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A one-month delay after the failure of two Russian rockets extended her stay in space past the European astronaut and female astronaut endurance records. [ 33 ] As an amateur radio woman , [ 34 ] she participated in the ARISS initiative, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station , [ 35 ] establishing numerous contacts with schools, both ...
The time between the first male and first female astronauts varied widely by country. The first astronauts originally from Britain, South Korea, and Iran were women, while there was a two-year gap in Russia from the first man in space on Vostok 1 to the first woman in space on Vostok 6 .
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 ]
NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams, one of the two astronauts on an unintentionally extended stay aboard the International Space Station, now holds the record for total spacewalk time by a ...
On October 18, 2019, she and Jessica Meir were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk to replace a down power control unit located outside of the International Space Station. [5] [6] On December 28, 2019, Koch broke the record for longest continuous time in space by a woman. [7] She returned from space on February 6, 2020. [8]
The duration of her stay in space during expeditions 50/51/52 was 289 days, 5 hours and 1 minute. [49] In June 2020, Whitson was a guest (along with two imposters) on an ABC-TV To Tell the Truth episode in which Patti LaBelle correctly selected her as the record-holding time in space astronaut.
Jessica Andrea Watkins (born May 14, 1988) is an American NASA astronaut, geologist, aquanaut and former international rugby player. Watkins was announced as the first Black woman who completed an International Space Station long-term mission in April 2022.
Wang was the second female taikonaut selected to the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps, the second Chinese woman in space, and the first Chinese woman to perform a spacewalk. [5] In April 2022, she set a new record for longest stay in space by a female Chinese astronaut with a cumulative 197 days in space.