Cosmonauts Kononenko and Chub came to Star City for the first time after the flight

Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub came to Star City in Moscow Region for the first time after their space flight. This was reported in Roscosmos on September 24.

The cosmonauts were met with a caravan and gifts, welcoming them home. As noted in the publication, Kononenko spent the greatest number of days in space than any other inhabitant of the Earth - 1111.

Since September 2023, under the Russian program, participants of the 70th and 71st long-term expeditions to the ISS Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub conducted scientific and applied experiments, took the expedition and four cargo ships "Progress MS" and performed two spacewalks. Their ship also performed undocking with the Russian-made module "seal".

Earlier, on September 23, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who returned on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS), stayed in space for 1,111 days, an absolute world record. Kononenko was not the first time in the mission, unlike Nikolai Chub, for whom this flight was the debut. The cosmonaut had been preparing for it for 11 years.

The descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, who spent one year on the ISS, as well as American astronaut Tracy Dyson landed in Kazakhstan on September 23.

Before that, on February 4, the Russian cosmonaut surpassed the achievement of his compatriot Gennady Padalka, who accumulated a total of 878 days 11 hours 29 minutes and 48 seconds in his five space flights.