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During the flight he performed one egress into open space with a duration of 5 hours 3 minutes.He briefly visited the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-1 in 2002. In April 2017, Yurchikhin launched on Soyuz MS-04 for the fifth spaceflight of his career, a six-month mission to the ISS as part of Expedition 51 and 52, for which he was the commander. His second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer for Expedition 15; for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center on March 2, 1995, and landing at Edwards AFB on March 18, 1995, the crew established a new mission duration record of 16 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes and 46 seconds, while completing 262 orbits and traveling nearly seven million miles. William George “Borneo” Gregory (born May 14, 1957) is an American retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.Gregory served as the STS-67 pilot on the seven-person astronomical research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mission duration was 168 hours, 8 minutes, 47 seconds.When STS-33 launched at night, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 22, 1989, Gregory became the first African-American to command a space flight.NASA – Diversity in Space.

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Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev stayed aboard Mir while the rest of the crew flew back to Earth after eight days. On November 11, 1966, he and command pilot James Lovell were launched into space in the Gemini 12 spacecraft on a 4-day flight, which brought the Gemini program to a successful close. He was accompanied on the fifth manned lunar landing mission by John W. Young (spacecraft commander) and Thomas K. Mattingly II (command module pilot). As Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to astronaut game walk on the Moon.He is a former test pilot, Duke has logged 4,147 hours flying time, which includes 3,632 hours in jet aircraft; and 265 hours in space, plus 20 hours and 15 minutes of extravehicular activity. His companions on the flight were David R. Scott, spacecraft commander and Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot. He also served as a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10 and as backup lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.

The spacecraft landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 1000 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral after 4 hours and 54 minutes of flight time. During ISS Expedition 5, he again performed two spacewalks totalling 9 hours and 46 minutes.On 2 December 1996 Korzun performed his first career spacewalk with cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri , lasting 5 hours and 57 minutes. During the Mir EO-22 mission he performed 2 spacewalks totaling 12 hours and 33 minutes.

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On 13 August 1998 Gennady launched with Sergei Avdeyev aboard Soyuz TM-28 to become the crew of Mir Expedition 26, whose primary mission was to make repairs to life support systems and prepare the station for deorbit, which was to take place after Expedition 27. STS-41C (April 6-13, 1984) was a 7-day mission during which the crew successfully deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF. Mission duration was 167 hours, 40 minutes, 07 seconds. STS-41G (October 5-13, 1984) was the first mission with a 7-person crew. A four flight veteran, Crippen has logged over 565 hours in space, orbited the earth 374 times and traveled over 9.4 million miles. Creighton served as pilot on STS-51-G (June 17–24, 1985), was spacecraft commander on STS-36 (February 28 to March 4, 1990) and STS-48 (September 12–18, 1991), and has logged over 403 hours in space. With his crewmates, Russian Space Agency cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, Burbank launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 14, 2011, aboard the Soyuz TMA-22 and docked to the station on November 16, 2011.

• His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.
• In 1982 he flew as Commander on Soyuz T-5 on the first mission to the Salyut 7 space station, returning to Earth on the Soyuz T-7 after 211 days 9 hours.
• After completing 126 orbits of the Earth, the crew landed Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 20, 1992.
• Two crew members performed a space walk in order to connect power, data and communications cables to the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module and the Space Station.
• During the mission, the STS-8 crew deployed the Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B).

Strekalov and Titov’s narrow escape is the only live use of a launch escape system in the history of human spaceflightStrekalov’s next spaceflight was aboard Soyuz T-11, with Yuri Malyshev and Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma. Stephen Nathaniel Frick (born September 30, 1964) is an American former astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.Frick was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in 1996 and was trained as a Space Shuttle pilot. He was then selected for an extended mission aboard the Russian Mir space station.Launched by STS-84 and returned by STS-86, Foale spent four months on Mir in 1997 during the Mir 23 and Mir 24 missions. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. The mission launched on March 25, 2014, and landed on September 11, 2014.Skvortsov launched  again on July 20, 2019, and arrived to the International Space Station on the same day, joining the Expedition 60/61 crew and returned earth on 25 September 2019. GMT near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on September 25.Skvortsov returned to space aboard Soyuz TMA-12M, along with Oleg Artemyev and Steven Swanson, as a flight engineer on the Expedition 39 crew.

