Longest Stay In Space
Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972 polyakov made his first flight into space aboard soyuz tm 6 in 1988.
Longest stay in space. He returned to earth 240 days later aboard tm 7. Russian cosmonaut gennady padalka who has spent 878 days in space over five missions became the record holder for the most time spent in space when he surpassed on 28 june 2015 the record of cosmonaut sergei krikalev who spent 803 days 9 hours and 39 minutes about 2 2 years in space over the span of six spaceflights on soyuz the space shuttle mir and the international space station. His combined space experience is more than 22 months.
A nasa astronaut made history today when she set the record for the longest stay in space by a woman. Valeri vladimirovich polyakov is a russian former cosmonaut. Former cosmonaut valeri polyakov has spent 14 months aboard the russian mir space station.
He is the holder of the record for the longest single stay in space in human history staying aboard the mir space station for more than 14 months during one trip. American spanish space traveller mike lopez alegria has flown the longest u s. However the space trips used to be just two weeks long during the space shuttle existence.
Space station mission till date at 215 days. Koch is currently on her third mission with the iss. Koch surpassed the record previously held by peggy whitson.
Nasa astronaut christina koch sets a record in space. Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994 1995.