CCCP

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Soyuz TM-2

This was the first crewed flight of the Soyuz TM variant of Soyuz crew spacecraft. It ferried the EO-2 long duration crew to Space Station Mir. The EO-2 mission lasted 10 months, but Levykin was abruptly replaced halfway through after being diagnosed with a heart condition. He returned on this Soyuz while Romanenko remained for the rest of the EO-2 mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TM-3. The EO-2 crew oversaw the first modular expansion of Mir with the arrival of the Kvant-1 module.

Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.

Soyuz

Aleksandr Laveykin

USSR

Mir PE-2 EVA 1

Mir PE-2 EVA 2

Mir PE-2 EVA 3

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total time in space.

Elite Spaceflyer

Soyuz 26

Soyuz 26 was the first successful mission to the Salyut 6 space station and the crew set a world record at the time for longest spaceflight. A month after launch, the Soyuz 27 crew arrived and docked to Salyut 6 before transfering into Soyuz 26 and landing, making Soyuz 26 the first mission to launch with one crew and land with a completely different set of people.

Soyuz 38

Soyuz 38 was a visitation mission to the fourth long duration crew of the Salyut 6 space station. It carried Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and first person of African descent to fly in space.

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