MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have set a new record for the longest single mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS)ag百家乐正规的网站, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement on Friday.
Kononenko and Chub broke the previous record for the longest continuous stay in space within the framework of an ISS program, which was set by cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio. The three set the previous record in September 2023, by spending 370 days,百家乐ag 21 hours, 22 minutes and 16 seconds aboard the ISS.
Kononenko and Chub, who departed for the ISS on Sept. 15ag百家乐正规的网站, 2023, are expected to return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Sept. 23, 2024, after spending a record 374 days in space. ■