Humans in space

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Starting from 31st October 2000 humans are permanently in the space:

Into space

Vostok

Mercury

Voskhod

Gemini

Soyuz

Apollo

Skylab

ASTP

Shuttle

Mir

ISS

Dragon

Facts

On September 15, 2023 the spacecraft Soyuz MS-24 launched towards the ISS. The crew commander Oleg Kononenko began the fifth space flight. It is planned that Kononenko’s flight will continue for about a year, until September 2024.

Kononenko made four long-term flights on the international space station. The total time of Kononenko's four space flights was 736 days 18 hours 45 minutes (17682 hours 45 minutes). Currently, the greatest total space flight time has a russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who from 1998 to 2015 made five space flights with a total duration of 878 days 11 hours 30 minutes (21083 h 30 m).

During the ongoing flight, on February 4, 2024, Kononenko surpass the record total time of cosmonaut Padalka. On June 4, Kononenko’s total time will be 1000 days. After returning to earth in September, Kononenko's record total time will be about 1,110 days.

Total space flight time :
Oleg Kononenko (Russia):
Gennady Padalka (Russia):	878 d 11 h 30 m 49 s
Yuri Malenchenko (Russia):	827 d 9 h 24 m 22 s
Sergey Krikalev (Russia):	803 d 9 h 38 m 11 s
Alexander Kaleri (Russia):	769 d 6 h 35 m 1 s

Age of the astronauts. The youngest astronaut for 55 years remains the second Soviet astronaut Germann Titov , Who was the first to make a daily flight on 6 August 1961 at the age of 25 years 10 months 25 days. In the oldest age, the first flight was made by an American space tourist Larry Connor on 8 April 2022 in a spacecraft Dragon-6 at age 72 years 3 months 1 days. In the oldest age the last flight made John Glenn on 29 October 1998 on a shuttle Discovery STS-95 at age 77 years 3 months 11 days. Youngest female astronaut remains Valentina Tereshkova 16 June 1963 on a spacecraft Vostok-6 at age 26 years 3 months 10 days. In the oldest Age for femal astronauts committed Peggy Whitson on 21 May 2021 on a spacecraft Dragon-10 at age 63 years 3 months 12 days.

Lists of astronauts by age:

Some astronauts have an unknown date of birth. To calculate the age, a conditional date of birth was adopted for these astronauts.

How many times fly astronauts? Currently, only two astronauts have made seven space flights. Jerry Ross was the first to do this on April 8, 2002, on the shuttle Atlantis STS-110. The second is Franklin Chang-Diaz on June 5, 2002 on the shuttle Endeavour STS-111. Seven astronauts and cosmonauts made six space flights each. Five space flights were carried out 25 astronauts and cosmonauts. Among the Russian cosmonauts, six times flew into space: Sergey Krikalev and Yuri Malenchenko.

A complete list of astronauts and cosmonauts who committed

Currently, six women have flown into space five times. The first three, four and five flights were made by Shannon Lusid .

Full list of women astronauts and astronauts who committed