At 57 years, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, commander of the International Space Station (ISS), became the man most time spent in space with a total of 803 days.
“The record was official. Padalka is the man who more time was in space,” confirmed from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Padalka is holding its fifth space mission and beat the mark of his colleague and fellow Russian Sergei Krikalev. On his return to Earth, scheduled for September 11, Padalka will have spent over 877 days in space, that is, two years and four months.
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In 1998 Padalka made his first stay of 199 days on the Russian space station Mir. In 2004, 2009 and 2012 was in the International Space Station and the March 27 returned to the ISS in the company of Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and American Scott Kelly.
Krikalev, who held the record until now , had been dubbed the “last citizen of the USSR” because it returned to Earth in December 1991 after the fall of the former Soviet Union.
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