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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
It has been a long time coming.
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286 days. The US Astronaut record is 371. The world record is 414.
They flew long-duration missions before, so were well-acquainted with life in microgravity.
They were never stranded, or stuck. Those are sensational journalistic editorial comments by reporters who know better.
The International Space Station accommodates visiting crew vehicles docked with seats for every crew member to quickly depart in the event of a serious issue requiring rapid return.
SpaceX and Boeing were contracted by NASA to develop crew transport to the ISS when it was decided to retire the Space Shuttle.
SpaceX already was under contract to provide cargo delivery.
Boeing's Starliner will fly to the Station again. The next flight may be uncrewed with cargo, but it will fly crew again to rotate with Crew Dragon every six months as originally laid out by NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
People have lived on the Station permanently conducting these same rotations since Nov 2, 2000, when Expedition 1 arrived on a Soyuz spacecraft with a US Astronaut and two Russian Cosmonauts. That means a 25 year old has never known life on Earth without someone living in space.