Space Records

This is a list of space records . The majority of these records relate to the human flights but some are generic.

Longest human space flight

Valeri Polyakov, left the January 8th 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), remained on Mir LD-4 during 437.7 days, during which it carried out 7.075 revolutions around the Earth and traversed 300,765,000 km, (186,887,000 miles, that is to say more than 2 UA). Landing the March 22nd, 1995 (Soyuz TM-20).

Progression of the record

Vostok 1 - Iouri Gagarine - 1:00, 48m - April 12th, 1961
Vostok 2 - Guerman Titov - 1 day, 1:00, 18m - August 7th, 1961
Vostok 3 - Andrian Nikolaïev - 3 days, 22:00, 22m - August 15th, 1962
Vostok 5 - Valeri Bykoski - 4 days, 23:00, 7m, 2s - June 19th, 1963
Gemini 5 - Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad - 7 days, 22:00, 55m, 14s - August 29th, 1965
Gemini 7 - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell - 13 days, 18:00, 35m, 1s - December 18th, 1965
Soyuz 9 - Andrian Nikolaïev, Vitali Sevastianov - 17 days, 16:00, 59m - June 19th, 1970
Soyuz 11 - Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Victor Patsaïev - 23 days, 18:00, 21m, 43s - June 29th, 1971
Skylab 2 - Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul J. Weitz - 28 days, 49m, 49s - June 22nd, 1973
Skylab 3 - Al Bean, Owen Garriot, Jack Lousma - 59 days, 11:00, 9m, 4s - September 25th, 1973
Skylab 4 - Gerry Carr, Edward Gibson, Bill Pogue - 84 days, 1:00, 15m, 31s - February 8th, 1974
Soyuz 26 - Georgi Gretchko, Iouri Romanenko - 96 days, 10:00, 7s - March 16th, 1978
Soyuz 29 - Vladimir Kovalionok, Alexandre Ivanchenkov - 139 days, 14:00, 47m, 32s - November 2nd, 1978
Soyuz 32 - Valeri Rioumine, Vladimir Liakhov - 175 days, 35m, 37s - August 19th, 1979
Soyuz 35 - Valeri Rioumine, Leonid Popov - 184 days, 20:00, 11m, 34s - October 11th, 1980
Soyuz T-5 - Valentine Lebedev, Anatoli Berezovoï - 211 days, 9:00, 4m, 32s - December 10th, 1982
Soyuz T-10 - Leonid Kizim, Oleg Atkov, Vladimir Soloviev - 236 days, 22:00, 49m, 4s - October 2nd, 1984
Soyuz TM-2 - Iouri Romanenko - 326 days, 11:00, 37m, 59s - December 29th, 1987
Soyuz TM-4 - Vladimir Titov, Foamed Manarov - 365 days, 22:00, 39m, 47s - December 21st, 1988

Longest canine space flight

Veterok (Ветерок, " Small brise") and Ugolyok (Уголёк, " Braise") took off the February 22nd, 1966 on board Cosmos 110 and remained 22 days orbits about it before landing the March 16th. This space flight was not equalized by the human being before Skylab 2 in 1974 and remains the longest canine space flight.

The human space flight furthest away from the Earth

the crew of Apollo 13; James Lovell, Fred Hates, John Swigert while passing to 254 km (158 miles) of altitude of with dimensions opposed lunar surface, were with more than 400.171 km (248,655 miles) of the Earth. This record was reached has 0:21 (universal Time) the April 15th 1970.

More high-altitude for a not-lunar mission

Gemini 11 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon) launched its vehicle of targeting Agena the September 14th, 1966, 40 hours 30 minutes after its takeoff by reaching a Apogée of 1374,1 km (854 miles).

Progression of the record

Vostok 1 - Youri Gagarine - 315 km - April 12th, 1961
Voskhod 1 - Boris Yegorov, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov - 336 km - October 12th, 1964
Voskhod 2 - Pavel Belyayev, Alexei Leonov - 475 km - March 18th, 1965
Gemini 10 - John Young, Michael Hakes - 763 km - July 18th, 1966

More high speed

the crew of Apollo 10; Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Gene Cernan reached more the high speed ever produced by an human being; 39.896 km/h (11,1 km/s, 24.790 mph).

Progression of the record

Vostok 1 - Iouri Gagarine - 7.844 m/s (28 238,4 km/h) - April 12th, 1961
Mercury 8 - Wally Schirra - 7.850 m/s (28 260 km/h) - October 3rd, 1962
Voskhod 2 - Pavel Beliaev, Alexeï Leonov - 7.892 m/s (28 411,2 km/h) - March 18th, 1965
Gemini 11 - Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon - 8.003 m/s (28 810,8 km/h) - September 12th, 1966
Apollo 8 - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders - 10.807 m/s (38 905,2 km/h) - December 21st, 1968

The most flights

7 flights

Franklin Chang-Diaz - the USA
Jerry L. Ross - the USA
John W. Young - the USA (in 6 missions)

6 flights

Curtis Brown - the USA
Michael Foale - Royaume-Uni/USA*
Sergei Krikalev - Russia
Story Musgrave - the USA
Gennady Strekalov - Russia
James Wetherbee - the USA

(*) Dual nationality.

