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{{Short description|Extreme benchmarks set off Earth by astronauts, launchers and probes}}
[[Image:Gemini 7 in orbit - GPN-2006-000035.jpg|thumb|right|The first [[space rendezvous]] was accomplished by [[Gemini 6A]] and [[Gemini 7]] in 1965.]]

'''Records and firsts in spaceflight''' are broadly divided into [[Human spaceflight|crewed]] and [[Uncrewed spaceflight|uncrewed]] categories. Records involving [[animals in space|animal spaceflight]] have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to [[outer space]].

The notion of "firsts" in [[spaceflight]] follows a long tradition of [[List of firsts in aviation|firsts in aviation]], but is also closely tied to the [[Space Race]]. During the 1950s and 1960s, the [[Soviet Union]] and the United States competed to be the first countries to accomplish various feats. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched [[Sputnik 1]], the first artificial orbital satellite. In 1961, Soviet [[Vostok 1]] cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]] became the first person to enter space and orbit the Earth, and in 1969 American [[Apollo 11]] astronaut [[Neil Armstrong]] became the first person to set foot on the Moon. No human has traveled beyond [[low Earth orbit]] since 1972, when the [[Apollo program]] ended.

During the 1970s, the Soviet Union directed its energies to human habitation of [[space station]]s of increasingly long durations. In the 1980s, the United States began launching its [[Space Shuttle]]s, which carried larger crews and thus could increase the number of people in space at a given time. Following their first mission of [[détente]] on the 1975 [[Apollo-Soyuz Test Project]], the Soviet Union and the United States again collaborated with each other on the [[Shuttle-Mir]] initiative, efforts which led to the [[International Space Station]] (ISS), which has been continuously inhabited by humans for over 20 years.

Other firsts in spaceflight involve demographics, private enterprise, and distance. Dozens of countries have sent at least one traveler to space. In 1963, [[Valentina Tereshkova]] became the first woman in space, aboard [[Vostok 6]]. In the early 21st century, private companies joined government agencies in crewed spaceflight: in 2004, the [[sub-orbital spaceflight|sub-orbital]] [[spaceplane]] [[SpaceShipOne]] became the first privately funded crewed craft to enter space; in 2020, [[SpaceX]]'s [[Dragon 2]] became the first privately developed crewed vehicle to reach orbit when it ferried a crew to the ISS. As of {{year}}, the uncrewed probe ''[[Voyager 1]]'' is the most distant artificial object from the Earth, part of a small class of vehicles that are [[List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System|leaving the Solar System]].

== First independent suborbital and orbital human spaceflight by country ==
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|- style="background:#efefef;"
! style="text-align:left" |Country
! style="text-align:left" |Mission
! style="text-align:left" |Crew
! style="text-align:left" |Spacecraft
! style="text-align:left" |Launch vehicle
! style="text-align:left" |Date
! style="text-align:left" |Type
! style="text-align:left" |Notes
|- valign="top"
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR<ref name=Gar>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/04/anniversaries-50-years-hsf-30-years-shuttle/|title=Anniversaries: 50 years of human spaceflight – 30 years for Shuttle|last=Gebhardt|first=Chris|date=12 April 2011|publisher=NASASpaceFlight (not affiliated with NASA)|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref>
||[[Vostok 1]]<ref name=Gar/>
||[[Yuri Gagarin]]<ref name=Gar/>
||[[Vostok (spacecraft)#Vostok 3KA|Vostok 3KA]]<ref name=Gar/>
||[[Vostok-K]]<ref name=Gar/>
||12 April 1961<ref name=Gar/>
||Orbital<ref name=Gar/>
|
|- valign="top"
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA<ref name=F7>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/freedom7.html|title=Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)|date=1 November 2011|publisher=NASA|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref>
||[[Mercury-Redstone 3]] (''Freedom 7'')<ref name=F7/>
||[[Alan Shepard]]<ref name=F7/>
||[[Project Mercury#Spacecraft|Mercury Spacecraft]] No.7<ref name=F7/>
||[[Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle|Mercury-Redstone]]<ref name=F7/>
||5 May 1961<ref name=F7/>
||Sub-orbital<ref name=F7/>
|
|- valign="top"
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA<ref name=Friend7>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/friendship7.html|title=Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)|date=20 November 2006|publisher=NASA|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref>
||[[Mercury-Atlas 6]] (''Friendship 7'')<ref name=Friend7/>
||[[John Glenn]]<ref name=Friend7/>
||[[Project Mercury#Spacecraft|Mercury Spacecraft]] No.13<ref name=Friend7/>
||[[Atlas LV-3B]]
||20 February 1962<ref name=Friend7/>
||Orbital<ref name=Friend7/>
|
|-
|{{Flagicon|USSR}} USSR
|[[Soyuz 7K-T No.39|Soyuz 18A]]
|[[Vasily Lazarev]], [[Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov|Oleg Makarov]]
|[[Soyuz 7K-T]]
|[[Soyuz 11A511U|Soyuz 11A511]]
|5 April 1975
|Sub-orbital
|The mission was intended to be orbital, but a fault in the launch vehicle prevented the spacecraft from reaching orbit.
|-
|{{Flagicon|RUS}} Russia
|[[Soyuz TM-14]]
|[[Aleksandr Viktorenko]], [[Aleksandr Kaleri]], [[Klaus-Dietrich Flade]]
|[[Soyuz-TM]]
|[[Soyuz-U2]]
|17 March 1992
|Orbital
|First Soyuz mission to occur after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].
|- valign="top"
||{{Flagicon|China}} China<ref name=ChinFirst>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/1616-making-history-china-human-spaceflight.html|title= Making History: China's First Human Spaceflight|date=28 September 2005|publisher=Space.com|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref>
||[[Shenzhou 5]]<ref name=ChinFirst/>
||[[Yang Liwei]]<ref name=ChinFirst/>
||[[Shenzhou (spacecraft)|Shenzhou spacecraft]]<ref name=ChinFirst/>
||[[Long March 2F]]<ref name=ChinFirst/>
||15 October 2003<ref name=ChinFirst/>
||Orbital<ref name=ChinFirst/>
|
|}

