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Timeline of longest spaceflights is a chronology of the longest spaceflights. Many of the first flights set records measured in hours and days, the space station missions of the 1970s and 1980s pushed this to weeks and months, and by the 1990s the record was pushed to over a year and has remained there into the 21st century.
Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov spent 365 days in space on Mir from December 1987 to December 1988. Valeri Polyakov spent 438 days on Mir in 1994-1995 and Sergey Avdeyev spent 380 days on Mir in 1998-1999. [18] [19] Prior to the year-long mission, the longest mission on the ISS was 215 days by Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-Alegría.
International Space Station, ISS year-long mission ... As Apollo commanders were the first to leave the LM and the last to get back in, Cernan's EVA time was slightly ...
Astronaut Frank Rubio has now been in low-Earth orbit for more than 355 days, breaking the record for the longest space mission by a US astronaut.
Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos holds the record for the longest time spent in space and at the ISS, accumulating nearly 1,111 days in space over the course of five long-duration missions on the ISS (Expedition 17, 30/31, 44/45, 57/58/59 and 69/70/71). He also served as commander three times (Expedition 31, 58/59 and 70/71).
The EDO pallet mounted in the back of Columbia ' s payload bay. The Extended Duration Orbiter Cryogenic kit (EDO-pallet or CRYO) was a 15-foot-diameter (4.6 m) equipment assembly which attached vertically to the payload bay rear bulkhead of an orbiter, and allowed the orbiter to support a flight of up to 16 days duration. [1]
Mir was the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit and held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days, until it was surpassed by the ISS on 23 October 2010. [13]
He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip. [1] His combined space experience was more than 22 months. [2] Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988.