Man-In-Space Firsts:
The Long And Short Of It
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Shortest stay in space: Alan Shepard flew 15 minutes 22 seconds in May 1961, just 15 seconds less than Gus Grissom's 15 minutes 37 seconds in July 1961.

First beyond 24 hours in space: Cosmonaut Gherman Titov spent 25 hours 18 minutes in 16 trips around the globe in August 1961.

Longest solo flight: Valeri Bykovsky was launched June 14, 1963, in Vostok 5. He stayed in space four days -- 119 hours 6 minutes -- making 81 revolutions around Earth.

Longest stay in space: Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov spent 366 days in space from December 21, 1987, to December 21, 1988, manning the Mir space station.

Russian Cosmonaut Space Endurance Records As of 08/25/98
COSMONAUT	DAYS	FLIGHTS
Valery Polyakov	679	2
Anatoly Solovyev	652	5
Musa Manarov	541	2
Alexander Viktorenko	489	4
Sergei Krikalev	472	3
Yuri Romanenko	430	3
Alexander Volkovv	392	3
Vladimir Titov	387	4
Vasily Tsibliev	383	2
Yuri Usachev	376	2
Leonid Kizim	375	3
Alexander Serebrov	374	4
Valery Ryumin	372	4
Sergei Avdeyev	368	2
Vladimir Solovyev	362	2
Victor Afanasyev	357	2
Alexander Kaleri	343	2
Talgat Musabayev	334	2
Vladimir Lyakhov	333	3

Longest American stay at U.S. space station: Astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue were launched November 16, 1973, to the Skylab space station where they spent 84 days.

Longest American stay at Russian space station: U.S. female astronaut Shannon Lucid in 1996 set a U.S. time-in-space endurance record aboard the Russian Mir space station -- 188 consecutive days in orbit.

NASA Astronauts Visits To Mir Space Station
ASTRONAUT	UP	DOWN	DAYS
Norm Thagard	03/14/95	07/07/95	115.4
Shannon Lucid	03/22/96	09/26/96	188.2
John Blaha	09/16/96	01/22/97	128.2
Jerry Linenger	01/12/97	05/24/97	132.2
Mike Foale	05/15/97	10/06/97	144.6
David Wolf	09/26/97	01/31/98	127.8
Andrew Thomas	01/22/98	06/12/98	140.6
Total U.S. astronaut time aboard Mir			977

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