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7: Anatoly Solovyev, during Expedition 24 on the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.) 7: Andrew Morgan, during his first spaceflight on board the ISS for Expedition 60 / 61 / 62 in 2019–2020, he spent 45 hours and 48 minutes outside the station.
A new record for the number of people in space at the same time, though not necessarily all in orbit, was reached on 25 May 2023. 20 people were in space simultaneously, with eleven people aboard the ISS, three on Tiangong, and six on VSS Unity. [10]
Reached an altitude of 86 km (53 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space. 332. Jeff Bezos. Mark Bezos. Wally Funk. Oliver Daemen. 20 July 2021. NS 16. Reached an altitude of 107 km (66 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space.
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
Sunita Lyn Williams (née Pandya; born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut, retired U.S. Navy officer, and former record holder for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Human spaceflights. The Salyut series, Skylab, Mir, ISS, and Tiangong series space stations, with which many of these flights docked in orbit, are not listed separately here. See the detailed lists (links below) for information. Missions which were intended to reach space but which failed to do so are listed in bold.
At times the number of people present in space at the same time has climbed since 1995 above 13 [41] with a record 17 in orbit in 2023 an 19 in 2024 on two space stations. [42] [43] The ISS has hosted the most people in space at the same time, reaching 13 for the first time during the eleven day docking of STS-127 in 2009. [44]
He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. [1] His combined space experience was more than 22 months. [2] Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988.