spaceflight records

Most records are about human spaceflights. At the end there is a section about unmanned spaceflights.

Longest single flight

Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir LD-4 for 437.7 days, during which he orbited the earth about 7,075 times and traveled 300,765,000 km, returned March 22, 1995 (Soyuz TM-20).

Farthest humans from Earth

Apollo 13 crew; James Lovell, Fred Haise, John Swigert while passing over the far side of the moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface, they were 400,171 km (248,655 miles) from earth. This record breaking distance was reached at 0:21 UTC on April 15, 1970.

Highest altitude for non-lunar mission

Gemini 11 fired its Agena Target Vehicle rocket engine on September 14, 1966, at 40 hours 30 minutes after liftoff and achieved an apogee of 1374.1 km (854 statute miles / 741 nautical miles).

Fastest

The Apollo 10 crew; Thomas Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan achieved the highest speed ever attained by humans; 39,896 km/h (11.1 km/s, 24,790 mph).

Most flights

7 Flights

Franklin Chang-Diaz - USA
Jerry L. Ross - USA

6 Flights

Firsts

align="left", width="175"\|First	align="left", width="425"\|Person(s)	align="left", width="150"\|Vehicle	align="left", width="125"\|Country	align="left", width="25"\|Year
Spaceflight and Orbital flight	\|Yuri Gagarin	\|Vostok 1	\| USSR	\|1961
Sub-orbital flight	\|Alan Shepard	\|Freedom 7	\| USA	\|1961
Person in space for one day	\|Gherman Titov	\|Vostok 2	\| USSR	\|1961
Dual spaceflight Two people in space	\|Andrian Nikolayev Pavel Popovich	\|Vostok 3 Vostok 4	\| USSR	\|1962
Longest solo spaceflight 5-days	\|Valery Bykovsky	\|Vostok 5	\| USSR	\|1963
Woman in space	\|Valentina Tereshkova	\|Vostok 6	\| USSR	\|1963
Sub-orbital flight by winged spacecraft	\|Joe Walker	\|X-15	\| USA	\|1963
Person to enter space twice (above 100 km)	\|Joe Walker	\|X-15 Flights 90 and 91	\| USA	\|1963
First three person spacecraft	\|Vladimir Komarov Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov	\|Voskhod 1	\| USSR	\|1964
First two person spacecraft	\|Pavel Belyayev Aleksei Leonov	\|Voskhod 2	\| USSR	\|1965
First spacewalk	\|Aleksei Leonov	\|Voskhod 2	\| USSR	\|1965
Orbital maneuvers (change orbit)	\|Gus Grissom, John Young	\|Gemini 3	\| USA	\|1965
Person to fly two orbital spaceflights	\|Gordon Cooper	\|Faith 7 Gemini 5	\| USA	\|1965
People to spend one week in space	\|Gordon Cooper Pete Conrad	\|Gemini 5	\| USA	\|1965
Space rendezvous Four people in space	\|Frank Borman, Jim Lovell Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford	\|Gemini 7 Gemini 6A	\| USA	\|1965
People to spend two weeks in space	\|Frank Borman Jim Lovell	\|Gemini 7	\| USA	\|1965
Space docking	\|Neil Armstrong David Scott	\|Gemini 8	\| USA	\|1966
Rendezvous with two vehicles - Agena 10 & Agena 8	\|John Young Michael Collins	\|Gemini 10	\| USA	\|1966
Dual spacewalk	\|Aleksei Yeliseyev Yevgeny Khrunov	\|Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5	\| USSR	\|1969
Moon orbit	\|Frank Borman James Lovell Bill Anders	\|Apollo 8	\| USA	\|1968
Moon landing	\|Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin	\|Apollo 11	\| USA	\|1969
Triple spaceflight Seven people in space	\|Shonin, Kubasov Filipchenko, Volkov, Gorbatko Shatalov, Yeliseyev	\|Soyuz 6 Soyuz 7 Soyuz 8	\| USSR	\|1969
Longest duration by single spacecraft 17.66-days	\|Andrian Nikolayev Vitali Sevastyanov	\|Soyuz 9	\| USSR	\|1970
