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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 ]
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.
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]
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has become the titleholder for longest single space mission ever performed by a woman.
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 ...
As for the longest single spacewalk, that record belongs to NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms, who on March 12, 2011 lasted eight hours and 56 minutes outside the station. Boeing ...
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]
Soviet Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, launched in 1963 aboard the Soviet Vostok 6. The first woman to fly in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a textile factory worker who was an avid amateur parachutist, as parachuting was necessary for the Earth landing which was made outside the reentry capsule. [18]