“Today at 11:30:08 Moscow time, cosmonaut of the Roscosmos state corporation Oleg Kononenko... became the world record holder for the total duration of space flights,” the statement said.
It is noted that the previous record belonged to Russian Gennady Padalka.
“At the end of the annual expedition, scheduled for September 23, 2024, his (Kononenko. -
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) total flight time will be 1,110 days,” the text emphasizes.
Earlier it became known that Kononenko took Alexander Pushkin’s favorite story “The Captain’s Daughter” on his fifth flight to the ISS.