White House Calling! Astronaut Peggy Whitson Gets Congrats from President Trump & Ivanka

Hanneke Weitering Staff Writer-Producer

Updated April 24, 2017 at 3:17 p.m.

White House Calling! Astronaut Peggy Whitson Gets Congrats from President Trump & Ivanka

NASA's superstar astronaut and International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson received a special long-distance call from the White House today (April 24) to congratulate her on breaking yet another record in space. At 1:27 a.m. EDT (0527 GMT) today, Whitson surpassed the record for the most cumulative time in space by a U.S. astronaut, having spent 534 days aboard the space station (and counting). President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins gathered in the Oval Office this morning for a video conference with Whitson and her crewmate, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer.

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