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Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-30-2015 06:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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804 days and counting: Cosmonaut beats record for career spent in space

A Russian cosmonaut currently onboard the International Space Station has beat the record for the most time spent off the planet – and he still has months to go before he comes home to Earth.

Gennady Padalka, who's serving a record fourth command of the orbiting outpost, logged his 804th day in Earth orbit Monday (June 29), spread over five flights. He surpassed the previous record of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes on six missions set in October 2005 by fellow cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.

"I hope this flight will take the figure to 878 days," Padalka said before his most recent launch in March. "But I am not going to stop at that — I hope to reach 1,000 days in orbit on my following flight."

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posted 06-30-2015 08:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MSS     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is current total duration of Gennady Padalka and the rest astronauts.

MrSpace86
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posted 06-30-2015 10:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MrSpace86   Click Here to Email MrSpace86     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Would he be allowed to make it to 1,000 days? I take it he hasn't been zapped by enough radiation.

I wonder how much younger that makes him relative to normal Gennady Padalka that would have not flown?

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posted 06-30-2015 03:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robonaut   Click Here to Email Robonaut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Russians do not have the same rules as NASA for radiation exposure. As far as I know, they do not have any limits.

Robert Pearlman
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I asked Padalka about this before he flew; the Russians do have limits. In fact, he said the limits are the same as NASA's. (I believe the difference are not the limits but the way those limits are applied; NASA being more conservative).

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From Russian space enthusiast Katya Pavlushchenko (via X):
Today [Feb. 4] at 08:30:08 UTC [3:30:08 a.m. EST] Oleg Kononenko broke the world record for the most time spent in space which previously was held by Gennady Padalka, who scored a total of 878 days, 11 hours over five space flights. Oleg is expected to gain a total of 1000 days in space on June 5, 2024.

Robert Pearlman
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From CBS News reporter Bill Harwood (via X):
In a milestone for human spaceflight, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, working through a yearlong stay aboard the International Space Station, logged his 1,000th day in space today (June 4) over five flights; that's 122 days beyond the previous 878-day 11-hour record set by cosmonaut Gennady Padalka in 2015; Peggy Whitson, the most experienced US astronaut, has logged 675 days in space across four flights.

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Soyuz MS-25 lands from ISS with NASA astronaut and record-setting cosmonauts

...for [Oleg] Kononenko, though, the landing marked the end of his 1,111th day (1110 days, 14 hours and 56 minutes) in space, accumulated over five missions. Kononenko is the first person in history to exceed 1,000 days off Earth.

"Oleg, we'll miss your hundreds of stories around the dinner table, but I guess that is what you get for having over a thousand days in space," said NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who took over command of the station from Kononenko during a handover ceremony on Sunday.

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