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The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS. [2]
The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS. [2]
Tiangong space station: CMSA; 3 29 April 2021 in orbit 1407 1277 24 8 8 22,600 kg (49,800 lb) 110 m 3 (3,880 cu ft) (planned) Soviet/Russian space stations.
The previous record of people in orbit was set in May 2023, when for a brief period of time there were 17 people aboard both the International Space Station and China’s Tiangong space station.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
[1] 644 people have reached the altitude of space according to the FAI definition of the boundary of space. [2] 681 people have reached the altitude of space according to the USAF definition, and 610 have reached Earth orbit. [3] 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit and either circled, orbited, or walked on the Moon.
As of 30 May 2023, 269 people from 21 countries had visited the space station, many of them multiple times. The United States sent 163 people, Russia sent 57, 11 were Japanese, nine were Canadian, five were Italian, four were French, four were German, two from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and one each from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark ...
For the first time in nearly 150 years, the space elevator is out of the realm of sci-fi and into the orbit of mission possible.