Current Statistics of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

(STS-116 - December 2006)

General Statistics USSR, CIS, and International Statistics USA Statistics
USSR Days Flights
Sergei Krikalyov 804 6
Valeri Polyakov 679 2
Anatoli Soloviyov 652 5
Viktor Afanasiyev 556 4
Musa Manarov 541 2
Aleksandr Viktorenko 489 4
Yuri Romanenko 430 3
Aleksandr Volkov 392 3
Vladimir Titov 387 4
Leonid Kizim 375 3
Aleksandr Serebrov 374 4
Valeri Ryumin 372 4
Vladimir Soloviyov 362 2
Vladimir Lyakhov 333 3
Aleksandr Aleksandrov 310 2
Gennadi Manakov 310 2
Gennadi Strekalov 269 5
Viktor Savinkyh 253 3
Oleg Atkov 237 1
Valentin Lebedev 219 2
Vladimir Kovalyonok 216 3
Anatoli Berezovoy 211 1
Leonid Popov 201 3
Aleksandr Balandin 179 1
Aleksandr Laveykin 174 1
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov 148 2
Vladimir Dzhanibekov 146 5
Anatoli Artsebarsky 145 1
Georgi Grechko 135 3
Vitali Sevastiyanov 81 2
Pyotr Klimuk 79 3
Vladimir Vasyutin 65 1
Boris Volynov 52 2
Vitali Zholobov 49 1
Aleksei Gubarev 38 2
Viktor Gorbatko 31 3
Vladislav Volkov 29 2
Georgi Dobrovolsky 24 1
Viktor Patsayev 24 1
Andriyan Nikolayev 22 2
Valeri Bykovsky 21 3
Oleg Makarov 21 4
Svetlana Savitskaya 20 2
Valeri Kubasov 19 3
Pavel Popovich 19 2
Yuri Glazkov 18 1
Yuri Artyukhin 16 1
Vladimir Aksyonov 12 2
Yuri Malyshev 12 2
Igor Volk 12 1
Anatoli Filipchenko 11 2
Nikolai Rukavishnikov 10 3
Vladimir Shatalov 10 3
Aleksei Yeliseyev 9 3
Toktar Aubakirov 8 1
Anatoli Levchenko 8 1
Aleksei Leonov 7 2
Georgi Shonin 5 1
Georgi Beregovoy 4 1
Valentina Tereshkova 3 1
Lev Dyomin 2 1
Yevgeni Khrunov 2 1
Vladimir Komarov 2 2
Vasili Lazarev 2 2
Valeri Rozhdestvensky 2 1
Gennadi Sarafanov 2 1
Vyacheslav Zudov 2 1
Pavel Belyayev 1 1
Konstantin Feoktistov 1 1
German Titov 1 1
Boris Yegorov 1 1
Yuri Gagarin 2 hr 1
CIS Days Flights
Sergei Avdeyev 748 3
Aleksandr Kaleri 611 4
Yuri Usachyov 553 4
Nikolai Budarin 446 3
Yuri Onufriyenko 389 2
Gennadi Padalka 387 2
Valeri Korzun 382 2
Vasili Tsibliyev 382 2
Pavel Vinogradov 381 2
Talgat Musabayev 342 3
Yuri Gidzenko 330 3
Yuri Malenchenko 323 3
Vladimir Dezhurov 244 2
Salizhan Sharipov 202 2
Valeri Tokarev 200 2
Aleksandr Lazutkin 185 1
Sergei Treshchyov 185 1
Aleksandr Poleshchuk 179 1
Elena Kondakova 178 2
Mikhail Tyurin 129 1 (in 2nd)
Sergei Zalyotin 83 2
Yuri Lonchakov 22 2
Yuri Baturin 20 2
Leonid Kadenyuk 16 1
Boris Morukov 12 1
Fyodor Yurchikhin 11 1
Konstantin Kozeyev 10 1
Yuri Shargin 10 1
Germany Days Flights
Thomas Reiter 350 2
Ulf Merbold 50 3
Reinhold Ewald 20 1
Gerhard Thiele 11 1
Hans Schlegel 10 1
Ulrich Walter 10 1
Klaus-Dietrich Flade 8 1
Reinhard Furrer 7 1
Ernst Messerschmid 7 1
France Days Flights
Jean-Pierre Haigneré 210 2
Jean-Loup Chrétien 43 3
Jean-François Clervoy 28 3
Claudie Haigneré 26 2
Léopold Eyharts 21 1
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini 19 2
Jean-Jacques Favier 17 1
Philippe Perrin 14 1
Patrick Baudry 7 1
Canada Days Flights
