He made four space walks with a total duration of 23 hours and 26 minutes. The cosmonaut made the first flight in 2008, followed by a second flight in 2011 and a third one that continued from ...

Could you imagine spending nearly two and a half years in space? Well, that's exactly what one Russian cosmonaut has achieved. Oleg Kononenko has just set a new world record for the total time in ...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a new world record for the most time spent in space. The 59-year-old clocked up a cumulative total of more than 878 days and 12 hours outside the Earth's ...

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to soar through space, flying solo on Vostok 6. As a Russian cosmonaut, this was her only in-space experience. She has gone on to pursue a career in politics.

bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency and ...

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. The Russian cosmonauts have traced a probable air leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with a tea bag, Cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin said during a ...

Sharing his perspective on beauty from space, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov was in Cape Town for the unveiling of a ...