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Topic: Longest time between spaceflights
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BMckay
Member Posts: 3220
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 05-12-2004 01:52 PM
   
Besides John Glenn. Who spent the longest time between flights? Lets start will US astronauts and then Cosmonauts. I do not know the answer yet but I will. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 05-12-2004 01:58 PM
Good question. Immediately Garriott, Mattingly, Shepard, and Weitz, who were all 10 years between their flights, come to mind. I'm having trouble thinking of anyone who waited longer than 10 years. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 05-12-2004 02:03 PM
If I'm doing the math right, it looks like Garriott was the longest of those four, by about 3 days. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 05-12-2004 02:07 PM
Of course, Joe Engle would get it if you count his X-15 wings. |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1368
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 05-12-2004 03:34 PM
Although not the longest wait Alan Shepard was just a few months short of a full decade between flights. |
BMckay
Member Posts: 3220
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 05-12-2004 03:43 PM
If she gets another flight, Dr. Anna Lee Fisher will be the longest between flight, 20 years and counting. |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 05-12-2004 10:36 PM
As for the cosmonauts, I guess Valeri Bykovsky would come close... Vostok 5 was June '63 and his next flight (Soyuz 22) was September '76. |
Ashy
Member Posts: 157
From: Preston, England
Registered: Mar 2004
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posted 05-13-2004 05:11 AM
I know its slightly off the question but Don Lind had to wait 19 years for his first and only flight. |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-13-2004 12:51 PM
Sticking to shuttle flights (not counting Apollo to shuttle), Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg both flew in 1983 and then again 1992. Nine year difference. |
kosmonavtka
Member Posts: 170
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 05-17-2004 09:33 PM
The only Russian lady cosmonaut, Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, has waited 10 years for her first flight, so far! |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 12-03-2007 04:35 PM
I believe we have another one for the list...Hans Schlegel on STS-122 and his previous flight on STS-55 way back in April 1993. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-03-2007 09:48 PM
Doi... STS-87 and STS-123 (11 years). |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 12-03-2007 11:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by kosmonavtka:
The only Russian lady cosmonaut, Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya...
Sadly enough, Kuzhelnaya has quit the cosmonaut corps and moved on. But there is another newly-selected female cosmonaut (name forgotten). Let's see if the Russian space chiefs actually give her a flight! |
kosmonavtka
Member Posts: 170
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 12-04-2007 02:59 PM
quote:
Originally posted by ColinBurgess:
another newly-selected female cosmonaut (name forgotten)
Elena Olegovna Serova |
ShuttleDiscovery
Member Posts: 152
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Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-04-2007 03:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Dixon:
Hans Schlegel on STS-122 and his previous flight on STS-55 way back in April 1993.
14 years... |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 12-12-2007 06:50 PM
Valeri Rynmin made his third flight aboard Soyuz 35/37 in 1980 and made his next flight in 1998 aboard the Discovery. In fact his flight on STS-91 was the shuttle flight immediately preceeding Sen. Glenn's flight on STS-95 (also aboard Discovery). |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 12-05-2008 01:18 PM
On this subject, while not the record, Kay Hire will come close when she flies on STS-130 in late 2009 or early 2010. Her first flight was STS-90 in April 1998. |
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