Timeline of longest spaceflights

Timeline of longest spaceflights is a chronology of the longest spaceflights. Many of the first flights set records measured in hours and days, the space station missions of the 1970s and 1980s pushed this to weeks and months, and by the 1990s the record was pushed to over a year and has remained there into the 21st century.

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov looks out space station Mir's window during his 438-day flight in 1994-1995

A modern long-duration mission is the ISS year long mission (2015–2016) aboard the International Space Station. The most significant issue in such missions is the effects of spaceflight on the human body, due to such factors as zero-g and elevated radiation.

Record setting single-mission human stays

Duration (days) Astronaut/Cosmonaut(s) Mission(s) Mission start Flight up Space Station Flight down Record achieved Mission end Record held (days) Source Notes
437.75 Valery Poliyakov Mir EO15 January 8, 1994 Soyuz TM-18 Mir Soyuz TM-20 January 9, 1995 March 22, 1995 9,294 [1] Current record
365.94 Vladimir Titov,

Musa Manarov

Mir EO-3 December 21, 1987 Soyuz TM-4 Mir Soyuz TM-6 November 11, 1988 December 21, 1988 2,250 [2]
326.48 Yuri Romanenko Mir EO-2 February 5, 1987 Soyuz TM-2 Mir Soyuz TM-3 September 30, 1987 December 29, 1987 408 [3]
236.95 Leonid Kizim

Vladimir Solovyov

Oleg Atkov

Salyut 7 EO3 February 8, 1984 Soyuz T-10 Salyut 7 Soyuz T-11 September 6, 1984 October 2, 1984 1,119 [4]
211.38 Anatoli Berezovoy

Valentin Lebedev

Salyut 7 EO1 May 13, 1982 Soyuz T-5 Salyut 7 Soyuz T-7 November 14, 1982 December 10, 1982 662 [5]
184.84 Leonid Popov

Valery Ryumin

Salyut 6 EO4 April 9, 1980 Soyuz 35 Salyut 6 Soyuz 37 October 1, 1980 October 11, 1980 774 [6]
175.02 Vladimir Lyakhov

Valery Ryumin

Salyut 6 EO3 February 25, 1979 Soyuz 32 Salyut 6 Soyuz 34 July 15, 1979 September 3, 1979 444 [6]
139.62 Vladimir Kovalyonok

Aleksandr Ivanchenkov

Salyut 6 EO2 June 15, 1978 Soyuz 29 Salyut 6 Soyuz 31 September 20, 1978 November 2, 1978 298 [6]
96.42 Yuri Romanenko

Georgi Grechko

Salyut 6 EO-1 December 10, 1977 Soyuz 26 Salyut 6 Soyuz 27 March 4, 1978 March 16, 1978 200 [7][8]
84.05 Gerald P. Carr

Edward G. Gibson

William R. Pogue

Skylab 4 November 16, 1973 SA208 Skylab CSM118 January 15, 1974 February 8, 1974 1,509 [9]
59.46 Alan L. Bean

Owen K. Garriott

Jack R. Lousma

Skylab 3 July 28, 1973 SA207 Skylab CSM117 August 25, 1973 September 25, 1973 143 [10][11]
28.03 Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.

Joseph P. Kerwin

Paul J. Weitz

Skylab 2 May 25, 1973 SA206 Skylab CSM116 June 17, 1973 June 22, 1973 69 [12][13]
23.32 Georgy Dobrovolsky

Vladislav Volkov

Viktor Patsayev

Soyuz 11 June 6, 1971 Soyuz 11 Salyut 1 Soyuz 11 June 23, 1971 June 29, 1971 725 [12] All three crewmembers died on return to Earth. [14][15]
17.71 Andrian Nikolayev

Vitali Sevastyanov

Soyuz 9 June 1, 1970 N/A N/A N/A June 15, 1970 June 19, 1970 373 [16][17] Soyuz 9 continues to hold the record for longest manned flight by a solo spacecraft.
13.77 Frank Borman

Jim Lovell

Gemini 7 December 4, 1965 N/A N/A N/A December 12, 1965 December 18, 1965 1,646 [16][18]
7.96 L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.

Gemini 5 August 21, 1965 N/A N/A N/A August 26, 1965 August 29, 1965 108 [16][19][20]
4.96 Valery Bykovsky Vostok 5 June 14, 1963 N/A N/A N/A June 18, 1963 June 19, 1963 800 [21][22]
3.93 Andriyan Nikolayev Vostok 3 August 11, 1962 N/A N/A N/A August 12, 1962 August 15, 1962 310 [23][24]
1.05 Gherman Titov Vostok 2 August 6, 1961 N/A N/A N/A August 6, 1961 August 7, 1961 371 [23][25]
0.075 Yuri Gagarin Vostok 1 April 12, 1961 N/A N/A N/A April 12, 1961 April 12, 1961 116 [23][26] First human spaceflight

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See also

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