First space station	\|Georgi Dobrovolski Viktor Patsayev Vladislav Volkov	\|Soyuz 11	\| USSR	\|1971
People in orbit four weeks (1 month)	\|Pete Conrad Joseph Kerwin Paul Weitz	\|Skylab 2	\| USA	\|1973
People in orbit eight weeks (2 months)	\|Alan Bean Jack Lousma Owen Garriott	\|Skylab 3	\| USA	\|1973
People in orbit twelve weeks (3 months)	\|Gerald Carr William Pogue Edward Gibson	\|Skylab 4	\| USA	\|1974
People in orbit twenty weeks (5 months)	\|Vladimir Kovalyonok , Aleksandr Ivanchenkov	\|Salyut 6 EO-2, Soyuz 29-Soyuz 31	\| USSR	\|1978
People in orbit twenty-six weeks (6 months)	\|Leonid Popov, Valery Ryumin	\|Salyut 6 EO-4, Soyuz 35-Soyuz 37	\| USSR	\|1980
Person to fly four different types of spacecraft	\|John Watts Young	\|STS-1/Columbia	\| USA	\|1981
Four person spaceflight single spacecraft	\|Vance Brand,Robert F. Overmyer Joseph P. Allen, William B. Lenoir	\|STS-5/Columbia	\| USA	\|1982
Person to complete six trips to space	\|John Watts Young	\|STS-9/Columbia	\| USA	\|1983
Five person spaceflight single spacecraft First U.S. woman in space	\|Robert L. Crippen, Frederick H. Hauck John M. Fabian, Sally K. Ride, Norman E. Thagard	\|STS-7/Challenger	\| USA	\|1983
Six person spaceflight single spacecraft	\|John Young, Brewster H. Shaw Owen K. Garriott, Robert A. Parker, Ulf Merbold-DE, Byron K. Lichtenberg	\|STS-9/Columbia	\| USA Germany	\|1983
People in orbit thirty-three weeks (8 months)	\|Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Soloviyov, Oleg Atkov	\|Salyut 7 EO-3, Soyuz T-10-Soyuz T-11	\| USSR	\|1984
Seven person spaceflight single spacecraft	\|Robert L. Crippen, Jon A. McBride Kathryn D. Sullivan, Sally K. Ride, David C. Leestma, Marc Garneau-CA, Paul D. Scully-Power	\|STS-41-G/Challenger	\| USA Canada	\|1984
Eight person spaceflight single spacecraft	\|Henry W. Hartsfield, Steven R. Nagel Bonnie J. Dunbar, James F. Buchli, Guion S. Bluford, Reinhard Furrer-DE, Ernst Messerschmid-DE, Wubbo Ockels-NL	\|STS-61-A/Challenger	\| USA Germany Netherlands	\|1985
People in orbit fifty-two weeks (12 months)	\|Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, Oleg Atkov	\|Mir EO-3, Soyuz TM-4-Soyuz TM-6	\| USSR	\|1988
Three person spacewalk	\|Pierre J. Thuot, Richard J. Hieb Thomas D. Akers	\|STS-49/Endeavour	\| USA	\|1991
Nine people in space; no docking	\|Shuttle:James D. Wetherbee, Eileen M. Collins, Michael Foale, Janice E. Voss, Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Vladimir G. Titov Mir: Valeri Polyakov, Alexander Viktorenko, Elena Kondakova	\|STS-63/Discovery, Mir	\| USA Russia	\|1995
Ten people in space; docking	\|Robert L. Gibson, Charles J. Precourt, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolai Budarin, Norman E. Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov	\|STS-71/Atlantis, Mir	\| USA Russia	\|1995
Thirteen people in space; no docking	\|Shuttle:Kenneth D. Bowersox, Scott J. Horowitz, Mark C. Lee, Steven A. Hawley, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Steven L. Smith, Joseph R. Tanner Mir: Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Lazutkin, Valery Korzun, Alexandr Kaleri, Reinhold Ewald-DE, Jerry M. Linenger-US	\|STS-82/Discovery, Mir, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-25	\| USA Russia Germany	\|1997
Privately funded human space flight	\|Mike Melvill	\|SpaceShipOne	\| USA	\|June 21, 2004

