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Astronaut Statistics
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Astronaut Statistics - as of July 2015

Total space flight time: 48,025 crew-days (131 crew-years)

Total spacewalk time: 175 crew-days

Total persons that have flown in or:

Persons who have flown in orbit: 543
Additionally, by US Air Force definition (over 50 statute miles altitude - includes X-15, SpaceShipOne flights over that altitude): 11
Additional persons who have flown in space by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definition (over 100 km altitude - of X-15 pilots includes only Joseph Walker, who flew two X-15 flights over 100 km, plus SpaceShipOne pilots Melvill and Binnie): 3

Excluded are Space Shuttle Challenger crew members who perished before reaching orbit on their first mission. On two Soyuz missions, launch aborts also occurred. However in both cases the crew members survived the abort and flew in space on later missions.

Astronaut with the most space flight time: Padalka - 878 days - 5 flights
Single longest spaceflight: Polyakov aboard Mir LD-4 launched 8 Jan 1994 - 437.7 days
Most missions: Seven - Chang-Diaz - 7 flights - 62.8 days and Ross - 7 flights - 58.0 days
Speed record: 1969-05-26 - 11,107 m/s at 122 km altitude during re-entry - Apollo 10 - Cernan, Stafford, Young
Altitude record: 401,056 km altitude in emergency return trajectory on 1970-04-14 - Apollo 13 - Haise, Lovell, Swigert

Single Flights Over One Year Duration:

1994-01-08 - Soyuz TM-18 Mir LD-4 - 437.75 days - Polyakov set a manned spaceflight record by spending over a year aboard Mir, during which he was part of three Mir crews (EO-15, EO-16, and EO-17).
1998-08-13 - Soyuz TM-28 Mir EO-26/-27 - 379.62 days - As only one final Soyuz mission to Mir was planned, with two of the seats on that Soyuz pre-sold to Slovak and French experimenters, Avdeyev had to stay aboard for two extended crew missions.
1987-12-21 - Soyuz TM-4 - 365.95 days - Titov and Manarov on third long-duration EO-3 mission.

Fastest Person Alive - Progressive Rocket Flight / Space Record:

BI-1 Flight 7 - Bakhchivandgi - 800 kph - pilot killed
Me-163 - various pilots - during test and operational flights of the Me-163 rocket fighter in World War II the aircraft approached the sound barrier (Mach 1 - ca. 1,080 kph / 310 m/s, depending on altitude/temperature).
1947-10-14 - XS-1 Flight 50 - Yeager - Mach 1.0 - 1,100 kph - First supersonic flight
1948-03-26 - XS-1 Flight 76 - Yeager - Mach 1.45 - 1,550 kph - Fastest flight in XS-1
1951-06-11 - D-558-II - Bridgeman - 1,900 kph
1953-12-12 - X-1A Flight 10 - Yeager - Mach 2.44 - 2,600 kph - Fastest flight in X-1A - Yeager regained control after a 15 km dive
1953-12-12 - X-2 Flight 17 - Apt - Mach 3.2 - 3,400 kph - Pilot killed
1961-03-07 - X-15 Flight 34 - White Robert - 4,674 kph - 1,298 m/s - fastest suborbital flight prior to first manned orbit of the earth
1961-04-12 - Vostok 1 - Gagarin - 7,844 m/s - first man in orbit - 169 x 315 km orbit
1962-10-03 - Mercury MA-8 - Schirra - 7,850 m/s - 153 x 285 km orbit
1965-03-18 - Voskhod 2 - Belyayev, Leonov - 7,892 m/s - 167 x 475 km orbit
1966-09-12 - Gemini 11 - Conrad, Gordon - 8,003 m/s - boosted by Agena to 304 x 1,372 km orbit
1968-12-21 - Apollo 8 - Anders, Borman, Lovell - 10,807 m/s during trans-lunar injection
1969-05-26 - Apollo 10 - Cernan, Stafford, Young - 11,107 m/s at 122 km altitude during re-entry

Highest Altitude Achieved - Progressive Rocket / Space Flight Record:

