Soyuz MS-25 lands with three crew members onboard after record-breaking stays on ISS

Kononenko complets1,111th days on ISS which is assembled over five missions

Tech Desk - Sep 23, 2024

An undated image of Soyuz MS-25. — NASA Blogs/ Canva

NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko just returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). Dyson has travelled almost 78 million miles and traversed our planet almost 2,944 times during her long stay of 184 days in space.

The Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko have successfully completed the longest single mission stay on the ISS at 374 days. They spent 374 days in low-Earth orbit on the ISS and landed on Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Monday (September 23) at 7:59am EDT in Kazakhstan, breaking NASA’s astronaut Frank Rubio’s 371-day record on staying on ISS.

However, the spacecraft was launched on March 23 and managed to reach the station on March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus.

Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya embarked on the ISS for 12 days before returning to Earth with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.

Kononenko achieved a significant milestone in becoming the first person to exceed 1,000 days on Earth, as he completed 1,111th days on ISS which is assembled over five missions, breaking a record of cosmonaut Gennady Padalka who survived 878 days on ISS back in September 2015.

NASA said that after post-landing medical checks the crew will be back to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will then board a NASA plane jump for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.