Total time in space - top 50 space travelers

Rank	Person	Days	Country
\|\|Sergei Avdeyev\|\|747.593\|\| Russia
\|\|Valeri Polyakov\|\|678.690\|\| Russia
\|\|Anatoly Solovyev\|\|651.117\|\| Russia
\|\|Sergei K. Krikalev**\|\|624.387\|\| Russia
\|\|Alexander Kaleri\|\|609.911\|\| Russia
\|\|Viktor Afanasyev\|\|555.772\|\| Russia
\|\|Yury V. Usachev\|\|553.016\|\| Russia
\|\|Musa Manarov\|\|541.021\|\| Russia
\|\|Alexander Viktorenko\|\|489.066\|\| Russia
0	Nikolai M. Budarin	444.060	Russia
1	Yuri Romanenko	430.765	Russia
2	Alexander A. Volkov	391.495	Russia
3	Yuri I. Onufrienko	389.282	Russia
4	Vladimir G. Titov	387.036	Russia
5	Gennady Padalka	386.592	Russia
6	Vasili Tsibliyev	381.662	Russia
7	Valery G. Korzun	381.653	Russia
8	Leonid Kizim	374.749	Russia
9	Michael Foale	373.763	USA
0	Aleksandr Serebrov	372.954	Russia
1	Vladimir Soloviyov	361.952	Russia
2	Talgat Musabayev	339.409	Russia
3	Yuri P. Gidzenko	329.950	Russia
4	Yuri Malenchenko	322.703	Russia
5	Gennadi Manakov	309.889	Russia
6	Aleksandr P. Aleksandrov	309.758	Russia
7	Valery Ryumin	297.924	Russia
8	Gennady Strekalov	268.938	Russia
9	Vladimir Lyakhov	259.563	Russia
0	Viktor Savinykh	252.849	Russia
1	Vladimir Dezhurov	244.229	Russia
2	Oleg Atkov	252.849	Russia
3	Carl E. Walz	230.212	USA
4	Daniel W. Bursch	226.594	USA
5	Shannon W. Lucid	223.161	USA
6	Valentin Lebedev	219.250	Russia
7	Vladimir Kovalyonok	216.382	Russia
8	Kenneth D. Bowersox	211.594	USA
9	Anatoli Berezovoy	211.378	Russia
0	Susan J. Helms	211.048	USA
1	Jean-Pierre Haignere	209.517	France
2	Edward T. Lu	205.972	USA
3	James S. Voss	202.314	USA
4	Leonid Popov	200.574	Russia
5	Pavel Vinogradov	197.732	Russia
6	Edward Fincke	187.884	USA
7	Sergei Y. Treschev	184.927	Russia
8	Peggy A. Whitson	184.927	USA
9	Aleksandr Lazutkin	184.922	Russia
0	Thomas Reiter	179.071	Germany

As of October 24, 2004

(**) Sergei Krikalev is scheduled to spend six months on the International Space Station during Expedition 11. Scheduled for April - Oct 2005. During that mission he will break the record for most accumulated time in space with about 815-days in orbit.

Total time in space by country

Rank	Nation	Total person days
\|\| USSR/ Russia\|\|16,858.71
\|\| USA\|\|9,380.42
\|\| France\|\|384.67
\|\| Germany\|\|310.24
\|\| \|\|121.57
\|\| Japan\|\|88.25
\|\| Italy\|\|61.23
\|\| Switzerland\|\|42.50
\|\| Belgium\|\|19.79
0	Spain	18.88
1	17.90
2	Israel	15.93
3	Ukraine	15.69
4	Bulgaria	11.91
5	South Africa	9.89
6	Syria	8.91
7	Afghanistan	8.85
8	Czechoslovakia	7.93
9	Austria	7.928
0	Kazakhstan	7.925
1	Poland	7.919
2	Slovakia	7.914
3	India	7.903
4	United Kingdom	7.885
5	Hungary	7.865
6	Cuba	7.863
7	Mongolia	7.863
8	Vietnam	7.862
9	Romania	7.862
0	Saudi Arabia	7.069
1	Mexico	6.878
2	China	0.891