1949-08-08 - XS-1 Flight 123 - Everest - 21,930 m
1951-06-11 - D-558-II - Bridgeman - 24,326 m
1953-08-21- D-558-II - Bridgeman - 25,377 m
1954-08-26 - X-1A Flight 17 - Murray- 27,584 m
1956-09-07 - X-2 Flight 16 - Kincheloe - 38,491 m
1960-08-12 - X-15 Flight 19 - White Robert - 41,605 m
1961-03-30 - X-15 Flight 34 - White Robert - 51,700 m - highest suborbital flight prior to first manned orbit of the earth
1961-04-12 - Vostok 1 - Gagarin - first man in orbit - 315 km apogee orbit
1964-10-12 - Voskhod 1 - Feoktistov, Komarov, Yegorov - 336 km apogee orbit
1965-03-18 - Voskhod 2 - Belyayev, Leonov - 475 km apogee orbit
1966-07-18 - Gemini 10 - Collins, Young - 763 km apogee orbit
1966-09-14 - Gemini 11 - Conrad, Gordon - 1,372 km apogee orbit
1968-12-24 - Apollo 8 - Anders, Borman, Lovell - 378,504 km altitude in first circumlunar flight
1970-04-14 - Apollo 13 - Haise, Lovell, Swigert - 401,056 km altitude in emergency return trajectory

Career Records:

Longest wait for a spaceflight after becoming an astronaut: Kadenyuk - 21 years, 3 months; Lind - 19 years, 1 month.
Biggest gap between two spaceflights: Glenn - 36 years 8 months
Longest continuous flight career (duration between first and last space launches): Ryumin 4 flights over 20 years 8 months; Engle 5 flights over 20 years 2 months
Youngest person in space: Gherman Titov, age 25, Vostok 2, 1961.
Oldest person in space: John Glenn, age 77, STS-95, 1998.
Oldest person to pilot a spacecraft: Mike Melvill, age 63, SpaceFlightOne Flight 13P, 2004-06-21.

Progressive manned single spaceflight duration record:

Gagarin - Vostok 1 - 12 Apr 1961 - 0.1 days
Titov - Vostok 2 - 6 Aug 1961 - 1.0 days
Nikolayev - Vostok 3 - 11 Aug 1962 - 3.9 days
Bykovsky - Vostok 5 - 14 Jun 1963 - 5.0 days
Cooper, Conrad - Gemini 5 - 21 Aug 1965 - 8.0 days
Borman, Lovell - Gemini 7 - 4 Dec 1965 - 13.8 days
Nikolayev, Sevastyanov - Soyuz 9 - 1 Jun 1970 - 17.7 days
Dobrovolsky, Patsayev, Volkov - Soyuz 11 - 6 Jun 1971 - 23.8 days
Conrad, Weitz, Kerwin - Skylab 2 - 25 May 1973 - 28.0 days
Bean, Garriot, Lousma - Skylab 3 - 28 Jul 1973 - 59.5 days
Pogue, Gibson Edward , Carr - Skylab 4 - 16 Nov 1973 - 84.1 days
Grechko, Romanenko - Salyut 6 EO-1 - 10 Dec 1977 - 96.4 days
Kovolyonok, Ivanchenkov - Salyut 6 EO-2 - 15 Jun 1978 - 139.6 days
Lyakhov, Ryumin - Salyut 6 EO-3 - 25 Feb 1979 - 175.0 days
Popov, Ryumin - Salyut 6 EO-4 - 9 Apr 1980 - 184.8 days
Berezovoi, Lebedev - Salyut 7 EO-1 - 13 May 1982 - 211.4 days
Kizim, Atkov, Solovyov Vladimir - Salyut 7 EO-3 - 8 Feb 1984 - 237.0 days
Romanenko - Mir LD-1 - 5 Feb 1987 - 326.5 days
Manarov, Titov Vladimir - Mir EO-3 - 21 Dec 1987 - 365.9 days
Polyakov - Mir LD-4 - 8 Jan 1994 - 437.7 days

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