[…] More records fell like ninepins with Crew-2, which saw Endeavour launch on her second mission in April 2021, carrying U.S. astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, plus France’s Thomas Pesquet and Japan’s Aki Hoshide. Endeavour thus became the first U.S. crewed orbital vehicle to log a repeat flight since the final missions of the shuttle, more than a decade before. McArthur, who is married to Behnken, occupied the very same seat occupied by her husband several months earlier. And Crew-2 went on to log 199 days aloft, breaking the old Skylab 4 record twice in a single year. […]
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