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, in 1999
his achievement was exceeded by Sergey Avdeev:
Valery Polyakov - 678 days 16 hrs 33 min (for
2 flights)
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
on the MIR Station
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
|
|