History of Manned Flights
Orbital Complex Mir
Space Records
During the MIR Station operation absolute
world records of man's continuous on-orbit stay-time were
achieved:
1987 - Yuri Romanenko (326 days 11 hrs 38
min)
1988 - Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov (365 days 22 hrs 39
min)
1995 - Valery Polyakov (437 days 17 hrs 58 min).
In 1995 Valery Polyakov also became an absolute world record-breaker in total on-orbit stay time (678 days 16 hrs 33 min for 2 flights), in 1999
his achievement was exceeded by Sergey Avdeev (747 days 14 hrs 12 min for 3 flights).
Among women world records of space flight
duration were achieved by:
Elena Kondakova (169 days 05 h 1 min) in 1995
Shannon Lucid, the USA (188 days 04 hrs 00 min, including
a stay-time on the MIR Station of 183 days 23 hrs 00 min)
in 1996.
Among foreign citizens the most long-duration flights under the MIR Program were performed by:
Jean-Pierre Haignere (France) |
- 188 days 20 hrs 16 min |
Shannon Lucid (USA) |
- 188 days 04 hrs 00 min |
Thomas Reiter (ESA, Germany) |
- 179 days 01 hr 42 min |
Egresses into Space
78 egresses into space were performed on the
MIR Orbital Station (including three egresses into the unpressurized
Spektr module) of a total duration of 359 hrs 12 min.
Spacewalks were performed by:
29 Russian cosmonauts
3 U.S. astronauts
2 French astronauts
1 ESA astronaut (citizen of Germany).
Cosmonauts who performed six and more egresses into space
Cosmonaut |
Number of Egresses |
Total Duration |
Anatoly Soloviev |
16 |
77 hrs 46 min |
Sergey Avdeev |
10 |
41 hrs 59 min |
Alexander Serebrov |
10 |
31 hrs 48 min |
Nikolay Budarin |
8 |
44 hrs 00 min |
Talgat Musabaev |
7 |
41 hrs 18 min |
Viktor Afanasiev |
7 |
38 hrs 33 min |
Sergey Krikalev |
7 |
36 hrs 29 min
|
Musa Manarov |
7 |
34 hrs 32 min |
Anatoly Artsebarsky |
6 |
32 hrs 17 min |
Yuri Onufrienko |
6 |
30 hrs 30 min |
Yuri Usachev |
6 |
30 hrs 30 min |
Gennady Strekalov |
6 |
21 hrs 54 min |
Alexander Viktorenko |
6 |
19 hrs 39 min |
Vasilii Tsibliev |
6 |
19 hrs 11 min |