"This is an exceptionally uncommon day in the magnificent history of American spaceflight," Trump said in a telephone call to space, communicate live on NASA TV.
"That is a mind boggling record to break," he included from the Oval Office, flanked by little girl Ivanka and NASA space explorer Kate Rubins.
Perusing from a readied explanation around his work area, Trump additionally asked Whitson and her NASA associate Jack Fischer "What are we gaining from being in space?"
After Whitson depicted innovation to bolster long-term kept an eye on treks to space - including a framework that proselytes pee to drinking water for space travelers - Trump went off script.
"Preferred you over me," he said.
- Space records -
Subsequent to procuring a doctorate in natural chemistry in 1985, Whitson filled in as a NASA researcher for a long time before beginning as a space explorer in 1997.
She traveled to space without precedent for 2002 on board the space carry Attempt, remaining for a six-month stretch at the Global Space Station, which circles exactly 250 miles (400 kilometers) over the Earth.
She turned into the main female officer of the exploration station in April 2008, amid her second, six-month voyage through obligation.
Her most recent, third, outing to space started on in November. She is planned to come back to Earth in September following a broadened nine-month mission.
The most established lady ever in space, Whitson additionally set another record for most spacewalks by a female space explorer prior a month ago when she glided outside the space station for the eighth time in her vocation.
She is hitched to a kindred NASA organic chemist, Clarence Sams. Her interests incorporate weightlifting, biking, b-ball and water skiing, as indicated by her NASA account.
- 'Inhabitant space ninja' -
"How can it feel to have broken such a major and critical record?" Trump asked at one point amid his call.
"It is really an enormous respect to break a record this way," Whitson stated, expressing gratitude toward her NASA associates for making it conceivable.
"It is an exceptionally energizing time to be at NASA," she included, specifying Trump's support for kept an eye on missions to Mars in the coming decades.
After Fischer portrayed savoring espresso space in "floaty ball frame," Trump approached the space explorers about the arrangements for Mars.
"Let me know. Mars. What do you see as timing for really sending people to Mars? Is there a timetable and when might you see that occurrence?" the president inquired.
"All things considered, I think as your bill guided, it will be roughly in the 2030s," Whitson reacted.
"As I specified, we really are building equipment to test another overwhelming dispatch vehicle and this vehicle will take us more remote than we have ever been far from this planet," she included, alluding to the Space Dispatch Framework (SLS) rocket.
"All things considered, we need to attempt to do it amid my first term or best case scenario amid my second term so we should speed that up a smidgen alright?" Trump stated, evoking chuckling from the space travelers gliding in microgravity.
"I have incredible regard for you parents, it's astounding what you do," he included.
At the point when Whitson did a flip at the space station, Fischer called her "our inhabitant space ninja."
Seeing the Apollo missions to the moon as a youngster had enlivened her to wind up noticeably a space explorer, Whitson said.
Be that as it may, "it took me a great deal longer to wind up noticeably a space explorer than I ever, truly, needed it to take," she said.
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