Nasa astronaut Tracy Dyson holds a Russian conventional Matryoshka picket doll depicting her after touchdown at Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Monday.—AFP
ALMATY: Two Russian cosmonauts landed again on Earth on Monday after a record-breaking keep aboard the World Area Station (ISS).
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub spent 374 days in low-Earth orbit on the ISS, the longest time any one has ever stayed at the station in a continual stint. Throughout his keep, Kononenko, 60, additionally set a brand new listing for the longest cumulative time anyone has spent in house — passing the three-year mark with a complete of one,111 days throughout 5 journeys.
American astronaut Tracy Dyson, who took off for the station in March, additionally returned to Earth. The Soyuz MS-25 pill sporting the 3 landed within the huge steppe of Kazakhstan at 16:59 native time, an legitimate broadcast of the touchdown confirmed.
Absolutely the listing for the longest unbroken time any human has spent in house belongs to Russia’s Valeri Polyakov, who spent 438 days at the Mir house station in 1994-95. Russia has vowed to surrender the ISS, which it says has outlived its objective, and is making plans to release its personal unbiased house station, although the ones plans had been beset by means of delays.
Russia’s Roscosmos state house company is looking for new partnerships with international locations in Asia, Africa and the Center East.
In an extraordinary type of cooperation between Washington and Moscow amid tensions over Ukraine, US and Russian astronauts collectively keep aboard the ISS and Russian Soyuz craft ferry them to and from the station. The ISS spans the dimensions of a soccer box and orbits some 250 miles above the Earth.
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