Saturday, at 9:21 p.m. EDT, three humans landed safely home on Earth after months of living and working on the International Space Station (iss). Record-breaking NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson was returning from a 288 day stay in space, bringing her cumulative time in space to 665 days, maintaining the record for U.S. astronauts. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer (astro2fish) and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin were returning from 136 days in space. The International Space Station is a unique microgravity laboratory where important research is conducted that not will not only help us travel deeper into the solar system, but also benefits life here on Earth. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #nasa #space #crew #spacestation #landing #parachute #capsule #astronauts #record #microgravity