SPACEFLIGHT STATISTICS
Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks. Of the 29,000 person-days spent in space, 32 Astronauts have made 5 or more trips including two Astronauts, Franklin Chang-Diaz and Jerry Ross having made 7 trips past the Kármán line.
TOTAL TIME SPENT IN SPACE
29,000+
TOTAL NUMBER OF humans WHO HAVE BEEN to space
622
As of May 6th, 2022, a total of 622 people from 38 countries have gone into space, according to the FAI guideline.
MOST TOTAL TIME IN SPACE - 879 DAYS
Retired ROSCOSMOS Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has spent 879 days in space over 5 missions on Soyuz, Mir, and the International Space Station.
The current active leader in time in space is ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri with 769 days spent in space.
Gennady Padalka (Retired) 878.4805
Yuri Malenchenko (Retired) 827.3896
Sergei Krikalev (Retired) 803.3716
Aleksandr Kaleri 769.2765
Sergei Avdeyev (Retired) 747.5933
Oleg Kononenko 736.7804
Anton Shkaplerov 709.3364
Valeri Polyakov (Retired) 678.6902
Fyodor Yurchikhin (Retired) 672.8605
Peggy Whitson 665.9323
The first tweet from space by TJ Creamer
TJ Creamer
First Astronaut to tweet from Space
On January 22, 2010, astronaut TJ Creamer became the first person in space to physically send a tweet from the International Space Station (ISS).