List of Spacewalk Record

List of cumulative spacewalk records
Astronaut Agency Total EVA's Hours/Minute
1. Anatoly Solovyev RSA* 16 82:22
2. Michael Lopez-Alegria NASA 10 67:40
3. Jerry L. Ross NASA 9 58:32
4. Steven L. Smith NASA 7 49:48
5. Scott E. Parazynski NASA 7 47:05
6. Joseph R. Tanner NASA 7 46:29
7. Robert L. Curbeam NASA 7 45:34
8. Nikolai Budarin RSA 8 44:25
9. James H. Newman NASA 6 43:13
10. Yuri Onufrienko RSA 8 42:33
11. Talgat Musabayev RSA 7 41:13
12. Piers Sellers NASA 6 41:10
13. Sergei Krikalev RSA 8 41:08
14. Sergei Avdeyev RSA 8 41:00
15. Peggy Whitson NASA 6 39:46
16. Viktor M. Afanasyev RSA 7 38:04
17. John Grunsfeld NASA 5 37:32
18. Vladimir Dezhurov RSA 9 37:02
19. Leroy Chiao NASA 6 36:04
20. Musa Manarov RSA 7 34:03
21. Anatoli Artsebarsky RSA 6 31:58
22. Aleksandr Serebrov RSA 10 31:49
23. Vladimir A. Solovyov RSA 8 31:38
24. Leonid Kizim RSA 8 31:38
25. James F. Reilly NASA 5 30:43
26. Yury Usachev RSA 6 30:31
27. Thomas Akers NASA 4 29:40
28. Sunita Williams NASA 4 29:17
29. Story Musgrave NASA 4 26:19
30. David Wolf NASA 4 26:19
This list is current as of December 18, 2007.
RSA designation includes spacewalks
under the earlier Soviet space program.

Spaceflight

Details may change
as the launch dates approach
or more information becomes available.


Launches
Two spaceflight scheduled
to be launched in 2008:

The next scheduled launch is an
Ariane 5ECA
with the Badr-6 andProtoStar-1
satellites for Arabsat and ProtoStar.
Liftoff, from ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre
planned for 22:01 GMT on 3 July.

The next scheduled manned launch will be of the
Space Shuttle Atlantis
on mission STS-125
the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Launch from LC-39A at KSC is scheduled for 8 October.
A webcast can be viewed on NASA TV.

For a full launch schedule, see 2008 in spaceflight
source: wikipedia

Transportation Services

Computer rendering of

Rocketplane-Kistler K-1

approaching ISS (RpK)

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
On January 18, 2006 NASA announced an opportunity for commercial providers to demonstrate orbital transportation services. NASA plans to spend $500 million through 2010 to finance development of private sector capability to transport payloads to the International Space Station (ISS). This is more challenging than extant commercial space transportation because it requires precision orbit insertion, rendezvous and possibly docking with another spacecraft. The commercial vendors will compete in specific service areas. NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin has stated that without affordable commercial orbital transportation services (COTS), the agency will not have enough funds remaining to achieve the objectives of the Vision for Space Exploration.
On August 18, 2006, NASA announced that Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) are the two winners for Phase I of the COTS program. NASA anticipates that COTS services to ISS will be necessary through at least 2015. The NASA Administrator has suggested that space transportation services procurement may be expanded to orbital fuel depots and lunar surface deliveries should the first phase of COTS prove successful