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The Top 5 Longest Human Spaceflights
| Mission (name of flights) |
Mission dates | Total time spent in space | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valeri Polyakov (Soyuz TM-18/Soyuz TM-20) |
Jan 8, 1994 to Mar 22, 1995 | 437 days, 17 hrs, 58 min |
| 2 | Sergei Avdeyev (Soyuz TM-28/Soyuz TM-29) |
Aug 13, 1998 to Aug 28, 1999 | 379 days, 14 hrs, 51 min, 9 sec |
| 3 | Musa Manarov, Vladimir Titov (Soyuz TM-4/Soyuz TM-6) |
Dec 21, 1987 to Dec 21, 1988 | 365 days, 22 hrs, 39 min |
| 4 | Mikhail Korniyenko, Scott Kelly (Soyuz TMA-16M/Soyuz TM-18M) |
Mar 27, 2015 to Mar 2, 2016 | 340 days, 8 hrs, 42 min, 30 sec |
| 5 | Yuri Romanenko (Soyuz TM-2/Soyuz TM-3) |
Feb 5, 1987 to Dec 5, 1987 | 326 days, 11 hrs, 38 min |
Special Report
- Cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov were the first to spend a year in space during Soyuz TM-4 in 1987-1988.
- The longest human spaceflight by a woman was Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy, representing the European Space Agency on the ISS. She spent 199 days aboard the ISS in 2014-2015.
- Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to reach space on April 12th, 1961.
- Less than one month after Gagarin's accomplishment, NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight on May 5th, 1961.
- The first woman in space, and also the first civilian, was Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who flow on Vostok 6 from June 16th to June 19th, 1963.
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Space & The Universe, Science & Technology, Top 5 Longest
Sources: NASA, RKA, ESA, Top 5 of Anything Research 2016.
List Notes: List is longest missions ranked by the number of days spent in spaceflight.
Sources: NASA, RKA, ESA, Top 5 of Anything Research 2016.
List Notes: List is longest missions ranked by the number of days spent in spaceflight.
