After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity.
"Walking hurts a little bit the first few days, the soles of your feet and lower back," he said at a news conference Friday at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Rubio returned to Earth two weeks ago after spending 371 days in space, having taken off in September of last year aboard a Russian rocket for what was supposed to be a routine, six-month mission. "The fact that I was going to spend a whole year cooped up was a kind of torture for me, because I love being outside," Rubio said.
But the misadventure allowed this son of Salvadoran immigrants to grab the record for the longest time an American has spent in space, breaking the 2022 record set by Mark Vande Hei, at 355 consecutive days.
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