Francisco Carlos “Frank Rubio (born December 11, 1975) is a US Armylieutenant colonel and helicopter pilot, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut.

Francisco Rubio breaks world record of living in space

He got into international space station in 2022

He has to return to earth in 6 months

But he breaks the record and he will stay for 371 days in Iss and will return on 27 September 2023 on earth

early life and education

Francisco Rubio was born on December 11, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to Salvadoran parents As a child he lived in El Salvador for the first six years of his life, after which his family moved to Miami, Florida, where he attended Miami Sunset Senior High School. He attended the United States Military Academy, and earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations

In 2017, Rubio was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 22, and began his two-year training

On July 15, 2022, NASA announced he will fly on board Soyuz MS-22

Rubio launched aboard Soyuz MS-22 on September 21, 2022. His mission was planned to last around 6 months with a return to Earth in early 2023. Damage to the spacecraft extended the mission, however, Rubio is now expected to return to Earth with Soyuz MS-23after more than a year in space making him break Mark T. Vande Hei‘s record for the longest spaceflight by an American astronaut with 370 days in September 2023