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Japan, Canada and Europe. NASA astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria has flown the longest U.S. space. station mission to date, at 215 days. Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut, spent 437 days in. space during one mission. A space shuttle crew is typically five to seven crewmembers. We have. carried as few as two and as many as eight at one time, and space shuttle missions have been as. short as two days and as long as 18 days.
Getting people safely to and from destinations in deep space poses challenges that the engineers of NASA's last crewed spaceship, the now-retired space shuttle, never had to consider. (No space shuttle ever traveled beyond Earth orbit.).or example, if a problem develops aboard a spaceship in LEO, astronauts can theoretically be on the ground in less than an hour. But it would take days for a vehicle out by the moon or beyond to get home, said NASA Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer.