Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided intocrewed anduncrewed categories. Records involvinganimal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans toouter space.

The notion of "firsts" inspaceflight follows a long tradition offirsts in aviation, but is also closely tied to theSpace Race. During the 1950s and 1960s, theSoviet Union and the United States competed to be the first countries to accomplish various feats. In 1957, the Soviet Union launchedSputnik 1, the first artificial orbital satellite. In 1961, SovietVostok 1 cosmonautYuri Gagarin became the first person to enter space and orbit the Earth, and in 1969 AmericanApollo 11 astronautNeil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon. No human has traveled beyondlow Earth orbit since 1972, when theApollo program ended.

During the 1970s, the Soviet Union directed its energies to human habitation ofspace stations of increasingly long durations. In the 1980s, the United States began launching itsSpace Shuttles, which carried larger crews and thus could increase the number of people in space at a given time. Following their first mission ofdétente on the 1975Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the Soviet Union and the United States again collaborated with each other on theShuttle-Mir initiative, efforts which led to theInternational Space Station (ISS), which has been continuously inhabited by humans for over 20 years.

Other firsts in spaceflight involve demographics, private enterprise, and distance. Dozens of countries have sent at least one traveler to space. In 1963,Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, aboardVostok 6. In the early 21st century, private companies joined government agencies in crewed spaceflight: in 2004, thesub-orbitalspaceplaneSpaceShipOne became the first privately funded crewed craft to enter space; in 2020,SpaceX'sDragon 2 became the first privately developed crewed vehicle to reach orbit when it ferried a crew to the ISS. As of 2025, the uncrewed probeVoyager 1 is the most distant artificial object from the Earth, part of a small class of vehicles that areleaving the Solar System.

Country	Mission	Crew	Spacecraft	Launch vehicle	Date	Type	Notes
USSR[1]	Vostok 1[1]	Yuri Gagarin[1]	Vostok 3KA[1]	Vostok-K[1]	12 April 1961[1]	Orbital[1]
USA[2]	Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)[2]	Alan Shepard[2]	Mercury Spacecraft No.7[2]	Mercury-Redstone[2]	5 May 1961[2]	Sub-orbital[2]
USA[3]	Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)[3]	John Glenn[3]	Mercury Spacecraft No.13[3]	Atlas LV-3B	20 February 1962[3]	Orbital[3]
USSR	Soyuz 18A	Vasily Lazarev,Oleg Makarov	Soyuz 7K-T	Soyuz 11A511	5 April 1975	Sub-orbital	The mission was intended to be orbital, but a fault in the launch vehicle prevented the spacecraft from reaching orbit.
Russia	Soyuz TM-14	Aleksandr Viktorenko,Aleksandr Kaleri,Klaus-Dietrich Flade	Soyuz-TM	Soyuz-U2	17 March 1992	Orbital	First Soyuz mission to occur after thedissolution of the Soviet Union.
China[4]	Shenzhou 5[4]	Yang Liwei[4]	Shenzhou spacecraft[4]	Long March 2F[4]	15 October 2003[4]	Orbital[4]

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Note: Some space records are disputed as a result of ambiguities surrounding the border of space. Most records follow theFAI definition of thespace border which the FAI sets at an altitude of 100 km (62.14 mi). By contrast, US agencies define the border of space at 50 mi (80.47 km).

