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Spaceflights overview

A summary of Sergei’s spaceflights and spacewalks (VKDs). Times are UTC/GMT.

Spaceflights

Expedition Launch spacecraft Date & time Landing spacecraft Date & time Flight duration
EO-4 (Mir, «Мир») Soyuz TM-7 (Callsign: Донбасс-2, Donbass-2 – the “2” indicates he was in the second Soyuz seat to the left of the commander/pilot) 26 Nov 1988 at 15:49:34 Soyuz TM-7 27 Apr 1989 02:57:58 151d 11h 08m 24s
EO-9/10 (Mir, «Мир») Soyuz TM-12 (Callsign: Озон-2, Ozon-2 [Ozone]) 18 May 1991 at 12:50:28 Soyuz TM-13 25 Mar 1992 at 08:51:22 311d 20h 00m 54s
STS-60 Discovery 3 Feb 1994 at 12:10:00 STS-60 11 Apr 1994 at 19:20:13 8d 07h 10m 13s
STS-88 Endeavour 4 Dec 1998 at 08:35:34 STS-88 16 Dec 1998 at 03:54:21 11d 19h 18m 47s
Expedition 1 (ISS, МКС) Soyuz TM-31 (Callsign: Уран-2, Uran-2 [Uranus]) 31 Oct 2000 at 07:52:47 STS-102 21 Mar 2001 at 07:33:06 140d 23h 40m 19s
Expedition 11 (ISS, МКС) Soyuz TMA-6 (Callsign: Базальт, Bazal’t [Basalt]) 15 Apr 2005 at 00:46:25 Soyuz TMA-6 11 Oct 2005 at 01:09 179d 23m
Total accumulated spaceflight time: 803d 9h 37m

Notes

After completing Expedition 1, Sergei’s total accumulated time in orbit was 624 days, 9 hours, 16 minutes over 5 flights. Only 3 other cosmonauts had more time than Sergei then:

  • Avdeev, Sergei Vasil’evich: 747 d, 14h, 22m over 3 flights. Just over 2 years!
  • Polyakov, Valerii Vladimirovich: 678d, 16h, 32m over 2 flights.
  • Solov’ev, Anatolii Yakovlevich: 651d, 0h, 10m over 5 missions.

According to the NY Times article, “A Trip Forward in Time. Your Travel Agent: Einstein”, on the “Twin Paradox” physics law where time will slow for someone travelling at a fast speed:

The record holder for this type of travel, he said, is the Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev, who came back from 748 days orbiting in the Mir space station a full one-fiftieth of a second younger than he would have if he had stayed on the ground.

So the more he orbits the Earth, the slower he will age!

Spacewalks
Внекорабельной деятельности

Date Beginning time Duration Crew Spacesuit type Tasks
EO-9, ЭО-9
24 Jun 1991 21:11 04:58
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №14
 Orlan-DMA Replaced Kurs docking system antenna
28 Jun 1991 19:02 03:24
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №14
 Orlan-DMA Attached TREK cosmic ray collector to exterior of Mir
15 Jul 1991 11:45 05:56
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №8
 Orlan-DMA Began Sofora girder construction. Sofora mounting platform installed
19 Jul 1991 11:10 05:28
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №8
 Orlan-DMA Began assembly of Sofora girder
23 Jul 1991 09:15 05:42
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №8
 Orlan-DMA Continued assembly of Sofora girder
27 Jul 1991 08:44 06:49
  • A. Artsebarskii, №6
  • S. Krikalyov, №8
 Orlan-DMA Continued assembly of Sofora girder
EO-10, ЭО-10
20 Feb 1992 20:09 04:12
  • A. Volkov, №12
  • S. Krikalyov, №8
 Orlan-DMA Dismantled equipment
ISS-11, МКС-11
18 Aug 2005 19:02 04:58
  • S. Krikalyov, №0520025
  • J. Phillips, №0240027
 Orlan-M Installed various experiments and a TV camera for the Jules Verne ATV
Total spacewalk hours: 41h 27m

Achievements

  • First Russian to fly on the Space Shuttle.
  • First Russian to enter the ISS (during STS-88).
  • First ISS crewperson to stay on the ISS a second time.
  • First to be a member of two ISS crews.
  • First person to visit the ISS three times.
  • Holder of the accumulated time-in-space record. On 16 August 2005 at 05:45 GMT/UTC, Sergei overtook cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev’s longstanding record of 747d 14h 14m 11s accumulated flight time!
  • Fourth civilian cosmonaut to pilot a Soyuz (sit in the commander’s seat in the middle) – the first civilian Soyuz commander was Nikolai Rukavishnikov, the second was Valeri Kubasov and the third was Aleksander Kaleri.
  • Sixth in the list of long-duration spaceflights (311.8 days for his extended stay on Mir on his second mission, EO-9/10. Valerii Polyakov holds first place.)
  • The ninth person to achieve six spaceflights (John Young was the first), and the first Russian cosmonaut to go into space six times.

The information in the tables is from Encyclopedia Astronautica and Manned Astronautics.

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