As of October 24, 2004

Unmanned spaceflights

align="left", width="100"\|Body	align="left", width="125"\|Spacecraft	align="left", width="400"\|Event	align="left", width="85"\|Country	align="left", width="125"\|Date
Earth	\|Sputnik 1	\|First satellite in orbit	\| USSR	\|January 3, 1958
Earth	\|Vanguard 1	\|Oldest satellite still in orbit— expected to stay in orbit 240 years. Ceased transmissions in May, 1964	\| USA	\|March 17, 1958
Earth	\|Discoverer 13	\|First satellite recovered from Orbit	\| USA	\|August 11, 1960
Moon	\|Luna 1	\|First flyby, dist. of 5,995 km	\| USSR	\|January 4, 1959
Moon	\|Luna 2	\|First impact	\| USSR	\|September 14, 1959
Moon	\|Luna 9	\|First soft landing	\| USSR	\|January 31, 1966
Moon	\|Luna 10	\|First orbiter	\| USSR	\|April 3, 1966
Moon	\|Luna 16	\|First automated sample return	\| USSR	\|September 24, 1970
Moon	\|Luna 17	\|First automated roving vehicle - Lunokhod 1	\| USSR	\|November 17, 1970
Sun	\|Helios 2	\|Highest velocity - 247,510 km/h at .29 AU perihelion	\| Germany	\|April 17, 1976
Mercury	\|Mariner 10	\|First flyby, dist. of 703 km	\| USA	\|March 29, 1974
Mercury	\|MESSENGER	\|First orbiter (scheduled)	\| USA	\|March 18, 2011
Venus	\|Mariner 2	\|First flyby, dist. of 34,762 km	\| USA	\|December 14, 1962
Venus	\|Venera 3	\|First impact	\| USSR	\|March 1, 1966
Venus	\|Venera 7	\|First soft landing	\| USSR	\|August 1, 1970
Venus	\|Venera 9	\|First orbiter	\| USSR	\|October 22, 1975
Venus	\|Vega 1	\|First helium balloon atmospheric probe	\| USSR	\|June 11, 1985
Mars	\|Mariner 4	\|First flyby, dist. of 9,846 km	\| USA	\|July 14, 1965
Mars	\|Mars 2	\|First impact	\| USSR	\|November 27, 1971
Mars	\|Mars 3	\|First soft landing, telemetry signal for 20 s before transmissions ceased	\| USSR	\|December 2, 1971
Mars	\|Mariner 9	\|First orbiter	\| USA	\|November 14, 1971
Mars	\|Mars Pathfinder	\|First automated roving vehicle - Sojourner	\| USA	\|July 4, 1997
Jupiter	\|Pioneer 10	\|First flyby, dist. of 130,000 km	\| USA	\|December 3, 1973
Jupiter	\|Galileo probe	\|First impact	\| USA	\|December 7, 1995
Jupiter	\|Galileo spacecraft	\|First orbiter	\| USA	\|December 7, 1995
Saturn	\|Pioneer 11	\|First flyby, dist. of 21,000 km	\| USA	\|September 1, 1979
Saturn	\|Cassini orbiter	\|First orbiter	\| USA	\|July 1, 2004
Titan	\|Huygens probe	\|First soft landing	\| ESA USA	\|January 14, 2005
Uranus	\|Voyager 2	\|First flyby, dist. of 81,500 km	\| USA	\|January 24, 1986
Neptune	\|Voyager 2	\|First flyby, dist. of 40,000 km	\| USA	\|August 25, 1989
Comet Halley	\|Vega 1	\|First comet flyby, dist. of 8,890 km	\| USSR	\|March 6, 1986
Comet Tempel 1	\|Deep Impact	\|First comet impact (scheduled)	\| USA	\|July 4, 2005
Comet Wild 2	\|Stardust	\|First automated sample return of comet dust particles (scheduled)	\| USA	\|June 15, 2006
951 Gaspra	\|Galileo spacecraft	\|First asteroid flyby, dist. of 1,600 km	\| USA	\|October 29, 1991
433 Eros	\|NEAR Shoemaker	\|First asteroid orbiter	\| USA	\|February 14, 2000
433 Eros	\|NEAR Shoemaker	\|First asteroid soft landing	\| USA	\|February 12, 2001
25143 Itokawa	\|Hayabusa	\|First asteroid automated sample return (scheduled)	\| Japan	\|June, 2007
\|\|Voyager 1 \|\|At greatest distance from Earth, 14 billion km \|\| USA \|\|As of 2004
\|\|Pioneer 6 \|\|Longest operating space probe, brief contact was reestablished on December 8,2000, after nearly 35 years in space. \|\| USA \|\|As of 2004
\|\|Pioneer 10 \|\|First extra-solar spacecraft \|\| USA \|\|June 13, 1986
Hubble	\|Hubble Robotic Vehicle, based upon SPDM	\|First automated repair of spacecraft (scheduled)	\| USA Canada	\|2007?

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