MOSCA. After undocking from the International Space Station and a three and a half hour journey, The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan con On board the Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenkowhich conquer new records for time in orbittheNASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson.
At the time of the Soyuz undocking, Command of the ISS has officially passed from Kononenko to NASA astronaut Suni Williamswhich arrived in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner shuttle and remained in orbit longer than expected due to technical problems encountered after the launch of the test flight.
Kononenko, like his Russian colleague Chub, arrived on the ISS last September with the Soyuz MS-24. The two Russians are returning to Earth after 374 days in space and 5,984 orbits, a result that Roscosmos is celebrating as the new duration record for a single mission on the ISS (the old record, of almost 371 days, belonged to cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and to Frank Rubio of NASA, who lived on the ISS from September 2022 to September 2023).
Kononenko also completed his fifth flight in space and set the all-time record for the longest time spent in orbit, 1,111 days.
The American Dyson, instead, spent 184 days on the ISS, completing 2,944 orbits around the Earth: the astronaut had arrived in orbit at the end of March with the Soyuz MS-25, together with the Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and the first Belarusian woman in space Marina Vasilevskaya. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya had remained on board the Station for 12 days before returning home with the NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
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