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Article: Astronaut sets gaze on space record, moon mission
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- September 20, 2009
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Late next year, Emsworth's Mike Fincke could become America's all-
time leader for most time spent in space.
It just depends on the length of Sewickley Academy graduate's
first space-shuttle mission.
The astronaut is third with 366 days in orbit, said Kylie Clem, a
NASA spokeswoman at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The record
is 377, held by Peggy Whitson.
"I've already done so many things," Fincke said, simultaneously
considering his next mission and reflecting on his previous ones,
during an interview last month with his father, Ed, 67, and mother,
Alma, 68, sitting beside him in his childhood home.
The Air Force colonel, 42, has served two six-month expeditions
aboard the ...