Following this excursion, Williams has now accumulated a total of 62 hours and 6 minutes floating in the vacuum of space, overtaking retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson to become the female ...

These six are floating 400km ... as exciting as it is to live in space, a lot of the daily routine can be repetitive and even boring. No-one dreams of being an astronaut so that they can fill ...

The 69-year-old is NASA's oldest active astronaut ... the International Space Station. Instead of the traditional one-leg-at-a-time approach, Mr Pettit descended into his floating trousers ...