Marc Garneau 29 3
Steven MacLean 22 2
Chris Hadfield 20 2
Robert Thirsk 17 1
Dafydd Williams 16 1
Bjarni Tryggvason 12 1
Julie Payette 10 1
Roberta Bondar 8 1
Japan Days Flights
Chiaki Mukai 24 2
Koichi Wakata 22 2
Mamoru Mohri 20 2
Takao Doi 16 1
Soichi Noguchi 14 1
Toyohiro Akiyama 8 1
Italy Days Flights
Umberto Guidoni 28 2
Roberto Vittori 20 2
Maurizio Cheli 16 1
Franco Malerba 8 1
China Days Flights
Fei Junlong 5 1
Nie Haisheng 5 1
Yang Liwei 1 1
Belgium Days Flights
Frank De Winne 10 1
Dirk Frimout 9 1
Bulgaria Days Flights
Aleksandr Aleksandrov 10 1
Georgi Ivanov 2 1
Netherlands Days Flights
Andre Kuipers 11 1
Wubbo Ockels 7 1
Afghanistan Days Flights
Abdul Ahad Mohmand 9 1
Austria Days Flights
Franz Viehböck 8 1
Brazil Days Flights
Macros Pontes 10 1
Britain Days Flights
Helen Sharman 8 1
Cuba Days Flights
Arnaldo Tamayo-Méndez 8 1
Czechoslovakia Days Flights
Vladimír Remek 8 1
East Germany Days Flights
Sigmund Jähn 8 1
Hungary Days Flights
Farkas Bertalan 8 1
India Days Flights
Rakesh Sharma 8 1
Israel Days Flights
Ilan Ramon 16 1
Mexico Days Flights
Rodolfo Neri-Vela 7 1
Mongolia Days Flights
Gurragcha Zhugderdemidiyn 8 1
Poland Days Flights
Mirosław Hermaszewski 8 1
Romania Days Flights
Dumitru Prunariu 8 1
Saudi Arabia Days Flights
Sultan Salman Al-Saud 7 1
Slovakia Days Flights
Ivan Bella 8 1
South Africa Days Flights
Mark Shuttleworth 10 1
Spain Days Flights
Pedro Duque 19 2
Sweden Days Flights
Christer Fuglesang 13 1
Switzerland Days Flights
Claude Nicollier 43 4
Syria Days Flights
Muhammed Faris 8 1
Vietnam Days Flights
Pham Tuân 8 1
General Statistics USSR, CIS, and International Statistics USA Statistics

Source: Space Demographics compiled by William Harwood with days in space from Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica.

Notes:

  1. Days in space exclude ongoing missions and are rounded off.
  2. Toktar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan) is listed under USSR.
  3. Leonid Kadenyuk (Ukraine) and Talgat Musabayev (Kazakhstan) are listed under CIS.
  4. Two Soyuz missions also ended in launch aborts, but both crews survived the aborts and flew in space on later missions.
  5. 451 people have flown in orbit, following the launch of STS-115. (Joseph Engle flew three X-15 flights over 80 km in addition to two Space Shuttle missions)
  6. Under the United States Air Force (USAF) definition (over 80 km altitude): 460 (Seven additional X-15 pilots, including Joseph Walker, flew the X-15 above 80 km. Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie flew SpaceShipOne over 100 km three times.)
  7. Under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definition (over 100 km altitude): 454 (One of the X-15 pilots, Joseph Walker, flew two X-15 flights over 100 km. Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie flew SpaceShipOne over 100 km three times.)

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