Wednesday, July 2, 2008
List of Spaceflight Records
Longest human single flight
Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir LD-4 for 437.7 days[1], during which he orbited the earth about 7,075 times and traveled 300,765,000 km, (186,887,000 miles) returned March 22, 1995 (Soyuz TM-20). This record has stood for 13 years, 100 days.
Sunita Williams holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 195 days set on the International Space Station Expedition 15 in 2007. She landed with STS-117, June 22 2007.
Longest continuous occupation of space
The Soviet Union and Russia, its successor, kept a continuous manned presence in space from the launch of Soyuz TM-8 on 5 September 1989 to the landing of Soyuz TM-29 on 28 August 1999, a span of about 3,644 days, or about eight days short of 10 years. The Soviet Union and Russia launched 22 manned Soyuz spacecraft during the time span, all of which docked with the orbiting Mir space station. The United States additionally docked the space shuttles Atlantis, Endeavour and Discovery with Mir nine times between 1995 and 1998, dropping off and/or picking up passengers eight times. This record has stood for 8 years, 307 days.
The United States and Russia
have jointly maintained a continuous manned presence in space since 31 October 2000 when Soyuz TM-31 was launched on a mission to dock with the International Space Station. The International Space Station has been in continuous use for 7 years, 243 days. Should the ISS occupation continue as planned, it will break the Mir record on 23 October 2010.
Longest solo flight
Valery Bykovsky flew for 4 days and 23 hours solo in Vostok 5, 14-19 June 1963. The flight set a space endurance record which was broken in 1965 by the Gemini 5 crew, but the solo endurance record has stood for 45 years, 11 days.
Longest canine single flight
Veterok (Ветерок, "Little Wind") and Ugolyok (Уголёк, "Ember") were launched on February 22, 1966 on board Cosmos 110 and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on March 16. This record has stood for 42 years, 06 days.
Longest time on lunar surface
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission stayed for 74 hours 59 minutes 40 seconds on the lunar surface after they landed on 11 December 1972. This record has stood for 35 years, 202 days.
Farthest humans from Earth
Apollo 13 crew; Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, John Swigert while passing over the far side of the moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface, were 400,171 km (248,655 miles) from earth. This record breaking distance was reached at 0:21 UTC on April 15, 1970. This record has stood for 38 years, 76 days.
Highest altitude for manned non-lunar mission
Gemini 11 fired its Agena Target Vehicle rocket engine on September 14, 1966, at 40 hours 30 minutes after liftoff and achieved an apogee of 1374.1 km (854 miles). This record has stood for
Fastest
The Apollo 10 crew; Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan achieved the highest speed relative to earth ever attained by humans; 39,896 km/h (11.1 km/s, 24,790 mph, approx 0.000037 times the speed of light). The record was set May 26, 1969 and has stood for 39 years, 35 days.
Oldest
John Glenn at age 77, October 29, 1998. This record has stood for 9 years, 245 days.
Youngest
Gherman Titov, aged 25 years, 329 days, on Vostok 2 on August 6, 1961. This record has stood for46.years, 329 days.
Most flights
7 Flights
Franklin Chang-Diaz- Costa Rica/USA*
Jerry L. Ross- USA
* Costa Rican-born and honorary citizen of Costa Rica
6 Flights
Curtis Brown - USA
Michael Foale - Britain/USA*
Sergei Krikalev - Russia
Story Musgrave - USA
Gennady Strekalov - Russia
James Wetherbee - USA
John W. Young - USA
* Dual citizen.
Most time in space
Sergei Krikalev has spent 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes, or 2.2 years in space over the span of six spaceflights on Soyuz, the Space Shuttle, Mir, and International Space Station.
Peggy Whitson has spent 376 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes in space over the span of two spaceflights to the International Space Station.
Most spacewalks
Anatoly Solovyev, 16 spacewalks for total of 77 hours, 41 minutes (which is also the duration record).
Peggy Whitson, 6 spacewalks for a total time of 39 hours and 46 minutes (the women's spacewalk and duration records).
Most spacewalks during a single mission
Michael Lopez-Alegria, five spacewalks during Expedition 14 on the ISS
source: wikipedia
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