Total space flight time to 21 March: 23,023.33 crew-days
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Astronaut with the most space flight time: Avdeyev - 747.6 days - 3 flights
Total spacewalk time: 78.61 crew-days
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Most experienced space walker: Solovyov - 77 hours 41 minutes in 16 EVAs.
Total persons that have flown in space:
- By US Air Force definition (includes X-15 flights over 50 miles altitude): 406
- By Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definition (includes Joseph Walker, who flew two X-15 flights over 100 km altitude): 400
- Persons who have flown in orbit: 399
Note: 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.
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 - Soyuz 26 - 10 Dec 1977 - 96.4 days
- Kovolyonok, Ivanchenkov - Soyuz 29 - 15 Jun 1978 - 139.6 days
- Lyakhov, Ryumin - Soyuz 32 - 25 Feb 1979 - 175.0 days
- Popov, Ryumin - Soyuz 35 - 9 Apr 1980 - 184.8 days
- Berezovoi, Lebedev - Soyuz T-5 - 13 May 1982 - 211.4 days
- Kizim, Atkov, Solovyov Vladimir - Soyuz T-10B - 8 Feb 1984 - 237.0 days
- Romanenko - Soyuz TM-2 - 5 Feb 1987 - 326.5 days
- Manarov, Titov Vladimir - Soyuz TM-4 - 21 Dec 1987 - 365.9 days
- Polyakov - Soyuz TM-18 - 8 Jan 1994 - 437.7 days
Top Ten Astronauts by total space flight time:
Astronauts with five or six space missions:
Top Ten Single Flight Durations:
Top Ten Astronauts by Spacewalk Time:
- Solovyov - 77 hours 41 minutes in 16 EVAs
- Budarin - 46 hours 14 minutes in 9 EVAs
- Ross - 44 hours 12 minutes in 7 EVAs
- Musabayev - 43 hours 2 minutes in 8 EVAs
- Avdeyev - 41 hours 59 minutes in 10 EVAs
- Afanasyev - 38 hours 33 minutes in 7 EVAs
- Krikalyov - 36 hours 0 minutes in 7 EVAs
- Smith Steven - 35 hours 12 minutes in 5 EVAs
- Manarov - 34 hours 32 minutes in 7 EVAs
- Tanner - 33 hours 22 minutes in 5 EVAs
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 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