cumulative days in space! See images: https://t.co/VJW7ccKMW4 pic.twitter.com/UFPOs16lAB
— NASA (@NASA) August 24, 2016

Five hundred and twenty days is a lot of time to spend away from home, and especially when that time is spent weightless in a tiny metal capsule, orbiting miles above earth in the endless vacuum of space.

Luckily for Williams, he’s returning on September 5. Then, he’ll have logged 534 cumulative days in space.

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