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- Oleg Kononenko, a 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut, turned the primary particular person to spend 1,000 days in area.
- Kononenko achieved this milestone on Tuesday, marking his fifth journey to the International Space Station since 2008.
- His present journey to the ISS started on Sept. 15, 2023, alongside NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Nikolai Chub.
A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has develop into the primary particular person to spend 1,000 days in area, Russian area company Roscosmos mentioned Wednesday.
Oleg Kononenko achieved the milestone on Tuesday, having made 5 journeys to the International Space Station relationship again to 2008.
His present journey to the ISS started Sept. 15, 2023, when he launched alongside NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and compatriot Nikolai Chub.
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Kononenko first took the cumulative area time document in February 2024, when he surpassed the full of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds set by fellow Russian Gennady Padalka in 2015.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, a crew member of the subsequent mission to the International Space Station, attends a information convention on the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on July 21, 2015. The 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has develop into the primary particular person to spend 1000 days in area. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
If Kononenko’s mission ends as scheduled Sept. 23, 2024, he could have spent a complete of 1,110 days in orbit.
“There’s this awareness that you have achieved something new and important, that you’ve overcome a certain milestone, touched the unknown,” Kononenko instructed Russian state information company TASS. “It gives you confidence, and pride in the work you’ve done.”
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He additionally instructed TASS that his American colleagues on the ISS had been among the many first to congratulate him on his achievement.
The International Space Station is among the few areas wherein the United States and Russia nonetheless cooperate intently following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022. Roscosmos introduced in December that its cross-flight program with NASA transporting astronauts to the ISS had been prolonged till 2025.
