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When Crew-8 returns from space, its SpaceX capsule will set new records

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SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour returns to Earth this week .

Launched for her fifth mission in March , she has logged 23 cumulative months in space.

She has circled Earth 11,000 times and traveled 292 million miles ( 470 million km ) She is one of several historical Endeavours that helped satiate humanity's thirst for exploration.

This week 's landing will bring the 33-week space marathon of Dominick , Barratt, Epps and Grebenkin to a close.

The previous longest mission by a crewed spacecraft was Russia 's Soyuz TMA-9 , which ferried Mike Lopez-Alegria and Russia 's Mikhail Tyurin to the ISS in September 2006 .

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