03:13Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub discussed the challenges they encountered during their recent mission to the ISS, shared insights on their motivations , as well as some of the more humorous moments in space, at a press conference on Friday.
"No matter how pompous it may sound, it is worth a lot to feel at the cutting edge of science and technology development and to help humankind make the first steps in space, that's why I am excited and motivated by such a goal," Kononenko said.
He also admitted that the conditions on the ISS were a little cramped.
"Sometimes, you know, there are some pretty uncomfortable and wrong situations on the ISS. I'd say emotionally, 'Well, it's like a garage.' And Kolya [Nikolai Chub] would say, 'Oleg Dmitrievich, don't be offended, they make better garages nowadays," he joked.
Asked about a potential film being made of their mission, he added that it would certainly be more compelling than any he had seen.
Chub also spoke of their spacewalks, saying the two had done a 'record number of dives in the hydrolab' in preparation.
"It was not known until the end what kind of exits we would have to do and how many. So we were prepared for all possible and impossible situations. And probably Oleg Dmitrievich and I discussed and thought that no other crew had ever done more dives in the hydrolab in preparation for a flight than we did," he said.
Kononenko and Chub arrived at the station on September 15 2023, with the mission lasting 374 days. They set a new record for the length of stay on the ISS in one expedition, conducting two spacewalks and many scientific experiments.
"All our experiments have the ultimate goal - it is to learn to live and work in space, not to stay there permanently, so, and the development of our life-support systems, and the management of the station - everything is aimed at making it possible to do, manage, work as much as possible without the participation of the Earth," Kononenko added.
The 72nd long-term expedition continues on the ISS with Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Aleksandr Grebenkin, as well as NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Matthew Dominik, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
'It's worth a lot to feel you're helping humankind make first steps in space' - Record-breaking cosmonauts give first press conference
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub discussed the challenges they encountered during their recent mission to the ISS, shared insights on their motivations , as well as some of the more humorous moments in space, at a press conference on Friday.
"No matter how pompous it may sound, it is worth a lot to feel at the cutting edge of science and technology development and to help humankind make the first steps in space, that's why I am excited and motivated by such a goal," Kononenko said.
He also admitted that the conditions on the ISS were a little cramped.
"Sometimes, you know, there are some pretty uncomfortable and wrong situations on the ISS. I'd say emotionally, 'Well, it's like a garage.' And Kolya [Nikolai Chub] would say, 'Oleg Dmitrievich, don't be offended, they make better garages nowadays," he joked.
Asked about a potential film being made of their mission, he added that it would certainly be more compelling than any he had seen.
Chub also spoke of their spacewalks, saying the two had done a 'record number of dives in the hydrolab' in preparation.
"It was not known until the end what kind of exits we would have to do and how many. So we were prepared for all possible and impossible situations. And probably Oleg Dmitrievich and I discussed and thought that no other crew had ever done more dives in the hydrolab in preparation for a flight than we did," he said.
Kononenko and Chub arrived at the station on September 15 2023, with the mission lasting 374 days. They set a new record for the length of stay on the ISS in one expedition, conducting two spacewalks and many scientific experiments.
"All our experiments have the ultimate goal - it is to learn to live and work in space, not to stay there permanently, so, and the development of our life-support systems, and the management of the station - everything is aimed at making it possible to do, manage, work as much as possible without the participation of the Earth," Kononenko added.
The 72nd long-term expedition continues on the ISS with Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Aleksandr Grebenkin, as well as NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Matthew Dominik, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub discussed the challenges they encountered during their recent mission to the ISS, shared insights on their motivations , as well as some of the more humorous moments in space, at a press conference on Friday.
"No matter how pompous it may sound, it is worth a lot to feel at the cutting edge of science and technology development and to help humankind make the first steps in space, that's why I am excited and motivated by such a goal," Kononenko said.
He also admitted that the conditions on the ISS were a little cramped.
"Sometimes, you know, there are some pretty uncomfortable and wrong situations on the ISS. I'd say emotionally, 'Well, it's like a garage.' And Kolya [Nikolai Chub] would say, 'Oleg Dmitrievich, don't be offended, they make better garages nowadays," he joked.
Asked about a potential film being made of their mission, he added that it would certainly be more compelling than any he had seen.
Chub also spoke of their spacewalks, saying the two had done a 'record number of dives in the hydrolab' in preparation.
"It was not known until the end what kind of exits we would have to do and how many. So we were prepared for all possible and impossible situations. And probably Oleg Dmitrievich and I discussed and thought that no other crew had ever done more dives in the hydrolab in preparation for a flight than we did," he said.
Kononenko and Chub arrived at the station on September 15 2023, with the mission lasting 374 days. They set a new record for the length of stay on the ISS in one expedition, conducting two spacewalks and many scientific experiments.
"All our experiments have the ultimate goal - it is to learn to live and work in space, not to stay there permanently, so, and the development of our life-support systems, and the management of the station - everything is aimed at making it possible to do, manage, work as much as possible without the participation of the Earth," Kononenko added.
The 72nd long-term expedition continues on the ISS with Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Aleksandr Grebenkin, as well as NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Matthew Dominik, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams.