Peggy Whitson Sets Record For Most Days In Space

Talk about no weekends, Peggy Whitson has spent more days in space than any other American. Get this 665 days on the job with no vacation!

This is the news today from a great website for the kids in your life NBC kids.

Here are some other stats on Peggy:

1) Peggy Whitson was the first female commander on the International Space Station.

2) She has completed four space walks.

3) Now back on planet Earth, she speaks to schools, particularly focused on young girls. Say's Peggy "Especially for young ladies, I really want to promote the fact that Science is cool."

4) How about this for a factoid? During her orbits of the Earth, Peggy saw 15 to 17 sunsets a day because she was going around the earth once every hour and half.

Wow!

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