Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko broke the world record for total stay in orbit
Oleg Kononenko, commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut detachment, broke the world record for total stay in orbit.
"Today at 11:30:08 Moscow time, Kononenko exceeded the achievement of Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who spent a total of 878 days 11 hours 29 minutes 48 seconds in space during five missions (from 1998 to 2015)," TASS reports.
The commander of the cosmonaut squad is now making his fifth space flight in his career. It is expected that on June 5, at 00:00:20 Moscow time, he will become the first person to spend 1 thousand days in near-Earth space. In June, Kononenko will celebrate his 60th birthday in space, and at the end of the annual expedition, his total flight time will be 1,110 days.
Oleg Kononenko was born on June 21, 1964 in the Turkmen city of Chajou, now Turkmenabat. He made his first flight into space in April 2008. Upon returning from his first expedition to the station, the cosmonaut was awarded the titles of Hero of the Russian Federation and pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation.
In September 2019, he was awarded the title Hero of Turkmenistan.
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