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This is a list of all astronauts who have engaged in an EVA by partly or fully leaving a spacecraft, exclusive of extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. It is ordered chronologically by the date of first spacewalk.
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.
Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; [1] June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be honest, a lot of luck. RELATED: Here's whats happening in space this year:
Then they climbed to the top of the telescope where they replaced the covers of the satellite's magnetometers. Before they finished their spacewalk, Harbaugh and Tanner installed thermal blankets over areas of degraded insulation. [120] 153. STS-82 – EVA 5 Mark C. Lee Steven Smith: 18 February 1997 03:15 18 February 1997 08:32 5 h 17 min
Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's ...
Astronaut Fei Junlong performing a spacewalk on the Tiangong Space Station China became the third country to independently carry out an EVA on September 27, 2008, during the Shenzhou 7 mission. Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang completed a 22-minute spacewalk wearing the Chinese-developed Feitian space suit , with taikonaut Liu Boming wearing the ...
Astronauts aboard the ISS, on the other hand, are much farther from Earth's center of gravity than the rest of us — about 260 miles farther. So, in that case, astronauts actually age slower .