Russian cosmonaut became the first person to spend 1,000 days in space.
On June 4, Oleg Kononenko achieved the feat, having made five trips to the International Space Station since 2008.
On September 15, 2023, his current trip to the ISS began, when he flied into space alongside NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and his compatriot Nikolai Chub.
In February 2024, Kononenko set the cumulative space time record for the first time when he surpassed the record of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds set by fellow Russian Gennady Padalka in 2015.
On September 23, 2024, if Kononenko’s mission ends on schedule, it will have spent a total of 1,110 days in orbit.
The International Space Station is one of the few areas in which the United States and Russia are still closely cooperating, even after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In December, Roscosmos announced that its cross-flight program with NASA to ferry astronauts to the ISS had been extended to 2025.
