{"id":96166,"date":"2024-02-04T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/cosmonaut-oleg-kononenko-breaks-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space-world-news\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:27:58","slug":"cosmonaut-oleg-kononenko-breaks-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/cosmonaut-oleg-kononenko-breaks-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko breaks record for most time spent in space | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for the most time spent in space.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old clocked up a cumulative total of more than 878 days and 12 hours outside the Earth’s atmosphere – the equivalent of nearly two-and-a-half years – on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Mr Kononenko celebrated the milestone on board the International Space Station<\/strong> (ISS), which he has travelled to five times since 2008.<\/p>\n

“I fly into space to do what I love, not to set records. I’ve dreamt of and aspired to become a cosmonaut since I was a child.<\/p>\n

“That interest – the opportunity to fly into space, to live and work in orbit – motivates me to continue flying,” he told Russian news agency TASS.<\/p>\n

Mr Kononenko added: “I am proud of all my achievements, but I am more proud that the record for the total duration of human stay in space is still held by a Russian<\/strong> cosmonaut.”<\/p>\n

The cosmonaut is expected to reach a total of 1,000 days in space on 5 June.<\/p>\n

By late September he will have been up in space for 1,110 days – the equivalent of just over three years.<\/p>\n

His current trip to the ISS began on 15 September last year, when he launched alongside NASA astronaut<\/strong> Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos compatriot Nikolai Chub.<\/p>\n

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‘No one will return this time to me’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Kononenko said video calls to relatives back home and regular exercise on board meant he did not feel “deprived or isolated”.<\/p>\n

But he added: “It is only upon returning home that the realisation comes that for hundreds of days in my absence the children have been growing up without a papa. No one will return this time to me.”<\/p>\n

Mr Kononenko is the latest in a long line of cosmonaut trailblazers, including Yuri Gagarin, who was the first man to travel into space in 1961.<\/p>\n

His achievement tops the record set by his fellow countryman Gennady Padalka, who clocked up a total of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds in space in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s space programme suffered a slump following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but officials in President Vladimir Putin’s administration have since been keen to revive it to its former glory.<\/p>\n

The ISS is one of the few international projects in which the US and Russia still cooperate closely despite tensions over the war in Ukraine<\/strong> and ongoing sanctions.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said in December that its cross-flight programme with NASA to the ISS had been extended until 2025.<\/p>\n

The space station travels 263 miles (423 km) above Earth at a speed of five miles per second. It orbits the planet about once every 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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