Spaceflight Records

LONGEST HUMAN 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, (186,887,000 miles) returned March 22 , 1995 ( Soyuz TM-20 ).

LONGEST CANINE SINGLE FLIGHT

Veterok (Ветерок, "Little Wind") and '''Ugolyok''' (Уголёк, "Ember") were launched on February 22 , 1966 on board Voskhod 3 and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on March 16 . This spaceflight of record-breaking duration was not surpassed by humans until Skylab 2 in 1974 and still stands as the longest space flight by dogs.

FARTHEST HUMANS FROM EARTH

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 miles).

FASTEST

The Apollo 10 crew; Thomas Stafford , John W. 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

MOST SPACEWALKS

Anatoly Solovyev , 16 spacewalks, for 77 hours, 41 minutes EVA (which is also the duration record)

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TOTAL TIME IN SPACE - TOP 50 SPACE TRAVELERS

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TOTAL HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT TIME BY COUNTRY

:As of April 8 , 2006

UNMANNED SPACEFLIGHT S

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