The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 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 (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 50.73, Oleg Kononenko is the most famous Turkmen Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 32 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, as a flight engineer on Expedition 57 and commander of Expedition 58 and Expedition 59 aboard Soyuz MS-11, and as a flight engineer on Expedition 69 and Expedition 70 and commander of Expedition 71 aboard Soyuz MS-24/Soyuz MS-25. Kononenko has accumulated 1,111 days in space over the course of five long-duration missions on the ISS. On 4 February 2024, at 07:30:08 UTC, he broke the record for the most time spent in space previously held by Gennady Padalka at 878 days.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Turkmen astronauts born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Turkmen astronauts include Oleg Kononenko.