==Human spaceflight firsts==
{{More citations needed section|date=June 2015}}
Note: Some space records are disputed as a result of ambiguities surrounding the border of space. Most records follow the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]] definition of the [[space border]] which the FAI sets at an altitude of 100&nbsp;km (62.14&nbsp;mi). By contrast, US agencies define the border of space at 50&nbsp;mi (80.47&nbsp;km).
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{| class="wikitable sticky-header"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! style="text-align:left" |First
! style="text-align:left" |Person(s)
! style="text-align:left" |Mission
! style="text-align:left" |Country
! style="text-align:left" |Date
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person to reach space|Person in orbit|Person to survive orbital reentry<br>[[File:Gagarin in Sweden-2.jpg|left|200px]]}}
||[[Yuri Gagarin]] 
||[[Vostok 1]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23">{{cite journal|title=MAJOR SPACE "FIRSTS'-AN AMERICAN ASSESSMENT|journal=[[Flight International|Flight]]|date=1967-03-23|volume=91|issue=3028|page=459|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%200467.html|format=PDF|access-date=2009-04-15 }}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||12 April 1961
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person to make [[suborbital flight]]|Person to land in water ([[Splashdown (spacecraft landing)|splashdown]])|Person to manually pilot spacecraft.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Astronautix.com: Mercury MR-3|url = http://www.astronautix.com/m/mercurymr-3.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161228150303/http://astronautix.com/m/mercurymr-3.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = December 28, 2016|access-date = 23 October 2018}}</ref>}}
||[[Alan Shepard]]
||''[[Freedom 7]]''
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||5 May 1961
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person in space for over 24 hours<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neal |first1=Valerie |last2=Lewis |first2=Cathleen S. |last3=Winter |first3=Frank H. |title=Spaceflight: a Smithsonian Guide |year=1995 |publisher=Macmillan |page=234 |isbn=9780028600406}}</ref>|Multiple orbits during a spaceflight}}
||[[Gherman Titov]]
||[[Vostok 2]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||6 August 1961 – <br />7 August 1961
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Group flight<ref>Neal et al, p. 234.</ref>|Adjacent orbits|Spacecraft-to-spacecraft communications}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Andrian Nikolayev]]|[[Pavel Popovich]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Vostok 3]]|[[Vostok 4]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||12 August 1962 – <br />15 August 1962
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Woman in space|Civilian in space and in orbit (at the time of selection)}}[[File:RIAN archive 612748 Valentina Tereshkova.jpg|200px|left]]
||[[Valentina Tereshkova]]
||[[Vostok 6]]<ref name= "Rooney">{{cite book |last=Rooney |first=Anne|author-link=Anne Rooney |title=Space Record Breakers |year=2014 |publisher=Carlton |isbn=9781783120727 |pages=60–61}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||16 June 1963 – <br />19 June 1963
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Spaceflight (suborbital) by [[spaceplane|winged spacecraft]]|Civilian in space (at the time of flight)|Spaceflight (suborbital) of a [[reusable launch vehicle|reusable spacecraft]]}}
||[[Joseph A. Walker|Joe Walker]]
||[[X-15 Flight 90]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||19 July 1963
|- valign="top"
||Person to enter space twice (suborbital flights above {{convert|100|km|mi}})
||[[Joseph A. Walker|Joe Walker]]
||[[X-15]] Flights [[X-15 Flight 90|90]] and [[X-15 Flight 91|91]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||22 August 1963
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Three-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft|Human spaceflight without pressurized [[Space suit|spacesuits]]|Human spaceflight with the crew soft landing on hard ground inside spacecraft after orbital flight}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Vladimir Komarov]]|[[Konstantin Feoktistov]]|[[Boris Yegorov]]}}
||[[Voskhod 1]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||12 October 1964 – <br />13 October 1964
|- valign="top"
|{{Bulleted list|Two-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft|Multi-person spaceflight with pressurized spacesuits|Manual orientation of spacecraft for atmospheric reentry}}
|{{unbulleted list|[[Pavel Belyayev]]|[[Alexei Leonov]]}}
|[[Voskhod 2]]
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|18 March 1965 – 19 March 1965
|- valign="top"
||[[Spacewalk]]
||[[Alexei Leonov]]
||[[Voskhod 2]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||18 March 1965
|- valign="top"
||Orbital maneuvers (change orbit)
||[[Gus Grissom]], [[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]
||[[Gemini 3]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||23 March 1965
|- valign="top"
||Person to fly two orbital spaceflights
||[[Gordon Cooper]]
||{{unbulleted list|''[[Mercury 9|Faith 7]]''|[[Gemini 5]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||{{unbulleted list|15 May 1963 – <br />16 May 1963|21 August 1965 – <br />29 August 1965}}
|- valign="top"
||Persons to spend one week in space
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gordon Cooper]]|[[Pete Conrad]]}}
||[[Gemini 5]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||21 August 1965 – <br />29 August 1965
|- valign="top"
|Spaceflight aborted before liftoff (after engine start)<br />[[File:Gemini 6 launch abort.jpg|200px|left]]
|{{unbulleted list|[[Wally Schirra|Walter Schirra]]|[[Thomas P. Stafford]]}}
|[[Gemini 6A]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|12 December 1965
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|[[Space rendezvous]] (orbital maneuver and station-keeping)|Four people in space at the same time}}<br />[[File:Gemini 7 in orbit - GPN-2006-000035.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Frank Borman]], [[Jim Lovell]]|[[Walter Schirra]], [[Thomas Patten Stafford|Thomas Stafford]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gemini 7]]|[[Gemini 6A]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||15 December 1965 – <br />16 December 1965
|- valign="top"
||Civilian in orbit (at the time of flight)
||[[Neil Armstrong]]
||[[Gemini 8]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||16 March 1966 – <br />17 March 1966
|- valign="top"
||[[Docking and berthing of spacecraft|Space docking]]<br />[[File:Gemini 8 docking.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Neil Armstrong]]|[[David Scott]]}}<br />[[File:Portrait of the Gemini 8 prime crew.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||[[Gemini 8]] and [[Agena Target Vehicle|Agena]]<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||16 March 1966
|- valign="top"
||Multiple (dual) rendezvous (with Agena 10, then Agena 8)<ref>Neal et al., p. 235</ref>
||{{unbulleted list|[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]|[[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]}}
||[[Gemini 10]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||{{unbulleted list|19 July 1966|20 July 1966}}
|- valign="top"
|Persons to exceed 1,000&nbsp;km above Earth<br />[[File:Gemini 11 prime crew (Gordon and Conrad).jpg|left|200px]]
|{{Unbulleted list|[[Pete Conrad]]|[[Richard F. Gordon Jr.]]}}
|[[Gemini 11]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|12 September 1966 –
15 September 1966
|- valign="top"
||Spaceflight death (during landing)<br />[[File:Vladimir_Komarov_foto_grupal_grupo_de_cosmonautas_(cropped).jpg|left|279x279px]]
||[[Vladimir Komarov]]
||[[Soyuz 1]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||23 April 1967 – <br />24 April 1967
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person to complete three spaceflights|Person to fly three different types of spacecraft}}<br />[[File:Schirra_walter_3.jpg|left|243x243px]]
||[[Wally Schirra]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Mercury-Atlas 8]]|[[Gemini 6A]]|[[Apollo 7]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||22 October 1968
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Persons to go beyond [[low Earth orbit]] (LEO)|Persons to enter the gravitational influence of another celestial body|Persons to enter lunar orbit|Persons to see the far side of the moon while in space}}<br />[[File:Apollo8 Prime Crew2.jpg|left|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Frank Borman]]|[[Jim Lovell]]|[[Bill Anders]]}}
||[[Apollo 8]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||24 December 1968 – <br />25 December 1968
|- valign="top"
|People to fly together twice on different missions
|{{unbulleted list|[[Frank Borman]]|[[Jim Lovell]]}}
|{{unbulleted list|[[Gemini 7]]|[[Apollo 8]]}}
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|21 December 1968
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Space docking of two crewed spacecraft|Dual spacewalk|Сrew transfer (Khrunov, Yeliseyev)<ref>Neal et al, p. 86.</ref>}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Vladimir Shatalov]]|[[Boris Volynov]]|[[Aleksei Yeliseyev]]|[[Yevgeny Khrunov]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 4]]|[[Soyuz 5]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||16 January 1969
|- valign="top"
||Solo flight around the Moon
||[[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]]
||[[Apollo 10]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||22 May 1969
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Moon landing|Planetary surface extra-vehicular activity (EVA)}}<br />[[File:A Man on the Moon, AS11-40-5903 (cropped).jpg|left|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Neil Armstrong]]|[[Buzz Aldrin]]}}
||[[Apollo 11]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||20 July 1969
|- valign="top"
||Five people in space at the same time
||{{unbulleted list|[[Georgy Shonin]], [[Valery Kubasov]]|[[Anatoly Filipchenko]], [[Vladislav Volkov]], [[Viktor Gorbatko]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 6]]|[[Soyuz 7]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||12 October 1969 – <br />13 October 1969
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Triple spaceflight|Seven people in space at the same time}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Georgy Shonin|Shonin]], [[Valery Kubasov|Kubasov]]|[[Anatoly Filipchenko|Filipchenko]], [[Vladislav Volkov|Volkov]], [[Viktor Gorbatko|Gorbatko]]|[[Vladimir Shatalov]], [[Aleksei Yeliseyev]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 6]]|[[Soyuz 7]]|[[Soyuz 8]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||13 October 1969 – <br />16 October 1969
|- valign="top"
||Person to complete four spaceflights[[File:James_Lovell.jpg|left|250x250px]]
||[[Jim Lovell|James A. Lovell]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gemini 7]]|[[Gemini 12]]|[[Apollo 8]]|[[Apollo 13]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||17 April 1970
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person to fly two lunar flights|Person to complete two flights beyond low Earth orbit}}
||[[Jim Lovell|James A. Lovell]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Apollo 8]]|[[Apollo 13]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||11 April 1970 – <br />17 April 1970
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Persons to fly a [[free-return trajectory]] around a celestial body|Furthest humans have traveled from Earth}}[[File:Apollo 13 Prime Crew.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Jim Lovell|James A. Lovell]]|[[Jack Swigert]]|[[Fred Haise]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Apollo 13]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||11 April 1970 – <br />17 April 1970
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|People to spend two weeks in space|Night launch}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Andrian Nikolayev]]|[[Vitali Sevastyanov]]}}
||[[Soyuz 9]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||1 June 1970 – <br />19 June 1970
|- valign="top"
||People to [[Extra-vehicular activity|EVA]] out of sight of their spacecraft
||{{unbulleted list|[[Alan Shepard]]|[[Edgar Mitchell]]}}
||[[Apollo 14]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||6 February 1971
|- valign="top"
|Person to play sports on a [[planetary body]] other than Earth
|[[Alan Shepard]]
|Apollo 14
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|7 February 1971
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Docking with space station (soft dock)|Night landing}}<br />[[File:Salyut 4 and Soyuz drawing.svg|left|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Vladimir Shatalov]]|[[Aleksei Yeliseyev]]|[[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 10]]|[[Salyut 1]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||22 April 1971 – <br />24 April 1971
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Docking with space station (hard dock)|Crewed space station|In-space fatalities}}<br />[[File: The Soviet Union 1971 CPA 4060 stamp (Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev).png|left|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Georgy Dobrovolsky]]|[[Viktor Patsayev]]|[[Vladislav Volkov]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 11]]|[[Salyut 1]]}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||7 June 1971 – <br />29 June 1971
|- valign="top"
|Person to use a telescope in space
|[[Viktor Patsayev]]
|{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz 11]]|[[Salyut 1]]}}
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|7 June 1971 – <br />29 June 1971
|- valign="top"
||People to travel in a wheeled vehicle on a [[planetary body]] other than Earth<br />[[File:Scott on the Rover - GPN-2000-001306.jpg|Scott on the Rover – GPN-2000-001306|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[David Scott|Dave Scott]]|[[James Irwin|Jim Irwin]]}}
||[[Apollo 15]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||31 July 1971– <br />2 August 1971
|- valign="top"
||Deep space EVA (trans-Earth trajectory)[[File:Worden_podczas_EVA_S71-43202.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||[[Alfred Worden]]
||[[Apollo 15]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||5 August 1971
|- valign="top"
||Person to be in lunar orbit twice (during separate lunar expeditions)
||[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Apollo 10]]|[[Apollo 16]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||16 April 1972 – <br />27 April 1972
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit for four weeks[[File:Skylab_2_crew.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Pete Conrad]]|[[Joseph P. Kerwin|Joseph Kerwin]]|[[Paul J. Weitz|Paul Weitz]]}}
||[[Skylab 2]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||25 May 1973 – <br />22 June 1973
|- valign="top"
|Spacewalk at a space station
|[[Paul J. Weitz|Paul Weitz]]
|Skylab 2
|{{Flag icon|United States}} USA
|26 May 1973
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit for eight weeks[[File:S73-28714.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Alan Bean]]|[[Jack Lousma]]|[[Owen Garriott]]}}
||[[Skylab 3]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||28 July 1973 – <br />25 September 1973
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit for 12 weeks[[File:Skylab4_crew.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gerald P. Carr|Gerald Carr]]|[[William Pogue]]|[[Edward Gibson]]}}
||[[Skylab 4]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||16 November 1973 – <br />8 February 1974
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Spaceflight aborted during liftoff (at {{convert|145|km|sp=us}} altitude)|Re-entry with 20[[g-force|''g'']] acceleration (emergency)}}
||[[Vasily Lazarev]], [[Oleg Makarov (cosmonaut)|Oleg Makarov]]
||[[Soyuz 7K-T No.39]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||5 April 1975
|- valign="top"
|International docking[[File:ASTP_handshake_-_cropped.jpg|left|200x200px]]
|[[Thomas P. Stafford]], [[Vance D. Brand]], [[Deke Slayton|Donald K. Slayton]] – ''USA''
[[Alexei Leonov]], [[Valeri Kubasov]] – ''USSR''
|[[Apollo–Soyuz]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}}USA
{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}}USSR
|17 July 1975
|- valign="top"
||Crew to visit occupied space station
||[[Vladimir Dzhanibekov]], [[Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov|Oleg Makarov]]
||[[Soyuz 27]] visits [[Salyut 6|Salyut 6 EO-1]] crew
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||10 January 1978 – <br />16 January 1978
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit 19 weeks<br />(4 months)
||[[Vladimir Kovalyonok]], [[Aleksandr Ivanchenkov]]
||[[Salyut 6|Salyut 6 EO-2]], [[Soyuz 29]]-[[Soyuz 31]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||15 June 1978 – <br />2 November 1978
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit 26 weeks<br />(6 months)
||[[Leonid Popov]], [[Valery Ryumin]]
