gennady padalka has spent the most time in space.
gennady padalka has spent the most time in space.
who has spent the most time in space?
gennady padalka
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. yuri malenchenko is currently in second place, having spent 828 days in space on six spaceflights.
list of spaceflight records
scott kelly (nasa / usa), who spent roughly a year in space during a long, uninterrupted stay aboard the international space station, samantha cristoforetti (european space agency / italy), who has spent more time in an uninterrupted spaceflight than any other european astronaut, barry "butch" wilmore (nasa / usa), commander of the 42nd expedition to the iss from november 10, 2014 to march 11, 2015, terry virts (nasa / usa), commander of the 43rd expedition to the iss from march 11, 2015 to june 11, 2015, anton shkaplerov (roscosmos / russia), the commander of the soyuz spacecraft that brought cristoforetti and virts to the space station, kjell lindgren (nasa / usa), a medical doctor who had previously worked as a flight surgeon supporting medical operations and space-station training at nasa's johnson space center, and kimiya yui (japan aerospace exploration agency / japan), a space explorer who was made head of the jaxa astronaut group after he returned from his stay on the space station.
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