- Total space flight time: 34 710 crew-days
- Total spacewalk time: 151 crew-days
Total persons that have flown in space:
- By US Air Force definition (over 50 miles altitude - includes X-15, SpaceShipOne
flights over that altitude): 496
- By Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definition (over 100 km
altitude - of X-15 pilots includes only Joseph Walker, who flew two X-15
flights over 100 km): 490
- Persons who have flown in orbit: 487
Note: Excluded are Space Shuttle Challenger crew members who
perished before reaching orbit on their first mission. On two Soyuz missions,
launch aborts also occurred. However in both cases the crew members survived
the abort and flew in space on later missions.
Records:
Progressive manned single spaceflight duration record:
- Gagarin Yuri - Vostok 1 - 12 Apr 1961 - 0d 01h 48m.
- Titov German - Vostok 2 - 06 Aug 1961 - 1d 01h 18m.
- Nikolayev Andriyan -
Vostok 3 - 11 Aug 1962 - 3d 22h 22m.
- Bykovsky Valeri -
Vostok 5 - 14 Jun 1963 - 4d 23h 07m.
- Cooper Gordon,
Conrad Charles - Gemini 5 - 21 Aug 1965 - 7d 22h 55m.
- Borman Frank,
Lovell James - Gemini 7 - 04 Dec 1965 - 13d 18h 35m.
- Nikolayev Andriyan,
Sevastiyanov Vitali -
Soyuz 9 - 01 Jun 1970 - 17d 16h 59m.
- Dobrovolsky Georgi, Patsayev Viktor, Volkov Vladislav - Soyuz 11 - 06 Jun 1971 - 23d 18h 22m.
- Conrad Charles, Weitz Paul, Kerwin Joseph - Skylab 2 - 25 May 1973 - 28d 0h 50m.
- Bean Alan, Garriot Owen, Lousma Jack - Skylab 3 - 28 Jul 1973 - 59d 11h 09m.
- Pogue William, Gibson Edward , Carr Gerald - Skylab 4 - 16 Nov 1973 - 84d 01h 15m.
- Grechko Georgi, Romanenko Yuri - Soyuz 26 - 10 Dec 1977 - 96d 10h 0m.
- Kovalyonok Vladimir,
Ivanchenkov Aleksandr -
Soyuz 29 - 15 Jun 1978 - 139d 14h 48m.
- Lyakhov Vladimir, Ryumin Valeri - Soyuz 32 - 25 Feb 1979 - 175d 00h 36m.
- Popov Leonid, Ryumin Valeri - Soyuz 35 - 09 Apr 1980 - 184d 20h 12m.
- Berezovoy Anatoli,
Lebedev Valentin - Soyuz T-5 - 13 May 1982 - 211d 09h 05m.
- Kizim Leonid, Atkov Oleg, Soloviyov Vladimir
- Soyuz T-10 - 08 Feb 1984 - 236d 22h 49m.
- Romanenko Yuri -
Soyuz TM-2 - 05 Feb 1987 - 326d 11h 38m.
- Manarov Musa, Titov Vladimir -
Soyuz TM-4 - 21 Dec 1987 - 365d 22h 39m.
- Polyakov Valeri -
Soyuz TM-18 - 08 Jan 1994 - 437d 17h 58m.
Top Ten Astronauts by total space flight time:
Astronauts with six or seven space missions:
Top Ten Single Flight Durations:
Top Ten Astronauts by Spacewalk Time:
Fastest Person Alive - Progressive Rocket Flight / Space Record:
- BI-1 Flight 7 -
Bakhchivandgi - 800 kph - pilot killed
- Me-163 - various pilots - during test and operational flights of the
Me-163 rocket fighter in World War II the aircraft approached the sound
barrier (Mach 1 - ca. 1,080 kph / 310 m/s, depending on altitude/temperature).