||[[Salyut 6|Salyut 6 EO-4]], [[Soyuz 35]]-[[Soyuz 37]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||9 April 1980 – <br />11 October 1980
|- valign="top"
||
* Spaceflight (orbital) by winged spacecraft
* Spaceflight (orbital) of a [[reusable launch vehicle|reusable spacecraft]]
* First, and only, crew launched on a rocket's maiden flight<br />[[File:Sts-1 crew.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]|[[Robert L. Crippen]]}}
||[[STS-1]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||12 April 1981
|- valign="top"
||Person to fly four different types of spacecraft
||[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]
||{{unbulleted list|Gemini|Apollo|Lunar Module|Space Shuttle}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||12 April 1981
|- valign="top"
||Person to complete five spaceflights
||[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gemini 3]]|[[Gemini 10]]|[[Apollo 10]]|[[Apollo 16]]|[[STS-1]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 April 1981
|- valign="top"
||Re-use of previously flown spacecraft (orbital)<br />[[File:Sts-2 crew.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Joe H. Engle]]|[[Richard H. Truly]]}}
||[[STS-2]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||12 November 1981
|- valign="top"
|Woman to visit a space station
|[[Svetlana Savitskaya]]
|[[Salyut 7]], [[Soyuz T-7]]
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|20 August 1982
|- valign="top"
||Four-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft<br />[[File:STS-5 crew onboard portrait on port side middeck 2.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Vance Brand]]|[[Robert F. Overmyer]]|[[Joseph P. Allen]]|[[William B. Lenoir]]}}
||[[STS-5]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||11 November 1982 – <br />16 November 1982
|- valign="top"
||Five-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft<br />[[File:STS-7 Crew (18649126018).jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Robert L. Crippen]]|[[Frederick H. Hauck]]|[[John M. Fabian]]|[[Sally K. Ride]]|[[Norman E. Thagard]]}}
||[[STS-7]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||18 June 1983 – <br />24 June 1983
|- valign="top"
||LGBTQ person in space
||[[Sally K. Ride]]
||[[STS-7]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||18 June 1983 – <br />24 June 1983
|-
|Use of a launch escape system in an emergency[[File:Soyuz_T-10-1_abort.jpg|left|200x200px]]
|[[Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Titov]], [[Gennady Strekalov]]
|[[Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L]]
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|26 September 1983
|- valign="top"
||Six-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft<br />[[File:Portrait of STS-9 crew in the Spacelab.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]], [[Brewster H. Shaw]], [[Owen K. Garriott]], [[Robert A. Parker]], [[Byron K. Lichtenberg]] – ''USA''|[[Ulf Merbold]] – ''Germany ([[European Space Agency]])''}}
||[[STS-9]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Germany}}&nbsp;West&nbsp;Germany}}
||28 November 1983 – <br />8 December 1983
|- valign="top"
||Person to complete six spaceflights[[File:John_Watts_Young.jpg|left|250x250px]]
||[[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Gemini 3]]|[[Gemini 10]]|[[Apollo 10]]|[[Apollo 16]]|[[STS-1]]|[[STS-9]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||8 December 1983
|- valign="top"
||Untethered spacewalk<br />[[File:EVAtion - GPN-2000-001087.jpg|left|200px]]
||[[Bruce McCandless II]]
||[[STS-41-B]]<ref>Rooney, pp. 42–43.</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||7 February 1984
|- valign="top"
||Eight people in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[Oleg Atkov]], [[Leonid Kizim]], [[Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Solovyov]] – ''USSR''|[[Vance D. Brand]], [[Robert L. Gibson]],  [[Bruce McCandless II]], [[Ronald McNair]], [[Robert L. Stewart]] – ''USA''}}
||[[Salyut 7|Salyut 7 EO-3]], [[Soyuz T-10]], [[STS-41-B]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||8 February 1984 – <br />11 February 1984
|- valign="top"
||11 people in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[Oleg Atkov]], [[Leonid D. Kizim]], [[Yury Malyshev (cosmonaut)|Yury Malyshev]], [[Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Solovyov]], [[Gennady Strekalov]] – ''USSR''|[[Robert L. Crippen]], [[Terry J. Hart]], [[George Nelson (astronaut)|George Nelson]], [[Francis Scobee]], [[James van Hoften]] – ''USA''|[[Rakesh Sharma]] – ''India''}}
||[[STS-41-C]], [[Salyut 7|Salyut 7 EO-3]], [[Soyuz T-10]]-[[Soyuz T-11]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|India}} India}}
||6 April 1984 – <br />11 April 1984
|- valign="top"
||People to complete four spacewalks during the same mission
||[[Leonid Kizim]], [[Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Solovyov]]
||[[Salyut 7]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|| 26 April – <br />18 May 1984
|- valign="top"
|Woman to enter space twice
|[[Svetlana Savitskaya]]
|[[Soyuz T-7]], [[Soyuz T-12]]
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
|17 July 1984
|- valign="top"
||Spacewalk by a woman<br />[[File:Svetlana Savitskaya, 7 December 2018.jpg|200px|left]]
||[[Svetlana Savitskaya]]
||[[Soyuz T-12]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||25 July 1984
|- valign="top"
||Welding in space
||[[Vladimir Dzhanibekov]], [[Svetlana Savitskaya]]
||[[Salyut 7]], [[Soyuz T-12]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||25 July 1984
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit 33 weeks (7 months)
||[[Leonid Kizim]], [[Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Solovyov]], [[Oleg Atkov]]
||[[Salyut 7|Salyut 7 EO-3]], [[Soyuz T-10]]-[[Soyuz T-11]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||8 February 1984 – <br />2 October 1984
|- valign="top"
||Seven-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft<br />[[File:STS 41-G crew photo taken on the flight deck of the Challenger during flight - STS41G-19-006.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Robert L. Crippen]], [[Jon A. McBride]], [[Kathryn D. Sullivan]], [[Sally K. Ride]], [[David C. Leestma]], [[Paul D. Scully-Power]] – ''USA''|[[Marc Garneau]] – ''Canada''}}
||[[STS-41-G]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Canada}} Canada}}
||5 October 1984 – <br />13 October 1984
|- valign="top"
||Two women in space at the same time
||[[Kathryn D. Sullivan]], [[Sally K. Ride]]
||[[STS-41-G]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||5 October 1984 – <br />13 October 1984
|- valign="top"
|Member of royalty in space<br />[[File:Al-saud.jpg|200px|left]]
|[[Sultan bin Salman Al Saud]] – [[House of Saud]]
|[[STS-51-G]]
|{{Flag icon|Saudi Arabia}} Saudi Arabia <br> {{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|17 June 1985 – <br />24 June 1985
|- valign="top"
||Partial crew exchange at a space station
||[[Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (cosmonaut)|Alexander Volkov]], [[Vladimir Vasyutin]] replace [[Vladimir Dzhanibekov]]
||[[Soyuz T-14]], [[Salyut 7]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||17&nbsp;September&nbsp;1985 – <br />26 September 1985
|- valign="top"
||Eight-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft<br />[[File:STS 61-A crew portrait onboard Challenger middeck.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Henry W. Hartsfield]], [[Steven R. Nagel]], [[Bonnie J. Dunbar]], [[James F. Buchli]], [[Guion S. Bluford]] – ''USA''|[[Reinhard Furrer]], [[Ernst Messerschmid]] – ''West Germany''|[[Wubbo Ockels]] – ''Netherlands ([[European Space Agency]])''}}
||[[STS-61-A]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|West Germany}}&nbsp;West&nbsp;Germany|{{Flagicon|Netherlands}}&nbsp;Netherlands}}
||30 October 1985 – <br />6 November 1985
|- valign="top"
||Deaths during launch[[File:Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Dick Scobee|Francis "Dick" Scobee]]|[[Michael J. Smith]]|[[Ellison Onizuka]]|[[Judith Resnik]]|[[Ronald McNair]]|[[Christa McAuliffe|Sharon Christa McAuliffe]]|[[Gregory Jarvis]]}}
||[[STS-51-L]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||28 January 1986
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Space station-to-space station flight|Space station-to-space station return flight|Expedition on two space stations}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Leonid Kizim]]|[[Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Solovyov]]}}
||[[Soyuz T-15]] from ''[[Mir]]'' to [[Salyut 7]] back to ''Mir''<ref name=kizimdead>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/8619-cosmonaut-leonid-kizim-visited-2-space-stations-1-mission-dies.html|title= Cosmonaut Leonid Kizim, Who Visited 2 Space Stations in 1 Mission, Dies|last=Pearlman|first=Robert|date=17 June 2010|publisher=Space.com|access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||15 March 1986 – <br />16 July 1986
|- valign="top"
||Person to accumulate 1 year in space
||[[Leonid Kizim]]
||[[Soyuz T-3]]
[[Soyuz T-15]] visiting [[Mir]] and [[Salyut 7]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||28 June 1986
|- valign="top"
||Complete crew exchange at a space station
||[[Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Titov]], [[Musa Manarov]] replace [[Yuri Romanenko]], [[Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov|Alexander Alexandrov]]
||[[Soyuz TM-4]]-[[Soyuz TM-2]], [[Soyuz TM-3]], at ''Mir''
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||21 December 1987 – <br />29 December 1987
|- valign="top"
||People in orbit 52 weeks (one year)
||[[Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Titov]], [[Musa Manarov]]
||[[Mir EO-3]], [[Soyuz TM-4]]-[[Soyuz TM-6]]
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||21 December 1987 – <br />21 December 1988
|- valign="top"
|International spacewalk
|[[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov|Alexander Volkov]], [[Jean-Loup Chrétien]]
|Mir, [[Soyuz TM-7]]
|{{unbulleted list|{{Flag icon|Soviet Union}} USSR|{{Flag icon|France}} France}}
|9 December 1988
|- valign="top"
|Submariner in space<br />[[File:Astronaut michael mcculley.jpg|200px|left]]
|[[Michael J. McCulley]]
|[[STS-34]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|18 October 1989 – <br />23 October 1989
|- valign="top"
||12 people in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|Shuttle: [[Vance Brand]], [[Samuel Durrance]], [[Guy S. Gardner]], [[Jeffrey A. Hoffman]], [[John M. Lounge]], [[Ronald Parise]], [[Robert A. Parker]] – ''USA''|Mir: [[Gennady Manakov]], [[Gennady Strekalov]] – ''Russia''|Soyuz and Soyuz/Mir: {{unbulleted list|[[Musa Manarov]], [[Viktor M. Afanasyev|Viktor Afanasyev]] – ''Russia''|[[Toyohiro Akiyama]] – ''Japan''}}}}
||[[STS-35]], <br />''Mir'' EO-7, [[Soyuz TM-10]][[Soyuz TM-11]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||2 December 1990 – <br />10 December 1990
|- valign="top"
|Civilian to use a commercial space flight, and journalist to report on space from outer space<br />[[File:Toyohiro-Akiyama-First-Japanese-Person-in-Space-1990.png|left|293x293px]]
|[[Toyohiro Akiyama]] – ''Japan''
|[[Soyuz TM-10]], [[Soyuz TM-11]]
|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan
|2 December 1990 – <br />10 December 1990
|- valign="top"
||Three women in space at the same time
||[[Millie Hughes-Fulford]], [[Tamara E. Jernigan]], [[M. Rhea Seddon]]
||[[STS-40]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||5 June 1991 – <br />14 June 1991
|- valign="top"
||Three-person spacewalk<br />[[File:Three Crew Members Capture Intelsat VI - GPN-2000-001035.jpg|left|200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Pierre J. Thuot]]|[[Richard J. Hieb]]|[[Thomas D. Akers]]}}
||[[STS-49]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||13 May 1992
|- valign="top"
||Married couple in space
||[[Mark C. Lee]], [[Jan Davis]]
||[[STS-47]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||12 September 1992 – <br />20 September 1992
|- valign="top"
||13 people in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|Shuttle: [[Stephen S. Oswald|Steve Oswald]], [[William G. Gregory|William Gregory]], [[John Grunsfeld]], [[Wendy Lawrence]], [[Tamara E. Jernigan|Tammy Jernigan]], [[Samuel T. Durrance|Sam Durrance]], [[Ron Parise]] – ''USA''|Mir: [[Aleksandr Viktorenko]], [[Yelena Kondakova]], [[Valeriy Polyakov]] – ''Russia''|Soyuz/Mir: {{unbulleted list|[[Vladimir Dezhurov]], [[Gennady Strekalov]] – '' Russia''|[[Norman E. Thagard]] – ''USA''}}}}
||[[STS-67]], ''Mir'', [[Soyuz TM-20]], [[Soyuz TM-21]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia}}
||14 March 1995 – <br />18 March 1995
|- valign="top"
||Ten people in a single spacecraft (docking)<br />[[File:Crewmembers of STS-71, Mir-18 and Mir-19 Pose for Inflight Picture - GPN-2002-000061 rotated.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Robert L. Gibson]], [[Charles J. Precourt]], [[Ellen S. Baker]], [[Bonnie J. Dunbar]], [[Gregory J. Harbaugh]] [[Norman E. Thagard]] – ''USA''|[[Anatoly Solovyev]], [[Nikolai Budarin]], [[Vladimir Dezhurov]], [[Gennady Strekalov]] – ''Russia''}}
||[[STS-71]], ''Mir'', [[Soyuz TM-21]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia}}
||29 June 1995 – <br />4 July 1995
|- valign="top"
|Spacewalk during an international docking
|[[Michael R. Clifford]], [[Linda M. Godwin]]
|[[STS-76]], ''Mir''
|{{Flag icon|United States}} USA
|27 March 1996
|- valign="top"
||Person to accumulate 2 years in space
||[[Sergey Avdeev]]
||[[Soyuz TM-15]] ([[Mir EO-12]])
[[Soyuz TM-22]] (Mir EO-20)
[[Soyuz TM-28]]/[[Soyuz TM-29]] [[Mir]] EO 27
||{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia
||10 July 1999
|- valign="top"
|Woman to command a space mission[[File:Commander Eileen Collins - GPN-2000-001177.jpg|200px|left]]
|[[Eileen Collins]]
|[[STS-93]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|23 July 1999 – <br />27 July 1999
|- valign="top"
||[[Space tourism|Space tourist]]<br />[[File:Dennis_Tito.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||[[Dennis Tito]]
||[[Soyuz TM-32]]/[[Soyuz TM-31|31]], [[ISS EP-1]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia}}
||April 28, 2001 – <br />May 6, 2001
|- valign="top"
||Person to complete seven trips to space<br />[[File:Jerry Ross.jpg|200px|left]]
||[[Jerry L. Ross]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[STS-61B]]|[[STS-27]]|[[STS-37]]|[[STS-55]]|[[STS-74]]|[[STS-88]]|[[STS-110]]}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||19 April 2002
|- valign="top"
||Deaths during re-entry <br />[[File:Crew of STS-107, official photo.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Rick Husband|Rick D. Husband]], [[William C. McCool]], [[David M. Brown]], [[Kalpana Chawla]], [[Michael P. Anderson]], [[Laurel Clark|Laurel B. Clark]] – ''USA''|[[Ilan Ramon]] – ''Israel''}}
||[[STS-107]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Israel}} Israel}}
||1 February 2003
|- valign="top"
<!--||{{bulleted list|First Chinese human space flight}}
||[[Yang Liwei]]– ''China''
||[[Shenzhou 5]]
||{{Flagicon|China}} China}}
||15 October 2003
|- valign="top" This list is for global firsts-->
||Privately funded human space flight (suborbital)<br />[[File:Kluft-photo-SS1-landing-June-2004-Img 1406c.jpg|200px|left]]
||[[Mike Melvill]]
||[[SpaceShipOne flight 15P]]
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||21 June 2004
|- valign="top"
||13 people in a single spacecraft (docking)<ref name=MostExtreme/><br />[[File:STS-127 group picture 03.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Michael R. Barratt|Michael Barratt]], [[Mark L. Polansky]], [[Doug Hurley|Douglas G. Hurley]], [[Christopher J. Cassidy]], [[Thomas H. Marshburn]], [[David Wolf (astronaut)|David Wolf]], [[Timothy Kopra]] – ''USA''|[[Gennady Padalka]], [[Roman Romanenko]] – ''Russia''|[[Robert Thirsk]], [[Julie Payette]] – ''Canada''|[[Frank De Winne]] – ''Belgium ([[European Space Agency]])''|[[Koichi Wakata]] – ''Japan''}}
||[[International Space Station|ISS]], [[Soyuz TMA-14]], [[Soyuz TMA-15]], [[STS-127]]
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|Canada}} Canada|{{Flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||17 July 2009
|- valign="top"
|People to fly together three times on different missions
|{{unbulleted list|[[Frederick W. Sturckow|Frederick W. "CJ" Sturckow]]|[[Patrick G. Forrester]]}}
|{{unbulleted list|[[STS-105]]|[[STS-117]]|[[STS-128]]}}
|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
|28 August 2009
|- valign="top"
||Four women in space at the same time (docking)<br />[[File:STS-131 and Expedition 23 Group Portrait.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|Shuttle: {{unbulleted list|[[Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger]], [[Stephanie Wilson]] – ''USA''|[[Naoko Yamazaki]] – ''Japan''}}|[[ISS]]: [[Tracy Caldwell Dyson]] – ''USA''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[STS-131]]|ISS [[Expedition 23]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||5 April 2010 – <br />20 April 2010
|- valign="top"
||Thirty-ninth launch, orbital flight, and landing of a reusable crewed spacecraft
