DeutschSpace Traveller Statistics & Records
Average number of flights per space traveller
... currently stands at 2.20.
First human in space
Yuri Gagarin (Russia) was the first man in orbit aboard Vostok 1 on 12-Apr-1961.
First (and still the youngest) woman to fly in space
Valentina Tereshkova (Russia) was 26 years, 3 months and 10 days old when flying Vostok 6 on 16-Jun-1963.
First ever space walk
Alexei Leonov (Russia) during Voskhod 2 mission on 18-Mar-1965.
First woman to conduct a spacewalk
Svetlana Savitskaya (Russia) during the Soyuz T-12 mission on 25-Jul-1984.
First person on the moon
Neil Armstrong (USA), commander of Apollo 11 on 16-Jul-1969.
The last astronaut on the moon to date
Eugene Cernan (USA), commander of Apollo 17 was the last man to leave the moon on 14-Dec-1972.
The youngest person to fly in orbit to date
Gherman Titov (Russia) was 25 years, 10 months and 25 days old when flying Vostok 2 on 06-Aug-1961.
The oldest person to fly in orbit to date
John Glenn (USA) was 77 years, 3 months and 11 days old when flying STS-95 on 29-Oct-1998.
The most frequent space travellers
Franklin Chang-Díaz (USA) and Jerry Ross (USA) both flew on 7 space shuttle missions.
Most experienced space traveller
Sergei Avdeyev (Russia) on 3 space flights between 1992 and 1999 spent a total of 747 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes, 40 seconds in orbit.
Most experienced female space traveller
Shannon Lucid (USA) on 5 space flights between 1985 and 1996 spent a total of 223 days, 2 hours, 52 minutes, 48 seconds in orbit.
The longest single flight duration
Valeri Polyakov (Russia) spent over 437 days in orbit on the Mir space station between 08-Jan-1994 and 22-Mar-1995.
First woman to go to space twice
Svetlana Savitskaya (Russia) flew to the Salyut 7 space station in August 1982 and again in July 1984.
First woman to command a US Space Shuttle
Eileen Collins (USA) was commander on STS-93, launched 23-Jul-1999.
Countries with at least one space traveller
... currently 36: Afghanistan, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belorus, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, France, Hungaria, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekhistan, Vietnam