Oleg Kononenko broke Gennady Padalko’s record on Sunday at 11.30 Moscow time, i.e. at 9.30 in Poland. The Russian has been on the International Space Station (ISS) since September 15, 2023. This is one of the international projects in which Moscow and Washington still cooperate. Despite Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Kononenko: I fly into space because I love it
– I fly into space because I love it, not to break records – Kononenko told the agency from the International Space Station, which orbits at a distance of about 423 km from Earth. According to the plan, Kononenko’s mission to the ISS is to end on September 23, 2024, so it was calculated that on June 5, the total stay of the cosmonaut in extraterrestrial space will be 1,000 days, and on the day the mission ends, 1,110 days. – The profession of a cosmonaut is becoming more and more complicated. Systems and experiments are becoming more and more complicated – said the cosmonaut quoted by .
The Russian spent nearly 40 minutes in open space
During his missions, the Russian entered open space six times. He spent a total of 39 hours and 54 minutes there. Kononenko reached the International Space Station last year aboard Soyuz MS-24, and made his first space flight in 2008. The construction of the International Space Station began in 1998 by connecting the first modules together, and a permanent crew has inhabited it continuously since 2000 . The ISS station is a joint project of several countries, including: USA, Russia, Canada and many European countries.
Source: Gazeta
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