The greatest number of space exits

Anatoly Solovyev, 16 space exits, for one 77 hours, 41 minutes total duration (what also constitutes the record of duration cumulated for left extravéhiculaires)

Progression of the record of cumulated duration of space exits

Alexeï Leonov (Russia) - 24m - 1 exit - March 18th, 1965
ED White, James McDivitt (the USA) - 36m - 1 exit - June 3rd, 1965
Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford (the USA) - 2:00, 7m - 1 exit - June 5th, 1966
Dick Gordon, Pete Conrad (the USA) - 2:00, 43m - 3 exits - September 14th, 1966
Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell (the USA) - 5:00, 33m - 3 exits - November 14th, 1966
Buzz Aldrin (the USA) - 8:00, 31m - 5 exits - July 20th, 1969
Pete Conrad (the USA) - 10:00, 29m - 6 exits - November 20th, 1969
David Scott (the USA) - 20:00, 34m - 7 exits - August 5th, 1971
John Young (the USA) - 23:00, 9m - 8 exits - April 25th, 1972
Gene Cernan (the USA) - 25h, 20m - 7 exits - December 17th, 1972
Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Soloviev (Russia) - 31h, 38m - 8 exits - May 31st, 1986
Foamed Manarov (Russia) - 33h, 23m - 7 exits - April 25th, 1991
Sergueï Krikalev (Russia) - 36h - 7 exits - February 20th, 1992

First

50 spationauts having cumulated the most time in orbit

Total with the August 9th 2006

) Michael Foale with the American and British dual nationality.

) Currently in orbit.

Progression of the record of time cumulated in space

Iouri Gagarine (Russia) - 1:00, 48m - 1 flight - April 12th, 1961
Guerman Titov (Russia) - 1 day, 1:00, 18m - 1 flight - August 7th, 1961
Andrian Nikolaïev (Russia) - 3 days, 22:00, 22m - 1 flight - August 15th, 1962
Valeri Bykoski (Russia) - 4 days, 23:00, 7m, 2s - 1 flight - June 19th, 1963
Gordon Cooper (the USA) - 9 days, 9:00, 15m, 3s - 2 flights - August 29th, 1965
Frank Borman, Jim Lovell (the USA) - 13 days, 18:00, 35m, 1s - 1 flight - December 18th, 1965
Jim Lovell (the USA) - 17 days, 17:00, 9m, 32s - 2 flights - November 15th, 1966
Jim Lovell (the USA) - 23 days, 20:00, 10m, 14s - 3 flights - December 27th, 1968
Jim Lovell (the USA) - 29 days, 19:00, 4m, 55s - 4 flights - April 17th, 1970
Pete Conrad (the USA) - 49 days, 3:00, 38m, 36s - 4 flights - June 22nd, 1973
Al Bean (the USA) - 69 days, 15:00, 45m, 29s - 2 flights - September 25th, 1973
Gerry Carr, Edward Gibson, Bill Pogue (the USA) - 84 days, 1:00, 15m, 31s - February 8th, 1974
Georgi Gretchko (Russia) - 125 days, 23:00, 19m, 52s - 2 flights - March 16th, 1978
Vladimir Kovalionok (Russia) - 141 days, 15:00, 32m, 17s - 2 flights - November 2nd, 1978
Valeri Rioumine (Russia) - 177 days, 1:00, 20m, 22s - 2 flights - August 19th, 1979
Valeri Rioumine (Russia) - 361 days, 21:00, 31m, 56s - 3 flights - October 11th, 1980
Leonid Kizim (Russia) - 374 days, 17:00, 57m, 42s - 3 flights - July 16th, 1986
Iouri Romanenko (Russia) - 430 days, 18:00, 21m, 30s - 3 flights - December 29th, 1987
Foamed Manarov (Russia) - 541 days, 30m, 28s - 2 flights - May 26th, 1991
Valeri Poliakov (Russia) - 678 days, 16:00, 33m, 18s - 2 flights - March 22nd, 1995
Sergueï Avdeïev (Russia) - 747 days, 14:00, 22m, 6s - 3 flights - August 28th, 1999

Time of flight cumulated by nation

total with the April 8th 2006

(*) Michael Foale is counted under two nationalities.

Remarkable not inhabited space flights

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