A NASA astronaut who spent 665 days circling the planet reveals the misery of going to the bathroom in space

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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has logged a whopping 665 days in space.

That's an American record, and it's more time in space than just about anyone else on Earth can claim aside from seven Russian cosmonauts.

She's hit her "radiation limit" she says, and won't be headed back to the International Space Station again.

While it's a sad realization for Whitson, who loves a good gravity-free float, there's one thing she won't miss about living on the International Space Station: the bathroom.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson sometimes has tears in her eyes when she says she won’t be going in to space again.

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