Trump Calls the ISS, Congratulating Astronaut Peggy Whitson for Setting New Record for Most Days in Space

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TRUMP: "First, I want to say that this is a very special day in the glorious history of American space flight. Today Commander Whitson, you have broken the record for the most total time spent in space by an American astronaut, 534 days and counting. That's an incredible record to break and on behalf of our nation and frankly on behalf of the world I'd like to congratulate you. That is really something. And I would like to know how does it feel to have broken such a big and important record?"
WHITSON: "Well, it’s actually a huge honor to break a record like this but it’s an honor for me basically to be representing all the folks at NASA who make this space flight possible and who make me setting this record feasible. And so it’s very exciting time to be at NASA. We’re all very much looking forward, as directed by your new NASA bill, we’re excited about the missions to Mars in 2030s. And so we’re actually physically have hardware on the ground that’s being built for the SLS rocket that will take us there and of course the hardware being built now is going ti be for the test flights that will eventually get us there. But it is a very exciting time and I’m so proud of the team.”