Watch Record- Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Return to Earth Tonight. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planet’s new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a woman this weekend, touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan at 7: 2. Eastern). Whitson has spent the last nine and a half months in Earth orbit on the International Space Station, per the Washington Post, and counting her previous flights, will have logged 6. During her current mission, she also set the world record for oldest woman in space at 5. As the Post noted, she is also the only female astronaut to have commanded the ISS twice. According to the Post, one of the colleagues returning with her has spent even longer in the aether: Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who has cumulatively spent eight more days aloft than Whitson at 6. The current world record holder, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, spent some 8.

Russians have long dominated both cumulative and single- flight durations in space; the single longest spaceflight record holder is Valeri Polyakov, who spent just short of 4. As Tech. Crunch noted, Whitson was scheduled to return in June but “happily accepted” an invitation to stay on the ISS longer when Russian space agency Roscosmos canceled a joint mission to the station earlier in 2.

Also accompanying Whitson and Yurchikhin on their way home is US astronaut Jack Fischer, who will have spent 1. Whitson wrote she will “hugely miss the freedom of floating and moving with the lightest of touch, especially those first few days after my return when gravity will especially SUCK,” the Post reported. She will also miss “the enchantingly peaceful limb of our Earth,” adding, “Until the end of my days, my eyes will search the horizon to see that curve.” Watch Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischer’s return in real time via NASA’s live feed below.[Tech.

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Shaman' boasts about charming crocodiles then jumps into a river and is eaten by one. A self- proclaimed shaman was killed by a crocodile in Indonesia moments after telling a crowd he could control the deadly creatures.

The mystic, named Suprianto, was drowned by the reptile on Saturday, 1. Watch Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Online Forbes on this page. September. Suprianto claimed to be a 'pawang buaya' (crocodile shaman), wielding the ability to influence the prehistoric beasts' behaviour, but his reputation is now in tatters.

He jumped into the Muara Jawa estuary, in Indonesia, hoping to recover the body of another man who was killed by a crocodile. Crowds gathered to watch the spectacle as he jumped into the infested waters, at one point adopting the form of a crucifix and staying completely still. Video footage of the incident gives the impression of man who knows what he is doing. Right up until the moment he disappears from the water's surface, dragged away by a shadowy figure.

The crowd looked on in fear and disbelief. Eventually, the crocodile resurfaced but Suprianto did not."We recovered the two bodies on Sunday. The shaman [Suprianto] was found floating in Muara Jawa at 9: 4. His body is still whole," said Kutai Kartanegara Police Chief Fadillah Zulkarnaen."I think he was dragged by a crocodile under the water and then ran out of oxygen. From the pictures I've seen, his body is still intact, his arms and legs are still there."The croc resurfaced but Suprianto did not. Screengrab/Live Leak. The other man's corpse was also intact, suggesting that he had also been drowned and not killed in the crocodile's jaws, Coconuts reported.

In June, the Australian teenager made world- famous by surviving a crocodile attack while trying to impress a woman admitted assaulting two police officers during a methamphetamine binge funded by subsequent media appearances. Lee De Paauw, 1. 8, made international headlines in March after jumping into the crocodile- infested Johnstone River to woo a 2. British backpacker – only to be mauled by a 4m saltwater beast.