Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 09.27.2023
Lt. Col. (Dr.) Frank C. Rubio returned to Earth, Sept. 27, aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, along with cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin of Roscosmos, after logging a record 371 days on the International Space Station. He beat the previous 355-day record set in 2022 by U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a retired U.S. Army colonel....
Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 09.21.2022
Army Astronaut Lt. Col. (Dr.) Frank Rubio successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, aboard a Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft Sept. 21, for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Following a three-hour journey, the crew made two orbits around the Earth before docking the Soyuz to the space station to begin their mission on the orbital laboratory....
Story by Ronald Bailey | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 08.15.2019
No, it is not science fiction. A U.S. Army active duty Soldier could be the next human, and possibly the first female on the moon. Current NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Army Col. R. Shane Kimbrough discussed this possibility and other attributes of NASA’s announced return to the moon in 2024 during an Aug. 7 interview....
Story by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 09.07.2018
One Soldier proves childhood dreams can come true as she prepares to launch into space for her first time.
