Oleg Kononenko reaches a record-setting 1,000 days in space

As Moscow’s clocks tick past midnight to welcome Wednesday, June 5, the world heralds a new hero: a man who already is a national icon in Russia and his homeland Turkmenistan. Six decades after Yuri Gagarin first conquered space, Oleg Kononenko — a quiet, unassuming mechanical engineer, avid reader, and volleyball player — becomes theContinue reading “Oleg Kononenko reaches a record-setting 1,000 days in space”
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