A Russian cosmonaut has simply set a brand new report for the longest time spent in house.
Set over 5 missions, Oleg Kononenko on Sunday has now spent greater than 878 days in orbit, or practically two-and-a-half years.
Kononenko, 59, snatched the report from compatriot Gennady Padalka, who retired in 2017 following 5 journeys to house.
At present aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) about 250 miles above Earth, Kononenko, whose newest mission began in September final 12 months, is about to return to Earth in seven months’ time, along with his report set to increase to 1,110 days in orbit.
“I fly into house to do what I like, to not set data,” the cosmonaut, who first flew to house in 2008, advised Russian information company Tass. “I’ve dreamt of and aspired to grow to be a cosmonaut since I used to be a baby.”
Kononenko added: “That curiosity — the chance to fly into house, to dwell and work in orbit — motivates me to proceed flying. I’m happy with all my achievements, however I’m extra proud that the report for the overall length of human keep in house continues to be held by a Russian cosmonaut.”
He stated that video calls and messaging enabled him to keep up a correspondence with household and associates again on terra firma, including that at any time when he returns to Earth it all the time happens to him precisely what he’s been lacking most.
“It’s only upon returning house that the conclusion comes that for lots of of days in my absence the youngsters have been rising up with out father,” Kononenko stated. “Nobody will return this time to me.”
Essentially the most variety of days accrued in house by a NASA astronaut is presently 678 days by retired American astronaut Peggy Whitson throughout 4 missions.
In the meantime, the report for longest single keep is held by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who lived aboard the Mir house station for 437 days and 18 hours within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. American astronaut Frank Rubio just lately set a brand new single-stay report for NASA astronauts when he returned house in September after logging 371 days in orbit.
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