The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 40th most number of Astronauts behind Mexico and Brazil.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Oleg Kononenko (1964 - )
With an HPI of 42.53, Oleg Kononenko is the most famous Turkmen Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко; Turkmen: Oleg Dmitriýewiç Kononenko; born 21 June 1964) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has flown to the International Space Station five times as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 aboard Soyuz TMA-12, as a flight engineer on Expedition 30 and commander of Expedition 31 aboard Soyuz TMA-03M, as a flight engineer on Expedition 44 and Expedition 45 aboard Soyuz TMA-17M, and as commander of Expedition 58 and Expedition 59 aboard Soyuz MS-11 and Expedition 70 and Expedition 71 aboard Soyuz MS-24/MS-25. Kononenko accumulated over 956.524 days in orbit during his five (including current one-year flight) long duration flights to ISS, which is the longest time in space of any cosmonaut or astronaut. Gennady Padalka previously held the world record for the most time spent in space at 878 days with Kononenko breaking the record on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Oleg Kononenko.
