Moscow – Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, broke the record for the longest continuous stay on the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced today by the Russian space agency Roskosmos. The previous record was 370 days, 21 hours and 22 minutes, and was held by Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and American astronaut Francisco Rubio from September 2023.
Čub and Kononenko will extend their record by a few more days, as they are scheduled to return to Earth on Monday. At the same time, the 59-year-old Kononenko already holds several space records, including the longest overall time spent in space. When he lands on the Kazakh steppe next week, he will have spent 1,110 days in space over five missions.
Along with Kononenko and Čub, two American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita (Suni) Williams are also inadvertently on the ISS for most of their record-breaking stay. They have been on the orbital complex since June and were originally supposed to spend only eight days there. However, due to technical problems with Boeing’s Starliner spaceship, which was sent back to Earth without them, they will probably extend their stay until February.
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Source: www.ceskenoviny.cz
