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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.
Size does matter â especially to NASA. As early as 2009, applicants to the astronaut corps will face new size limits, including on weight and sitting height. That's a result of NASA's plan to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and switch entirely to smaller vehicles.The exact limits haven't been determined because new vehicles are still in development.he last time it recruited a new batch of astronauts, in 2003, the minimum height was 4 feet, 10Â½; the maximum was 6 feet, 4 inches. It would be the wrong thing to do to select people who aren't going to fit in your spaceship, says Duane Ross, NASA's head of astronaut selection.