CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned to Earth on Saturday with his luggage in the record for the number of days spent by a man in space, or 879
. Aged 57, Gennady Padalka completed his fifth space flight, he had started in March, when his Soyuz capsule landed at 8:51 p.m. local time Friday (0:51 GMT Saturday) southeast of Djezkazgan in the Kazakh Steppe after leaving the International Space Station (ISS) at 17h39 (9:39 p.m. GMT).
He was accompanied by two cosmonauts beginners, Kazakh Aidyn Aimbetov and the Dane Andreas Mogensen, who have spent for their share only ten days in orbit.
Gennady Padalka conducted its first mission aboard the Mir space station before completing four missions as the ISS commander. It beats the previous record set by compatriot Sergei Krikalev, which amounted to 803 days
. (Irene Klotz, Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French service)
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