Russian astronaut breaks world record with 878 cumulative days in space

A Russian astronaut has broken the world record for cumulative time spent in space.

According to foreign media on the 4th (local time), Oleg Kononenko, a member of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) currently on a mission at the International Space Station (ISS), surpassed the previous longest record of 878 days 11 hours 29 minutes 48 seconds at 11:30:08 a.m. (Moscow time) that day.

He set the new record after his mission was extended by six months due to a coolant leak incident on the Soyuz spacecraft returning from the ISS to Earth.

The previous record was achieved by Russian astronaut Gennady Padalka through a total of five space missions from 1998 to 2015.

The longest single continuous time spent in space was set by NASA astronaut Frank Rubio on September 27 last year, at 371 days.

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