Last week , Frank Rubio connect with the milepost of spending the longest time in space of any NASA astronaut . Now , he has broken another record . He ’s the first US astronaut to have expend a whole consecutive year in place , and he ’s still receive a few more twenty-four hours to go before he comes down to Earth on September 27 .

Rubio was stranded on the International Space Station ( ISS ) with spaceman Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin . Their Soyuz abridgment was hit by amicrometeoriteleading to acoolant news leak . The event lead to a shuffle of missions from Russia . An empty Soyuz was sent to space , but the trio had to take over the workplace of the cosmonauts and spaceman who would have traveled on it .

Rubio and NASA marked the milepost by doing a alive consultation from space . He was asked if he would have accepted the commission if he had known he would have to be in space for 370 days – and he was very dependable in saying that he would n’t have .

“ If they had asked me upfront before breeding , because you do train for a year or two years for your mission , I plausibly would have slump , ” Rubio told reporter on Tuesday during alive broadcastfrom the ISS . “ It would have spite , but I would have declined . ”

“ That ’s only because of crime syndicate things that were going on this preceding yr and had I known that I would have had to lose those very important event , I just would have had to say ‘ give thanks you , but no give thanks you . ’ ”

Rubio was also asked what he is going to do as shortly as he catch back home , with the interviewer mentioning how Scott Kelly went direct to the pool when he got back home from his residency in theISS . For Rubio , it ’s his quiet backyard that he overlook .

“ Hugging my married woman and kids is going to be paramount and I ’ll probably focus on that for the first couple of daytime , ” Rubio serve .

“ We ’re blessed enough to have kind of a smooth backyard and I think just going out in the yard and enjoying the trees and the silence . Up here , we kind of have the incessant hum of machinery , that ’s celebrate us live it ’s very of import but it is just a constant humming … so I ’m looking forwards to just being outside and enjoying the peace and still . ”

Rubio will be land in the Kazakh Steppe before being fly back to the USA .