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John Michael “Mike” Lounge (June 28, 1946 – March 1, 2011) was an American engineer, a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA astronaut. John-David Francis Bartoe (born November 17, 1944, in Abington, Pennsylvania) is an American astrophysicist. She joined cosmonauts Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Usachov, neither of whom spoke English. Discovery (STS-34 mission) landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 24. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman.

He flew on board Columbia for ten days, (26 April 1993 – 6 May 1993); on the mission the Shuttle reached one year of accumulated flight time. The Expedition 2 crew (two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut) launched on March 8, 2001, on board STS-102 Discovery and successfully docked with the station on March 9, 2001. Mission duration was 16 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes.STS-101 Atlantis, May 19–29, 2000, was a mission dedicated to the delivery and repair of critical hardware for the International Space Station. A veteran of five space flights, Helms logged 5,064 hours in space, including an EVA of 8 hours and 56 minutes (world record).STS-54 Endeavour, January 13–19, 1993. The mission was completed in 76 orbits of the earth in 121 hours.STS-82 Discovery (February 11–21, 1997), the second Hubble Space Telescope (HST) maintenance mission, was launched at night and returned to a night landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission was completed in 96 orbits of the Earth in 144 hours and 57 minutes.STS-61-C Columbia (January 12–18, 1986) was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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Al Mansoori, Skripocka and Meir launched on 25 September 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; the trio spent under six hours free flying in space before docking to the Zvezda module on the ISS. “iriss” had two logos, one to highlight the overall mission and one for the educational outreach activities.On 2 September 2015, Mogensen was launched with Soyuz TMA-18M to ISS and landed with Soyuz TMA-16M ten days later. ESA’s Pangaea program prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features for future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.Mogensen’s mission to the ISS was called “iriss”. Andreas Enevold Mogensen (born 2 November 1976) is a Danish engineer and ESA astronaut who is best known for being the first Dane to fly in space as part of the European Space Agency’s iriss program. On April 8, 2008, Yi was launched into space on board Soyuz TMA-12 with two Russian cosmonauts. Yi So-yeon (born June 2, 1978) is a South Korean astronaut and biotechnologist who became the first Korean to fly in space.

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On November 21, 2007, NASA announced a change in the crew manifest, due to Higginbotham’s decision to leave NASA to take a job in the private sector. Higginbotham was originally assigned to the crew of STS-126 targeted for launch in September 2008. Mission duration was 7 days before landing at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California, on April 13, 1984.

The Artemis 2 mission was scheduled to launch this year but it has been delayed to late 2026 due to additional testing that is required for the Orion spacecraft. Artemis 2 is not a Moon landing mission and the objective is just to test the Orion spacecraft and return after orbiting the Moon. Online 3 days National Webinar on Yoga and Wellness 3 days online FDP for Teachers on Research Methodology in Social Science Office Memorandum on Travelling Allowance under 7th Central Pay Commission

STS-45 was the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA’s “Mission to Planet Earth”. The need for a human test was determined following a launch abort on STS-41-D where controllers were afraid to order the crew to use the untested escape system. After completing 115 orbits of the Earth in 175 hours, Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 9, 1992. STS-8 completed 98 orbits of the Earth in 145 hours before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1983. He served as pilot on STS-33 and STS 29, was Spacecraft Commander on STS-58 and STS-43, served on Mir-22 as Board Engineer 2, and was a Mission Specialist on STS-79 and STS-81. From December 1987 to June 1989, he underwent a course of general space training.

• Their bulky gloves made removing the small bolts very difficult, and it took 90 minutes instead of the 20 allocated.
• He served as mission specialist on four missions with four different space shuttles.
• In November 1985, he was selected to the crew of a Department of Defense mission, which was subsequently delayed due to the Challenger Accident.
• Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie (born May 2, 1957) is a retired United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut.
• With his crewmates, Russian Space Agency cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, Burbank launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on November 14, 2011, aboard the Soyuz TMA-22 and docked to the station on November 16, 2011.
• BRIAN DUFFY (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER) Born June 20, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.A veteran of four space flights, he has logged a total of 40 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes and 59 seconds in space.

