--- title: NASA: Peggy Whitson Completes Record-Breaking Spacewalk description: Footage obtained by TIME shows Peggy Whitson's record-breaking eighth spacewalk, which she completed from the International Space Station canonical: https://time.com/4746568/astronaut-peggy-whitson-record-breaking-spacewalk/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-19T17:32:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:29:53.239Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Peggy Whitson's Record-Breaking Spacewalk og:description: She's been in space for a staggering total of 53 hours and 22 minutes og:url: https://time.com/4746568/astronaut-peggy-whitson-record-breaking-spacewalk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9efb5505c7d81aa/6988c3940a4a22fa2b9cdc93/gp060021-mp4-00_24_49_19-still001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1920 og:image:height: 1080 og:image:alt: GP060021.MP4.00_24_49_19.Still001 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Peggy Whitson's Record-Breaking Spacewalk twitter:description: She's been in space for a staggering total of 53 hours and 22 minutes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb9efb5505c7d81aa/6988c3940a4a22fa2b9cdc93/gp060021-mp4-00_24_49_19-still001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Astronaut Peggy Whitson's Record-Breaking Spacewalk > Sponsored content. 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It reaches 40,000 subscribers with a 34.2% open rate and a 2.1% click rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I follow the energy transition as a business story? Future Proof covers climate and energy as an economic and business story rather than only an environmental one. It publishes every Friday and is free at time.com/newsletters. #### Who writes Future Proof? Justin Worland, a senior correspondent at TIME and an award-winning climate journalist, writes Future Proof. #### Is Future Proof free? Yes. Future Proof is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Apr 19, 2017 5:32 PM UTC   by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Apr 19, 2017 5:32 PM UTC There was a time when 36 minutes seemed like a marathon for an astronaut walking in space. That was on June 3, 1965, when NASA’s Ed White ventured outside his Gemini IV spacecraft, tripling the 12 minutes outdoors the Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov had managed when he became the first human being to walk in space, just three months earlier. But 36 minutes isn’t so much anymore, especially to NASA’s Peggy Whitson, who on March 30 completed her eighth spacewalk, giving her the record for any female astronaut, just ahead of America’s Suni Williams, who has done seven. All told, Whitson has spent a staggering total of 53 hours and 22 minutes outside her spacecraft with nothing but the multi-layered clothes on her back to protect her. Whitson’s latest walk was devoted to helping reconfigure the International Space Station in preparation for the arrival of future commercial crews, and footage of a few moments of her work was made available to TIME by NASA. It is fluid, hypnotic and every bit the exercise in zero-gravity ballet it was when White and Leonov had their turns. The spacewalk record is not remotely all that Whitson has accomplished in her long space career. She is currently in command of the International Space Station — her third spaceflight and her second rotation as station commander. When she returns to Earth on Sept. 3, she will have amassed 666 days in space, more than any other American. 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