Talk:Spaceflight records

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Hi! is the following the longest distance ever done by a human???

Longest human single flight

   * Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir LD-4 for 437.7 days, during which he orbited the earth about 7,075 times and traveled 300,765,000 km, (about 186,887,000 miles, or .0000318 light years) returned March 22, 1995 (Soyuz TM-20).

Which had the highest altitude apart from the ones to the Moon? Were they all LEO?--Patrick 23:07, 2004 Oct 16 (UTC)

Gemini 10 and Gemini 11 both used their Agena docking targets to raise their orbits. Gemini 10 to a 763-km apogee and Gemini 11 to 1,374-km apogee. These are the highest altitude non-lunar missions to date.Error 404 22:45, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks.--Patrick 11:47, 2004 Oct 23 (UTC)

IMHO, the first "records" for the Americans do not feel as records, as they concern suborbital flights. Only the first winged suborbital flight does is a real record. The first american woman in space also IMHO does not constitute a real record, but a milestone. For NASA, that is. Also: no record for the longest individual stay in space, or the first stay for over a year. I know the Russians have done it, just not when or who. Letting every Skylab mission have its own record is also somewhat US-centric. Or perhaps make an seperate list of manned mission duration records?

This page uses tyhe international definition of space so sub-orbital flights are valid. Also the longest spaceflight is the very first item on the page. The first flight over 1 year is clearly marked in 1988, the Skylab missions are just as valid duration records as the Salyut flights which follow them on the list. The first American woman in space is mentioned in the same entry as the record for the first five person spaceflight so it isn't much of a stretch to mention the other fact as well. Rmhermen 15:24, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

I am missing the first space station to space station flight, from Salyut 7 to Mir! Someone has details on this?

It is in there - see 1985 in the list of firsts. Rmhermen 02:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slashdot almost has news on new record - almot there

[1] - soon it may be time for an update –Gnomz⁰⁰⁷(?) 19:24, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Two thirteen-man firsts?

The "Human spaceflight firsts" table lists two separate "Thirteen people in space: No docking" firsts. One in 1995, then two rows below in 1997. Initially I thought one of them was supposed to be docking or had a different amount of people, but I checked the shuttle mission description and found that neither docked with Mir. Should the latter one be deleted from the table? Cardinal2 05:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I removed the second. Rmhermen 17:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)