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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 ]
She is the second of two women sent into space by ESA and the first from Italy. Cristoforetti holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and she held the record for the longest single space flight by a woman until this was broken by Peggy Whitson in June 2017, [ 4 ...
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 time between the first American man and first American woman in space was 22 years between Freedom 7 and STS-7, respectively.
Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and one of the most experienced spacewalkers with nine spacewalks (second most for a woman) and a total time of 62 hours and 6 minutes (fourth overall, most by a woman).
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]
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As a result of her time aboard Mir, she held the record for the most hours in orbit by a non-Russian, and most hours in orbit by a woman until June 16, 2007, when her record for longest duration spaceflight by a woman was exceeded by Sunita Williams on the International Space Station. [79] [80]
Her 289-day flight was the longest single space flight by a woman [9] [10] until Christina Koch's 328-day flight. [11] Whitson holds the records for the oldest woman spacewalker and the most spacewalks by a woman. [12] [13] Whitson's cumulative EVA time is 60 hours, 21 minutes, which places her in fifth place for total EVA time. [1]