Kosmonaut först att tillbringa 1 000 dagar i rymden
Den ryske kosmonauten Oleg Kononenko nådde milstolpen 1 000 dagar i rymden på onsdagen. Det rapporterar AP som hänvisar till ryska rymdmyndigheten Roskosmos.
59-åringen gjorde sin första rymdresa till ISS 2008, och har sedan dess hunnit med ytterligare fyra besök på rymdstationen.
Om Kononenko fullföljer sitt nuvarande uppdrag, som förväntas ta slut 23 september i år, kommer ryssen ha spenderat 1 110 dagar i rymden, skriver AP.
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Oleg Kononenko
Wikipedia (en)
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко; Turkmen: Oleg Dmitriýewiç Kononenko; born 21 June 1964) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has flown to the International Space Station five times as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 aboard Soyuz TMA-12, as a flight engineer on Expedition 30 and commander of Expedition 31 aboard Soyuz TMA-03M, as a flight engineer on Expedition 44 and Expedition 45 aboard Soyuz TMA-17M, as a flight engineer on Expedition 57 and commander of Expedition 58 and Expedition 59 aboard Soyuz MS-11, and as a flight engineer on Expedition 69 and Expedition 70 and commander of Expedition 71 aboard Soyuz MS-24/MS-25.
Kononenko accumulated over 1000.479 days in orbit during his five (including current one-year flight) long duration flights to ISS, which is the longest time in space of any cosmonaut or astronaut. Gennady Padalka previously held the world record for the most time spent in space at 878 days with Kononenko breaking the record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC.
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