The ISS travels at a speed of 28,000kmph and completes an orbit around the Earth every 90 minutes. The Axiom-4 spacecraft ...

In the second spot is Russia's Gennady Padalka with 878 days spent away from Earth. Next in line is fellow cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who logged 827 days in space.

In August 2003, Ekaterina Dmitriev and her cosmonaut partner Yuri Malenchenko crafted history as they became the first couple to have, what was called the 'first-ever space wedding'.

Yuri Malenchenko returned to Earth two months later and Ekaterina was at the airport to greet him. She had moved to live in Russia, but had not renounced her U.S. citizenship.

Yuri Malenchenko, then a member of the International Space Station crew, at a news conference near Moscow in August 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev Dmitriev said the couple had a "celestial, soulful ...

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko was the first person to marry in International Space Station. On August 10, 2003 Yuri was in the International Space Station above the earth. The bride Ekaterina ...

MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. Russia’s Yuri Malenchenko, who is number two after Gennady Padalka in terms of the most total time spent in space, has left the team of cosmonauts, as follows from ...

The International Space Station (ISS) crew members Timothy Peake of Britain, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Timothy Kopra of the U.S., surrounded by ground personnel, rest shortly after landing ...

The International Space Station crew, from left, Britain's Tim Peake, Russia's Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra of US, surrounded by ground personnel, rest shortly after landing near the town of ...

The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 47 crew members Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos. Picture: Getty.

The space capsule carrying the trio – Peake, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra – earlier undocked successfully from the ISS.

The Soyuz TMA-19M capsule carrying NASA’s Tim Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and the Russian agency Roscosmos’ Yuri Malenchenko touched down as scheduled at 3:15 p.m. local time ...