Astronaut/Cosmonaut Statistics

Astronaut/Cosmonaut Statistics
(as of )

Total Time Spent By Humans In Space - In excess of 90.8 man-years

Total Number of People Who Have Been in Space (USAF definition) - 505

Total Number of People Who Have Been in Space (FAI definition) - 499

Total Number of People Who Have Been in Earth Orbit - 496

Ten Longest Individual Durations in Space:
    Valeri Polyakov - 437.47 days
    Sergei Avdeyev - 379.62 days
    Musa Manarov - 365.94 days
    Vladimir Titov - 365.94 days
    Yuri Romanenko - 326.48 days
    Sergei Krikalyov - 311.83 days
    Valeri Polyakov - 240.94 days
    Oleg Atkov - 236.95 days
    Leonid Kizim - 236.95 days
    Vladimir Solovyov - 236.95 days

Ten Longest Total Durations in Space:
    Sergei Krikalyov - 803.376 days
    Sergei Avdeyev - 747.600 days
    Valeri Polyakov - 678.410 days
    Anatoliy Solovyov - 651.000 days
    Aleksandr Kaleri - 609.900 days
    Viktor Afanasyev - 555.750 days
    Yuri Usachyov - 552.910 days
    Musa Manarov - 541.010 days
    Yuri Malenchenko - 514.067 days
    Aleksandr Viktorenko - 490.060 days

Thirteen Longest Individual EVA's:
    Susan Helms - 8.93 hours
    James Voss - 8.93 hours
    Thomas Akers - 8.48 hours
    Richard Hieb - 8.48 hours
    Pierre Thuot - 8.48 hours
    John Grunsfeld - 8.25 hours
    Stephen Smith - 8.25 hours
    Colin Foale - 8.16 hours
    Claude Nicollier - 8.16 hours
    Vladimir Dezhurov - 8.13 hours
    John Grunsfeld - 8.13 hours
    Stephen Smith - 8.13 hours
    Gennadi Strekalov - 8.13 hours

Ten Longest Total EVA Durations:
    Anatoliy Solovyov - 78.00 hours
    Michael Lopez-Alegria - 67.68 hours
    John Grunsfeld - 58.49 hours
    Jerry Ross - 57.39 hours
    Stephen Smith - 49.79 hours
    Scott Parazynski - 47.08 hours
    Joseph Tanner - 46.46 hours
    Nikolai Budarin - 46.20 hours
    Robert Curbeam - 45.60 hours
    Talgat Musabayev - 43.00 hours

Most EVA's:
    16 EVA's
        Anatoliy Solovyov
    10 EVA's
        Sergei Avdeyev
        Michael Lopez-Alegria
        Aleksandr Serebrov
    9 EVA's
        Nikolai Budarin
        Vladimir Dezhurov
        Jerry Ross
    8 EVA's
        John Grunsfeld
        Leonid Kizim
        Sergei Krikalyov
        Talgat Musabayev

More EVA statistics can be found on the EVA Quick Stats page.

First Person Into Space - Yuri Gagarin

First American Into Space - Alan Shepard

First Woman Into Space - Valentina Tereskkova

First American Woman Into Space - Sally Ride

First Person to Spacewalk - Alexi Leonov

First American to Spacewalk - Edward White

First Woman to Spacewalk - Svetlana Savitaskaya

First American Woman to Spacewalk - Kathryn Sullivan

First People To Circumnavigate The Moon - Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders

First Person To Walk On The Moon - Neil Armstrong

First Person On Commercial Space Flight - Michael Melvill

For more stats concerning manned space flight, see the next page.