Russian cosmonaut back to earth after beating record in space – The Universal

The Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned to Earth on Saturday after breaking the endurance record in space with 879 days in five trips to the International Space Station.

Padalka, near the Kazakh cosmonaut Aidin Aimbetov and Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, they reached their final destination aboard the space capsule Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft that landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 0:51 GMT on Saturday, reported the Flight Control Center space.

“It landed 146 kilometers southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan of Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan”, said a source Control Center Space Flight Russian agency Sputnik, before Ria Novosti.

Padalka beat last June a world endurance record in space, after accumulating 879 days in a total of five missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

The previous record also belonged to the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, with 803 days in space.

At the International Space Station remains the Russians Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov, Oleg Kononenko Mikhail Kornienko, Americans Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren and Japanese Kimiya Yui.

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