Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will spend 375 days on the International Space Station, which will be a new record for flights under the ISS program. The Popular Front reported this in its own report. telegram channel.
The publication states that the astronauts will set a new world record in this way, spending more than a thousand days outside the Earth, which is equivalent to two round-trip flights to Mars.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is planned for September 15. Its crew included Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, as well as NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. Kononenko and Chub will spend more than a year on the ISS, while O’Hare will spend six months.
Formerly Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin saidHe said he asked the crew of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring pickles (cucumbers and mushrooms) and watermelons to the planned landing site in September.
At the end of August, Roscosmos’ general director for manned programs, Sergei Krikalev, reported that the state corporation and NASA had agreed on an additional flight of an American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft.
Previously in the USA statedChina’s military achievements in space are breathtaking.