Cosmonaut Breaks World Record for Most Time Spent in Space
The International Space Station may be aging towards retirement, but that doesn’t mean the space-farers living aboard aren’t still setting cosmic records. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has now set a new one, now being having the most time off world of any human in existence.
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00:00 The International Space Station may be aging towards retirement, but that doesn't mean
00:08 the spacefarers living aboard aren't still setting cosmic records.
00:12 Now Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has just set a new one, now having the most time off-world
00:18 of any human in existence.
00:20 The record was set on February 4th, with Kononenko now passing 878 days in space between myriad
00:26 missions since 2008.
00:28 This is the cosmonaut's fifth mission aboard the ISS in particular, arriving for the mission
00:33 way back in September.
00:34 However, he's still got a ways to go, as he's not set to touch Terra again until September
00:38 of this year, meaning he's now broken the world record at the moment, but he's going
00:42 to absolutely shatter it by the time he comes back.
00:45 He's not only expected to have logged 1,110 days in space at that time, but he will be
00:50 the first human to have ever passed the thousand-day mark.
00:54 Kononenko recently told reporters that he's proud of his achievements, but added, quote,
00:57 "I fly into space to do my favorite thing, not to set records."
01:01 The previous record holder was another Russian cosmonaut, Gennady Padalka, who set their
01:06 record back in 2015.
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