US President Donald Trump has congratulated Peggy Whitson called for breaking the record for the most number of days in space by a US astronaut.
Dr Whitson already holds records for the most spacewalks carried out by a female astronaut and is the first woman to command the International Space Station twice.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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Trump spoke with Whitson in a video "Earth-to-space" conference call from the Oval Office to the International Space Station. She told the President about an experiment to preserve water.
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