Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-01-2020 01:25 PM
Here is a list (in days, launch-to-landing) of the longest space flights, those that have reached or exceeded 200 days duration. Included are the Salyut, Mir and International Space Station crew members who flew those days:
437 days — Valeri Polyakov on Mir
379 days — Sergei Avdeyev on Mir
371 days — Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, Frank Rubio on ISS *
365 days — Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov on Mir
355 days — Pyotr Dubrov, Mark Vande-Hei on ISS *
340 days — Mikhail Korniyenko, Scott Kelly on ISS
328 days — Christina Koch on ISS *
326 days — Yuri Romanenko on Mir
311 days — Sergei Krikalev on Mir
289 days — Peggy Whitson on ISS
271 days — Andrew Morgan on ISS *
240 days — Valeri Polyakov on Mir
236 days — Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov, Oleg Atkov on Salyut 7
215 days — Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria on ISS
211 days — Anatoli Berezovoy, Valentin Lebedev on Salyut 7
207 days — Talgat Musabayev, Nikolai Budarin on Mir
204 days — Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir on ISS *
204 days — Loral O'Hara on ISS *
203 days — Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques, Anne McClain on ISS
202 days — Aleksei Ovchinin, Nicklaus Hague on ISS
200 days — Alexander Skvortsov, Luca Parmitano on ISS *
*added since initial post
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Posts: 1050 From: Europe Registered: May 2003
posted 02-01-2020 03:23 PM
Future durations as known today:
328 days — Christina Koch on ISS
271 days — Andrew Morgan on ISS
204 days — Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir on ISS
200 days — Alexander Skvortsov, Luca Parmitano on ISS
196 days — Nikolai Tikhonov, Andrei Babkin, Chris Cassidy on ISS
LM-12 Member
Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-01-2020 07:47 PM
Thanks for those. We'll add them to the list when they land.
Polyakov is on the list twice. Manarov has the record for longest rookie flight.
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posted 02-06-2020 06:37 AM
NASA astronaut Christina Koch's first mission aboard the orbiting lab ended after 328 days on Feb. 6, 2020.
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Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-06-2020 04:41 PM
In the first list, the 203-day duration mission of Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain is somewhat unique in that the crew and spacecraft remained intact: the same three crewmembers launched and landed in the same (Soyuz MS-11) spacecraft.
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Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-06-2020 06:46 PM
Valeri Polyakov on the Mir space station on February 6, 1995 (so that was 25 years ago today):
Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, who boarded Russia's Mir space station on January 8, 1994, looks out Mir's window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. He returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 - 437 days later - setting the record for the longest continuous spaceflight by an individual.
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posted 02-08-2020 09:51 AM
Gennadi Padalka has the record for most accumulated time in space: 878 days. His longest single spaceflight duration is 198 days.
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posted 02-08-2020 02:43 PM
Oleg Kononenko has the record for most accumulated time on board the ISS: during 4 missions which lasted 736 days.
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posted 02-08-2020 08:13 PM
From the mission durations I have seen, Virts should be ahead of Barratt by one full day in the NASA chart posted earlier.
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posted 02-08-2020 11:19 PM
Correct: Virts has 199 days, 16 hours, 43 minutes (Soyuz TMA-15M) versus Barratt has 198 days, 16 hours, 42 minutes (Soyuz TMA-14).
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posted 02-08-2020 11:53 PM
Coincidentally, that 198-day flight by Barratt is the same 198-day flight by Padalka mentioned earlier: Soyuz TMA-14.
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posted 02-09-2020 12:55 AM
Padalka has two 198-day missions: Soyuz TM-28 to Mir station and this with Barratt.
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Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-09-2020 01:40 AM
You mentioned Kononenko a few posts ago.
Kononenko, Padalka and Barratt all had different 198-day 16-hour missions!
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posted 02-09-2020 06:04 AM
Yes, the first Kononenko's mission (Soyuz TMA-12 in 2008) was the last all rookie Russian crew for ISS at launch/landing day.
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posted 02-09-2020 12:21 PM
quote:Originally posted by MSS: NASA astronaut Christina Koch's first mission aboard the orbiting lab ended after 328 days
Christina Koch would be next in line after Don Pettit in the cumulative days NASA graphic. Not sure why she is not shown on that chart. Her flight is included in the first chart, but not the second chart.
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posted 02-09-2020 03:11 PM
As of today: 239 astronauts from 19 countries have visited the International Space Station. From:
United States - 151 people
Russia - 47 people
Japan - 9 people
Canada - 8 people
Italy - 5 people
France - 4 people
Germany - 3 people
Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates - each country by 1 people
Posts: 3919 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 02-09-2020 07:45 PM
Berezovoy and Lebedev were the first to exceed 200 days when they landed in 1982. Romanenko was the first to exceed 300 days when he landed in 1987.
Titov and Manarov were the first to exceed 365 days duration. They landed in 1988.
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posted 02-13-2020 07:42 AM
The solo flight of Soyuz 9 (17 days 16 hours) in 1970 was longer than the expedition flight of Soyuz 14 (15 days 17 hours) to Salyut 3 in 1974.
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posted 02-13-2020 10:15 AM
Soyuz 9 flight was a little shorter then another expedition flight of Soyuz 24 (17 day 17 hours 26 minutes) to Salyut 5 in 1977.
Both Salyut 3 and Salyut 5 were Almaz military stations.