First	Person(s)	Mission	Country	Date
Person to reach space Person in orbit Person to survive orbital reentry	Yuri Gagarin	Vostok 1[5]	USSR	12 April 1961
Person to makesuborbital flight Person to land in water (splashdown) Person to manually pilot spacecraft.[6] Person to land in a spacecraft after spaceflight[note 1][7][8]	Alan Shepard	Freedom 7	USA	5 May 1961
Person in space for over 24 hours[9] Multiple orbits during a spaceflight	Gherman Titov	Vostok 2	USSR	6 August 1961 – 7 August 1961
Group flight[10] Adjacent orbits Spacecraft-to-spacecraft communications	Andrian Nikolayev Pavel Popovich	Vostok 3 Vostok 4	USSR	12 August 1962 – 15 August 1962
Woman in space Civilian in space and in orbit (at the time of selection)	Valentina Tereshkova	Vostok 6[11]	USSR	16 June 1963 – 19 June 1963
Spaceflight (suborbital) bywinged spacecraft Civilian in space (at the time of flight) Spaceflight (suborbital) of areusable spacecraft	Joe Walker	X-15 Flight 90	USA	19 July 1963
Person to enter space twice (suborbital flights above 100 kilometres (62 mi))	Joe Walker	X-15 Flights90 and91	USA	22 August 1963
Three-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft Human spaceflight without pressurizedspacesuits Human spaceflight with the crew soft landing on hard ground inside spacecraft after orbital flight	Vladimir Komarov Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov	Voskhod 1[5]	USSR	12 October 1964 – 13 October 1964
Two-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft Multi-person spaceflight with pressurized spacesuits Manual orientation of spacecraft for atmospheric reentry	Pavel Belyayev Alexei Leonov	Voskhod 2	USSR	18 March 1965 – 19 March 1965
Spacewalk	Alexei Leonov	Voskhod 2[5]	USSR	18 March 1965
Orbital maneuvers (change orbit)	Gus Grissom,John W. Young	Gemini 3[5]	USA	23 March 1965
Person to fly two orbital spaceflights	Gordon Cooper	Faith 7 Gemini 5	USA	15 May 1963 – 16 May 1963 21 August 1965 – 29 August 1965
Persons to spend one week in space	Gordon Cooper Pete Conrad	Gemini 5	USA	21 August 1965 – 29 August 1965
Spaceflight aborted before liftoff (after engine start)	Walter Schirra Thomas P. Stafford	Gemini 6A	USA	12 December 1965
Space rendezvous (orbital maneuver and station-keeping) Four people in space at the same time	Frank Borman,Jim Lovell Walter Schirra,Thomas Stafford	Gemini 7 Gemini 6A[5]	USA	15 December 1965 – 16 December 1965
Civilian in orbit (at the time of flight)	Neil Armstrong	Gemini 8	USA	16 March 1966 – 17 March 1966
Space docking	Neil Armstrong David Scott	Gemini 8 andAgena[5]	USA	16 March 1966
Multiple (dual) rendezvous (with Agena 10, then Agena 8)[12]	John W. Young Michael Collins	Gemini 10	USA	19 July 1966 20 July 1966
Persons to exceed 1,000 km above Earth	Pete Conrad Richard F. Gordon Jr.	Gemini 11	USA	12 September 1966 – 15 September 1966
Spaceflight death (during landing)	Vladimir Komarov	Soyuz 1	USSR	23 April 1967 – 24 April 1967
Person to complete three spaceflights Person to fly three different types of spacecraft	Wally Schirra	Mercury-Atlas 8 Gemini 6A Apollo 7	USA	22 October 1968
Persons to go beyondlow Earth orbit (LEO) Persons to enter the gravitational influence of another celestial body Persons to enter lunar orbit Persons to see the far side of the moon while in space	Frank Borman Jim Lovell Bill Anders	Apollo 8	USA	24 December 1968 – 25 December 1968
People to fly together twice on different missions	Frank Borman Jim Lovell	Gemini 7 Apollo 8	USA	21 December 1968
Space docking of two crewed spacecraft Dual spacewalk Сrew transfer (Khrunov, Yeliseyev)[13]	Vladimir Shatalov Boris Volynov Aleksei Yeliseyev Yevgeny Khrunov	Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5	USSR	16 January 1969
Solo flight around the Moon	John Young	Apollo 10	USA	22 May 1969
Moon landing Planetary surface extra-vehicular activity (EVA)	Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin	Apollo 11	USA	20 July 1969
Five people in space at the same time	Georgy Shonin,Valery Kubasov Anatoly Filipchenko,Vladislav Volkov,Viktor Gorbatko	Soyuz 6 Soyuz 7	USSR	12 October 1969 – 13 October 1969
Triple spaceflight Seven people in space at the same time	Shonin,Kubasov Filipchenko,Volkov,Gorbatko Vladimir Shatalov,Aleksei Yeliseyev	Soyuz 6 Soyuz 7 Soyuz 8	USSR	13 October 1969 – 16 October 1969
Person to complete four spaceflights	James A. Lovell	Gemini 7 Gemini 12 Apollo 8 Apollo 13	USA	17 April 1970
Person to fly two lunar flights Person to complete two flights beyond low Earth orbit	James A. Lovell	Apollo 8 Apollo 13	USA	11 April 1970 – 17 April 1970
Persons to fly afree-return trajectory around a celestial body Furthest humans have traveled from Earth	James A. Lovell Jack Swigert Fred Haise	Apollo 13	USA	11 April 1970 – 17 April 1970
People to spend two weeks in space Night launch	Andrian Nikolayev Vitali Sevastyanov	Soyuz 9	USSR	1 June 1970 – 19 June 1970
People toEVA out of sight of their spacecraft	Alan Shepard Edgar Mitchell	Apollo 14	USA	6 February 1971
Person to play sports on aplanetary body other than Earth	Alan Shepard	Apollo 14	USA	7 February 1971
Docking with space station (soft dock) Night landing	Vladimir Shatalov Aleksei Yeliseyev Nikolai Rukavishnikov	Soyuz 10 Salyut 1	USSR	22 April 1971 – 24 April 1971
Docking with space station (hard dock) Crewed space station In-space fatalities	Georgy Dobrovolsky Viktor Patsayev Vladislav Volkov	Soyuz 11 Salyut 1	USSR	7 June 1971 – 29 June 1971
Person to use a telescope in space	Viktor Patsayev	Soyuz 11 Salyut 1	USSR	7 June 1971 – 29 June 1971
People to travel in a wheeled vehicle on aplanetary body other than Earth	Dave Scott Jim Irwin	Apollo 15	USA	31 July 1971– 2 August 1971
Deep space EVA (trans-Earth trajectory)	Alfred Worden	Apollo 15	USA	5 August 1971
Person to be in lunar orbit twice (during separate lunar expeditions)	John W. Young	Apollo 10 Apollo 16	USA	16 April 1972 – 27 April 1972
People in orbit for four weeks	Pete Conrad Joseph Kerwin Paul Weitz	Skylab 2	USA	25 May 1973 – 22 June 1973
Spacewalk at a space station	Paul Weitz	Skylab 2	USA	26 May 1973
People in orbit for eight weeks	Alan Bean Jack Lousma Owen Garriott	Skylab 3	USA	28 July 1973 – 25 September 1973
People in orbit for 12 weeks	Gerald Carr William Pogue Edward Gibson	Skylab 4	USA	16 November 1973 – 8 February 1974
Spaceflight aborted during liftoff (at 145 kilometers (90 mi) altitude) Re-entry with 20g acceleration (emergency)	Vasily Lazarev,Oleg Makarov	Soyuz 7K-T No.39	USSR	5 April 1975
International docking	Thomas P. Stafford,Vance D. Brand,Donald K. Slayton –USA Alexei Leonov,Valeri Kubasov –USSR	Apollo–Soyuz	USA USSR	17 July 1975
Crew to visit occupied space station	Vladimir Dzhanibekov,Oleg Makarov	Soyuz 27 visitsSalyut 6 EO-1 crew	USSR	10 January 1978 – 16 January 1978
People in orbit 19 weeks (4 months)	Vladimir Kovalyonok,Aleksandr Ivanchenkov	Salyut 6 EO-2,Soyuz 29-Soyuz 31	USSR	15 June 1978 – 2 November 1978
People in orbit 26 weeks (6 months)	Leonid Popov,Valery Ryumin	Salyut 6 EO-4,Soyuz 35-Soyuz 37	USSR	9 April 1980 – 11 October 1980
Spaceflight (orbital) by winged spacecraft Spaceflight (orbital) of areusable spacecraft First, and only, crew launched on a rocket's maiden flight	John W. Young Robert L. Crippen	STS-1	USA	12 April 1981
Person to fly four different types of spacecraft	John W. Young	Gemini Apollo Lunar Module Space Shuttle	USA	12 April 1981
Person to complete five spaceflights	John W. Young	Gemini 3 Gemini 10 Apollo 10 Apollo 16 STS-1	USA	14 April 1981
Re-use of previously flown spacecraft (orbital)	Joe H. Engle Richard H. Truly	STS-2	USA	12 November 1981
Woman to visit a space station	Svetlana Savitskaya	Salyut 7,Soyuz T-7	USSR	20 August 1982
Four-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft	Vance Brand Robert F. Overmyer Joseph P. Allen William B. Lenoir	STS-5	USA	11 November 1982 – 16 November 1982
Five-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft	Robert L. Crippen Frederick H. Hauck John M. Fabian Sally K. Ride Norman E. Thagard	STS-7	USA	18 June 1983 – 24 June 1983
LGBTQ person in space	Sally K. Ride	STS-7	USA	18 June 1983 – 24 June 1983
Use of a launch escape system in an emergency	Vladimir Titov,Gennady Strekalov	Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L	USSR	26 September 1983
Six-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft	John W. Young,Brewster H. Shaw,Owen K. Garriott,Robert A. Parker,Byron K. Lichtenberg –USA Ulf Merbold –Germany (European Space Agency)	STS-9	USA  West Germany	28 November 1983 – 8 December 1983
Person to complete six spaceflights	John W. Young	Gemini 3 Gemini 10 Apollo 10 Apollo 16 STS-1 STS-9	USA	8 December 1983
Untethered spacewalk	Bruce McCandless II	STS-41-B[14]	USA	7 February 1984
Eight people in space at the same time (no docking)	Oleg Atkov,Leonid Kizim,Vladimir Solovyov –USSR Vance D. Brand,Robert L. Gibson,Bruce McCandless II,Ronald McNair,Robert L. Stewart –USA	Salyut 7 EO-3,Soyuz T-10,STS-41-B	USSR USA	8 February 1984 – 11 February 1984
11 people in space at the same time (no docking)	Oleg Atkov,Leonid D. Kizim,Yury Malyshev,Vladimir Solovyov,Gennady Strekalov –USSR Robert L. Crippen,Terry J. Hart,George Nelson,Francis Scobee,James van Hoften –USA Rakesh Sharma –India	STS-41-C,Salyut 7 EO-3,Soyuz T-10-Soyuz T-11	USSR USA India	6 April 1984 – 11 April 1984
People to complete four spacewalks during the same mission	Leonid Kizim,Vladimir Solovyov	Salyut 7	USSR	26 April – 18 May 1984
Woman to enter space twice	Svetlana Savitskaya	Soyuz T-7,Soyuz T-12	USSR	17 July 1984
Spacewalk by a woman	Svetlana Savitskaya	Soyuz T-12	USSR	25 July 1984
Welding in space	Vladimir Dzhanibekov,Svetlana Savitskaya	Salyut 7,Soyuz T-12	USSR	25 July 1984
People in orbit 33 weeks (7 months)	Leonid Kizim,Vladimir Solovyov,Oleg Atkov	Salyut 7 EO-3,Soyuz T-10-Soyuz T-11	USSR	8 February 1984 – 2 October 1984
Seven-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft	Robert L. Crippen,Jon A. McBride,Kathryn D. Sullivan,Sally K. Ride,David C. Leestma,Paul D. Scully-Power –USA Marc Garneau –Canada	STS-41-G	USA Canada	5 October 1984 – 13 October 1984
Two women in space at the same time	Kathryn D. Sullivan,Sally K. Ride	STS-41-G	USA	5 October 1984 – 13 October 1984
Member of royalty in space	Sultan bin Salman Al Saud –House of Saud	STS-51-G	Saudi Arabia USA	17 June 1985 – 24 June 1985
Partial crew exchange at a space station	Alexander Volkov,Vladimir Vasyutin replaceVladimir Dzhanibekov	Soyuz T-14,Salyut 7	USSR	17 September 1985 – 26 September 1985
Eight-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft	Henry W. Hartsfield,Steven R. Nagel,Bonnie J. Dunbar,James F. Buchli,Guion S. Bluford –USA Reinhard Furrer,Ernst Messerschmid –West Germany Wubbo Ockels –Netherlands (European Space Agency)	STS-61-A	USA  West Germany  Netherlands	30 October 1985 – 6 November 1985
Deaths during launch	Francis "Dick" Scobee Michael J. Smith Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Ronald McNair Sharon Christa McAuliffe Gregory Jarvis	STS-51-L	USA	28 January 1986
Space station-to-space station flight Space station-to-space station return flight Expedition on two space stations	Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov	Soyuz T-15 fromMir toSalyut 7 back toMir[15]	USSR	15 March 1986 – 16 July 1986
