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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.
Secret Space Shuttles. When youâre 200 miles up, itâs easy to hide what youâre up to. All five NASA astronauts on the classified STS-28 mission had military backgrounds. But only two of the defense departmentâs corps of 27 shuttle payload specialists made it to orbit. The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on it from below.