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A new record was set for the largest number of humans in orbit (14) on 16 September 2021, [9] and a new record for the largest number of humans in space (19) at one time (10 in the ISS, 3 on board the Tiangong Space Station, 6 on board New Shepard-19) was set on 11 December 2021. [10]
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 ]
SpaceX has broken its own record for the number of orbital rocket launches in a single year. The launch from Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida of a Falcon 9 rocket this week passed the ...
5 October 2021 Soyuz MS-19: ISS 17 October 2021 Soyuz MS-18: ISS crew rotation. Anton Shkaplerov (4) ISS (crew 65/66) 30 March 2022 Soyuz MS-19: 335 Audrey Powers Chris Boshuizen Glen de Vries William Shatner: 13 October 2021 NS 18. Reached an altitude of 107 km (66 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space. 336 Zhai Zhigang (2) Wang Yaping (2 ...
NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams, one of the two astronauts on an unintentionally extended stay aboard the International Space Station, now holds the record for total spacewalk time by a ...
The US record for the most accrued days in space is held by Peggy Whitson with a total of 675 days in orbit. Whitson, who retired from the NASA astronaut corps in 2018, has added to the record as ...
On 7 June 2021, Jeff Bezos announced that he planned to be on the first crewed flight of his company Blue Origin, which meant being aboard the first crewed flight to space (suborbital) of a private enterprise fully funded by private money with (2 possible different "record firsts" depending on whether one uses the international standard limit of space as 100 km altitude or the USA 50 mile ...
The record attempt was a fundraising event for Make-A-Wish Foundation. [22] In April 2009, on his second attempt, he set a world record for circumnavigating the globe in a light jet, making the flight in 61:51:15, about 20 hours faster than the previous record of 82 hours.