Image?disableStub=true&type=VIDEO_S_720&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fkh8Zu5_0Am0%2F0.jpg&signatureToken=bB0GYxOxYiqktnt2jkcYSQ' alt='Watch Helicopter Mom Streaming' title='Watch Helicopter Mom Streaming' />Watch Record Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Return to Earth Tonight. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets 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. Watch Beyond Loch Ness Online Beyond Loch Ness Full Movie Online. 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 Fischers return in real time via NASAs live feed below. Tech. Nigel Bennett, Actor Forever Knight. An accomplished theatre actor, Mr. Bennett appeared on the British stage for fifteen years before moving to Canada in 1986. Are you in Sign up for the For The Win daily email newsletter for the top stories every day. Yes Send me the For The Win Daily Newsletter. Gizmodo has a livestream on our Facebook. NASA is streaming the solar eclipse on its Facebook page. CNN is also livestreaming on Facebook. Twitter. Twitter is. FialLW6aCZU/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch Helicopter Mom Streaming' title='Watch Helicopter Mom Streaming' />Watch live streaming video on abc11. WTVD news broadcasts as well as live breaking news whenever it happens.