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MOSCOW, February 4 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a new record for the total duration of stay in space, according to the Roscosmos Telegram channel.
At 11 hours 30 minutes 8 seconds Moscow time on February 4, Kononenko became the person who spent the most time in space.
“He exceeded the achievement of compatriot Gennady Padalka, who in five space flights accumulated a total of 878 days 11 hours 29 minutes 48 seconds,” the publication says.
Now Kononenko is making his fifth flight to the International Space Station ( the first time he went there was in 2008). All other active cosmonauts of the Russian detachment flew no more than three times.
Kononenko flew to the ISS on September 15, 2023 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft together with Russian Nikolai Chub and American Loral O'Hara. The American astronaut will return to Earth this spring along with Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya.
The expedition of Kononenko and Chub will last another six months. He is due to return on September 23 on the Soyuz MS-25. During this time, Kononenko will manage to become the first cosmonaut to spend more than a thousand days in orbit. As noted in Roscosmos, it will overcome this milestone at 00:00:10 Moscow time on June 5. In total, upon returning to Earth, its flight time will reach 1110 days.
The flight of Kononenko and Chub will be the fourth annual flight during the existence of the ISS. In 2015-2016, the experimental mission of cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and astronaut Scott Kelly lasted 340 days. Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, together with American Mark Vande Hei, stayed at the station for 355 days in 2021-2022.
The expedition, which is still a record for the ISS, lasted 371 days. The Russians Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, together with the American Frank Rubio, who arrived in September 2022, were forced to stay for six months due to depressurization of the cooling circuit in their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft and wait for the next Soyuz MS-23.
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