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A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday...
Oleg Kononenko achieved the milestone on Tuesday, having made five journeys to the International Space Station dating back to 2008...
Kononenko first took the cumulative space time record in February 2024, when he surpassed the total of 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes, and 48 seconds set by fellow Russian Gennady Padalka in 2015...
Theres this awareness that you have achieved something new and important, that youve overcome a certain milestone, touched the unknown, Kononenko told Russian state news agency TASS..