Person to accumulate 1 year in space	Leonid Kizim	Soyuz T-3 Soyuz T-15 visitingMir andSalyut 7	USSR	28 June 1986
Complete crew exchange at a space station	Vladimir Titov,Musa Manarov replaceYuri Romanenko,Alexander Alexandrov	Soyuz TM-4-Soyuz TM-2,Soyuz TM-3, atMir	USSR	21 December 1987 – 29 December 1987
People in orbit 52 weeks (one year)	Vladimir Titov,Musa Manarov	Mir EO-3,Soyuz TM-4-Soyuz TM-6	USSR	21 December 1987 – 21 December 1988
International spacewalk	Alexander Volkov,Jean-Loup Chrétien	Mir,Soyuz TM-7	USSR France	9 December 1988
Submariner in space	Michael J. McCulley	STS-34	USA	18 October 1989 – 23 October 1989
12 people in space at the same time (no docking)	Shuttle:Vance Brand,Samuel Durrance,Guy S. Gardner,Jeffrey A. Hoffman,John M. Lounge,Ronald Parise,Robert A. Parker –USA Mir:Gennady Manakov,Gennady Strekalov –Russia Soyuz and Soyuz/Mir: Musa Manarov,Viktor Afanasyev –Russia Toyohiro Akiyama –Japan	STS-35, Mir EO-7,Soyuz TM-10Soyuz TM-11	USSR USA Japan	2 December 1990 – 10 December 1990
Civilian to use a commercial space flight, and journalist to report on space from outer space	Toyohiro Akiyama –Japan	Soyuz TM-10,Soyuz TM-11	Japan	2 December 1990 – 10 December 1990
Three women in space at the same time	Millie Hughes-Fulford,Tamara E. Jernigan,M. Rhea Seddon	STS-40	USA	5 June 1991 – 14 June 1991
Three-person spacewalk	Pierre J. Thuot Richard J. Hieb Thomas D. Akers	STS-49	USA	13 May 1992
Married couple in space	Mark C. Lee,Jan Davis	STS-47	USA	12 September 1992 – 20 September 1992
13 people in space at the same time (no docking)	Shuttle:Steve Oswald,William Gregory,John Grunsfeld,Wendy Lawrence,Tammy Jernigan,Sam Durrance,Ron Parise –USA Mir:Aleksandr Viktorenko,Yelena Kondakova,Valeriy Polyakov –Russia Soyuz/Mir: Vladimir Dezhurov,Gennady Strekalov – Russia Norman E. Thagard –USA	STS-67,Mir,Soyuz TM-20,Soyuz TM-21	USA Russia	14 March 1995 – 18 March 1995
Ten people in a single spacecraft (docking)	Robert L. Gibson,Charles J. Precourt,Ellen S. Baker,Bonnie J. Dunbar,Gregory J. HarbaughNorman E. Thagard –USA Anatoly Solovyev,Nikolai Budarin,Vladimir Dezhurov,Gennady Strekalov –Russia	STS-71,Mir,Soyuz TM-21	USA Russia	29 June 1995 – 4 July 1995
Spacewalk during an international docking	Michael R. Clifford,Linda M. Godwin	STS-76,Mir	USA	27 March 1996
Person to accumulate 2 years in space	Sergey Avdeev	Soyuz TM-15 (Mir EO-12) Soyuz TM-22 (Mir EO-20)Soyuz TM-28/Soyuz TM-29Mir EO 27	Russia	10 July 1999
Woman to command a space mission	Eileen Collins	STS-93	USA	23 July 1999 – 27 July 1999
Space tourist	Dennis Tito	Soyuz TM-32/31,ISS EP-1	USA Russia	April 28, 2001 – May 6, 2001
Person to complete seven trips to space	Jerry L. Ross	STS-61B STS-27 STS-37 STS-55 STS-74 STS-88 STS-110	USA	19 April 2002
Deaths during re-entry	Rick D. Husband,William C. McCool,David M. Brown,Kalpana Chawla,Michael P. Anderson,Laurel B. Clark –USA Ilan Ramon –Israel	STS-107	USA Israel	1 February 2003
Privately funded human space flight (suborbital)	Mike Melvill	SpaceShipOne flight 15P	USA	21 June 2004
13 people in a single spacecraft (docking)[16]	Michael Barratt,Mark L. Polansky,Douglas G. Hurley,Christopher J. Cassidy,Thomas H. Marshburn,David Wolf,Timothy Kopra –USA Gennady Padalka,Roman Romanenko –Russia Robert Thirsk,Julie Payette –Canada Frank De Winne –Belgium (European Space Agency) Koichi Wakata –Japan	ISS,Soyuz TMA-14,Soyuz TMA-15,STS-127	USA Russia Canada Belgium Japan	17 July 2009
People to fly together three times on different missions	Frederick W. "CJ" Sturckow Patrick G. Forrester	STS-105 STS-117 STS-128	USA	28 August 2009
Four women in space at the same time (docking)	Shuttle: Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger,Stephanie Wilson –USA Naoko Yamazaki –Japan ISS:Tracy Caldwell Dyson –USA	STS-131 ISSExpedition 23	USA Japan	5 April 2010 – 20 April 2010
Thirty-ninth launch, orbital flight, and landing of a reusable crewed spacecraft	Steven W. Lindsey Eric A. Boe Nicole M. P. Stott Alvin Drew Michael R. Barratt Stephen G. Bowen	Space Shuttle Discovery STS-133	USA	24 February 2011 – 9 March 2011
Six spacecraft docked to a space station	ISS:Expedition 56	Dragon-15,Cygnus-9,Soyuz MS-08,Soyuz MS-09,Progress MS-08,Progress MS-09	USA Russia	9 July 2018
All-woman spacewalk Spacewalk by two women	Christina Koch Jessica Meir	ISSExpedition 61	USA	18 October 2019
Astronauts launched into orbit on commercial spacecraft Astronauts flying to a space station on commercial spacecraft [17][18]	Bob Behnken Doug Hurley	Crew Dragon Demo-2	USA	30 May 2020 – 31 May 2020
16 people in space (50 miles) at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Mark Vande Hei,Shane Kimbrough,K. Megan McArthur, –USA Oleg Novitsky,Pyotr Dubrov –Russia Thomas Pesquet –France Akihiko Hoshide –Japan TSS:Nie Haisheng,Liu Boming,Tang Hongbo, –China Unity:David Mackay,Michael Masucci,Beth Moses,Sirisha Bandla -USA Richard Branson, Colin Bennett –United Kingdom	Soyuz MS-18,SpaceX Crew-2,Shenzhou-12,Virgin Galactic Unity-22	USA China Russia France Japan UK	11 July 2021
14 people in space (100 km) at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Mark Vande Hei,Shane Kimbrough,K. Megan McArthur, –USA Oleg Novitsky,Pyotr Dubrov –Russia Thomas Pesquet –France Akihiko Hoshide –Japan TSS:Nie Haisheng,Liu Boming,Tang Hongbo, –China New Shepard:Jeff Bezos,Mark Bezos,Wally Funk –USA Oliver Daemen –Netherlands	Soyuz MS-18,SpaceX Crew-2,Shenzhou-12,Blue Origin NS-16	USA China Russia France Japan Netherlands	20 July 2021
Orbital spaceflight with an all private crew Fully commercial orbital spaceflight	Jared Isaacman Hayley Arceneaux Christopher Sembroski Sian Proctor	Inspiration4	USA	16 September 2021 – 18 September 2021
Womancommercial astronaut spaceship pilot Black woman spaceship pilot	Sian Proctor	Inspiration4	USA	16 September 2021 – 18 September 2021
Person withphysical disability in space Wearing ofprosthetics in space	Hayley Arceneaux	Inspiration4	USA	16 September 2021 – 18 September 2021
14 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Mark Vande Hei,Shane Kimbrough,K. Megan McArthur, –USA Oleg Novitsky,Pyotr Dubrov –Russia Thomas Pesquet –France Akihiko Hoshide –Japan TSS:Nie Haisheng,Liu Boming,Tang Hongbo, –China Inspiration4:Jared Isaacman,Hayley Arceneaux,Sian Proctor,Christopher Sembroski –USA	Soyuz MS-18,SpaceX Crew-2,Shenzhou-12,Inspiration4	USA China Russia France Japan	16 September 2021 – 17 September 2021
19 people in space (100 km) at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Mark Vande Hei,Raja Chari,Thomas Marshburn,Kayla Barron –USA Anton Shkaplerov,Pyotr Dubrov,Alexander Misurkin –Russia Matthias Maurer –Germany Yusaku Maezawa,Yozo Hirano –Japan TSS:Zhai Zhigang,Wang Yaping,Ye Guangfu, –China New Shepard: Laura Shepard Churchley,Michael Strahan,Dylan Taylor, Evan Dick,Lane Bess, Cameron Bess –USA	Soyuz MS-19,Shenzhou-13,SpaceX Crew-3,Soyuz MS-20,Blue Origin NS-19	USA China Russia Germany Japan	11 December 2021
Flight to a space station with an all private crew Fully commercial flight to a space station	Michael López-Alegría Larry Connor Mark Pathy Eytan Stibbe	Axiom Mission 1 ToISS	USA Spain Canada Israel	8 April 2022 – 18 April 2022
Simultaneous continuous inhabitation of two crewed space stations	ISS:Soyuz,Crew Dragon andStarliner[note 2] TSS:Shenzhou[note 3]	ISS TSS	Canada European Space Agency Japan USA Russia China	5 June 2022 – Present
5 women in space at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Jessica Watkins,Nicole Mann –USA Anna Kikina –Russia Samantha Cristoforetti –Italy Tiangong :Liu Yang –China	SpaceX Crew-4,SpaceX Crew-5,Shenzhou-14	USA Russia Italy China	5 October 2022 – 14 October 2022
20 people in space (50 miles) at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Stephen Bowen,Warren Hoburg,Peggy Whitson,John Shoffner,Francisco Rubio –USA Andrey Fedyaev,Dmitry Petelin,Sergey Prokopyev –Russia Ali AlQarni,Rayyanah Barnawi –Saudi Arabia Sultan Al Neyadi –UAE TSS:Fei Junlong,Deng Qingming,Zhang Lu –China Unity 25:Michael Masucci,Frederick W. "CJ" Sturckow,Beth Moses,Luke Mays,Jamila Gilbert,Christopher Huie –USA	Axiom Mission 2,Soyuz MS-23,SpaceX Crew-6,Shenzhou 15,Virgin Galactic Unity 25	USA Russia China Saudi Arabia UAE	25 May 2023
17 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Stephen Bowen,Warren Hoburg,Peggy Whitson,John Shoffner,Francisco Rubio –USA Andrey Fedyaev,Dmitry Petelin,Sergey Prokopyev –Russia Ali AlQarni,Rayyanah Barnawi –Saudi Arabia Sultan Al Neyadi –UAE TSS:Fei Junlong,Deng Qingming,Zhang Lu,Jing Haipeng,Zhu Yangzhu,Gui Haichao –China	Axiom Mission 2,Soyuz MS-23,SpaceX Crew-6,Shenzhou 15,Shenzhou 16	USA Russia China Saudi Arabia UAE	30 May 2023 – 31 May 2023
Seven spacecraft docked to a space station[19]	ISS:Expedition 70/Expedition 71	Dragon-30,Cygnus 21,Soyuz MS-24,Soyuz MS-25,Progress MS-25,Progress MS-26,SpaceX Crew-8	USA Russia	25 March 2024
Person to accumulate 1000 days in space	Oleg Kononenko	Expedition 71	Russia	5 June 2024
Woman to fly on the maiden crewed flight of an orbital spacecraft	Sunita Williams	Boeing CFT	USA	5 June 2024
Person to accumulate 3 years in space	Oleg Kononenko	Soyuz TMA-12 (Expedition 17)Soyuz TMA-03M (Expedition 30/31) Soyuz TMA-17M (Expedition 44/45)Soyuz MS-11 (Expedition 57/58/59)Soyuz MS-24/MS-25 (Expedition 69/70/71)Expedition 71	Russia	9 September 2024
19 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Tracy Caldwell-Dyson,Jeanette Epps,Sunita Williams,Barry E. Wilmore,Donald Pettit,Michael Barratt,Matthew Dominick –USA Alexander Grebenkin,Ivan Vagner,Nikolai Chub,Oleg Kononenko,Aleksey Ovchinin –Russia Polaris Dawn:Jared Isaacman,Scott Poteet,Sarah Gillis,Anna Menon –USA TSS:Ye Guangfu,Li Cong,Li Guangsu –China	Polaris Dawn,Soyuz MS-25,Soyuz MS-26,SpaceX Crew-8,Shenzhou 18	USA Russia China	11 September 2024 – 15 September 2024
All private crew spacewalk Spacewalk with commercially developed hardware, procedures, andEVA suit Four people in the vacuum of space during a spacewalk	Jared Isaacman Scott Poteet Sarah Gillis Anna Menon	Polaris Dawn	USA	12 September 2024
First humans topolarretrograde orbit,[20] i.e., to fly over Earth's North and South poles	Chun Wang Jannicke Mikkelsen Rabea Rogge Eric Philips	Fram2	Australia GER Norway / UK[a] Malta / Saint Kitts and Nevis[b]	1 April 2025
9 women in space at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Anne McClain,Nichole Ayers –USA TSS:Wang Haoze –China Blue Origin NS-31:Lauren Sánchez,Amanda Nguyen,Gayle King,Katy Perry,Kerianne Flynn –USA Aisha Bowe –USA/Bahamas	SpaceX Crew-10,Shenzhou 19,Blue Origin NS-31	USA China Bahamas	14 April 2025
20 people in space (100 km) at the same time (no docking)	ISS:Anne McClain,Nichole Ayers,Jonny Kim,Peggy Whitson –USA Kirill Peskov,Sergey Ryzhikov,Alexey Zubritsky –Russia Takuya Onishi –Japan Shubhanshu Shukla –India Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski –Poland Tibor Kapu –Hungary TSS:Chen Dong,Chen Zhongrui,Wang Jie, –China New Shepard: Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Owolabi Salis, James Sitkin –USA	SpaceX Crew-10,Soyuz MS-27,Shenzhou 20,Axiom Mission 4,Blue Origin NS-33	USA China Russia Japan India Poland Hungary	29 June 2025

