Cumulative time in space.

Cumulative time in space of astronauts excluding the USA and Russia.

The age of astronauts.

The youngest astronaut for 62 years remains the second Soviet cosmonaut German Titov, who first made a daily flight on August 6, 1961 at the age of 25 years 10 months 25 days. In the first ten of the youngest cosmonauts 5 is the Soviet and 5 astronauts from the third countries. In the first twenty - 10 Soviet, 9 astronauts from third countries and American amateur astronaut Hayley Arceno. On the 21st place is the first American woman astronaut Sally Ride, which made its first flight on June 18, 1983, at Shuttle crew Challenger STS-7 at the age of 32 years 23 days.
At the very old age, the first flight was made by American and Israeli space tourists: Larry Connor at the age of 72 y 3 m 1 d, Eytan Stibbe at the age of 64 y 2 m 27 d, Denis Tito April 28, 2001 in Soyuz TM-32 at the age of 60 years 8 months 20 days and Gregory Olsen October 1, 2005 in Soyuz TMA-7 at the age of 60 years 5 months 11 days.

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Increasing the duration of space flight.

• Increase the duration of space flight

Number of astronauts in space at the same time.

The first manned flight into space took place in 1961. Already in 1962, two astronauts went into space at the same time. They were Andrian Nikolaev on the spacecraft Vostok 3 and Pavel Popovich on the spacecraft Vostok 4. In 1964, a crew of three cosmonauts went into space on the spacecraft Voskhod : Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov and Boris Egorov.

In 1965, there were already four American astronauts in space Frank Borman with James Lovell on the spacecraft Gemini 7 and Walter Schirra with Thomas Stafford on Gemini 6A. In October 1969, there were three spacecrafts in space at the same time Soyuz 6, Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 and seven cosmonauts: Georgy Shonin, Valery Kubasov, Anatoly Filipchenko, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Gorbatko, Vladimir Shatalov and Alexey Yeliseyev.

In the eighties, multi-seat American shuttles began to fly, in the crew of which up to 8 astronauts flew into space at the same time. In February 1984, three Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Solovyov were at the Salyut 7 station, Leonid Kizim and Oleg Atkov. At the same time in space there was a shuttle Challenger STS-41B in the crew of which there were five astronauts Vance Brand, Robert Gibson, Bruce McCandless, Ronald McNair and Robert Stewart. There are 8 people in space at the same time.

In April 1984, there were 11 cosmonauts in space at the same time: 6 cosmonauts Vladimir Solovyov, Leonid Kizim, Oleg Atkov, Yuri Malyshev, Gennady Strekalov and Rakesh Sharma at the Salyut station 7 and 5 astronauts in the shuttle crew Challenger STS-41C: Robert Crippen, Francis Scobee, George Nelson, James van Hooften and Terry Hart.

In December 1990, there were 12 cosmonauts in space at the same time: 5 cosmonauts Gennady Manakov, Gennady Strekalov, Viktor Afanasyev, Musa Manarov and Toyohiro Akiyama at Mir station and 7 astronauts in the shuttle crew Columbia STS-35: Vance Brand, Guy Gardner, Jeffrey Hoffman, John Lounge, Robert Parker, Samuel Durrance and Ronald Parise. Until 1995, there were twelve astronauts in space three more times. and astronauts at the same time.

In March 1995, there were 13 cosmonauts in space at the same time: 6 cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko, Elena Kondakova, Valery Polyakov, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov and Norman Thagardat Mir station and 7 astronauts in the shuttle Endeavour STS-67 crew: William Gregory, Steven Oswald, Tamara Jernigan, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Ronald Parise and Samuel Durrance. Until 2010, seven more times in space there were thirteen cosmonauts and astronauts at the same time. Shuttle flights ceased in 2011.

In 2020, the first manned flight Dragon took place, in which a crew of four astronauts flies. Since 2021, two stations have been in space at the same time. The flight of the international space station continues, and the flight of the Chinese space station Tiangong, on which astronauts have been constantly located since June 2022. In September 2021, 14 cosmonauts and astronauts were in space at the same time. The ISS had a crew of seven astronauts and astronauts: Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov, Mark Vandehei, Robert Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Tom Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide. There were three astronauts at the Chinese station: Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo. Four astronauts joined them in space on September 16 the first fully private crew on the ship Dragon: Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux and Christopher Sembroski. Later, there were 14 cosmonauts and astronauts in space three more times.

