Touchdown confirmed at 6:17 AM Central Time. Rubio's record ride comes to an end.

His historic homecoming straight out of a movie. But back on Earth, astronaut Frank Rubio has been loving life out of the limelight.

It's really been good to get home and be back with my family and get outside.

Especially after being stuck inside the space station. Rubio's six-month mission doubling. After his ride home, a Russian space ship, spring a coolant leak. The proud father of four doing his best to keep family close.

They got a lot of FaceTime or video conferencing to me.

The trip making Rubio one of NASA's most frequent fliers. Orbiting Earth just shy of 6,000 times. Add it up. And NASA says the voyage logged more than 157 million miles, begging the question, what's on the playlist?

I love the Simon & Garfinkel station, but then I would also listen to a lot of '90s pop, and so quite the dichotomy there. Balanced guy.

The helicopter pilot and surgeon put on his scientist hat in space, conducting hundreds of experiments. Ork, he says, took the edge off becoming the first American ever to log an entire calendar year in orbit. Just don't expect him to brag. This is a record that you are totally okay with being broken.

Yeah, 100%. And hopefully, we'll break it in even cooler places out in space.

A final frontier. This this astronaut isn't done with yet. Morgan Chesky, NBC News, Houston.

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