if you re eligible, you could pay as little as $25 dollars a month. the american astronaut making history before we even got out of bed today. david kerley with the interview. reporter: the record, the longest time in space by an american tonight, belongs to peggy whitson called the astronaut s astronaut, who got a call from the white house. 534 days and counting, that is really something. well, it s actually a huge honor to break a record like this. reporter: but dr. whitson has been breaking barriers since she began at nasa, the first woman to command the space station. eight space walks, most by a female astronaut. the biochemist grew up on an iowa farm, watching the moon landing at age 9, a dream was