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  2. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who has spent 1,111 days in space over five missions. He broke the record of Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC during his fifth spaceflight aboard Soyuz MS-24/25 for a one year long-duration mission on the ISS. [21] He later became the first person ...

  3. List of cumulative spacewalk records - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cumulative spacewalk records for the 30 astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time. [1] [2] The record is currently held by Anatoly Solovyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, with 82:22 hours from 16 EVAs, followed by NASA's Michael Lopez-Alegria with 67:40 hours in 10 EVAs. This list is current as of ...

  4. List of spacewalkers - Wikipedia

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    Order Image Country Name Spacewalks # walks 1: USSR : Alexei Leonov 1934–2019: 1965: Voskhod 2 1 2: U.S. Ed White 1930–1967: 1965: Gemini 4 1 3: U.S. Eugene Cernan 1934–2017: 1966: Gemini 9A

  5. List of astronauts by year of selection - Wikipedia

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    In October 2003, Yang Liwei became the first man to be sent into space by the space program of China, and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space. In 2014, Chen Quan, Li Qinglong, Pan Zhanchun, Wu Jie and Zhao Chuandong retired from the corps due to age without having flown a mission.

  6. List of billionaire spacetravellers - Wikipedia

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    First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May 2002: First insured space tourist; First South African, first person from Africa in space, orbital space; second space tourist to the International ...

  7. List of astronauts by name - Wikipedia

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    More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial ...

  8. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    First two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, that sets a record altitude of 244 miles (393 km) (WAC Corporal missile mounted onto a V-2 rocket). United States Bumper-5: 14 June 1949: First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus monkey). First primate in space. United States V-2: 22 July 1951: First dogs in space (Dezik and Tsygan).

  9. List of cosmologists - Wikipedia

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    Charles W. Misner (1932–2023) studied solutions to general relativity including the mixmaster universe and Misner space, wrote influential text on gravitation John Moffat (1932–) proposed much faster speeds of light in the young universe, developed antisymmetric theories of gravity