According to Roscosmos, on September 23, 2024, Oleg Kononenko, the commander of the cosmonaut detachment, became the first person to spend 1,111 days (a little more than three years) in space around the Earth in terms of the total duration of space flights.

In February 2024, Kononenko broke the world record for the total time in orbit and exceeded the achievements of the Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who spent a total of 878 days and 11 hours in space during five missions (from 1998 to 2015).

In June, Kononenko became the first person to spend more than 1,000 days in outer space.

Oleg Kononenko made his first space flight in April 2008, going to the ISS on the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft. After returning from his first expedition to the station, the cosmonaut was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation and pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation.

Oleg Kononenko went on the fifth space flight on September 15, 2023. In June of this year, Kononenko celebrated his 60th birthday at the ISS.

Undocking of the Soyuz MS-25 (with crew Oleg Kononenko, Mykola Chub and Tracy Dyson) from the Berthing module of the Russian segment of the ISS is planned at 11:37 Kyiv time on September 23. At the time of landing, they will spend 374 days in space, which will also be the longest flight under the ISS program. Only Valery Polyakov and Sergey Avdeev are ahead, who spent 438 days in orbit in 1994–1995 and 380 days in 1998–1999, respectively, flying on the Mir station.

The crew of the 72nd long-duration expedition – Roskosmos cosmonauts Oleksiy Ovchynin, Ivan Wagner and Alexander Grebenkin, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Matthew Dominique, Michael Barratt, Janet Epps, Barry Wilmore and Suni – continue their flight to the ISS.

The inclusion of the Soyuz MS-25 engine on braking for deorbiting is expected at 14:06 Moscow time, its separation into compartments – at 14:34 Moscow time, the entry of the descending device into the dense layers of the atmosphere – at 14:37 Moscow time and the introduction main parachute – at 14:45 Moscow time. The landing of the descending apparatus is planned at 15:00 Moscow time, 147 km southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.