Two Russian cosmonauts and an American NASA astronaut landed in Kazakhstan on Monday after a record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).according to the Russian agency Roscosmos.
The capsule of the ship Soyuz MS-25 with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, his companion Nikolai Chub and American astronaut Tracy Dyson, landed at 4:59 p.m. local time (11:59 GMT) on the steppes of the immense Central Asian country.
Cosmonauts Kononenko and Chub spent 347 days in space, the longest mission aboard the ISS, and Dyson was due to take off in late March 2024.
The absolute record for the longest stay in space is still held by Russian Valery Poliakov, who spent 438 days aboard the former Mir space station between 1994 and 1995.
After this, his fifth trip to space, Oleg Kononenko, 60, has already spent 1,111 days in orbit, which is also a record.
At the end of March, as part of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Western countries ended their collaboration with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, but Soyuz spacecraft remain one of the few means of transporting crew members to the ISS.
Russia’s space sector has been plagued by years of underfunding, corruption scandals and several failures, including the loss of the Luna-25 lunar probe in August 2023.
These problems, however, have not undermined Russia’s ambitions, which wants to build its own orbital station to replace an ageing ISS and resume missions to the Moon.
Source: Ambito
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