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (Russian; 13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut.Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. Duke and Young commenced their record setting lunar surface stay of 71 hours and 14 minutes by maneuvering the lunar module “Orion” to a landing on the rough Cayley Plains. With this flight, Méndez was the first hispanophone and first person of African descent in space.The third and last flight of Romanenko was on Soyuz TM-2 with Aleksandr Laveykin on February 6, 1987, to the Mir station.

During the 15-day flight, mission was accomplished in 236 orbits of the Earth, traveling 6.1 million miles (9.8 million kilometres). This 8 hour and 29 minute spacewalk, the longest in history, broke a twenty-year-old record that was held by Apollo 17 astronauts. The third spacewalk, which also included astronaut Tom Akers, was the first ever (and to date only) three-person spacewalk. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. Mission highlights included the first rendezvous (but not docking) with the Russian space station Mir and retrieval of Spartan 204 satellite. During this mission, the crew successfully deployed the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF); retrieved the ailing Solar Maximum Satellite, repaired it on board Challenger, and replaced it in orbit using the robot arm called the Remote Manipulator System (RMS).

Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC (born 13 January 1949) is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme. Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. In addition, he was the first non-Soviet cosmonaut to make a second space flight aboard a Soviet spacecraft.

Malerba flew as the first Italian citizen in space on STS-46 (31 July 1992 to 7 August 1992). Franco Egidio Malerba (born 10 October 1946 in Busalla, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy) is an Italian astronaut and Member of the European Parliament. Viehböck returned after 7 days and 22 hours with Soyuz TM-12, and landed in Kazakhstan on 10 October. Akiyama was also the first civilian to use commercial space flight, and the first journalist to report from outer space.

October 11, 1968, Apollo 7 was launched on an 11-day mission with Eisele —the first crewed flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. Ryzhikov and his two crewmates was launched on 19 October 2016 and successfully docked with the ISS two days later, joining the Expedition 49 crew alongside Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. During the mission, Romanenko performed a one and a half hour long space walk.In his second mission on September 18, 1980, together with the first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Romanenko flew Soyuz 38 to Salyut 6 and returned 7 days later.

The mission launched at night on November 26 and returned on December 3, 1985. Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. (born May 16, 1945) is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is an  American physicist  and astronomer, former director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut.

The mission completed 146 orbits of the Earth, and Seddon logged an additional 218 hours in space.STS-58 with SLS-2 lifted off in the Space Shuttle Columbia on October 18, 1993. He commanded a crew of five on his second mission, STS-31 which launched on April 24, 1990. Payton flew on the STS-51-C mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1985. Colonel Gary Eugene Payton, USAF, (born June 20, 1948) is an American astronaut and USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. Mission duration was 175 hours, 19 minutes, 17 seconds.STS-69 Endeavour (September 7–18, 1995) was launched from and returned to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.In 1964, Feoktistov was selected as part of a group of engineers for cosmonaut training, and in October of that very same year, he was hastily assigned to the multi-disciplinary Voskhod 1 crew. The flight launched on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center, and carried the Space Habitation Module-2 (SPACEHAB-2), and the Wake Shield Facility. This was the historic first joint-American–Russian Space Shuttle mission involving the participation of a Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, as a mission specialist. Following 143 orbits of Earth, Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center on April 2, 1992.Bolden commanded STS-60’s crew of six aboard Discovery. He had also performed two EVAs with a total time of 8 hours and 35 minutes. After completing 134 orbits of the Earth and 199 hours in space, Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 6, 1991.

Sharipov served as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-89 (22–31 January 1998), the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission during which the crew transferred more than 8,000 pounds of scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from Space Shuttle Endeavour to Mir. The duration was 4 hours and 13 minutes, and it was the 200th EVA to be performed on the ISS.On May 23, 2017, Fischer performed his second EVA with Whitson. They docked with the station approximately 6 hours after launch, being the first crew of a Soyuz-MS series to make the shorter 6-hour rendezvous instead of the 2 day orbital rendezvous of the previous launches.On May 13, 2017, Fischer performed his first career EVA.