||{{unbulleted list|[[Steven W. Lindsey]]|[[Eric A. Boe]]|[[Nicole Stott|Nicole M. P. Stott]]|[[Alvin Drew]]|[[Michael R. Barratt]]|[[Stephen Bowen (astronaut)|Stephen G. Bowen]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Space Shuttle Discovery]]|[[STS-133]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||24 February 2011 – <br />9 March 2011
|- valign="top"
||Six spacecraft docked to a space station<br />
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Expedition 56]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[SpaceX CRS-15|Dragon-15]], [[Cygnus CRS OA-9E|Cygnus-9]], [[Soyuz MS-08]], [[Soyuz MS-09]], [[Progress MS-08]], [[Progress MS-09]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia}}
||9 July 2018
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|All-woman spacewalk|Spacewalk by two women}} <br />
||{{unbulleted list|[[Christina Koch]]|[[Jessica Meir]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|ISS [[Expedition 61]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||18 October 2019
|- valign="top"
|{{bulleted list|Astronauts launched into orbit on commercial spacecraft|Astronauts flying to a space station on commercial spacecraft}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts to space for the first time in historic US mission|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/30/spacex-launches-two-nasa-astronauts-to-space-for-the-first-time.html|last=Sheetz|first=Michael|date=2020-05-30|website=CNBC|access-date=2020-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Test of SpaceX Crew Dragon|url=http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon|last=Potter|first=Sean|date=2020-05-30|website=NASA|access-date=2020-05-31}}</ref>
<br />[[File:Crew Dragon Demo-2 Bob and Doug.jpg|200px|left]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Bob Behnken]]|[[Doug Hurley]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Crew Dragon Demo-2]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||30 May 2020 – <br />31 May 2020
|- valign="top"
|16 people in space (50 miles) at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Mark Vande Hei]], [[Shane Kimbrough]], [[K. Megan McArthur]], – ''USA'' |[[Oleg Novitsky]], [[Pyotr Dubrov]] – ''Russia'' |[[Thomas Pesquet]] – ''France'' |[[Akihiko Hoshide]] – ''Japan''
|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Nie Haisheng]], [[Liu Boming (astronaut)|Liu Boming]], [[Tang Hongbo]], – ''China''
|Unity: [[David Mackay (pilot)|David Mackay]], [[Michael Masucci]], [[Beth Moses]], [[Sirisha Bandla]] - ''USA'' |[[Richard Branson]], Colin Bennett – ''United Kingdom''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz MS-18]], [[SpaceX Crew-2]], [[Shenzhou 12|Shenzhou-12]], [[Virgin Galactic Unity 22|Virgin Galactic Unity-22]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|China}} China|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|France}} France|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan|{{Flagicon|UK}} UK}}
||11 July 2021
|- valign="top"
|14 people in space (100&nbsp;km) at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Mark Vande Hei]], [[Shane Kimbrough]], [[K. Megan McArthur]], – ''USA'' |[[Oleg Novitsky]], [[Pyotr Dubrov]] – ''Russia'' |[[Thomas Pesquet]] – ''France'' |[[Akihiko Hoshide]] – ''Japan''
|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Nie Haisheng]], [[Liu Boming (astronaut)|Liu Boming]], [[Tang Hongbo]], – ''China''
|New Shepard: [[Jeff Bezos]], [[Mark Bezos]], [[Wally Funk]] – ''USA'' |[[Oliver Daemen]] – ''Netherlands''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz MS-18]], [[SpaceX Crew-2]], [[Shenzhou 12|Shenzhou-12]], [[Blue Origin NS-16]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|China}} China|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|France}} France|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan|{{Flagicon|Netherlands}} Netherlands}}
||20 July 2021
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Orbital spaceflight with an all private crew|Fully commercial orbital spaceflight}} <br />[[File:Inspiration4_crew_visits_NASA's_JSC.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Jared Isaacman]]|[[Hayley Arceneaux]]|[[Christopher Sembroski]]|[[Sian Proctor]]}}
|[[Inspiration4]]
|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
|16 September 2021 – <br /> 18 September 2021
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Woman [[commercial astronaut]] spaceship pilot|Black woman spaceship pilot}}<br />[[File:Dr. Sian Proctor at Launch Complex 39A.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Sian Proctor]]}}
|[[Inspiration4]]
|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
|16 September 2021 – <br /> 18 September 2021
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Person with [[physical disability]] in space|Wearing of [[prosthetics]] in space}} <br />
||{{unbulleted list|[[Hayley Arceneaux]]}}
|[[Inspiration4]]
|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
|16 September 2021 – <br /> 18 September 2021
|- valign="top"
|14 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Mark Vande Hei]], [[Shane Kimbrough]], [[K. Megan McArthur]], – ''USA'' |[[Oleg Novitsky]], [[Pyotr Dubrov]] – ''Russia'' |[[Thomas Pesquet]] – ''France'' |[[Akihiko Hoshide]] – ''Japan''
|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Nie Haisheng]], [[Liu Boming (astronaut)|Liu Boming]], [[Tang Hongbo]], – ''China''
|Inspiration4: [[Jared Isaacman]], [[Hayley Arceneaux]], [[Sian Proctor]], [[Christopher Sembroski]] – ''USA''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz MS-18]], [[SpaceX Crew-2]], [[Shenzhou 12|Shenzhou-12]], [[Inspiration4]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|China}} China|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|France}} France|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||16 September 2021 – <br />17 September 2021
|- valign="top"
|19 people in space (100&nbsp;km) at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Mark Vande Hei]], [[Raja Chari]], [[Thomas Marshburn]], [[Kayla Barron]] – ''USA'' |[[Anton Shkaplerov]], [[Pyotr Dubrov]], [[Alexander Misurkin]] – ''Russia'' |[[Matthias Maurer]] – ''Germany'' | [[Yusaku Maezawa]], [[Yozo Hirano]] – ''Japan''
|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Zhai Zhigang]], [[Wang Yaping]], [[Ye Guangfu]], – ''China''
|New Shepard: Laura Shepard Churchley, [[Michael Strahan]], [[Dylan Taylor (executive)|Dylan Taylor]], Evan Dick, [[Lane Bess]], Cameron Bess – ''USA''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[Soyuz MS-19]], [[Shenzhou 13|Shenzhou-13]], [[SpaceX Crew-3]], [[Soyuz MS-20]], [[Blue Origin NS-19]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|China}} China|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|Germany}} Germany|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||11 December 2021
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|Flight to a space station with an all private crew|Fully commercial flight to a space station}}<br />[[File:Axiom_Crew_Portrait.jpg|left|200x200px]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Michael López-Alegría]]|[[Larry Connor]]|[[Mark Pathy]]|[[Eytan Stibbe]]}}
|[[Axiom Mission 1]] To [[International Space Station|ISS]]
|{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|Spain}} Spain|{{Flagicon|Canada}} Canada|{{Flagicon|Israel}} Israel}} 
|8 April 2022 – <br /> 18 April 2022
|- valign="top"
||{{unbulleted list|Simultaneous continuous inhabitation of two crewed space stations}}<br />
||{{unbulleted list|[[International Space Station|ISS]]: [[Soyuz MS|Soyuz]], [[SpaceX Dragon 2|Crew Dragon]] and [[Boeing Starliner|Starliner]]{{NoteTag|Crew replenished by direct or indirect handovers.}}|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Shenzhou (spacecraft)|Shenzhou]]{{NoteTag|Crew replenished by direct handovers.}}}}
|{{unbulleted list|[[International Space Station|ISS]]|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]}}
| {{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|CAN}} Canada|{{Flagicon|Europe}} [[European Space Agency]]|{{Flagicon|JPN}} Japan|{{Flagicon|US}} USA|{{Flagicon|RUS}} Russia|{{Flagicon|CHN}} China}}
|5 June 2022 – Present
|- valign="top"
|5 women in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Jessica Watkins]], [[Nicole Mann]] – ''USA'' |[[Anna Kikina]] – ''Russia'' |[[Samantha Cristoforetti]] – ''Italy'' |Tiangong : [[Liu Yang (taikonaut)|Liu Yang]] – ''China''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[SpaceX Crew-4]], [[SpaceX Crew-5]], [[Shenzhou 14|Shenzhou-14]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|Italy}} Italy|{{Flagicon|China}} China}}
||5 October 2022 – <br /> 14 October 2022 
|- valign = "top"
|20 people in space (50 miles) at the same time (no docking)
|{{Unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Stephen Bowen (astronaut)|Stephen Bowen]], [[Warren Hoburg]], [[Peggy Whitson]], [[John Shoffner]], [[Francisco Rubio (astronaut)|Francisco Rubio]] – ''USA'' <br> [[Andrey Fedyaev]], [[Dmitry Petelin]], [[Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)|Sergey Prokopyev]] – ''Russia'' <br> [[Ali AlQarni]], [[Rayyanah Barnawi]]  – ''Saudi Arabia'' <br> [[Sultan Al Neyadi]] – ''UAE''|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Fei Junlong]], [[Deng Qingming]], [[Zhang Lu (taikonaut)|Zhang Lu]]  – ''China''|[[Virgin Galactic Unity 25|Unity 25]]: [[Michael Masucci]], [[Frederick W. Sturckow|Frederick W. "CJ" Sturckow]], [[Beth Moses]], [[Virgin Galactic Unity 25|Luke Mays]], [[Virgin Galactic Unity 25|Jamila Gilbert]], [[Virgin Galactic Unity 25|Christopher Huie]]  – ''USA''}}
|{{Unbulleted list|[[Axiom Mission 2]], [[Soyuz MS-23]], [[SpaceX Crew-6]], [[Shenzhou 15]], [[Virgin Galactic Unity 25]]}}
|{{Unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|RUS}} Russia|{{Flagicon|CHN}} China|{{Flagicon|SAU}} Saudi Arabia|{{Flagicon|UAE}} UAE}}
|25 May 2023
|- valign = "top"
|17 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)
|{{Unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Stephen Bowen (astronaut)|Stephen Bowen]], [[Warren Hoburg]], [[Peggy Whitson]], [[John Shoffner]], [[Francisco Rubio (astronaut)|Francisco Rubio]] – ''USA'' <br> [[Andrey Fedyaev]], [[Dmitry Petelin]], [[Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)|Sergey Prokopyev]] – ''Russia'' <br> [[Ali AlQarni]], [[Rayyanah Barnawi]]  – ''Saudi Arabia'' <br> [[Sultan Al Neyadi]] – ''UAE''|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Fei Junlong]], [[Deng Qingming]], [[Zhang Lu (taikonaut)|Zhang Lu]], [[Jing Haipeng]], [[Zhu Yangzhu]], [[Gui Haichao]]  – ''China''}}
|{{Unbulleted list|[[Axiom Mission 2]], [[Soyuz MS-23]], [[SpaceX Crew-6]], [[Shenzhou 15]], [[Shenzhou 16]]}}
|{{Unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|RUS}} Russia|{{Flagicon|CHN}} China|{{Flagicon|SAU}} Saudi Arabia|{{Flagicon|UAE}} UAE}}
|30 May 2023 – <br /> 31 May 2023
|- valign="top"
||Seven spacecraft docked to a space station<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Space Station Visiting Vehicles - NASA |url=https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-visiting-vehicles/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Expedition 70]]/[[Expedition 71]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[SpaceX CRS-30|Dragon-30]], [[Cygnus NG-20|Cygnus 21]], [[Soyuz MS-24]], [[Soyuz MS-25]], [[Progress MS-25]], [[Progress MS-26]], [[SpaceX Crew-8]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia}}
||25 March 2024
|- valign="top"
||Person to accumulate 1000 days in space
||[[Oleg Kononenko]]
||[[Expedition 71]]
||{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia
||5 June 2024
|- valign="top"
||Woman to fly on the maiden crewed flight of an orbital spacecraft
||[[Sunita Williams]]
||[[Boeing Crew Flight Test|Boeing CFT]]
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA 
||5 June 2024
|- valign="top"
||Person to accumulate 3 years in space<br />[[File:Oleg Kononenko Official Portrait (jsc2023e052791).jpg|left|200x200px]]
||[[Oleg Kononenko]]
||[[Soyuz TMA-12]] ([[Expedition 17]]) [[Soyuz TMA-03M]] ([[Expedition&nbsp;30]]/[[Expedition 31|31]])
[[Soyuz TMA-17M]] ([[Expedition&nbsp;44]]/[[Expedition 45|45]]) [[Soyuz MS-11]] ([[Expedition&nbsp;57]]/[[Expedition 58|58]]/[[Expedition 59|59]]) [[Soyuz MS-24]]/[[Soyuz MS-25|MS-25]] ([[Expedition&nbsp;69]]/[[Expedition 70|70]]/[[Expedition 71|71]]) [[Expedition 71]]
||{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia
||9 September 2024
|- valign = "top"
|19 people in orbit at the same time (no docking)
|{{Unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Tracy Caldwell-Dyson]], [[Jeanette Epps]], [[Sunita Williams]], [[Barry E. Wilmore]], [[Donald Pettit]], [[Michael Barratt (astronaut)|Michael Barratt]], [[Matthew Dominick]] – ''USA'' <br> [[Alexander Grebenkin]], [[Ivan Vagner]], [[Nikolai Chub]], [[Oleg Kononenko]], [[Aleksey Ovchinin]] – ''Russia'' |[[Polaris Dawn]]: [[Jared Isaacman]], [[Scott Poteet]], [[Sarah Gillis]], [[Anna Menon]] – ''USA''|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Ye Guangfu]], [[Li Cong (astronaut)|Li Cong]], [[Li Guangsu]]  – ''China''}}
|{{Unbulleted list|[[Polaris Dawn]], [[Soyuz MS-25]], [[Soyuz MS-26]], [[SpaceX Crew-8]], [[Shenzhou 18]]}}
|{{Unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|RUS}} Russia|{{Flagicon|CHN}} China|}}
|11 September 2024 – <br /> 15 September 2024
|- valign="top"
||{{bulleted list|All private crew spacewalk|Spacewalk with commercially developed hardware, procedures, and [[Extravehicular activity|EVA]] suit|Four people in the vacuum of space during a spacewalk}}<br />[[File:Polaris Dawn crew.jpg|left|267x267px]]
||[[Jared Isaacman]]<br>[[Scott Poteet]]<br>[[Sarah Gillis]]<br>[[Anna Menon]]
||[[Polaris Dawn]]
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA 
||12 September 2024
|- valign="top"
||First humans to [[polar orbit|polar]] [[retrograde orbit]],<ref>{{Cite tweet |first=Jonathan |last=McDowell |author-link=Jonathan McDowell|user=planet4589 |number=1906922678067560513|title=First Space Force orbit data for Fram-2 out , showing it in a 202 x 413 km x 90.01 deg orbit|note=0.01° means it entered Retrograde orbit too}}</ref> i.e., to fly over Earth's North and South poles
||[[Chun Wang]]<br>[[Jannicke Mikkelsen]]<br>[[Rabea Rogge]]<br>[[Eric Philips (explorer)|Eric Philips]]
||[[Fram2]]
||{{Flag|Australia}}<br>{{Flag|GER}}<br>{{Flag|Norway}}{{nnbsp}}/{{nnbsp}}{{Flag|UK}}{{Efn|Mikkelsen was born in the [[United Kingdom]], but is now a citizen of [[Norway]]. She will wear the flag of Norway on her spacesuit during the spaceflight.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bjørnstad |first=Nora Thorp |date=2 December 2024 |title=Jannicke Mikkelsen blir første nordmann i verdensrommet: Her er det første bildet |trans-title=Jannicke Mikkelsen becomes the first Norwegian in space: Here is the first photo |url=https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/vg8515/jannicke-mikkelsen-blir-foerste-nordmann-i-verdensrommet-her-er-det-foerste-bildet |access-date=10 March 2025 |work=VG |language=no}}</ref>|group=crew}}<br>{{Flag|Malta}}{{nnbsp}}/{{nnbsp}}{{Flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}{{Efn|Wang was born in [[China]] but lives primarily in [[Svalbard]] and since 2023 is also a citizen of [[Malta]] and [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]] through their [[Immigrant investor programs|golden visa]] programs. He will wear the flag of Malta on his spacesuit during the spaceflight.<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1861772649870791005 |user=rprogge |title=We just completed another round of training! |first=Rabea |last=Rogge |author-link=Rabea Rogge |date=27 November 2024 |access-date=10 March 2025}}</ref>|group=crew}}
||1 April 2025
|- valign="top"
||9 women in space at the same time (no docking)
||{{Unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Anne McClain]], [[Nichole Ayers]] – ''USA''|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Wang Haoze]] – ''China''|[[Blue Origin NS-31]]: [[Lauren Sánchez]], [[Amanda Nguyen]], [[Gayle King]], [[Katy Perry]], [[Kerianne Flynn]] – ''USA'' <br> [[Aisha Bowe]] – ''USA/Bahamas''}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[SpaceX Crew-10]], [[Shenzhou 19]], [[Blue Origin NS-31]]}}
||{{Flagicon|USA}}USA<br>{{Flagicon|CHN}}China<br>{{Flagicon|Bahamas}} Bahamas
||14 April 2025
|- valign="top"
|20 people in space (100&nbsp;km) at the same time (no docking)
||{{unbulleted list|[[ISS]]: [[Anne McClain]], [[Nichole Ayers]], [[Jonny Kim]], [[Peggy Whitson]] – ''USA'' |[[Kirill Peskov]], [[Sergey Ryzhikov (cosmonaut)|Sergey Ryzhikov]], [[Alexey Zubritsky]] – ''Russia'' |[[Takuya Onishi]] – ''Japan'' |[[Shubhanshu Shukla]] – ''India'' |[[Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski]] – ''Poland''|[[Tibor Kapu]] – ''Hungary''
|[[Tiangong Space Station|TSS]]: [[Chen Dong (taikonaut)|Chen Dong]], [[Chen Zhongrui]], [[Wang Jie (taikonaut)|Wang Jie]], – ''China''
|New Shepard: Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Owolabi Salis, James Sitkin – ''USA''}}
||{{unbulleted list|[[SpaceX Crew-10]], [[Soyuz MS-27]], [[Shenzhou 20]], [[Axiom Mission 4]], [[Blue Origin NS-33]]}}
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA|{{Flagicon|China}} China|{{Flagicon|Russia}} Russia|{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan|{{Flagicon|India}} India|{{Flagicon|Poland}} Poland|{{Flagicon|Hungary}} Hungary}}
||29 June 2025
|}