• 10 launches
  • Frederick W. Sturckow (USA), Space Shuttle and SpaceShipTwo (1998–2024)

Note: The six SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight (50 mi (80.47 km)), but fall short of theKármán line (100 km (62.14 mi)), the definition used for FAI space recordkeeping.

• 7 launches
  • John W. Young (USA^[23]) launched from Earth 6 times (two Gemini, two Apollo Command Module, two Space Shuttle) and from the Moon once (Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage) (1965–1983)
  • Jerry L. Ross (USA^[16]), Space Shuttle (1985–2002)
  • Franklin Chang Díaz (Costa Rica/USA*^[16]), Space Shuttle (1986–2002)

• 7 launches
  • Jerry L. Ross (USA^[16]), Space Shuttle (1985–2002)
  • Franklin Chang Díaz (Costa Rica/USA^[16]), Space Shuttle (1986–2002)

• 4 launch vehicles
  • John W. Young (USA) – launched from Earth aboard a Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle, and launched from the Moon aboard the Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage

• 3 spacecraft
  • Walter Schirra (USA) – launched aboard a Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (1962–1968)
  • John W. Young (USA) – launched aboard a Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle (1965–1983)
  • Soichi Noguchi (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2005–2020)
  • Shane Kimbrough (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2008–2021)
  • Akihiko Hoshide (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2008–2021)
  • Thomas Marshburn (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2007–2021)
  • Koichi Wakata (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (1996–2022)
  • Peggy Whitson (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2002–2023)
  • Michael López-Alegría (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (1995–2024)
  • Michael Barratt (USA) – launched aboard a Soyuz, Space Shuttle, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2009–2024)
  • Barry Wilmore (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Boeing Starliner (2009–2024) (landed in a SpaceX Crew Dragon in 2025)
  • Sunita Williams (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Boeing Starliner (2006–2024) (landed in a SpaceX Crew Dragon in 2025)
  • Michael Fincke (USA) – launched aboard a Soyuz, Space Shuttle, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2004–2025)

• 3 sites – Any orbital launch
  • Neil Armstrong (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966),Kennedy Space Center (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1969),Tranquility Base (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
  • Buzz Aldrin (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966),Kennedy Space Center (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1969),Tranquility Base (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
  • Pete Conrad (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (twice aboard a Gemini capsule 1965–1966),Kennedy Space Center (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1973),Ocean of Storms (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
  • Alan Shepard (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (aboard a Mercury capsule in 1961),Kennedy Space Center (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1971),Fra Mauro (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1971).
  • David Scott (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966),Kennedy Space Center (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1971),Hadley Rille (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1971).
  • John Young (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, twice aboard a Gemini capsule 1965–1966),Kennedy Space Center (four times, twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1971, twice aboard a Space Shuttle 1981–1983),Descartes Highlands (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1972).
  • Gene Cernan (USA) –Cape Kennedy Air Force Station (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966),Kennedy Space Center (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1972),Taurus–Littrow (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1972).

