I Spent 9 Months In Space

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Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth after 665 days in space\n\nCheck out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo!\nhttps://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedvideo\nhttps://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedblue1\nhttps://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedviolet\n\nGET MORE BUZZFEED:\nhttps://www.buzzfeed.com\nhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/videos\nhttps://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedvideo\nhttps://www.youtube.com/boldly\nhttps://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedblue\nhttps://www.youtube.com/buzzfeedviolet\nhttps://www.youtube.com/perolike\nhttps://www.youtube.com/ladylike\n\nBuzzFeedVideo\nBuzzFeed Motion Picture’s flagship channel. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always shareable. New videos posted daily!\n\nCredits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/37491\n\nMUSIC\nLicensed via Audio Network\n\nSTILLS\nSunlight eclipsing planet earth\nBjorn Holland/Getty Images\nKAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-US-FRANCE-ISS-SPACE-aerospace\nKIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Staff/Getty Images\nExpedition 52 Soyuz MS-04 Landing\nBill Ingalls/NASA / Handout/Getty Images\nThe crew and International Space Station\nBRUCE WEAVER / Stringer/Getty Images\nBackdropped by a sparkling blue and white Earth, Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the station. Whitson made history as the first female commander of the station.\nNASA/Science Source/Getty Images\nKAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-US-ISS-SPACE\nSERGEI ILNITSKY / Contributor/Getty Images\nKAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-US-FRANCE-ISS-SPACE\nKIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Staff/Getty Images\nTOPSHOT-KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-US-FRANCE-ISS-SPACE-aerospace\nKIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Staff/Getty Images\nExpedition 50 Qualification Exams\nBill Ingalls/NASA / Handout/Getty Images\n30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Mission\nNASA / Handout/Getty Images\nSally Ride\nSpace Frontiers / Stringer/Getty Images\nInternational Space Station\nEncyclopaedia Britannica/UIG/Getty Images\nTerence T. Henricks;Mario Jr. Runco\nTime Life Pictures / Contributor/Getty Images\nNASA astronaut on a spacewalk\nrawheadrex/Getty Images\nxpedition 5 astronaut Peggy Whitson has a phone call from home during suitup for the second launch attempt aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-111 to the International Space Station. Expedition 5 will replace Expedition 4 on board the Station.\nSCIENCE SOURCE/Getty Images\nAstronauts Complete Last Of Three Spacewalks\nNASA / Handout/Getty Images\nAstronaut Tanner On Space Walk\nNASA / Handout/Getty Images\nView of Astronaut Peggy Whitson working at the Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (PGBA) at Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack 4 during Expedition Five on the International Space Station (ISS)\nNASA NASA/Getty Images\nTereshkova, First Woman in Space, 1963\nHulton Deutsch / Contributor/Getty Images\nLunar Astronauts\nCentral Press / Stringer/Getty Images\n\nVIDEO\nWA Astronauts working in outer space, NASA\nNASA/Getty Images\nWA Solar maximum spacecraft lift off\nNASA/Getty Images\n1980's MS Astronaut performing untethered space walk / United States\nTime Image/Getty Images\n1983 medium shot tilt up astronaut Sally Ride running on treadmill aboard Space Shuttle Challenger\nNASA - Footage/Getty Images\nMS Astronauts working on Spartan satellite, NASA\nNASA/Getty Images\nAstronauts demonstrate what living in space with zero gravity\nOnyx Media, Llc - Footage/Getty Images\nApollo 14 Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell placing U.S. flag on Moon surface\nNASA/Getty Images\nNASA astronaut on a spacewalk\nrawheadrex/Getty Images\nEarth view from Space\nOnyx Media, Llc - Footage/Getty Images\nEarth Sunrise\nendeav0r/Getty Images