- 14 Oct 1947 - XS-1 Flight 50 - Yeager - Mach 1.0 - 1,100 kph - First supersonic flight
- 26 Mar 1948 - XS-1 Flight 76 - Yeager - Mach 1.45 - 1,550 kph - Fastest flight in XS-1
- 11 Jun 1951 - D-558-II - Bridgeman - 1,900 kph
- 12 Dec 1953 - X-1A Flight 10 - Yeager - Mach 2.44 -
2,600 kph - Fastest flight in X-1A - Yeager regained control after a 15 km dive
- 12 Dec 1953 - X-2 Flight 17 - Apt - Mach 3.2 - 3,400 kph - Pilot killed
- 07 Mar 1961 - X-15 Flight 34 - White Robert -
4,674 kph - 1,298 m/s - fastest suborbital flight prior to first manned orbit of the earth
- 12 Apr 1961 - Vostok 1 - Gagarin Yuri - 7,844 m/s - first man in orbit - 169 x 315 km orbit
- 03 Oct 1962 - Mercury 8 - Schirra Walter - 7,850 m/s - 153 x 285 km orbit
- 18 Mar 1965 - Voskhod 2 - Belyayev Pavel, Leonov Aleksei - 7,892 m/s - 167 x 475 km orbit
- 12 Sep 1966 - Gemini 11 - Conrad Charles, Gordon Richard - 8,003 m/s -
boosted by Agena to 304 x 1,372 km orbit
- 21 Dec 1968 - Apollo 8 - Anders William, Borman Frank, Lovell James - 10,807 m/s during trans-lunar injection
- 26 May 1969 - Apollo 10 - Cernan Eugene, Stafford Thomas, Young John - 11,107 m/s at 122 km altitude during re-entry
Highest Altitude Achieved - Progressive Rocket / Space Flight Record:
- 08 Aug 1949 - XS-1 Flight 123 - Everest - 21,930 m
- 11 Jun 1951 - D-558-II - Bridgeman - 24,326 m
- 21 Aug 1953 - D-558-II - Bridgeman - 25,377 m
- 26 Aug 1954 - X-1A Flight 17 - Murray- 27,584 m
- 07 Sep 1956 - X-2 Flight 16 - Kincheloe - 38,491 m
- 12 Aug 1960 - X-15 Flight 19 - White Robert - 41,605 m
- 30 Mar 1961 - X-15 Flight 34 - White Robert -
51,700 m - highest suborbital flight prior to first manned orbit of the earth
- 12 Apr 1961 - Vostok 1 - Gagarin Yuri - first man in orbit - 315 km apogee orbit
- 12 Oct 1964 - Voskhod 1 - Feoktistov, Komarov Vladimir, Yegorov Boris - 336 km apogee orbit
- 18 Mar 1965 - Voskhod 2 - Belyayev Pavel, Leonov Aleksei - 475 km apogee orbit
- 18 Jul 1966 - Gemini 10 - Collins Michael, Young John - 763 km apogee orbit
- 14 sep 1966 - Gemini 11 - Conrad Charles, Gordon Richard - 1,372 km apogee orbit
- 24 Dec 1968 - Apollo 8 - Anders William, Borman Frank, Lovell James - 378,504 km altitude in first circumlunar flight
- 14 Apr 1970 - Apollo 13 - Haise Fred, Lovell James, Swigert John - 401,056 km altitude in emergency return trajectory
Career Records:
- Longest wait for a spaceflight after becoming an astronaut: Kadenyuk Leonid - 21 years, 3 months;
Lind Don - 19 years, 1 month.
- Biggest gap between two spaceflights: Glenn John - 36 years 8 months
- Longest continuous flight career (duration between first and last space launches):
Ryumin Valeri 4 flights over 20 years 8 months;
Young John 6 flights over 18 years 8 months.
- Youngest person in space: Gherman Titov German, age 25,
Vostok 2, 1961.
- Oldest person in space: John Glenn John, age 77,
STS-95, 1998.
- Oldest person to pilot a spacecraft: Mike Melvill, age 63,
SpaceFlightOne Flight 13P, 2004-06-21.
Ref: #7, #8 - update: 03.01.11