• 3 sites – Only orbital launches from Earth
  • Sunita Williams (USA) –Kennedy Space Center (aboard a Space Shuttle in 2006),Baikonur Cosmodrome (aboard a Soyuz capsule in 2012),Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (aboard a Starliner capsule in 2024).
  • Barry E. Wilmore (USA) –Kennedy Space Center (aboard a Space Shuttle in 2009),Baikonur Cosmodrome (aboard a Soyuz capsule in 2014),Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (aboard a Starliner capsule in 2024).

• 3 sites
  • Frederick W. Sturckow (USA) –Kennedy Space Center (four times aboard a Space Shuttle 1998–2010),Mojave Air and Space Port (aboard aVirgin GalacticSpaceShipTwo in 2018), andSpaceport America (also aboard a SpaceShipTwo, five times 2021–2024).

Notes:

• Seven of the twelve Apollo program moonwalkers launched from what was then called Cape Kennedy Air Force Station as part of the Mercury or Gemini programs. On their respective Lunar Landing Mission those seven launched twice. All Apollo Lunar Landing missions that landed on the moon launched from the Kennedy Space Center and when the lunar surface portion of their mission was complete, launched from the surface of the moon to meet up with the Apollo Command Module in lunar orbit.
• SpaceShipTwo flights are suborbital. SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight (50 mi (80.47 km)), but fall short of theKármán line (100 km (62.14 mi)), the FAI definition used for most space recordkeeping.

Total Human Spaceflight statistics by nation^[24][25]

Nation	Total persons	Total person flights	Total in orbit (@ update)*	Total person days*+	% of Total person days
TOTAL	638	1402	10	74562.19	- 1
Russia  Soviet Union	140	302	3	33984.09	0.455781864591207
United States	370	906	3	28318.18	0.379792823368199
China	26	41	3	4738.09	0.0635454369580232
ESA	44	73	-	3966.20	0.0531932107479923
Japan	14	28	1	2315.54	0.0310552075425937
Italy	8	15	-	1158.81	0.0155415667619821
Germany	13	18	-	1036.43	0.0139002075207579
France	10	19	-	828.66	0.0111137284371228
Canada	11	19	-	726.86	0.00974831335813361
Netherlands	2	3	-	210.69	0.00282569876998486
Denmark	1	2	-	208.94	0.00280222842811797
Belgium	2	3	-	207.65	0.00278498890319908
United Arab Emirates	2	2	-	193.82	0.00259947075254571
United Kingdom	2	2	-	193.81	0.00259928447999121
Sweden	2	3	-	48.39	0.000648945638991657
Switzerland	1	4	-	42.50	0.000570021957650392
Israel	2	2	-	33.01	0.000442667412139364
Poland	2	2	-	28.04	0.000376093601161389
India	2	2	-	28.03	0.00037588870135144
Hungary	2	2	-	27.99	0.000375376451826567
Saudi Arabia	3	3	-	25.52	0.000342294446147529
Turkey	1	1	-	21.65	0.000290398912464082
Spain	1	2	-	18.78	0.00025189637544912
Ukraine	1	1	-	15.69	0.000210432104817623
Belarus	1	1	-	13.78	0.000184791687690823
Bulgaria	2	2	-	11.80	0.000158238535046978
Malaysia	1	1	-	10.88	0.000145972487333212
South Korea	1	1	-	10.88	0.000145972487333212
South Africa	1	1	-	9.89	0.000132672626941977
Brazil	1	1	-	9.89	0.000132598117920178
Kazakhstan	1	1	-	9.84	0.000132011359373506
Afghanistan	1	1	-	8.85	0.00011871149898227
Syria	1	1	-	7.96	0.000106771428238879
Czechoslovakia	1	1	-	7.93	0.000106324374108081
Austria	1	1	-	7.93	0.000106287119597181
Slovakia	1	1	-	7.91	0.000106138101553582
Cuba	1	1	-	7.86	0.00010545820672966
Mongolia	1	1	-	7.86	0.000105448893101935
Vietnam	1	1	-	7.86	0.000105448893101935
Romania	1	1	-	7.86	0.00010543957947421
Mexico	1	1	-	6.88	9.22421689879497e-05
Malta	1	1	-	3.61	4.83563551479639e-05
Australia	1	1	-	3.61	4.83563551479639e-05
Norway	1	1	-	3.61	4.83563551479639e-05
Astronauts currently in space: Zhongrui Chen Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke Zena Maria Cardman Oleg Vladimirovich Platonov Jonathan Yong "Jonny" Kim Sergei Nikolaevich Ryzhikov Jie Wang Dong Chen Kimiya Yui Aleksei Vitalyevich Zubritsky
Table data accurate as of 2025-10-06 14:21 UTC
* includes those in orbit at time table was updated +TOTAL person days in orbit will not match the sum of the totals for individual nations as some individuals are dual citizens (based solely on those identified as such byspacefacts.de - see table references).

The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonautOleg Kononenko, who has spent 1,111 days in space over five missions. He broke the record ofGennady Padalka on 4 February 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC during his fifth spaceflight aboardSoyuz MS-24/25 for a one year long-duration mission on theISS.^[26] He later became the first person to stay 900, 1,000, and 1,100 days in space on 25 February 2024, 4 June 2024, and 12 September 2024 respectively.^[27][28]Gennady Padalka is currently second, having spent 878 days in space. He himself had broken the all-time duration record on 28 June 2015 when he surpassed the previous record holder, cosmonautSergei Krikalev, who spent 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes (about 2.2 years) during six spaceflights onSoyuz, theSpace Shuttle,Mir, and theInternational Space Station.^[29][30][31]

As of 25 October 2025^[update],^[32] the 50 space travelers with the most total time in space are:

Color key:

•   Currently in space
•   Active
•   Retired
•   Deceased

Rank	Person	Days	Flights	Status	Nationality
1	Oleg Kononenko	1110.623	5	Active	Russia
2	Gennady Padalka	878.478	5	Retired	Russia
3	Yuri Malenchenko	827.389	6	Retired	Russia
4	Sergei Krikalev	803.371	6	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
5	Aleksandr Kaleri	769.276	5	Retired	Russia
6	Sergei Avdeev	747.593	3	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
7	Anton Shkaplerov	709.336	4	Retired	Russia
8	Peggy Whitson	695.284	5	Active	United States
9	Valeri Polyakov	678.690	2	Deceased	Soviet Union /Russia
10	Fyodor Yurchikhin	672.860	5	Retired	Russia
11	Anatoly Solovyev	651.117	5	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
12	Sunita Williams	608.014	3	Active	United States
13	Aleksey Ovchinin	595.185	3	Active	Russia
14	Donald Pettit	590.068	4	Active	United States
15	Sergey Prokopyev	567.633	2	Active	Russia
16	Oleg Artemyev	560.754	3	Active	Russia
17	Sergey Ryzhikov	558.373	3	Active	Russia
18	Viktor Afanasyev	555.772	4	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
19	Yury Usachov	552.934	4	Retired	Russia
20	Sergey Volkov	547.931	3	Retired	Russia
21	Pavel Vinogradov	546.939	3	Retired	Russia
22	Aleksandr Skvortsov	545.964	3	Retired	Russia
23	Oleg Novitsky	545.069	4	Active	Russia
24	Musa Manarov	541.021	2	Retired	Soviet Union /Azerbaijan[note 4]
25	Oleg Skripochka	536.159	3	Retired	Russia
26	Jeffrey Williams	534.116	4	Retired	United States
27	Mikhail Tyurin	532.118	3	Retired	Russia
28	Oleg Kotov	526.211	3	Retired	Russia
29	Mark T. Vande Hei	523.374	2	Active	United States
30	Scott Kelly	520.440	4	Retired[33]	United States
31	Mikhail Kornienko	516.417	2	Retired	Russia
32	Koichi Wakata	504.773	5	Active	Japan
33	Aleksandr Viktorenko	489.066	4	Deceased	Soviet Union /Russia
34	Anatoli Ivanishin	476.195	3	Retired	Russia
35	Michael Fincke	466.491	4	Active	United States
36	Barry E. Wilmore	464.335	3	Retired	United States
37	Michael Barratt	446.640	3	Active	United States
38	Nikolai Budarin	444.060	3	Retired	Russia
39	Yuri Romanenko	430.765	3	Retired	Soviet Union
40	Ivan Vagner	416.157	2	Active	Russia
41	Chen Dong	398.788	3	Active	China
42	Thomas Pesquet	396.482	2	Active	France
43	Aleksandr Volkov	391.495	3	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
44	Yury Onufriyenko	389.615	2	Retired	Russia
45	Shane Kimbrough	388.728	3	Retired	United States
46	Vladimir Titov	387.031	4	Retired	Soviet Union /Russia
47	Vasily Tsibliyev	381.662	2	Retired	Russia
48	Valery Korzun	381.653	2	Retired	Russia
49	Christopher Cassidy	377.742	3	Retired	United States
50	Leonid Kizim	374.749	3	Deceased	Soviet Union