==Most spaceflights==

===Most launches from Earth===
*'''10 launches'''
** [[Frederick W. Sturckow]] (USA), Space Shuttle and SpaceShipTwo (1998–2024)

Note: The six SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight ({{convert|50|mi|km|2|abbr=on}}), but fall short of the [[Kármán line]] ({{convert|100|km|mi|2|abbr=on}}), the definition used for FAI space recordkeeping.

===Most orbital launches overall===
*'''7 launches'''
** [[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]] (USA<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Astronaut Biography|date=11 February 2015|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/young.html|publisher=NASA}}</ref>) launched from Earth 6 times (two Gemini, two Apollo Command Module, two Space Shuttle) and from the Moon once (Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage) (1965–1983)
** [[Jerry L. Ross]] (USA<ref name=MostExtreme/>), Space Shuttle (1985–2002)
** [[Franklin Chang Díaz]] (Costa Rica/USA*<ref name=MostExtreme/>), Space Shuttle (1986–2002)

===Most orbital launches from Earth===
*'''7 launches'''
** [[Jerry L. Ross]] (USA<ref name=MostExtreme/>), Space Shuttle (1985–2002)
** [[Franklin Chang Díaz]] (Costa Rica/USA<ref name=MostExtreme/>), Space Shuttle (1986–2002)

===Largest number of different launch vehicles (overall)===
*'''4 launch vehicles'''
** [[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]] (USA) – launched from Earth aboard a Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle, and launched from the Moon aboard the Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Stage

===Largest number of different spacecraft at launch (from Earth only)===
*'''3 spacecraft'''
** [[Walter Schirra]] (USA) – launched aboard a Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (1962–1968)
** [[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]] (USA) – launched aboard a Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle (1965–1983)
** [[Soichi Noguchi]] (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2005–2020)
** [[Shane Kimbrough]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2008–2021)
** [[Akihiko Hoshide]] (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2008–2021)
** [[Thomas Marshburn]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2007–2021)
** [[Koichi Wakata]] (Japan) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (1996–2022)
** [[Peggy Whitson]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2002–2023)
** [[Michael López-Alegría]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (1995–2024)
** [[Michael Barratt (astronaut)|Michael Barratt]] (USA) – launched aboard a Soyuz, Space Shuttle, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2009–2024)
** [[Barry Wilmore]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Boeing Starliner (2009–2024) (landed in a SpaceX Crew Dragon in 2025)
** [[Sunita Williams]] (USA) – launched aboard a Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Boeing Starliner (2006–2024) (landed in a SpaceX Crew Dragon in 2025)
** [[Michael Fincke]] (USA) – launched aboard a Soyuz, Space Shuttle, and SpaceX Crew Dragon (2004–2025)
<!-- scheduled but not yet flown
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===Largest number of different launch sites===
*'''3 sites – Any orbital launch'''
** [[Neil Armstrong]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1969), [[Tranquility Base]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
** [[Buzz Aldrin]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1969), [[Tranquility Base]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
** [[Pete Conrad]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (twice aboard a Gemini capsule 1965–1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1973), [[Ocean of Storms]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1969).
** [[Alan Shepard]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (aboard a Mercury capsule in 1961), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (aboard an Apollo capsule in 1971), [[Fra Mauro formation|Fra Mauro]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1971).
** [[David Scott]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1971), [[Hadley–Apennine#Rima Hadley|Hadley Rille]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1971).
** [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, twice aboard a Gemini capsule 1965–1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (four times, twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1971, twice aboard a Space Shuttle 1981–1983), [[Descartes Highlands]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1972).
** [[Gene Cernan]] (USA) – [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Kennedy Air Force Station]] (aboard a Gemini capsule in 1966), [[Kennedy Space Center]] (twice aboard an Apollo capsule 1969–1972), [[Taurus–Littrow]] (from the Moon aboard an Apollo Lunar Module, in 1972).
*'''3 sites – Only orbital launches from Earth'''
**[[Sunita Williams]] (USA) – [[Kennedy Space Center]] (aboard a Space Shuttle in 2006), [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] (aboard a Soyuz capsule in 2012), [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]] (aboard a Starliner capsule in 2024).
**[[Barry Wilmore|Barry E. Wilmore]] (USA) – [[Kennedy Space Center]] (aboard a Space Shuttle in 2009), [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] (aboard a Soyuz capsule in 2014), [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]] (aboard a Starliner capsule in 2024).
*'''3 sites'''
** [[Frederick W. Sturckow]] (USA) – [[Kennedy Space Center]] (four times aboard a Space Shuttle 1998–2010), [[Mojave Air and Space Port]] (aboard a [[Virgin Galactic]] [[SpaceShipTwo]] in 2018), and [[Spaceport America]] (also aboard a SpaceShipTwo, five times 2021–2024).

Notes:
* Seven of the twelve Apollo program moonwalkers launched from what was then called Cape Kennedy Air Force Station as part of the Mercury or Gemini programs. On their respective Lunar Landing Mission those seven launched twice. All Apollo Lunar Landing missions that landed on the moon launched from the Kennedy Space Center and when the lunar surface portion of their mission was complete, launched from the surface of the moon to meet up with the Apollo Command Module in lunar orbit.
* SpaceShipTwo flights are suborbital. SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight ({{convert|50|mi|km|2|abbr=on}}), but fall short of the [[Kármán line]] ({{convert|100|km|mi|2|abbr=on}}), the FAI definition used for most space recordkeeping.

==Duration records==
===Total human spaceflight time by country===
[[File:Treemap of astronauts by country 17Aug2024.png|thumb|Orbital space travelers (as of August 17th, 2024)]]
{{TotalHumanSpaceFlightByNation}}

===Most time in space===
The record for most time in space is held by Russian cosmonaut [[Oleg Kononenko]], who has spent 1,111 days in space over five missions. He broke the record of [[Gennady Padalka]] on 4 February 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC during his fifth spaceflight aboard [[Soyuz MS-24]]/[[Soyuz MS-25|25]] for a one year long-duration mission on the [[ISS]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Госкорпорация «Роскосмос» |trans-title=State Corporation Roscosmos |url=https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/11803 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Telegram |language=ru}}</ref> He later became the first person to stay 900, 1,000, and 1,100 days in space on 25 February 2024, 4 June 2024, and 12 September 2024 respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ISS Expedition Reports |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/english/iss.htm |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=www.spacefacts.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-15 |title=One American, Two Russians Blast Off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/one-american-two-russians-blast-off-in-russian-spacecraft-to-international-space-station-/7270141.html |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}</ref> [[Gennady Padalka]] is currently second, having spent 878 days in space. He himself had broken the all-time duration record on 28 June 2015 when he surpassed the previous record holder, cosmonaut [[Sergei Krikalev]], who spent 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes (about 2.2 years) during six spaceflights on [[Soyuz spacecraft|Soyuz]], the [[Space Shuttle]], [[Mir]], and the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="skk2">{{cite web |author= |date=2005-08-16 |title=Krikalev Sets Time-in-Space Record |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition11/krikalev_record.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050908102951/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition11/krikalev_record.html |archive-date=2005-09-08 |access-date=2007-10-04 |publisher=NASA}}</ref><ref name=p4n>{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Curtiss|title=Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time Spent In Space|url=http://www.penny4nasa.org/2015/06/29/russian-cosmonaut-sets-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space/|access-date=1 July 2015|publisher=Penny4NASA|date=29 June 2015|ref=9|archive-date=28 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828073528/http://www.penny4nasa.org/2015/06/29/russian-cosmonaut-sets-record-for-most-time-spent-in-space/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34231700 Russian astronaut record-breaker Padalka returns to Earth], BBC News, 12 September 2015</ref>

{{As of|{{CURRENTYEAR}}|{{CURRENTMONTH}}|{{CURRENTDAY}}}},<ref name="Spacefacts">{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/english/e_tis.htm|title=Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by "Time in Space")|publisher=spacefacts.de}} The current missions are listed but not included in day count.</ref> the 50 space travelers with the most total time in space are:<!--When updating that an individual is more time in space than a superior individual, please update their rank. For individuals currently in space use {{sum|earlier mission total time|{{diff days|YYYY-MM-DD (time)|{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}|precision=3}}}} and the template starts from the time their current mission started till the today's current time. After the current mission ends remove all these templates and add total time of all missions.-->

Color key:
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*{{legend2||Active|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}
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{| class="wikitable sticky-header"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Rank
! Person
! Days
! Flights
! Status
! Nationality
|- 
|1||[[Oleg Kononenko]]||1110.623||5||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|2||[[Gennady Padalka]]||878.478||5||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|3||[[Yuri Malenchenko]] ||827.389||6||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|4||[[Sergei Krikalev]]||803.371||6||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"  
|5||[[Aleksandr Kaleri]]||769.276||5||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|6||[[Sergei Avdeev]]||747.593||3||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|7||[[Anton Shkaplerov]]||709.336||4||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-
|8||[[Peggy Whitson]]||695.284||5||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#FAD6A5;"
|9||[[Valeri Polyakov]]||678.690||2||Deceased||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|10||[[Fyodor Yurchikhin]]||672.860||5||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}} 
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|11||[[Anatoly Solovyev]]||651.117||5||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|-  
|12||[[Sunita Williams]]||608.014||3||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|-
|13||[[Aleksey Ovchinin]]||595.185||3||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-
|14||[[Donald Pettit]]||590.068||4||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#99FF99;"
|15||[[Sergey Ryzhikov (cosmonaut)|Sergey Ryzhikov]]||{{sum|358.101|{{diff days|2025-04-08 05:47|{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}}}|precision=3}}||3||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-
|16||[[Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)|Sergey Prokopyev]]||567.633||2||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-   
|17||[[Oleg Artemyev]]||560.754||3||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|18||[[Viktor Afanasyev (cosmonaut)|Viktor Afanasyev]]||555.772||4||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|19||[[Yury Usachov]]||552.934||4||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#ffdddd;"
|20||[[Sergey Volkov (cosmonaut)|Sergey Volkov]]||547.931||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|21||[[Pavel Vinogradov]]||546.939||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|22||[[Aleksandr Skvortsov (cosmonaut)|Aleksandr Skvortsov]]||545.964||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-
|23||[[Oleg Novitsky]]||545.069||4||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|24||[[Musa Manarov]]||541.021||2||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Azerbaijan}}{{NoteTag|Didn't fly as Azerbaijanian.}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|25||[[Oleg Skripochka]]||536.159||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|26||[[Jeffrey Williams (astronaut)|Jeffrey Williams]]||534.116||4||Retired||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|27||[[Mikhail Tyurin]]||532.118||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|28||[[Oleg Kotov]]||526.211||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- 
|29||[[Mark T. Vande Hei]]||523.374||2||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|30||[[Scott Kelly (astronaut)|Scott Kelly]]||520.440||4||Retired<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/astronaut-scott-kelly-to-retire-from-nasa-in-april|title=Astronaut Scott Kelly to Retire from NASA in April|last=Northon|first=Karen|date=2016-03-11|website=NASA|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref>||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|31||[[Mikhail Kornienko]]||516.417||2||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- 
|32||[[Koichi Wakata]]||504.773||5||Active||{{Flag|Japan}}
|- style="background:#99FF99;"
|33||[[Michael Fincke]]||{{sum|381.633|{{diff days|2025-08-01 15:43|{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}}}}|precision=3}}||4||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#FAD6A5;"
|34||[[Aleksandr Viktorenko]]||489.066||4||Deceased||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|35||[[Anatoli Ivanishin]]||476.195||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|36||[[Barry E. Wilmore]]||464.335||3||Retired||{{Flag|United States}}
|-  
|37||[[Michael Barratt (astronaut)|Michael Barratt]]||446.640||3||Active||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|38||[[Nikolai Budarin]]||444.060||3||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|39||[[Yuri Romanenko]]||430.765||3||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}}
|-   
|40||[[Chen Dong (taikonaut)|Chen Dong]]||418.635||3||Active||{{Flag|China}}
|-
|41||[[Ivan Vagner]]||416.157||2||Active||{{Flag|Russia}}
|-  
|42||[[Thomas Pesquet]]||396.482||2||Active||{{Flag|France}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|43||[[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov|Aleksandr Volkov]]||391.495||3||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|44||[[Yury Onufriyenko]]||389.615||2||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|45||[[Shane Kimbrough]]||388.728||3||Retired||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|46||[[Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov|Vladimir Titov]]||387.031||4||Retired||{{Flag|Soviet Union}} / {{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|47||[[Vasily Tsibliyev]]||381.662||2||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|48||[[Valery Korzun]]||381.653||2||Retired||{{Flag|Russia}}
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|49||[[Christopher Cassidy]]||377.742||3||Retired||{{Flag|United States}}
|- style="background:#FAD6A5;"
|50||[[Leonid Kizim]]||374.749||3||Deceased||{{Flag|Soviet Union}}
|}

===Ten longest human spaceflights===
{{further|Timeline of longest spaceflights}}
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header"
|-
! #
! Time in space
! class="unsortable"| Crew
! Country
! Launch date (Launch craft)
! Landing date (Landing craft)
! Space station or mission type <!--i.e. an asteroid mission-->
|-
| 1
| 437.7 days<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/science/space/31mars.html |title=Staying Put on Earth, Taking a Step to Mars |access-date=2009-04-15 |last=Schwirtz |first=Michael |date=2009-03-30 |work=The New York Times }}</ref><ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
| [[Valeri Polyakov]]<ref name=NYT/>
| {{RUS}}
| 1994-01-08 ([[Soyuz TM-18]])
| 1995-03-22 ([[Soyuz TM-20]])
| [[Mir]]<ref name=NYT/>
|-
| 2
| 379.6 days<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
| [[Sergey Avdeev]]<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
| {{RUS}}
| 1998-08-13 ([[Soyuz TM-28]])
| 1999-08-28 ([[Soyuz TM-29]])
| [[Mir]]<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
|-
|rowspan=2|3
|rowspan=2|373.8 days
| [[Oleg Kononenko]]
|rowspan=2| {{RUS}}
|rowspan=2| 2023-09-15 ([[Soyuz MS-24]])
|rowspan=2| 2024-09-23 ([[Soyuz MS-25]])
|rowspan=2| [[International Space Station]]
|- 
|[[Nikolai Chub]]
|-
|rowspan=3| 4
|rowspan=3|370.9 days
| [[Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)|Sergey Prokopyev]]
|rowspan=2| {{RUS}}
|rowspan=3|2022-09-21 ([[Soyuz MS-22]])
|rowspan=3|2023-09-27 ([[Soyuz MS-23]]) 
|rowspan=3|[[International Space Station]]
|-
|[[Dmitry Petelin]]
|-
|[[Francisco Rubio (astronaut)|Francisco Rubio]]
|{{USA}}
|-
|rowspan=2|5  
|rowspan=2|365.9 days<ref name=SpaceYearMis>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/28947-yearlong-space-missions-history.html|title= One Year in Space: A History of Ultra-Long Missions Off Planet Earth|last=Pearlman|first=Robert|date=26 March 2015|publisher=Space.com|access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref>
|[[Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Titov]]<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
|rowspan=2|{{USSR}}
|rowspan=2|1987-12-21 ([[Soyuz TM-4]])
|rowspan=2|1988-12-21 ([[Soyuz TM-6]])
|rowspan=2|[[Mir]]<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
|-
|[[Musa Manarov]]<ref name=SpaceYearMis/>
|-
|rowspan=2|6
|rowspan=2|355.2 days<ref>{{cite web |last=Zak |first=Anatoly |title=Russian space program in 2021 |url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2021.html |publisher=RussianSpaceWeb.com |date=2 January 2022 |access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>
|[[Pyotr Dubrov]]
|{{RUS}}
|rowspan=2|2021-04-09 ([[Soyuz MS-18]])
|rowspan=2|2022-03-30 ([[Soyuz MS-19]])
|rowspan=2|[[International Space Station]]
|-
|[[Mark T. Vande Hei]]
|{{USA}}
|-
|rowspan=2|7
|rowspan=2|340.4 days
|[[Mikhail Kornienko]]
|{{RUS}}
|rowspan=2|2015-03-27 ([[Soyuz TMA-16M]])
|rowspan=2|2016-03-01 ([[Soyuz TMA-18M]])
|rowspan=2|[[International Space Station]],<br />[[ISS year-long mission]]
|-
|[[Scott Kelly (astronaut)|Scott Kelly]]
|{{USA}}
|-
| 8
| 328.6 days<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Mark |title=Christina Koch Completes 328-Day Mission in Space |url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/02/06/christina-koch-completes-328-day-mission-in-space/ |website=blogs.nasa.gov |access-date=6 February 2020 |date=6 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="Kochrecords"/>
| [[Christina Koch]]<ref name=Kochrecords>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christina-koch-sets-record-longest-single-space-flight-by-woman-astronaut/|title=Astronaut Christina Koch sets new record for longest single space flight by a woman|date=27 December 2019|publisher=CBS News|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref>
| {{USA}}
| 2019-03-14 ([[Soyuz MS-12]])
| 2020-02-06 ([[Soyuz MS-13]])
| [[International Space Station]]
|-
| 9
| 326.5 days<ref name=GiantD>{{cite book|last=Carroll|first=Michael|title=Living Among Giants: Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System|publisher=Springer|date=2015|pages=195|isbn=978-3319106731}}</ref>
|[[Yuri Romanenko]]<ref name=GiantD/>
| {{USSR}}
| 1987-02-05 ([[Soyuz TM-2]])
| 1987-12-29 ([[Soyuz TM-3]])
| [[Mir]]<ref name=GiantD/>
|-
| 10
| 311.8 days<ref name=WarNYT>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/04/us/man-in-the-news-sergei-konstantinovich-krikalev-symbol-of-new-cooperation.html|title=Man in the News: Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev; Symbol of New Cooperation|last=Leary|first=Warren|date=4 Feb 1994|work=New York Times|access-date=13 April 2015|location=Cape Canaveral}}</ref>
| [[Sergei Krikalev]]<ref name=WarNYT/>
| {{USSR}}/{{RUS}}
| 1991-05-18 ([[Soyuz TM-12]])
| 1992-03-25 ([[Soyuz TM-13]])
| [[Mir]]<ref name=WarNYT/>
|}

===Longest single flight by a woman===
NASA astronaut [[Christina Koch]] holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (328 days), returning on February 6, 2020.<ref name="Kochrecords"/> During [[Expedition 61]], she surpassed NASA astronaut [[Peggy Whitson]]'s 289 days from 2016 to 2017.

