The spaceflight document books have simply been rewritten.
Over the weekend, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a brand new mark for many complete days spent off Earth, eclipsing the 878 days, 11 hours and half-hour of his countryman Gennady Padalka, in accordance with Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.
Kononenko launched to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) final September for a keep that might final a full 12 months, so he’ll proceed so as to add to his newly set document for some time but.
“It’s anticipated that Oleg Kononenko will attain a complete of 1,000 days in area on June 5, 2024 at 00:00:20 Moscow time. And upon completion of the annual expedition (September 23, 2024), [his] complete flight time shall be 1,110 days,” Russia’s federal area company Roscosmos wrote in a post on Telegram. (The unique submit is in Russian; translation by Google.)
Associated: Probably the most excessive spaceflight data
Soviet and Russian cosmonauts dominate the spaceflight-duration document guide. They maintain the top eight slots on the most-total-time-in-space record, for instance. Peggy Whitson, whose 675 days off Earth are essentially the most by a NASA astronaut, is quantity 9 general.
And cosmonaut Valery Polyakov holds the single-flight length document, spending practically 438 consecutive days aboard Russia’s Mir area station from January 1994 to March 1995.
The highest American on that record is Frank Rubio, who not too long ago spent 371 days aboard the ISS after his authentic journey house, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, sprang a leak in orbit and had to get replaced.
The present mission is Kononenko’s fifth spaceflight. He is at present serving as a flight engineer on the orbiting lab’s Expedition 70, however he is scheduled to take the station’s reins later this month, when present commander Andreas Mogenson comes again to Earth with the remainder of SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission.
The Crew-7 quartet shall be changed by the 4 astronauts of Crew-8, which is scheduled to carry off on Feb. 22 from Florida’s Area Coast.
