GordonD Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 April 24th Valeri Voloshin (1942) USSR Selected 1965 Involved with the Soviet lunar landing programme Retired for medical reasons April 1969; no flights Yvonne Cagle (1959) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) Retired June 2008; no flights At the 2017 Academy Awards she brought 98-year-old Katherine Johnson (featured in the film Hidden Figures) on stage Information from Spacefacts website and Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 April 25th Frank De Winne (1961) Belgium Selected 1998 Soyuz TMA-1/ISS Taxi Flight 4, 30 October - 10 November 2002 (10d 20h 53m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-34 Soyuz TMA-15/ISS Expeditions 20/21, 27 May - 1 December 2009 (187d 20h 41m) Total flight time 198d 17h 34m Retired August 2012 Soyuz TMA-1 was originally to have carried musician Lance Bass of NSYNC as a fare-paying passenger but financial agreement could not be reached and he was dropped Denis Matveyev (1983) Russia Selected 2010 On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 April 26th Vitali Grishchenko (1942) USSR Selected 1965 Discharged for unknown reasons 1968 Died 4 May 1992, possibly suicide Samantha Christoforetti (1977) Italy Selected 2009 Soyuz TMA-15M/ISS Expedidions 42/43, 23 November 2014 - 11 June 2015 (199d 16h 42m) Still on active flight status Has spent more time in space than any other non-US female Also holds the record for the longest single flight by a non-US/Russian space traveller (male or female) Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 April 27th Valeri Polyakov (1942) USSR Selected 1972 Soyuz TM-6/Mir Expeditions 3/4, 29 August 1988 - 27 April 1989 (240d 22h 34m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-18/Mir Expeditions 15/16/17, 8 January 1994 - 22 March 1995 (437d 17h 58m) - landed aboard Soyuz TM-20 Total flight time 678d 16h 32m Retired June 1995 Holds the record for the longest single spaceflight Ellen Baker (1953) USA Selected 1984 (NASA Group 10) STS-34, 18 - 23 October 1989 (4d 23h 39m) - Deployed the Galileo Jupiter probe STS-50, 25 June - 9 July 1992 (13d 19h 30m) - US Microgravity Lab 1 STS-71, 27 June - 7 July 1995 (9d 19h 22m) - First Shuttle/Mir docking mission; crew exchange (Solovyov & Budarin up; Dezhurov & Thagard down) Total flight time 28d 14h 31m Retired September 2005 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 April 28th John Creighton (1943) USA Selected January 1978 (NASA Group 8 ) STS-51G, 17 - 24 June 1985 (7d 1h 39m) - Deployed three comsats STS-36, 28 February - 4 March 1990 (4d 10h 18m) - Classified DoD mission; deployed a reconnaissance satellite STS-48, 13 - 18 September 1991 (5d 8h 27m) - Deployed the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Total flight time 16d 20h 24m Retired July 1992 Jay Apt (1949) USA Selected 1985 (NASA Group 11) STS-37, 5 - 11 April 1991 (5d 23h 32m) - Deployed the Gamma Ray Observatory - Apt had to perform unscheduled EVA to release jammed high-gain antenna STS-47, 12 - 20 September 1992 (7d 22h 30m) - Carried Japanese Spacelab-J. First flight of a married couple, and no they didn't; you should be ashamed of yourself STS-59, 9 - 20 April 1994 (11d 5h 49m) - Carried Space Radar Laboratory to distinguish human-induced environmental changes from natural ones STS-79, 16 - 26 September 1996 (10d 3h 18m) - Fourth Shuttle-Mir docking; crew exchange (Blaha up; Lucid down) Total flight time 35d 7h 9m Retired May 1997 Paul Lockhart (1956) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-111, 5 - 19 June 2002 (13d 20h 35m) - Fifth flight of the Leonardo module to the ISS; crew exchange (Expedition 5 up; Expedition 4 down) STS-113, 24 November - 7 December 2002 (13d 18h 47m) - Delivered P1 Truss to the ISS: crew exchange (Expedition 6 up; Expedition 5 down) Total flight time 27d 15h 22m Retired 2005 Léopold Eyharts (1957) France Selected 1990 Soyuz TM-27/Mir Visiting Flight 13, 29 January - 19 February 1998 (20d 16h 35m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-26 STS-122/ISS Expedition 16, 7 February - 27 March 2008 (48d 4h 53m) - Landed aboard STS-123 Total flight time to date 68d 21h 28m Still on active flight status Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 April 29th Dmitri Zaikin (1932) USSR Selected 1960 Backup for Voskhod 2 Retired for medical reasons October 1969; no flights Died 21 October 2013 Nikolai Budarin (1953) USSR Selected 1989 STS-71/Mir Expedition 19, 27 June - 11 September 1995 (75d 11h 20m) - Landed aboard Soyuz TM-21. First Shuttle-Mir docking Soyuz TM-27/Mir Expedition 25, 29 January - 25 August 1998 (207d 12h 49m) STS-113/ISS Expedition 6, 24 November 2002 - 4 May 2003 (161d 1h 14m) - was aboard the ISS at the time of Columbia accident; landed aboard Soyuz TMA-1 Total flight time 444d 1h 23m Retired September 2004 Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 April 30th Michael Smith (1945) USA Selected 1980 (NASA Group 9) STS-51L, launched 28 January 1986; killed when vehicle exploded 73 seconds after lift-off. Not classed as a spaceflight as craft did not exceed 100km altitude Duane Carey (1957) USA Selected 1996 (NASA Group 16) STS-109, 1 - 12 March 2002 (10d 22h 10m) - Fourth Hubble servicing mission Retired October 2004 Victor Glover (1976) USA Selected 2013 (NASA Group 21) On active status; no flights yet Information from Spacefacts website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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