Record for longest space flight..more than a year (video)

Written By ندى ماهر عبدربه on 2024/09/25

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Arab Weather - The Russian Space Agency "Roscosmos" announced that Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, a special correspondent for the Russian news agency "TASS", achieved the record for the longest mission aboard the International Space Station on Friday, September 20, 2024.

Longest continuous stay on the International Space Station

"Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have set the record for the longest continuous stay on the ISS, surpassing the previous record set by their colleagues Dmitry Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, and American astronaut Frank Rubio, who spent 370 days, 21 hours, 22 minutes and 16 seconds on board the station in 2022 and 2023," Roscosmos said in a statement, according to TASS. The new record was set at 16:06:51 Moscow time (13:06:51 GMT).

Kononenko and Chub arrived at the International Space Station last September and returned to Earth on Monday, September 23, making their mission a total of 374 days.

It is worth noting that the longest orbital flight in the history of space exploration reached 437 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes and 17 seconds, and was achieved by Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov aboard the Mir station between January 1994 and March 1995.

Welcome home!

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko aboard, landed in Kazakhstan at 7:59am ET today. More… https://t.co/RYIAX6voqf pic.twitter.com/HCAewHyjik

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) September 23, 2024

Record for longest space flight..more than a year (video)

Longest continuous stay on the International Space Station

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