===Longest continuous occupation of space===
An international partnership consisting of Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the member states of the [[European Space Agency]] have jointly maintained a continuous human presence in space since 31 October 2000 when [[Soyuz TM-31]] was launched. Two days later, it docked with the [[International Space Station]].<ref name=MostExtreme/><ref name=10Year>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/living/10years.html|title=10 Years and Counting|date=28 October 2010|publisher=NASA|access-date=22 June 2015|archive-date=23 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923085512/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/living/10years.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since then space has been continuously occupied for {{age in years and days|2000|10|31}}.<ref name=MostExtreme/>

===Longest continuous occupation of a spacecraft===
The [[International Space Station]] has been continuously occupied by a Russian and US crew member since 2 November 2000 ({{age in years and days|2000|11|2}}).<ref name=MostExtreme/><ref name=10Year/> It broke the record of 9 years and 358 days of the Soviet/Russian Space Station [[Mir]] on 23 October 2010.<ref name=10Year/>

===Longest solo flight===
[[Valery Bykovsky]] flew solo for 4 days, 23 hours in [[Vostok 5]] from 14 to 19 June 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9352|title=Astronautic World Records: Spacecraft with one astronaut – General category|publisher=Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045409/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9352|archive-date=2015-09-24}} This only counts the duration of solo flight within a mission, so a longer mission ''with'' solo flight, such as [[Apollo 17]] at 12d+13h duration is surpassed because the solo undocked duration was only 3d+7h.)</ref> The flight set a space endurance record which was broken in 1965 by the (non-solo) [[Gemini 5]] flight. The Apollo program included long solo spaceflight, and during the [[Apollo 16]] mission, [[Ken Mattingly]] orbited solo around the Moon for more than 3 days and 9 hours.

===Longest time on the lunar surface===
[[Eugene Cernan]] and [[Harrison Schmitt]] of the [[Apollo 17]] mission stayed for 74 hours 59 minutes and 40 seconds (over 3 days) on the lunar surface after they landed on 11 December 1972.<ref name=NASAAP17>{{cite web|url=http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/documents/apollo17_overview.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930204141/http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/documents/apollo17_overview.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2006|title=Mission Report: Apollo 17 – The Most Productive Lunar Expedition|publisher=NASA|access-date=21 June 2015}}</ref> They performed three [[Extra-vehicular activity|EVAs]] (extra-vehicular activity) totaling 22 hours 3 minutes, 57 seconds. As Apollo commanders were the first to leave the LM and the last to get back in, Cernan's EVA time was slightly longer.<ref name=NASAAP17/>

===Longest time in lunar orbit===
[[Ronald Evans (astronaut)|Ronald Evans]] of [[Apollo 17]] mission stayed in lunar orbit for 6 days and 4 hours (148 hours)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/evans-re.html|title=Ronal Evans Biographical Data|date=April 1990|publisher=NASA|access-date=21 June 2015|quote=longest time in lunar orbit, 147 hours, 48 minutes}}</ref> [[Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey|along with five mice]]. For the solo portion of a flight around the Moon, [[Ken Mattingly]] on [[Apollo 16]] spent 1 hour 38 minutes longer than Evans' solo duration.

==Speed and altitude records==

===Fastest===
{{see also|List of vehicle speed records#Spacecraft}}
The [[Apollo 10]] crew ([[Thomas Patten Stafford|Thomas Stafford]], [[John Young (astronaut)|John W. Young]] and [[Eugene Cernan]]) achieved the highest speed relative to Earth ever attained by humans: 39,897&nbsp;kilometers per hour (11,082&nbsp;meters per second or 24,791&nbsp;miles per hour, about 32 times the [[speed of sound]] and 0.0037% of the [[speed of light]]).<ref name=MostExtreme>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/11337-human-spaceflight-records-50th-anniversary.html|title=The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records|last=Wall|first=Mike|date=11 March 2015|publisher=Space.com|access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> The record was set 26 May 1969, upon atmospheric entry interface after returning from the Moon.<ref name=MostExtreme/><!--ref says 24,791 mph (39,897 km/h)-->

The record for uncrewed spacecraft is held by the [[Parker Solar Probe]] at 191.7&nbsp;km/s, about 1/1600 (or 0.064%) the [[speed of light]], relative to the Sun. This speed was first reached in December 2024.

===Farthest humans from Earth===
The [[Apollo 13]] crew ([[Jim Lovell]], [[Fred Haise]], and [[Jack Swigert]]), while passing over the far side of the Moon at an altitude of {{convert|254|km|abbr=on}} from the lunar surface, were {{convert|400171|km|abbr=on}} from Earth.<ref name="Apollo13History">{{cite web | url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_13a_Summary.htm | title=Apollo 13 The Seventh Mission: The Third Lunar Landing Attempt 11 April–17 April 1970 | publisher=NASA | access-date=7 November 2015}}</ref> This record-breaking distance was reached at 00:21 UTC on 15 April 1970.<ref name="Apollo13History"/>

===Highest altitude for crewed non-lunar mission===
[[Polaris Dawn]] crew [[Jared Isaacman]], [[Scott Poteet]], [[Sarah Gillis]] and [[Anna Menon]] fired their [[Crew Dragon Resilience]]'s [[SpaceX Draco|Draco thrusters]] on 11 September 2024 at 00:27 UTC, at 15 hours and 4 minutes after liftoff and achieved a record apogee altitude of {{convert|874.95|mi|km}}.<ref name="Polaris Dawn Mission Overview Briefing">{{Cite AV media |url=https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyDRBXmJL |title=Polaris Dawn Mission Overview Briefing |date=August 19, 2024 |time=12:00 |access-date=25 August 2024 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820071337/https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyDRBXmJL |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Age records==
[[File:Wally Funk 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|Wally Funk flew in July 2021]]
[[File:Joseph Albert Walker.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|Joe Walker in 1961]]

===Earliest-born to reach space===
====Suborbital flight====
* Man – [[Joseph A. Walker|Joe Walker]] (born 20 February 1921), on [[X-15 Flight 90]] on 19 July 1963 (about 12 minutes.)
* Woman – [[Wally Funk]] (born 1 February 1939), on [[Blue Origin NS-16]], on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.)

====Orbital spaceflight====
* Man – [[Georgy Beregovoy]] (born 15 April 1921), on [[Soyuz 3]] on 26 October 1968 (81 orbits in about 4 days.)
* Woman – [[Valentina Tereshkova]] (born 6 March 1937), on [[Vostok 6]] on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.)

===Youngest===
====Suborbital flight====
* Woman – [[Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers|Anastatia Mayers]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|2004|9|27|2023|8|10|sc=y}}), on [[Galactic 02]], on 10 August 2023 (about 5 minutes.)
* Man – [[Oliver Daemen]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|2002|8|20|2021|7|20|sc=y}}), on [[Blue Origin NS-16]], on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.)

====Orbital spaceflight====
* Man – [[Gherman Titov]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1935|9|11|1961|8|6|sc=y}}), on [[Vostok 2]] on 6 August 1961 (17.5 orbits, about 1 day.)<ref name=MostExtreme/>
* Woman – [[Valentina Tereshkova]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1937|3|6|1963|6|16|sc=y}}), on [[Vostok 6]] on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.)

===Oldest===
====Suborbital flight====
* Man: [[Ed Dwight]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1933|9|9|2024|5|19|sc=y}}), on [[Blue Origin NS-25]], on 19 May 2024 (about 10 minutes).
* Woman: [[Wally Funk]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1939|2|1|2021|7|20|sc=y}}), on [[Blue Origin NS-16]], on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes).

====Orbital spaceflight====
* Man: [[John Glenn]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1921|7|18|1998|10|29|sc=y}}), on [[STS-95]] on 29 October 1998 (about 9 days, 20 hours).<ref>{{cite news |last=Sawyer |first=Kathy |date=8 October 1998 |title=John Glenn: The Second Time Around |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/glenn/stories/profile.htm |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
* Woman: [[Peggy Whitson]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1960|2|9|2025|6|25|sc=y}}), on [[Axiom Mission 4]] on 25 June 2025 (about 20 days, 2 hours and 59 minutes).<ref>{{cite press release |title=Ax-4 Crew Launches to International Space Station |date=25 June 2025 |publisher=[[Axiom Space]] |url=https://www.axiomspace.com/mission-blog/ax4-launches |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>

=== Spacewalk ===

==== Youngest ====
* Woman – [[Sarah Gillis]], (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1994|1|1|2024|9|12|sc=y}}), during [[Polaris Dawn]].
* Man – [[Alexei Leonov]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1934|5|30|1965|3|18|sc=y}}), during [[Voskhod 2]].

==== Oldest ====
* Man – [[Michael Barratt (astronaut)|Michael Barratt]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1959|4|16|2024|6|24|sc=y}}), during [[Expedition 71|ISS Expedition 71]].
* Woman – [[Sunita Williams]] (aged {{Age in years, months and days|1965|9|19|2025|1|30|sc=y}}), during ISS [[Expedition 72]].

==Spacewalk records==
{{see also|List of cumulative spacewalk records|List of longest spacewalks}}

===Most spacewalks (number and duration)===
Both of these are the record for the largest total number of spacewalks by a male and a female, and the most cumulative time spent on spacewalks by a male and a female.
* Man – [[Anatoly Solovyev]], '''16''' spacewalks for a total time of '''82 hours, 21 minutes'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gctc.ru/eng/biogr/default.htm|title=GCTC, Biographies of Cosmonauts: Solovyev, Anatoly Yakovlevich|publisher=Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre|access-date=2017-10-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070920155646/http://www.gctc.ru/eng/biogr/default.htm|archive-date=2007-09-20}}</ref>
* Woman (number) – [[Peggy Whitson]], '''10''' spacewalks for a total time of 60 hours, 21 minutes.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 23, 2017 |title=Spacewalking astronauts pull off urgent station repairs |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2017/05/23/spacewalking-astronauts-pull-off-urgent-station-repairs/ |access-date=February 8, 2023 |work=Los Angeles Daily News}}</ref><ref name="evanine">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/05/iss-astronauts-200th-station-eva-maintenance-tasks/|title=ISS astronauts complete 200th station EVA for maintenance tasks|publisher=NASASpaceflight.com|access-date=13 May 2017|date=12 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="EVA2017">{{Cite web |author= |year=2017 |title=Astronauts and Cosmonauts with EVA Experience (sorted by "EVA Time") |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/eva/e_eva_time.htm |access-date=May 13, 2017 |website=Spacefacts}}</ref>
* Woman (cumulative time) – [[Sunita Williams]], 9 spacewalks for a total time of '''62 hours, and 6 minutes'''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Mark |title=Spacewalkers Complete Radio Hardware Removal and Microbe Search |url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2025/01/30/spacewalkers-complete-radio-hardware-removal-and-microbe-search/ |website=blogs.nasa.gov |access-date=30 January 2025 |date=30 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Astronauts and Cosmonauts with EVA Experience (sorted by "EVA Time") |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/eva/e_eva_time.htm |website=www.spacefacts.de |access-date=30 January 2025}}</ref>

===Most spacewalks during a single mission===
* 7: [[Anatoly Solovyev]], during [[Mir EO-24|Expedition 24]] on the Soviet/Russian space station [[Mir]], in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.)
* 7: [[Andrew R. Morgan|Andrew Morgan]], during his first spaceflight on board the [[International Space Station|ISS]] for [[Expedition 60]]/[[Expedition 61|61]]/[[Expedition 62|62]] in 2019–2020, he spent 45 hours and 48 minutes outside the station.

===Longest spacewalks===
* Man –  [[Cai Xuzhe]] and [[Song Lingdong]], 9 hours 6 minutes, during the [[Shenzhou 19]] mission on 17 December 2024, as they installed space debris protection devices on the exterior of the [[Tiangong Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Andrew |date=2024-12-17 |title=Shenzhou-19 astronauts complete record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk |url=https://spacenews.com/shenzhou-19-astronauts-complete-record-breaking-9-hour-spacewalk/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=SpaceNews |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Woman – [[Susan Helms]], 8 hours 56 minutes, along with [[James S. Voss|James Voss]] on an ISS assembly mission during Shuttle mission [[STS-102]] on 11 March 2001. The spacewalkers were delayed early in their excursion when a device to help hold an astronaut's feet to the shuttle's robot arm became untethered,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harwood |first=William |date=2001-03-11 |title=Marathon spacewalk sets new record |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/station/stage5a1/010311fd4/index.html |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Spaceflight Now}}</ref> and Voss had to retrieve a spare from storage on the exterior of the station's ''Unity'' module. After about six hours of work, the pair reentered [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']]'s airlock.