On May 30-31, 2023, 17 people were simultaneously in space for 25 hours. There were 7 ISS crew members and four Ax-2 private crew astronauts on the ISS: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg, Sultan al-Neyadi, Andrey Fedyaev, Peggy Whitson, John Schoffner, Ali al-Qarni and Ryan Barnawi. At the same time, a crew change was taking place at the Chinese station. Departure Crew: Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, Zhang Lu and the next crew Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao.

Foreign cosmonauts on Russian spacecrafts.

Foreign astronauts on American spacecrafts.

At the end of the 70s, as part of the Intercosmos program, flights of cosmonauts from socialist countries began together with Soviet cosmonauts on Soyuz spacecraft and to the Salyut-6 orbital station. The first cosmonaut not from the USSR or the USA was Vladimir Remek from Czechoslovakia, who on March 2, 1978 went to the Salyut-6 station on the spacecraft Soyuz 28.

The first foreigner to go into space on November 28, 1983 on an American space shuttle - Columbia STS-9 - was an astronaut from West Germany Ulf Merbold.

50 foreign cosmonauts made the first space flight on Russian spacecraft. 9 of them made two flights on Russian ships. 9 of them later also flew on American spacecrafts.

44 foreign astronauts made the first space flight on American spacecraft. 8 of them later also flew on Russian spacecrafts.

Total time in space of American astronauts.

How many times astronauts fly.

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The longest flights.

• All cosmonauts and astronauts
• USSR/Russian cosmonauts
• US Astronauts
• China cosmonauts
• Astronauts and astronauts from other countries
• Female Cosmonauts

The longest first flights.

Soviet cosmonaut Musa Manarov made his first flight from December 21, 1987 to December 21, 1988, together with Vladimir Titov. They started on the Soyuz TM-4 and landed on the Soyuz TM-6 and spent a year at the Mir station. For Vladimir Titov, this was the second space flight. This flight of Musa Manarov is still the longest flight for beginners. The second longest rookie space flight was by russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov - 355 d 3 h 45 m 20 s (8523 h 45 m 20 s). The third longest space flight for beginners was made by the american astronaut Christina Koch - 328 days 13 hours 58 minutes (7885 hours 58 minutes).

The longest female novice spaceflight was by Christina Koch, an American astronaut 328 days 13 hours 58 minutes (7885 hours 58 minutes). Her flight is also the longest rookie flight of any American astronaut.

The longest novice space flight among non-Russian and non-US astronauts was made by an astronaut from Canada David Saint-Jacques: 203 days 15 hours 17 minutes (4887 hours 17 minutes).

Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu made the longest rookie space flight among Chinese astronauts: 186 d 7 h 25 m (4471 h 25 m).

List of cosmonauts and astronauts by duration of the first space flight:

• All cosmonauts and astronauts
• Cosmonauts of the USSR/Russia
• US Astronauts
• Chinese astronauts
• Cosmonauts and astronauts from other countries
• Women astronauts

American astronauts on Russian spacecrafts.

Russian cosmonauts on American spacecrafts.

In 1993, Russia and the United States entered into an agreement on the joint Mir-Shuttle program. The program provided that American astronauts would be part of the long-term crews of the Mir station, and Russian cosmonauts would fly to the Mir station on American shuttles. The first American astronaut to fly to the Mir station on the Soyuz spacecraft in 1994 was Norman Thagard. The first Russian cosmonaut to fly on the shuttle in 1994 was Sergey Krikalev. Until the end of the 90s, 11 shuttle flights were carried out under the Mir-Shuttle program, including one shuttle rendezvous with the Mir station and 9 dockings with the Mir station. A total of 104 cosmonauts visited the Mir station, including 40 USSR/Russian cosmonauts and 44 US astronauts.

In 2000, the first ISS crew departed for the station on the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft. William Shepherd became the second American astronaut to fly on the Soyuz spacecraft. Subsequent crews flew to the ISS on American shuttles, including Russian cosmonauts. This continued until 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia crashed. Subsequently, cosmonauts and astronauts flew to the ISS on Soyuz spacecraft. Since 2021, American astronauts began flying on Crew Dragon spacecraft. Since 2022, NASA and Roscosmos have entered into an agreement on cross-flights. The crews of the Soyuz ships include one American astronaut, and the crews of the Crew Dragon ships include one Russian cosmonaut.

To date, 52 American NASA astronauts have flown on Soyuz spacecraft, of which 7 astronauts made two flights, Jeffrey Williams made 3 flights. In addition, 5 American space tourists flew on Soyuz spacecraft at their own expense. Charles Simonyi made two flights.

21 Russian cosmonauts flew on American shuttles and Crew Dragons. 4 Russian cosmonauts made two flights.

Soyuz TMA-13.

Charles Simonyi.