Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko may be the first person to orbit the planet for more than 1,000 days. According to the press service of Roskosmos telegraph channelThe cosmonaut, along with his colleague Nikolai Chub, will be part of the main crew of the 70th and 71st long-term expeditions to the ISS, along with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara.
It is assumed that the new business trip of Kononenko and Chub will last one year, from September 2023 to September 2024. Currently, by data Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK) them. Yu.A. Gagarin has already spent 736 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes in space. After the new mission, Kononenko could overcome the 1,000-day milestone in orbit.
The man has already been in space four times and has made five spacewalks with a total duration of 32 hours and 13 minutes. Kononenko became the 102nd Russian cosmonaut.
Now the world record for the total duration of a person’s stay in orbit belongs to Gennady Padalka – 878 days, 11 hours and 29 minutes (for 5 flights).
Formerly Roscosmos declarationTogether with NASA, he developed a draft document regulating the process of the International Space Station (ISS) leaving orbit.