===Greatest distance from a spacecraft during a spacewalk===
*All-time (and while on a planetary body<ref>{{cite book |last=Swift |first=Earl |title=Across the Airless Wilds |year=2021 |publisher=Custom House |pages=280–281 |isbn=9780062986535}}</ref>): 7.6 kilometers<ref name="transcript">{{cite web |url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17_TEC.PDF |title=Apollo 17 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription |website=NASA}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=1144}} (4.7 miles, 25,029 feet<ref name="eva table">{{cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-30_Extravehicular_Activity.htm |title=Extravehicular Activity |website=NASA}}</ref>), Apollo 17, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, EVA-2, December 12, 1972.  During their second of three moonwalks, Cernan and Schmitt rode the [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]] to geological station 2, [[Nansen-Apollo (crater)|Nansen Crater]], at the foot of the [[Taurus–Littrow|South Massif]].  As all spacewalks not occurring on a planetary body (the Moon) have involved short maximum distances from the spacecraft (see below), this remains the furthest distance that humans have traveled away from the safety of a pressurizable spacecraft, during an EVA of any type.
*Orbital flight: about 100 meters (or 330 feet), [[Bruce McCandless II|Bruce McCandless]], [[STS-41-B]], February 7, 1984.  With the exception of six [[Manned Maneuvering Unit]] (MMU) sorties in 1984 and a test of the [[Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue]] (SAFER) in 1994, all other orbital spacewalks have involved a safety tether, anchoring the spacefarer to the spacecraft at a short distance.  Of all spacewalks to date, Bruce McCandless' first test of the MMU established an orbital EVA distance record from a spacecraft which remained unbroken by later untethered EVAs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chaikin |first=Andrew |title=Untethered |date=October 2014 |publisher=Air and Space Magazine |url=https://www.airspacemag.com/space/untethered-180952792/}}</ref>

== Animal records ==
{{Further|Animals in space|Monkeys and apes in space}}

===First animals in space===
The first animals to enter space were [[Drosophila melanogaster|fruit flies]] launched by the United States in 1947 aboard a [[V-2 rocket]] to an altitude of {{Convert|68|mi|}}.<ref name=spaceanimals/> They were also the first animals to safely return from space.<ref name=spaceanimals>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/20648-animals-in-space-history-infographic.html|title=Cosmic Menagerie: A History of Animals in Space (Infographic)|last=Tate|first=Karl|date=17 April 2013|publisher=Space.com|type=infographic|access-date=June 28, 2014}}</ref> [[Albert II (monkey)|Albert II]], a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. [[V-2 rocket]] on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet [[R-1 (missile)|R-1V]]. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of {{cvt|100|km}} and safely parachuted back to Earth.<ref name="rsp">{{cite book |last1=Harvey |first1=Brian |title=Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions |last2=Zakutnyaya |first2=Olga |publisher=Springer Praxis Books |year=2011 |location=Chichester, UK |oclc=1316077842}}</ref>{{rp|21}}

===First animal in orbit===
[[Laika]] was a Soviet female [[Dog|canine]] launched on 3 November 1957 on [[Sputnik 2]]. The technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, so there was no expectation for survival. She died several hours into flight. [[Soviet space dogs|Belka and Strelka]] became the first canines to safely return to Earth from orbit on 19 August 1960.

===First Hominidae in space===
On 31 January 1961, through NASA's [[Mercury-Redstone 2]] mission the [[chimpanzee]] [[Ham (chimpanzee)|Ham]] became the first [[great ape]] in space.<ref name="My steps for Bataan">{{cite web |title=My steps for Bataan |url=https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/581909/my-steps-for-bataan/ |website=United States Marine Corps Flagship |access-date=13 April 2022}}</ref>

===Longest canine single flight===
Soviet space dogs {{lang|ru-Latn|[[Soviet space dogs#Veterok and Ugolyok|Veterok]]}} ({{lang|ru|Ветерок}}, "Light Wind") and {{lang|ru-Latn|Ugolyok}} ({{lang|ru|Уголёк}}, "Ember") were launched on 22 February 1966 on board [[Cosmos 110]] and spent 22 days in orbit before landing on 16 March.

===First animals beyond low Earth orbit===
An assortment of animals including a pair of [[Russian tortoise]]s, as well as [[Piophila|wine flies]] and [[mealworm]]s flew around the Moon with a number of other biological specimens including [[seed]]s and [[bacteria]] on a [[circumlunar trajectory|circumlunar]] mission aboard the Soviet [[Zond 5]] spacecraft on 18 September 1968.<ref name=spaceanimals /> It had been launched by a [[Proton-K]] rocket on 14 September.<ref name=spaceanimals />

Zond 5 came within {{convert|2000|km|mi}} of the Moon and then successfully returned to Earth, the first spacecraft in history to return safely to Earth from the Moon.<ref name=spaceanimals />

==Notable uncrewed or non-human spaceflights==
{{Further|List of uncrewed spacecraft by program}}
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{| class="wikitable sticky-header"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! style="width:100px;"|In reference to:
! style="width:125px;"|Spacecraft
! style="width:400px;"|Event
! style="width:85px;"|Origin
! style="width:125px;"|Date
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[MW 18014]] ([[V-2 rocket|A-4(V-2)]])
||First [[rocket]] to [[Spaceflight before 1951#1944|reach space]] (suborbital flight).
||{{Flagicon|Nazi Germany}} Germany
||20 June 1944
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[V-2 rocket|V-2 No. 20]]
||First [[animals in space|living organisms]] ([[Drosophila melanogaster|fruit flies]]) in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered.
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
||20 February 1947
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[V-2 rocket|V-2 No. 47]]
||First mammal in space, [[Albert II (monkey)|Albert II]], a rhesus monkey (suborbital flight). Died in capsule parachute failure.
||{{flagicon|USA}} USA
||14 June 1949
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[R-1V]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/r1v.htm|title=R-1V|access-date=30 September 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805141542/http://astronautix.com/lvs/r1v.htm|archive-date=5 August 2014}}</ref>
||First dogs in space (suborbital flight). Successfully recovered.
||{{flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||22 July 1951
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Sputnik 1]]
||First [[satellite]] in [[orbit]].<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||4 October 1957
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Sputnik 2]]
||First animal in orbit, [[Laika]], a dog.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||3 November 1957
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Vanguard 1]]
||Oldest satellite still in orbit, in addition to its upper launch stage. Expected to stay in orbit 240 years. Ceased transmission in May 1964.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||17 March 1958
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Pioneer 1]]
||Failed to reach the Moon as intended, but reached a record–setting distance of {{convert|113,800|km|mi}} from Earth.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||11 October 1958
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Luna 1]]
||First spacecraft to achieve Earth's [[escape velocity]].
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||4 January 1959
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 1]]
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|5,995|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||4 January 1959
|-
||[[Sun]]
||[[Luna 1]]
||First spacecraft in [[heliocentric orbit]].
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||4 January 1959
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 2]]
||First impact on another celestial body.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||14 September 1959
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 3]]
||First image of lunar far-side.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||7 October 1959
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Discoverer 13]]
||First satellite recovered from orbit.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||11 August 1960
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Korabl-Sputnik 2]]
||First living beings recovered from orbit.<ref>{{cite web |author=Siddiqi |first=Asif A. |title=Challenge to Apollo |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf |publisher=NASA |page=253}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|USSR}} USSR
||19 August 1960
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Mercury-Redstone 2]]
||First [[great ape]] or [[Hominidae]] in space, [[Ham (chimpanzee)|Ham]], a [[chimpanzee]] (suborbital flight).<ref name="My steps for Bataan"/>
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||31 January 1961
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Venera 1]]
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|100,000|km|mi}} (lost communication contact before).<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||19 May 1961
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Ranger 4]]
||First spacecraft to impact the [[far side of the Moon]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0265-9646(97)00038-6 |last1=Williamson |first1=Mark |title=Protecting the space environment: Are we doing enough? |journal=Space Policy |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=5–8 |year=1998 }}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||26 April 1962
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Alouette 1]]
||First satellite designed and constructed by a country other than the USA or USSR (the British satellite [[Ariel 1]], launched five months earlier, was designed and constructed by the USA).<ref>{{cite web|title=Alouette I and II|url=http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/alouette.asp|website=Canadian Space Agency|date=5 March 2012|publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=6 December 2017|language=en}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|Canada|1957}} Canada
||29 September 1962
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Mariner 2]]
||First [[planetary flyby]] with communication contact. Distance of {{convert|34,762|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 December 1962
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1]]
||Oldest spacecraft still in use (59 years {{as of|2024|lc=y}}).
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||6 May 1965
|-
||[[Mars]]
||[[Mariner 4]]
||First flyby and first planetary imaging. Distance of {{convert|9,846|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 July 1965
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Astérix (satellite)|Astérix]]
||First satellite launched independently by a nation other than the USA or USSR (other nations had previously flown satellites launched on American rockets).
||{{Flagicon|France}} France
||26 November 1965
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 9]]
||First soft landing and first pictures from the lunar surface.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||3 February 1966
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Kosmos 110]]
||First seeds to germinate in space.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||22 February 1966
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Venera 3]]
||First impact.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||1 March 1966
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 10]]
||First orbiter.<ref name="flight1967-03-23" />
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||3 April 1966
|-
||[[Docking and berthing of spacecraft|Docking]]
||[[Cosmos 186]], [[Cosmos 188]]
||First automated docking of uncrewed spacecraft.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||30 October 1967
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Surveyor 6]]
||First planned, controlled, powered flight from the surface of another body.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||17 November 1967
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Zond 5]]
||{{unbulleted list|First to circle the Moon and return to land on Earth.|First animals to circle the Moon ([[Russian tortoise]]s) .}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||15 September 1968
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 16]]
||First automated sample return.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||24 September 1970
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Luna 17]]
||First robotic roving vehicle, [[Lunokhod 1]].
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||17 November 1970
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Venera 7]]
||First soft landing on another planet.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||15 December 1970
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Salyut 1]]
||First space station.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||19 April 1971
|-
||[[Mars]]
||[[Mariner 9]]
||First orbiter.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 November 1971
|-
||[[Mars]]
||[[Mars 2]]
||First impact.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||27 November 1971
|-
||[[Mars]]
||[[Mars 3]]
||First soft landing. Maintained telemetry signal for 20 seconds before transmissions ceased.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||2 December 1971
|-
||[[Sun]]
||''[[Pioneer 10]]''
||First spacecraft to achieve the Sun's escape velocity.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||3 March 1972
|-
||[[Jupiter]]
||''[[Pioneer 10]]''
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|132,000|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||4 December 1973
|-
||[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]
||''[[Mariner 10]]''
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|703|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||29 March 1974
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Venera 9]]
||{{unbulleted list|First orbiter.|First surface-level imaging of another planet.}}
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||22 October 1975
|-
||[[Mars]]
||''[[Viking 1]]''
||First surface-level imaging of Mars.
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||20 July 1976
|-
||[[Saturn]]
||''[[Pioneer 11]]''
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|21,000|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||1 September 1979
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Venera 13]]
||First sound recording made on another planet.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||1 March 1982
|-
||Orbital [[Space Station]]
||[[Soyuz T-5]], [[Salyut 7]]
||First species of plant to flower in space.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-species-of-plant-to-flower-in-space|title=Guinness World Record: First species of plant to flower in space}}</ref> [[Arabidopsis thaliana]] [[Valentin Lebedev]].
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||1 July 1982
|-
||[[Solar System#Trans-Neptunian region|Trans-Neptunian region]]
||''[[Pioneer 10]]''
||First to travel past the orbit of [[Neptune]], the furthest major planet from the Sun.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||13 June 1983
|-
||[[Venus]]
||[[Vega 1]]
||First helium balloon atmospheric probe. First flight (as opposed to atmospheric entry) in another planet's atmosphere.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||11 June 1985
|-
||[[21P/Giacobini-Zinner|Comet Giacobini-Zinner]]
||[[International Cometary Explorer|International Cometary Explorer (ICE)]]
||First flyby through a [[comet tail]] (no pictures). Distance of {{convert|7,800|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||11 September 1985
|-
||[[Uranus]]
||''[[Voyager 2]]''
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|81,500|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||24 January 1986
|-
||[[Comet Halley]]
||[[Vega 1]]
||First [[comet]] flyby (with pictures returned). Distance of {{convert|8,890|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||6 March 1986
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Mir Core Module]], [[Kvant-1]]
||First modular space station.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||9 April 1987
|-
||Orbital [[Spaceplane]]
||''[[Buran (spacecraft)|Buran]]''
||First fully automated orbital flight of a [[spaceplane]] (with airstrip landing).
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||15 November 1988
|-
||[[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]]
||[[Phobos program|Phobos 2]]
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|860|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} USSR
||21 February 1989
|-
||[[Neptune]]
||''[[Voyager 2]]''
||First flyby. Distance of {{convert|40,000|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||25 August 1989
|-
||[[Moon]]
||''[[Hiten (spacecraft)|Hiten]]''
||First lunar probe launched by a country other than the USA or USSR.
||{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan
||18 March 1990
|-
||[[951 Gaspra]]
||''[[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]]''
||First [[asteroid]] flyby. Distance of {{convert|1,600|km|mi}}.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||29 October 1991
|-
||[[Jupiter]]
||[[Galileo probe|''Galileo'' probe]]
||First impact.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||7 December 1995
|-
||[[Jupiter]]
||[[Galileo (spacecraft)|''Galileo'']]
||First orbiter.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||8 December 1995
|-
||[[Mars]]
||[[Mars Pathfinder]]
||First automated roving vehicle, ''[[Sojourner (rover)|Sojourner]]''.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||4 July 1997
|-
||[[433 Eros]]
||[[NEAR Shoemaker]]
||First asteroid orbiter.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 February 2000
|-
||[[433 Eros]]
||[[NEAR Shoemaker]]
||First asteroid soft landing.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||12 February 2001
|-
||[[Saturn]]
||[[Cassini-Huygens|''Cassini'' orbiter]]
||First orbiter.
||{{unbulleted list|[[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px|link=European Space Agency]] ESA|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA|{{flag|Italy}}}}
||1 July 2004
|-
||[[Solar wind]]
||''[[Genesis (spacecraft)|Genesis]]''
||First sample return from farther than the Moon.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||8 September 2004
|-
||[[Titan (moon)|Titan]]
||[[Huygens probe|''Huygens'' probe]]
||First soft landing.
||{{unbulleted list|[[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px|link=European Space Agency]] ESA|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||14 January 2005
|-
||[[Comet Tempel 1]]
||''[[Deep Impact (spacecraft)|Deep Impact]]''
||First comet impact.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||4 July 2005
|-
||[[25143 Itokawa]]
||''[[Hayabusa]]''
||{{unbulleted list|First asteroid ascent.|First interplanetary escape without undercarriage cutoff.{{clarify|date=October 2020}}}}
||{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan
||19 November 2005
|-
||[[81P/Wild]]
||''[[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust]]''
||First sample return from comet.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||15 January 2006
|-
||[[Earth]]
||''[[Voyager 1]]''
||{{unbulleted list|Farthest distance from Earth ({{convert|14,841,000,000|mi|km AU}}).|Farthest distance from the Sun ({{convert|14,912,000,000|mi|km AU}}).}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||{{As of|2023|07}}<ref>{{cite news| url=http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/ |title=Where are the Voyagers?|access-date=2023-07-03|quote=Because Earth moves around the sun faster than ''Voyager 1'' is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.}}</ref>
|-
||Longest time in operation
||''[[Voyager 2]]''
||Longest continually operating space probe (since August 1977).
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||{{As of|2015}}
|-
||[[Moon]]
||''[[Moon Impact Probe]]''
||First impact on [[Lunar south pole]] and discovery of [[Lunar water|water on Moon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe: Impact Location Refined|url=https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1013.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205173542/http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1013.pdf|archive-date=5 February 2021|access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref>
||{{flagicon|IND}} India
||14 November 2008
|-
||Earth to Venus trajectory
||[[IKAROS]]
||First interplanetary [[solar sail]].
||{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan
||Set sail on 10 June 2010
|-
||[[25143 Itokawa]]
||''[[Hayabusa]]''
||First sample return from an asteroid.
||{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan
||13 June 2010
|-
||[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]
||''[[MESSENGER]]''
||First orbiter.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||17 March 2011
|-
||Earth–Sun L2 [[Lagrange point]]
||''[[Chang'e 2]]''
||First spacecraft to reach the L2 Lagrangian point directly from lunar orbit.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ching'e 2 to reaches liberation point 2|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-08/27/c_131078520.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123150001/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-08/27/c_131078520.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2011|date=2011-08-27}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||25 August 2011
|-
||[[International Space Station]]
||[[SpaceX Dragon 1]]
||First commercial spacecraft to berth with the International Space Station.
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA<!-- don't change to SpaceX; SpaceX is a US company -->
||25 May 2012
|-
||[[Interstellar medium]]
||''[[Voyager 1]]''
||First spacecraft to cross the [[Heliopause (astronomy)|heliopause]], thereby exiting the [[heliosphere]] and entering interstellar space.
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||25 August 2012
|-
||[[4179 Toutatis]]
||''[[Chang'e 2]]''
||{{unbulleted list|First spacecraft to reach an asteroid directly from a Sun-Earth [[Langrangian point]].|First spacecraft to explore both the Moon and an asteroid.<ref>[http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-12/15/content_16020495.htm "China's space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215224154/http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-12/15/content_16020495.htm |date=2012-12-15 }}. Chinadaily.com.cn.16 December 2012.</ref>}}
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||13 December 2012
|-
||[[67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko]]
||''[[Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta]]''
||First comet orbiter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_arrives_at_comet_destination|title=Rosetta arrives at comet destination|last=esa}}</ref>
||[[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px|link=European Space Agency]] ESA
||6 August 2014
|-
||[[Mars]]
||''[[Mars Orbiter Mission|MOM]]''
||First Asian nation to achieve Mars orbit and first in the world to do so in first attempt.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/24/india-mars-satellite-successfully-enters-orbit |title=India's Mars satellite successfully enters orbit, bringing country into space elite |work=The Guardian |first=Jason |last=Burke |date=24 September 2014 |access-date=24 September 2014 |quote=India has become the first nation to send a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first attempt, and the first Asian nation to do so.}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|India}} India
||24 September 2014
|-
||[[67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko]]
||''[[Philae (spacecraft)|Philae]]''
||First comet soft landing.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30027585|title=Philae probe makes historic comet landing|work=BBC News|date=12 November 2014}}</ref>
||[[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px|link=European Space Agency]] ESA
||12 November 2014
|-
||[[Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]]
||''[[Dawn (spacecraft)|Dawn]]''
||First [[dwarf planet]] orbiter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/us/dawn-spacecraft-ceres/index.html|title=NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins orbiting Ceres|first=Amanda |last=Barnett|date=6 March 2015|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||6 March 2015
|-
||[[Mars]]
||''[[Opportunity (rover)|Opportunity]]''
||Longest distance traveled on surface of another world ({{convert|26.219|mi|km}}, marathon-length).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/25/world/opportunity-rover-marathon-milestone/index.html|title=Opportunity rover celebrates marathon milestone|first=Euan |last=McKirdy|date=25 March 2015|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||23 March 2015
|-
||[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]
||''[[MESSENGER]]''
||First impact.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/30/science/space/messenger-collides-with-mercury.html|title=Messenger's Collision Course With Mercury|first=Jonathan|last=Corum|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 April 2015}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||30 April 2015
|-
||[[Pluto]]
||''[[New Horizons]]''
||{{unbulleted list|First flyby of [[Pluto]], [[Charon (moon)|Charon]], [[Nix (moon)|Nix]], [[Hydra (moon)|Hydra]], [[Kerberos (moon)|Kerberos]], and [[Styx (moon)|Styx]].|First up-close images of the Pluto system and of Pluto and Charon's surfaces.|First to explore the [[Kuiper belt]].}}
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 July 2015
|-
||All 9 planets in the pre-[[IAU definition of planet|IAU redefinition]] version of the [[Solar System]]
||All United States spacecraft including ''[[New Horizons]]''
||With the ''New Horizons'' flyby of [[Pluto]], the United States is the first nation to have its space probes explore all nine planets in the pre-2006 [[IAU]] redefinition version of the [[Solar System]].
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||14 July 2015
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Falcon 9]] ([[List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters#Booster 1021|B1021]])
||First re-flight of an orbital class rocket stage after a vertical propulsive landing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/36291-spacex-used-rocket-launch-landing-success.html|title=Used SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellite, Then Lands in Historic 1st Reflight|website=[[Space.com]]|date=30 March 2017 }}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|United States}} USA
||30 March 2017
|-
||[[Earth]]
||{{unbulleted list|[[Falcon 9]]|[[H-IIA|H-IIA-202]]}}
||Shortest period between orbital launches (launched 72<ref>{{cite web |title=TMRO:Space – Looking forward to 2018 – Orbit 11.01 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHGw8cD5EYw |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/bHGw8cD5EYw |archive-date=2021-12-22 |website=[[YouTube]]| date=6 January 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-23 |title=Falcon 9 Closes Record Year with 4th Iridium Launch, 1st Stage Disposal Gathers Flight Data – Falcon 9 – Iridium 4 |url=https://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-iridium-next-flight-4/falcon-9-launches-fourth-set-of-iridium-satellites/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Spaceflight101}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-23 |title=Japanese H-IIA Rocket Fires Into Orbit with Climate Change Satellite & Super-Low Altitude Testbed – H-IIA – GCOM-C1 |url=https://spaceflight101.com/h-iia-gcom-c1/h-iia-launches-gcom-c-and-slats/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Spaceflight101}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SpaceX launch dazzles, delivering 10 more satellites for Iridium – Spaceflight Now |url=https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/23/spacex-launch-dazzles-delivering-10-more-satellites-for-iridium/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Successful Launch, H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 37 Encapsulating SHIKISAI and TSUBAME |url=https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2017/12/20171223_h2af37.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency}}</ref> seconds apart).
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA||{{Flagicon|Japan}} Japan}}
||23 December 2017
|-
||[[Heliocentric orbit|1.66 au heliocentric orbit]]
||[[Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster]] on [[Falcon Heavy]] [[Falcon Heavy test flight|Test Flight]]
||First successful Deep Space mission launched successfully on a rocket's maiden flight
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||6 February 2018

