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Oleg Kononenko (Russian Cosmonaut) : 1st Person To Spend 1,000 Days In Space

Kumari Sonali

Oleg Kononenko (Russian Cosmonaut) : 1st Person To Spend 1,000 Days In Space

Oleg Kononenko, a 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut, recently achieved a historic landmark by becoming the first person to spend 1,000 days in space.

  • This milestone was reached during Kononenko’s fifth mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which commenced on September 15, 2023.
  • Kononenko has been traveling in space since his first trip in 2008, and he has always made improvements to space research.
  • His total amount of space-time was longer than Gennady Padalka’s record of 878 days, which had been held since 2015, until February 2024.
  • Kononenko will have been in space for a total of 1,110 days if his mission ends on September 23, 2024, as planned.

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