Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit

NASA astronaut Dr. Frank Rubio has returned home after a 371-day stint aboard the International Space Station, setting a new record for the longest time an American has stayed in space. Rubio, 47, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, 48, and Dmitri Petelin, 40, landed back on Earth on September 27 at 0517 local time in …

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Let's reward Rubio for his work

As a medical doctor, Dr. Frank Rubio will probably be able to provide a lot more accurate interpretations of the effects of existing in space under a low gravity ... that's an environment that we have known causes issues after many visits to orbit and has the potential to make interplanetary travel a lot more complicated in the future. It also is interesting when we talk about aliens visiting us, do they see the same problems or have they solved them all?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Let's reward Rubio for his work

"...when we talk about aliens visiting us, do they see the same problems or have they solved them all?"

Fortunately for us, they sometimes have terrible miscalculations of scale.

[MachDiamond]

Re: Let's reward Rubio for his work

"Fortunately for us, they sometimes have terrible miscalculations of scale."

And issues with small dogs from what I can recall.