Astronaut Thomas Reiter broke the record of time spent in space

August 4 is an emotional day for Thomas Reiter, astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) who is currently working on the ISS International Space Station.

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After walking for six hours in space, Reiter became the European astronaut staying in the longest space with a total of 209 days in orbit.

Previous record (209 days 12 hours 25 minutes and 11 seconds) held by French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré.

Thomas Reiter has been on the ISS for more than a month after departing from the last flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. His mission will last until December 2006 and at this time, the time he stays in space for a total of 1 year.

Reiter once stayed in space more than 10 years ago, in the middle of September 1995 and in February 1996 in the mission of ESA-Russia Euromir 95, on Mir space station with a space station engineer position next to the copper Russian industry Yuri Gidzenko and Serguei Avdeev. He was the first non-US citizen and Russian to become a permanent member of the ISS Station.

On August 3, Reiter also became the first ESA astronaut to take a walk outside the international space station. This is the first trek to be programmed since the ISS has 3 more members. Since the shuttle flights were suspended, only two people were in charge of maintenance of the space station and were unable to perform any space operations.

Reiter and NASA astronaut Jeff William were out in space for nearly six hours to place the device to complete the ISS Station assembly, deploy the equipment and test outside the station.

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