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posted 02-13-2020 03:07 PM
There were a few Soyuz landings where all three crewmembers had different mission durations:
Soyuz TM-3 landing: Yuri Romanenko: 326 days 11 hours Alexander Alexandrov: 160 days 7 hours Anatoli Levchenko: 7 days 21 hours
Soyuz TM-13 landing: Alexander Volkov: 175 days 2 hours Sergei Krikalev: 311 days 20 hours Klaus-Dietrich Flade: 7 days 21 hours
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posted 02-14-2020 03:09 PM
During September 2019 were two periods when three Soyuz MS spacecrafts were docked to ISS:
Soyuz MS-12, Soyuz MS-13 and Soyuz MS-15 - also 6 days.
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posted 02-14-2020 09:39 PM
There were also three Soyuz vehicles docked to the ISS on November 7-11, 2013 so that the Olympic torch launched onboard Soyuz TMA-11M could be returned to Earth onboard Soyuz TMA-09M:
Soyuz TMA-09M, Soyuz TMA-10M and Soyuz TMA-11M
There was an EVA with the Olympic torch on November 9, 2013.
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posted 02-15-2020 05:13 AM
There were more twice three Soyuz spacecrafts docked to the ISS on:
October 2-10, 2009 - Soyuz TMA-14, Soyuz TMA-15 and Soyuz TMA-16.
September 4-12, 2015 - Soyuz TMA-16M, Soyuz TMA-17M and Soyuz TMA-18M.
Each time there were 9 people aboard ISS.
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posted 02-15-2020 09:30 PM
This NASA graphic shows where the three Soyuz spacecraft were located at the ISS during Expedition 37.5 and where the crewmembers were located during the EVA with the Olympic torch.
During the spacewalk, Yurchikhin, Parmitano and Nyberg were isolated to their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft and Zvezda, while Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins was restricted to the Poisk module and his Soyuz TMA-10M craft. The remaining three crew members — Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin – had access to much of the remaining area of the station, including the Zarya module, their Soyuz TMA-11M vehicle and the Rassvet module to which it is docked, as well as the entirety of the U.S. segment of the station.
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posted 02-16-2020 03:24 PM
There were triple two Soyuz spacecrafts with space shuttle docked to the ISS with maximum 13 people aboard ISS:
posted 02-21-2020 03:55 PM
Future durations as сhanged today:
196 days — Anatoli Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner, Chris Cassidy on ISS
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posted 02-23-2020 11:57 AM
Record-holders Polyakov and Manarov have this in common: Polyakov launched onboard Soyuz TM-6 (his 240-day flight), and Manarov landed onboard Soyuz TM-6 (his rookie record 365-day flight). Their long-duration missions overlapped.
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posted 02-24-2020 12:49 AM
The three crewmen launched on Soyuz TM-12 landed in three different Soyuz spacecraft. That includes Krikalev on his 311-day flight.
The three crewmen launched on Soyuz TM-28 also landed in three different Soyuz spacecraft. That includes Avdeyev on his 379-day flight.
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posted 03-02-2020 01:22 PM
NASA posted this article today about long-duration missions.
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posted 03-02-2020 03:01 PM
The CSA longest mission to ISS was 203-day David Saint-Jacques (12/03/18-06/25/19).
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posted 03-02-2020 08:55 PM
They got the names mixed up in the caption for the Expedition 1 photo.
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posted 03-02-2020 10:06 PM
quote:Originally posted by LM-12: NASA posted this article today about long-duration missions.
The article says "Additional one-year missions aboard ISS are in the planning stages."
Interesting to hear that there are plans for future year plus long missions to the ISS being planned, I wonder when we will find out any more details about them.
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posted 03-04-2020 12:16 AM
The three consecutive long-duration flights of Soyuz TMA-08M, Soyuz TMA-09M and Soyuz TMA-10M all had the same mission duration: 166 days 6 hours.
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posted 03-08-2020 05:38 PM
NASA posted this article today about the women and space stations.
They got the wrong total duration for Peggy Whitson as 639 days. Correct one is 665 days.
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posted 03-10-2020 02:18 PM
From Scott Kelly on Twitter:
Enjoyed reliving our nearly yearlong spaceflights on the ISS last night. Swapping stories in good company with Christina Koch. And the food was much better than Node 1 Bistro!
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posted 04-17-2020 02:22 AM
The Soyuz MS-15 landing crew (Skripochka, Meir, Morgan) has been added to the first post.
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posted 04-18-2020 06:11 PM
Five US astronauts from Group 21 are at this recent NASA graphic.
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posted 04-18-2020 10:01 PM
The order they launched for those missions would be Lopez-Alegria, Kelly, Whitson, McClain, Hague and Koch, Morgan, Meir.
Hague and Koch launched in the same spacecraft. Morgan and Meir landed in the same spacecraft.
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posted 03-18-2021 04:57 PM
Future durations as сhanged today:
353 days — Pyotr Dubrov, Mark Vande Hei on ISS
191 days — Oleg Novitsky on ISS
If the plans come to real: the firstly Mark Vande Hei will outreach US record in single space mission, the secondly Mark Vande Hei (2 long missions) may will exceed total duration in space of Scott Kelly (two long and two short missions).
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posted 09-14-2021 04:00 PM
NASA release
Two Flight Engineers’ Stay Extended
Two International Space Station crew members have had their stay onboard the orbiting lab extended to nearly a year.
With the plans for Russian spaceflight participants to visit the space station as part of the Soyuz MS-19 crew in October 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov will remain aboard the station until March 2022. Upon return to Earth, Vande Hei will hold the record for longest single spaceflight for an American.
A potential benefit to this extension is NASA gaining deeper insight into how the human body adapts to life in microgravity for longer periods of time. This research helps prepare for Artemis missions to the Moon and eventually long-duration missions to Mars, as well as provides critical opportunities for additional research to be conducted aboard the station that can benefit life on Earth.
posted 02-01-2020 01:25 PM
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