News about Oleg Kononenko
After 878 days on the International Space Station, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko smashes the record for the longest time spent on orbit
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February 5, 2024
Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for total time spent in space, beating compatriot Gennady Padalka who logged more than 878 days on orbit. And he isn't stopping there. Kononenko is expected to spend 1,000 days in space on June 5 - and by late September, he will have clocked 1,110 days.
US astronaut, Frank Rubio, breaks the record for the longest continuous space flight by an American, having spent 371 days in orbit
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September 28, 2023
After breaking the record for the longest continuous mission in space ever undertaken by an American, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has safely returned to Earth. Rubio and his two Russian crewmates Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin arrived in Kazakhstan after spending 371 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and orbiting the Earth 5,936 times. Rubio became the first American to spend a year in orbit, beating Mark Vande Hei's previous American record of two weeks.