Astronaut stuck on International Space Station for months just broke the record for total spacewalk time by a woman

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A US astronaut, part of the two-person crew temporarily stranded on the International Space Station, has now, amazingly, accumulated the most time performing a spacewalk, a male and female record shared until now.

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to determine if living organisms could be present outside the orbital laboratory.

As he reached an altitude of 260 miles above Spain.

This was Wilmore's fifth time venturing outside the space station, and marked the 274th spacewalk overall that supported building, fixing, and updating the station.

Williams and Wilmore have been on the space station since June of last year after a setback with their brand new Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The retired Navy captains had planned to go home only a week ago.

The test pilots will stay in space until SpaceX can transport them back home. However, that haven't happened until either late March or early April.

Whitson has gone on 10 expeditions and Williams has gone on nine.

The launch is currently scheduled to take place no earlier than the spring of this year.

Whitson currently holds the record, with a cumulative total of 675 days, while Bargemetach's highest total was 371 days.

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