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A handout photo made available by NASA's Johnson Space Center shows NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (C) posing with Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA (L) and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency, R) prior to their spacewalk, in space, 24 March 2017 (issued 24 April 2017). The pair conducted a six hour and 34 minute spacewalk on 24 March 2017. According to NASA, Whitson will officially set on 24 April 2017, the US record for most cumulative days in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), surpassing the 534 days record of astronaut Jeff Williams. US President Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will make a special Earth-to-space call on 24 April 2017, to congratulate Whitson for her record-breaking. (Photo by EPA/NASA)
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