|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Chang'e 4]]
||First soft landing at the [[far side of the Moon]].
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||3 January 2019
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Yutu-2]]
||First lunar rover traversing the [[far side of the Moon]].
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||3 January 2019
|-
|[[Moon]]
|[[Beresheet]]
|First commercial/privately funded spacecraft to enter lunar orbit.
|{{Flagicon|Israel}} Israel
|4 April 2019
|-
|[[101955 Bennu]]
|[[OSIRIS-REx]]
|Smallest body to be orbited by spacecraft ({{cvt|492|m|-2}} diameter) and closest ever orbit ({{cvt|680|m}} altitude).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-arrives-asteroid-bennu |title=NASA'S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu |work=OSIRIS-REx Mission |publisher=NASA |date=2018-12-03 |access-date=2018-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/osiris-rex-breaks-another-orbit-record |title=NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Breaks Another Orbit Record |publisher=NASA |date=2019-06-13 |access-date=2019-06-22}}</ref>
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
|12 June 2019
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Yutu-2]]
||Longest operational lunar rover after breaking the longevity record of 321 Earth days held by Soviet Union's [[Lunokhod 1]] rover.<ref name="LD-20191218">{{cite web|url=https://www.space.com/china-change-4-rover-moon-record.html|title=China's Farside Moon Rover Breaks Lunar Longevity Record|first=Leonard|last=David|publisher=Space.com|date=18 December 2019}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||20 November 2019
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Chang'e 5]]
||First robotic [[Space rendezvous|rendezvous and docking]] by two spacecraft (lunar orbiter attached with reentry-capsule and lunar ascent vehicle) in lunar orbit or any orbit other than Earth's.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2nd LD-Writethru-Xinhua Headlines: China completes first spacecraft rendezvous, docking in lunar orbit, {{!}} The Star|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/12/06/2nd-ld-writethru-xinhua-headlines-china-completes-first-spacecraft-rendezvous-docking-in-lunar-orbit|access-date=2020-12-05|website=www.thestar.com.my}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||5 December 2020
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Chang'e 5]]
||First robotic transfer of payload (lunar samples from lunar ascent vehicle to reentry capsule) between two docked spacecraft in lunar orbit or any orbit other than Earth's.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jones|first=Andrew|date=7 December 2020|title=China's Chang'e 5 aces lunar orbit docking needed to bring moon samples home|work=Space News|url=https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-5-moon-orbit-docking-success|access-date=17 August 2022}}
</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||5 December 2020
|-
||[[Mars]]
||''[[Ingenuity (helicopter)|Ingenuity]]''
||First controlled, [[Powered aircraft|powered flight]] by a rotary wing aircraft on another planet.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Palca|first=Joe|date=19 April 2021|title=Success! NASA's Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars|work=[[National Public Radio]]|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/985588253/success-nasas-ingenuity-makes-first-powered-flight-on-mars|access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||19 April 2021
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Zhuque-2]] 
||First methane-fueled rocket to reach orbit<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/china-beats-rivals-successfully-launch-first-methane-liquid-rocket-2023-07-12/ |title=China beats rivals to successfully launch first methane-liquid rocket |work=Reuters |date=12 July 2023 }}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||12 July 2023
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Chandrayaan-3]]
||First soft landing at [[Lunar south pole|Lunar south polar region]].
||{{Flagicon|India}} India
||23 August 2023
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[IM-1]] Odysseus 
||First successful commercial and first [[cryogenic]] [[propellant|propelled]] lunar landing.<ref name="im1">{{Cite web |author1=Altemus |first=Steve |date=28 February 2024 |title=Intuitive Machines Press Release |url=https://violet-clam-514180.hostingersite.com/press-release-archives/24-02-28-b--reply-from-steve-altemus.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313004311/https://violet-clam-514180.hostingersite.com/press-release-archives/24-02-28-b--reply-from-steve-altemus.pdf |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |website=Mindsviewpress.com}}</ref> First soft landing within the [[lunar south pole region]] at {{Lunar coords and quad cat|80.13|S|1.44|E}}<ref name="coords">{{Cite web |author1=Robinson |first=Mark |date=26 February 2024 |title=Intuitive Machines IM-1 On The Moon! |url=http://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/1360 |access-date=26 February 2024 |website=www.lroc.asu.edu}}
</ref>
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||22 February 2024
|-
||[[Moon]]
||[[Chang'e 6]] 
||First sample collection and return from the [[far side of the Moon]].<ref name=SN240625>{{citation |last=Jones |first=Andrew |date=2024-06-25 |title=Chang'e-6 delivers first lunar far side samples to Earth after 53-day mission |url=https://spacenews.com/change-6-delivers-first-lunar-far-side-samples-to-earth-after-53-day-mission/ |website=SpaceNews}}</ref>
||{{Flagicon|China}} China
||3 June, 25 June 2024
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Falcon 9]] 
||Most consecutive launch successes of a single type of rocket: 365.
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||14 January 2017 – 8&nbsp;July 2024
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Falcon 9]] 
||Most consecutive landing successes of a single type of rocket stage: 267.
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||4 March 2021 – 20&nbsp;August 2024
|-
|[[Earth]]
|[[Falcon 9]] ([[List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters#Booster 1067|B1067]])
||Most vertical landings of a single orbital rocket stage: 29.
|{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||3 June 2021 – 2&nbsp;July 2025
|-
||[[Earth]]
||[[Falcon 9]] ([[List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters#Booster 1088|B1088]])
||Shortest time between two flights of the same orbital rocket stage: 9 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes
||{{Flagicon|USA}} USA
||12 March 2025 - 21&nbsp;March 2025
|-
||[[Sun]]
||[[Parker Solar Probe]]
|| Highest velocity of a spacecraft relative to the Sun: 191.7&nbsp;km/s (690,000&nbsp;km/h; 430,000&nbsp;mph).

Closest approach to the Sun: distance of 0.041 AU (6,000,000 kilometres; 3,800,000&nbsp;mi).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ramakrishnan |first=Adithi |date=27 December 2024 |title=NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's scorching surface |url=https://apnews.com/article/nasa-parker-probe-sun-corona-a00b1a21f272cdd4cbfaf3d8cd532284 |access-date=27 December 2024 |work=[[Associated Press]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Parker Solar Probe Presskit |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/parkersolarprobe_presskit_august2018_final.pdf |website=nasa.gov |access-date=14 December 2018}}</ref> This makes the probe the fastest object in the Solar System apart from comets (overtaking asteroid [[2005 HC4]]).
||{{unbulleted list|{{Flagicon|United States}} USA}}
||24 December 2024
|}

==See also==
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* [[First images of Earth from space]]
* [[Human presence in space]]
* [[List of crewed spacecraft]]
* [[List of cumulative spacewalk records]]
* [[List of International Space Station spacewalks]]
* [[List of Mir spacewalks]]
* [[List of spacewalkers]]
* [[List of spacewalks 2000–2014]]
* [[List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999]]
* [[List of spacewalks since 2015]]
* [[Manned Maneuvering Unit]]
* [[Omega Speedmaster]]
* [[Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue]]
* [[Space suit]]
* [[Suitport]]
* [[Timeline of space exploration]], list of firsts in space exploration
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_lunar.html Russia's unmanned Moon missions]

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