#	Time in space	Crew	Country	Launch date (Launch craft)	Landing date (Landing craft)	Space station or mission type
1	437.7 days[34][35]	Valeri Polyakov[34]	Russia	1994-01-08 (Soyuz TM-18)	1995-03-22 (Soyuz TM-20)	Mir[34]
2	379.6 days[35]	Sergey Avdeev[35]	Russia	1998-08-13 (Soyuz TM-28)	1999-08-28 (Soyuz TM-29)	Mir[35]
3	373.8 days	Oleg Kononenko	Russia	2023-09-15 (Soyuz MS-24)	2024-09-23 (Soyuz MS-25)	International Space Station
		Nikolai Chub
4	370.9 days	Sergey Prokopyev	Russia	2022-09-21 (Soyuz MS-22)	2023-09-27 (Soyuz MS-23)	International Space Station
		Dmitry Petelin
		Francisco Rubio	United States
5	365.9 days[35]	Vladimir Titov[35]	Soviet Union	1987-12-21 (Soyuz TM-4)	1988-12-21 (Soyuz TM-6)	Mir[35]
		Musa Manarov[35]
6	355.2 days[36]	Pyotr Dubrov	Russia	2021-04-09 (Soyuz MS-18)	2022-03-30 (Soyuz MS-19)	International Space Station
		Mark T. Vande Hei	United States
7	340.4 days	Mikhail Kornienko	Russia	2015-03-27 (Soyuz TMA-16M)	2016-03-01 (Soyuz TMA-18M)	International Space Station, ISS year-long mission
		Scott Kelly	United States
8	328.6 days[37][38]	Christina Koch[38]	United States	2019-03-14 (Soyuz MS-12)	2020-02-06 (Soyuz MS-13)	International Space Station
9	326.5 days[39]	Yuri Romanenko[39]	Soviet Union	1987-02-05 (Soyuz TM-2)	1987-12-29 (Soyuz TM-3)	Mir[39]
10	311.8 days[40]	Sergei Krikalev[40]	Soviet Union/ Russia	1991-05-18 (Soyuz TM-12)	1992-03-25 (Soyuz TM-13)	Mir[40]

NASA astronautChristina Koch holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (328 days), returning on February 6, 2020.^[38] DuringExpedition 61, she surpassed NASA astronautPeggy Whitson's 289 days from 2016-2017.

An international partnership consisting of Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the member states of theEuropean Space Agency have jointly maintained a continuous human presence in space since 31 October 2000 whenSoyuz TM-31 was launched. Two days later, it docked with theInternational Space Station.^[16][41] Since then space has been continuously occupied for 24 years, 359 days.^[16]

TheInternational Space Station has been continuously occupied by a Russian and US crew member since 2 November 2000 (24 years, 357 days).^[16][41] It broke the record of 9 years and 358 days of the Soviet/Russian Space StationMir on 23 October 2010.^[41]

Valery Bykovsky flew solo for 4 days, 23 hours inVostok 5 from 14 to 19 June 1963.^[42] The flight set a space endurance record which was broken in 1965 by the (non-solo)Gemini 5 flight. The Apollo program included long solo spaceflight, and during theApollo 16 mission,Ken Mattingly orbited solo around the Moon for more than 3 days and 9 hours.

Eugene Cernan andHarrison Schmitt of theApollo 17 mission stayed for 74 hours 59 minutes and 40 seconds (over 3 days) on the lunar surface after they landed on 11 December 1972.^[43] They performed threeEVAs (extra-vehicular activity) totaling 22 hours 3 minutes, 57 seconds. As Apollo commanders were the first to leave the LM and the last to get back in, Cernan's EVA time was slightly longer.^[43]

Ronald Evans ofApollo 17 mission stayed in lunar orbit for 6 days and 4 hours (148 hours)^[44]along with five mice. For the solo portion of a flight around the Moon,Ken Mattingly onApollo 16 spent 1 hour 38 minutes longer than Evans' solo duration.

TheApollo 10 crew (Thomas Stafford,John W. Young andEugene Cernan) achieved the highest speed relative to Earth ever attained by humans: 39,897 kilometers per hour (11,082 meters per second or 24,791 miles per hour, about 32 times thespeed of sound and 0.0037% of thespeed of light).^[16] The record was set 26 May 1969, upon atmospheric entry interface after returning from the Moon.^[16]

The record for uncrewed spacecraft is held by theParker Solar Probe at 191.7 km/s, about 1/1600 (or 0.064%) thespeed of light, relative to the Sun. This speed was first reached in December 2024.

TheApollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell,Fred Haise, andJack Swigert), while passing over the far side of the Moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 mi) from the lunar surface, were 400,171 km (248,655 mi) from Earth.^[45] This record-breaking distance was reached at 00:21 UTC on 15 April 1970.^[45]

Polaris Dawn crewJared Isaacman,Scott Poteet,Sarah Gillis andAnna Menon fired theirCrew Dragon Resilience'sDraco thrusters on 11 September 2024 at 00:27 UTC, at 15 hours and 4 minutes after liftoff and achieved a record apogee altitude of 874.95 miles (1,408.10 km).^[46]

• Man –Joe Walker (born 20 February 1921), onX-15 Flight 90 on 19 July 1963 (about 12 minutes.)
• Woman –Wally Funk (born 1 February 1939), onBlue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.)

• Man –Georgy Beregovoy (born 15 April 1921), onSoyuz 3 on 26 October 1968 (81 orbits in about 4 days.)
• Woman –Valentina Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937), onVostok 6 on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.)

• Woman –Anastatia Mayers (aged 18 years, 10 months, and 14 days), onGalactic 02, on 10 August 2023 (about 5 minutes.)
• Man –Oliver Daemen (aged 18 years and 11 months), onBlue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.)

• Man –Gherman Titov (aged 25 years, 10 months, and 26 days), onVostok 2 on 6 August 1961 (17.5 orbits, about 1 day.)^[16]
• Woman –Valentina Tereshkova (aged 26 years, 3 months, and 10 days), onVostok 6 on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.)

• Man:Ed Dwight (aged 90 years, 8 months, and 10 days), onBlue Origin NS-25, on 19 May 2024 (about 10 minutes).
• Woman:Wally Funk (aged 82 years, 5 months, and 19 days), onBlue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes).

• Man:John Glenn (aged 77 years, 3 months, and 11 days), onSTS-95 on 29 October 1998 (about 9 days, 20 hours).^[47]
• Woman:Peggy Whitson (aged 65 years, 4 months, and 16 days), onAxiom Mission 4 on 25 June 2025 (about 20 days, 2 hours and 59 minutes).^[48]

• Woman –Sarah Gillis, (aged 30 years, 8 months, and 11 days), duringPolaris Dawn.
• Man –Alexei Leonov (aged 30 years, 9 months, and 18 days), duringVoskhod 2.

• Man –Michael Barratt (aged 65 years, 2 months, and 8 days), duringISS Expedition 71.
• Woman –Sunita Williams (aged 59 years, 4 months, and 11 days), during ISSExpedition 72.

Both of these are the record for the largest total number of spacewalks by a male and a female, and the most cumulative time spent on spacewalks by a male and a female.

