Important note:
878 days in total, across all his expeditions. Not continuous.
The longest continuous stay of 473 days was by Valeri Polyakov on board the Mir station in 1994-95.
That first leg day is gonna be a real burner.
Here is an interesting and relevant context: there is a huge amount of evidence that Roscosmos is taking an active part in the war effort. There is a great source about it from Eric Berger of Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/it-appears-that-roscos...
Take that into account when reading news made from state press-releases like the one in the post.
P.S.: For the full context, the Roscosmos ex-boss also has had his own private military company for a while.
I wish they would go into more detail regarding the health effects. Eyesight, bone density, cancher risks, etc. I think it helps to be older though, slow cell divide and regeneration, slow down even "aggressive cancers"
Astronauts age slower and grow taller in space.
They forgot him. It's like The Terminal, but in space.
Can someone clever please do the math and figure out how far ahead in the future he is?
With rent prices they way it is i can't blame him for not coming down
Hope the muscular atrophy isn't too bad when he returns.
I wouldn't return either.
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A very small nitpick: "cosmonaut" implies a Russian astronaut [1].
Calling someone a "Russian cosmonaut" goes against the DRY principles ;)
There seems to be some confusion in the comments. The cosmonaut didn't spend 878 days in space continuously but rather over 5 separate missions starting from 2008.
And he will reach 1110 days once he returns from the current mission in September.