(CNN) Astronaut Frank Rubio has now been in low-Earth orbit for more than 355 days, breaking the record for the longest space mission by<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/astronaut-frank-rubio-sets-new-us-record-for-longest-trip-in-space/">Read More</a>
What’s more, Rubio is on track to reach another significant milestone in a few weeks’ time. A Russian Soyuz capsule is not expected to return him and his two fellow crewmates cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin to Earth before September 27.