Russian Cosmonauts Set New Record for Longest Single Mission on ISS
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Event | Russian cosmonauts set a new record for the longest single mission aboard the ISS. |
| Cosmonauts | Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub |
| Arrival Date | September 15, 2023 |
| Spacecraft (Arrival) | Soyuz MS-24 |
| Scheduled Return Date | September 23, 2024 |
| Total Duration in Space | 374 days |
| Previous Record Holders | Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio (NASA) |
| Previous Record Duration | 370 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes, 16 seconds |
| Kononenko's Milestones | - Surpassed Gennady Padalka's total space time record on February 4, 2024 (878 days). |
| - First person to spend 1,000 days off Earth on June 5, 2024. | |
| - Will accumulate 1,110 days in space after this mission. | |
| About Oleg Kononenko | - Born June 21, 1964, in Turkmenabat. |
| - Holds an engineering degree from the Zhukovsky Kharkov Aviation Institute (1988). | |
| - Trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center; became a test cosmonaut in 1998. | |
| - First space mission in 2008. | |
| All-Time Single Mission Record | Valery Polyakov (437 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes, 17 seconds) on Mir space station (1994-1995). |