• Man –Anatoly Solovyev,16 spacewalks for a total time of82 hours, 21 minutes.^[49]
• Woman (number) –Peggy Whitson,10 spacewalks for a total time of 60 hours, 21 minutes.^[50][51][52]
• Woman (cumulative time) –Sunita Williams, 9 spacewalks for a total time of62 hours, and 6 minutes.^[53][54]

• 7:Anatoly Solovyev, duringExpedition 24 on the Soviet/Russian space stationMir, in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.)
• 7:Andrew Morgan, during his first spaceflight on board theISS forExpedition 60/61/62 in 2019–2020, he spent 45 hours and 48 minutes outside the station.

• Man –Cai Xuzhe andSong Lingdong, 9 hours 6 minutes, during theShenzhou 19 mission on 17 December 2024, as they installed space debris protection devices on the exterior of theTiangong Space Station.^[55]
• Woman –Susan Helms, 8 hours 56 minutes, along withJames Voss on an ISS assembly mission during Shuttle missionSTS-102 on 11 March 2001. The spacewalkers were delayed early in their excursion when a device to help hold an astronaut's feet to the shuttle's robot arm became untethered,^[56] and Voss had to retrieve a spare from storage on the exterior of the station'sUnity module. After about six hours of work, the pair reenteredSpace ShuttleDiscovery's airlock.

• All-time (and while on a planetary body^[57]): 7.6 kilometers^[58]: 1144 (4.7 miles, 25,029 feet^[59]), Apollo 17, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, EVA-2, December 12, 1972. During their second of three moonwalks, Cernan and Schmitt rode theLunar Roving Vehicle to geological station 2,Nansen Crater, at the foot of theSouth Massif. As all spacewalks not occurring on a planetary body (the Moon) have involved short maximum distances from the spacecraft (see below), this remains the furthest distance that humans have traveled away from the safety of a pressurizable spacecraft, during an EVA of any type.
• Orbital flight: about 100 meters (or 330 feet),Bruce McCandless,STS-41-B, February 7, 1984. With the exception of sixManned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) sorties in 1984 and a test of theSimplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) in 1994, all other orbital spacewalks have involved a safety tether, anchoring the spacefarer to the spacecraft at a short distance. Of all spacewalks to date, Bruce McCandless' first test of the MMU established an orbital EVA distance record from a spacecraft which remained unbroken by later untethered EVAs.^[60]

The first animals to enter space werefruit flies launched by the United States in 1947 aboard aV-2 rocket to an altitude of 68 miles (109 km).^[61] They were also the first animals to safely return from space.^[61]Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S.V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a SovietR-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi) and safely parachuted back to Earth.^[62]: 21

Laika was a Soviet femalecanine launched on 3 November 1957 onSputnik 2. The technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, so there was no expectation for survival. She died several hours into flight.Belka and Strelka became the first canines to safely return to Earth from orbit on 19 August 1960.

On 31 January 1961, through NASA'sMercury-Redstone 2 mission thechimpanzeeHam became the firstgreat ape in space.^[63]

Soviet space dogsVeterok (Ветерок, "Light Wind") andUgolyok (Уголёк, "Ember") were launched on 22 February 1966 on boardCosmos 110 and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on 16 March.

An assortment of animals including a pair ofRussian tortoises, as well aswine flies andmealworms flew around the Moon with a number of other biological specimens includingseeds andbacteria on acircumlunar mission aboard the SovietZond 5 spacecraft on 18 September 1968.^[61] It had been launched by aProton-K rocket on 14 September.^[61]

Zond 5 came within 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of the Moon and then successfully returned to Earth, the first spacecraft in history to return safely to Earth from the Moon.^[61]

