Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko breaks world record for length of stay in space

Photo: Sergei Savostianov/TASS

MOSCOW, February 4 /TASS/. Oleg Kononenko, commander of the Roskosmos cosmonaut squad and TASS news agency's special correspondent on the International Space Station (ISS), has broken the world record for the length of stay in space.

On 4 February at 11:30:08 Moscow time (8:30:08 GMT) Kononenko surpassed the achievement of Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who spent 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds in space during five missions (1998-2015).

This is Kononenko's fifth space flight.

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