In reference to:	Spacecraft	Event	Origin	Date
Earth	MW 18014 (A-4(V-2))	Firstrocket toreach space (suborbital flight).	Germany	20 June 1944
Earth	V-2 No. 20	Firstliving organisms (fruit flies) in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered.	USA	20 February 1947
Earth	V-2 No. 47	First mammal in space,Albert II, a rhesus monkey (suborbital flight). Died in capsule parachute failure.	USA	14 June 1949
Earth	R-1V[64]	First dogs in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered.	USSR	22 July 1951
Earth	Sputnik 1	Firstsatellite inorbit.[5]	USSR	4 October 1957
Earth	Sputnik 2	First animal in orbit,Laika, a dog.	USSR	3 November 1957
Earth	Vanguard 1	Oldest satellite still in orbit, in addition to its upper launch stage. Expected to stay in orbit 240 years. Ceased transmission in May 1964.	USA	17 March 1958
Earth	Pioneer 1	Failed to reach the Moon as intended, but reached a record–setting distance of 113,800 kilometres (70,700 mi) from Earth.	USA	11 October 1958
Earth	Luna 1	First spacecraft to achieve Earth'sescape velocity.	USSR	4 January 1959
Moon	Luna 1	First flyby. Distance of 5,995 kilometres (3,725 mi).	USSR	4 January 1959
Sun	Luna 1	First spacecraft inheliocentric orbit.	USSR	4 January 1959
Moon	Luna 2	First impact on another celestial body.[5]	USSR	14 September 1959
Moon	Luna 3	First image of lunar far-side.[5]	USSR	7 October 1959
Earth	Discoverer 13	First satellite recovered from orbit.[5]	USA	11 August 1960
Earth	Korabl-Sputnik 2	First living beings recovered from orbit.[65]	USSR	19 August 1960
Earth	Mercury-Redstone 2	Firstgreat ape orHominidae in space,Ham, achimpanzee (suborbital flight).[63]	USA	31 January 1961
Venus	Venera 1	First flyby. Distance of 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi) (lost communication contact before).[5]	USSR	19 May 1961
Moon	Ranger 4	First spacecraft to impact thefar side of the Moon.[66]	USA	26 April 1962
Earth	Alouette 1	First satellite designed and constructed by a country other than the USA or USSR (the British satelliteAriel 1, launched five months earlier, was designed and constructed by the USA).[67]	Canada	29 September 1962
Venus	Mariner 2	Firstplanetary flyby with communication contact. Distance of 34,762 kilometres (21,600 mi).	USA	14 December 1962
Earth	Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1	Oldest spacecraft still in use (59 years as of 2024[update]).	USA	6 May 1965
Mars	Mariner 4	First flyby and first planetary imaging. Distance of 9,846 kilometres (6,118 mi).	USA	14 July 1965
Earth	Astérix	First satellite launched independently by a nation other than the USA or USSR (other nations had previously flown satellites launched on American rockets).	France	26 November 1965
Moon	Luna 9	First soft landing and first pictures from the lunar surface.[5]	USSR	3 February 1966
Earth	Kosmos 110	First seeds to germinate in space.	USSR	22 February 1966
Venus	Venera 3	First impact.[5]	USSR	1 March 1966
Moon	Luna 10	First orbiter.[5]	USSR	3 April 1966
Docking	Cosmos 186,Cosmos 188	First automated docking of uncrewed spacecraft.	USSR	30 October 1967
Moon	Surveyor 6	First planned, controlled, powered flight from the surface of another body.	USA	17 November 1967
Moon	Zond 5	First to circle the Moon and return to land on Earth. First animals to circle the Moon (Russian tortoises) .	USSR	15 September 1968
Moon	Luna 16	First automated sample return.	USSR	24 September 1970
Moon	Luna 17	First robotic roving vehicle,Lunokhod 1.	USSR	17 November 1970
Venus	Venera 7	First soft landing on another planet.	USSR	15 December 1970
Earth	Salyut 1	First space station.	USSR	19 April 1971
Mars	Mariner 9	First orbiter.	USA	14 November 1971
Mars	Mars 2	First impact.	USSR	27 November 1971
Mars	Mars 3	First soft landing. Maintained telemetry signal for 20 seconds before transmissions ceased.	USSR	2 December 1971
Sun	Pioneer 10	First spacecraft to achieve the Sun's escape velocity.	USA	3 March 1972
Jupiter	Pioneer 10	First flyby. Distance of 132,000 kilometres (82,000 mi).	USA	4 December 1973
Mercury	Mariner 10	First flyby. Distance of 703 kilometres (437 mi).	USA	29 March 1974
Venus	Venera 9	First orbiter. First surface-level imaging of another planet.	USSR	22 October 1975
Mars	Viking 1	First surface-level imaging of Mars.	USA	20 July 1976
Saturn	Pioneer 11	First flyby. Distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).	USA	1 September 1979
Venus	Venera 13	First sound recording made on another planet.	USSR	1 March 1982
OrbitalSpace Station	Soyuz T-5,Salyut 7	First species of plant to flower in space.[68]Arabidopsis thalianaValentin Lebedev.	USSR	1 July 1982
Trans-Neptunian region	Pioneer 10	First to travel past the orbit ofNeptune, the furthest major planet from the Sun.	USA	13 June 1983
Venus	Vega 1	First helium balloon atmospheric probe. First flight (as opposed to atmospheric entry) in another planet's atmosphere.	USSR	11 June 1985
Comet Giacobini-Zinner	International Cometary Explorer (ICE)	First flyby through acomet tail (no pictures). Distance of 7,800 kilometres (4,800 mi).	USA	11 September 1985
Uranus	Voyager 2	First flyby. Distance of 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi).	USA	24 January 1986
Comet Halley	Vega 1	Firstcomet flyby (with pictures returned). Distance of 8,890 kilometres (5,520 mi).	USSR	6 March 1986
Earth	Mir Core Module,Kvant-1	First modular space station.	USSR	9 April 1987
OrbitalSpaceplane	Buran	First fully automated orbital flight of aspaceplane (with airstrip landing).	USSR	15 November 1988
Phobos	Phobos 2	First flyby. Distance of 860 kilometres (530 mi).	USSR	21 February 1989
Neptune	Voyager 2	First flyby. Distance of 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi).	USA	25 August 1989
Moon	Hiten	First lunar probe launched by a country other than the USA or USSR.	Japan	18 March 1990
951 Gaspra	Galileo	Firstasteroid flyby. Distance of 1,600 kilometres (990 mi).	USA	29 October 1991
Jupiter	Galileo probe	First impact.	USA	7 December 1995
Jupiter	Galileo	First orbiter.	USA	8 December 1995
Mars	Mars Pathfinder	First automated roving vehicle,Sojourner.	USA	4 July 1997
433 Eros	NEAR Shoemaker	First asteroid orbiter.	USA	14 February 2000
433 Eros	NEAR Shoemaker	First asteroid soft landing.	USA	12 February 2001
Saturn	Cassini orbiter	First orbiter.	ESA USA Italy	1 July 2004
Solar wind	Genesis	First sample return from farther than the Moon.	USA	8 September 2004
Titan	Huygens probe	First soft landing.	ESA USA	14 January 2005
Comet Tempel 1	Deep Impact	First comet impact.	USA	4 July 2005
25143 Itokawa	Hayabusa	First asteroid ascent. First interplanetary escape without undercarriage cutoff.[clarification needed]	Japan	19 November 2005
81P/Wild	Stardust	First sample return from comet.	USA	15 January 2006
Earth	Voyager 1	Farthest distance from Earth (14,841,000,000 miles (2.3884×1010 km; 159.66 AU)). Farthest distance from the Sun (14,912,000,000 miles (2.3999×1010 km; 160.42 AU)).	USA	As of July 2023[update][69]
Longest time in operation	Voyager 2	Longest continually operating space probe (since August 1977).	USA	As of 2015[update]
Moon	Moon Impact Probe	First impact onLunar south pole and discovery ofwater on Moon.[70]	India	14 November 2008
Earth to Venus trajectory	IKAROS	First interplanetarysolar sail.	Japan	Set sail on 10 June 2010
25143 Itokawa	Hayabusa	First sample return from an asteroid.	Japan	13 June 2010
Mercury	MESSENGER	First orbiter.	USA	17 March 2011
Earth–Sun L2Lagrange point	Chang'e 2	First spacecraft to reach the L2 Lagrangian point directly from lunar orbit.[71]	China	25 August 2011
International Space Station	SpaceX Dragon 1	First commercial spacecraft to berth with the International Space Station.	USA	25 May 2012
Interstellar medium	Voyager 1	First spacecraft to cross theheliopause, thereby exiting theheliosphere and entering interstellar space.	USA	25 August 2012
4179 Toutatis	Chang'e 2	First spacecraft to reach an asteroid directly from a Sun-EarthLangrangian point. First spacecraft to explore both the Moon and an asteroid.[72]	China	13 December 2012
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko	Rosetta	First comet orbiter.[73]	ESA	6 August 2014
Mars	MOM	First Asian nation to achieve Mars orbit and first in the world to do so in first attempt.[74]	India	24 September 2014
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko	Philae	First comet soft landing.[75]	ESA	12 November 2014
Ceres	Dawn	Firstdwarf planet orbiter.[76]	USA	6 March 2015
Mars	Opportunity	Longest distance traveled on surface of another world (26.219 miles (42.195 km), marathon-length).[77]	USA	23 March 2015
Mercury	MESSENGER	First impact.[78]	USA	30 April 2015
Pluto	New Horizons	First flyby ofPluto,Charon,Nix,Hydra,Kerberos, andStyx. First up-close images of the Pluto system and of Pluto and Charon's surfaces. First to explore theKuiper belt.	USA	14 July 2015
All 9 planets in the pre-IAU redefinition version of theSolar System	All United States spacecraft includingNew Horizons	With theNew Horizons flyby ofPluto, the United States is the first nation to have its space probes explore all nine planets in the pre-2006IAU redefinition version of theSolar System.	USA	14 July 2015
Earth	Falcon 9 (B1021)	First re-flight of an orbital class rocket stage after a vertical propulsive landing.[79]	USA	30 March 2017
Earth	Falcon 9 H-IIA-202	Shortest period between orbital launches (launched 72[80][81][82][83][84] seconds apart).	USA Japan	23 December 2017
1.66 au heliocentric orbit	Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster onFalcon HeavyTest Flight	First successful Deep Space mission launched successfully on a rocket's maiden flight	USA	6 February 2018
Moon	Chang'e 4	First soft landing at thefar side of the Moon.	China	3 January 2019
Moon	Yutu-2	First lunar rover traversing thefar side of the Moon.	China	3 January 2019
Moon	Beresheet	First commercial/privately funded spacecraft to enter lunar orbit.	Israel	4 April 2019
101955 Bennu	OSIRIS-REx	Smallest body to be orbited by spacecraft (492 m (1,600 ft) diameter) and closest ever orbit (680 m (2,230 ft) altitude).[85][86]	USA	12 June 2019
Moon	Yutu-2	Longest operational lunar rover after breaking the longevity record of 321 Earth days held by Soviet Union'sLunokhod 1 rover.[87]	China	20 November 2019
Moon	Chang'e 5	First roboticrendezvous and docking by two spacecraft (lunar orbiter attached with reentry-capsule and lunar ascent vehicle) in lunar orbit or any orbit other than Earth's.[88]	China	5 December 2020
Moon	Chang'e 5	First robotic transfer of payload (lunar samples from lunar ascent vehicle to reentry capsule) between two docked spacecraft in lunar orbit or any orbit other than Earth's.[89]	China	5 December 2020
Mars	Ingenuity	First controlled,powered flight by a rotary wing aircraft on another planet.[90]	USA	19 April 2021
Earth	Zhuque-2	First methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit[91]	China	12 July 2023
Moon	Chandrayaan-3	First soft landing atLunar south polar region.	India	23 August 2023
Moon	IM-1 Odysseus	First successful commercial and firstcryogenicpropelled lunar landing.[92] First soft landing within thelunar south pole region at80°08′S1°26′E / 80.13°S 1.44°E /-80.13; 1.44[93]	USA	22 February 2024
Moon	Chang'e 6	First sample collection and return from thefar side of the Moon.[94]	China	3 June, 25 June 2024
Earth	Falcon 9	Most consecutive launch successes of a single type of rocket: 365.	USA	14 January 2017 – 8 July 2024
Earth	Falcon 9	Most consecutive landing successes of a single type of rocket stage: 267.	USA	4 March 2021 – 20 August 2024
Earth	Falcon 9 (B1067)	Most vertical landings of a single orbital rocket stage: 29.	USA	3 June 2021 – 2 July 2025
Earth	Falcon 9 (B1088)	Shortest time between two flights of the same orbital rocket stage: 9 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes	USA	12 March 2025 - 21 March 2025
Sun	Parker Solar Probe	Highest velocity of a spacecraft relative to the Sun: 191.7 km/s (690,000 km/h; 430,000 mph). Closest approach to the Sun: distance of 0.041 AU (6,000,000 kilometres; 3,800,000 mi).[95][96] This makes the probe the fastest object in the Solar System apart from comets (overtaking asteroid2005 HC4).	USA	24 December 2024