CCCP

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

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut became the first female to conduct a spacewalk.

First Female Spacewalker

Soyuz T-12

Soyuz T-12 was a short, 12-day visitation mission to the Salyut 7 space station's Mayak crew. It marked the first time a woman flew to space more than once and the first time a woman performed a spacewalk. After NASA announced that an upcoming Space Shuttle mission would feature the first spacewalk by a woman, the Soyuz T-12 mission was quickly assembled and launched first so the Soviet Union would beat the USA in the race for this achievement.

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

Soyuz T-7

This mission was a visitation and Soyuz vehicle swap to the Elbrus crew on Salyut 7. It marked only the second time a woman flew in space and the first time a woman flew in over 19 years. The crew delivered experiments and letters to the Elbrus crew, left them Soyuz T-7, and returned home on Soyuz T-5.

Svetlana Savitskaya

USSR

Salyut 7VE-4 EVA 1

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Soyuz 35

This mission ferried the fourth long duration crew to the Salyut 6 space station. The crew returned to Earth on Soyuz 37. From the station, the crew took part in the Opening Ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, received numerous visitors, and set a new endurance record at the time. With the flight, Valery Ryumin reached a total time in space of 352 days.

Soyuz 40

Soyuz 40 was a week-long visitation mission to the sixth long duration crew of the Salyut 6 space station. It was the final flight of the original Soyuz crew spacecraft and the last craft to dock to Salyut 6. It marked the first time a Romanian travelled to space. 

Leonid Popov

Roscosmos

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of space walks.

Frequent Walker

Soyuz T-8

Soyuz T-8 was a planned flight to the Salyut 7 space station that was aborted after a failed docking attempt.

Soyuz TM-8

Soyuz TM-8 ferried the EO-5 long duration crew to Space Station Mir.

Soyuz TM-17

This ferry flight brought the EO-14 long duration crew to Space Station Mir. During undocking, Soyuz TM-17 collided twice with Mir while trying to conduct up-close inspections. Thankfully no significant damage to Soyuz or Mir was observed.

Aleksandr Serebrov

Russia

Igor Volk

Soyuz 27

This mission to the Salyut 6 space station was a visitation flight where one Soyuz crew would visit an ongoing, long duration mission and them leave a new Soyuz craft. Instead of returning in the same Soyuz they launched in, the Soyuz 27 crew returned home in Soyuz 26.

Soyuz 39

Soyuz 39 marked the first time a Mongolian reached space. The visitation mission to the sixth long duration Salyut 6 space station crew was the 21st and final back-to-back human spaceflight since July 1975 for which the Soviet Union was the only nation capable of launching people into space.

Soyuz T-13

Before this mission's launch, the Salyut 7 space station suffered a solar array problem that left it derelict in orbit. Soyuz T-13 performed a manual docking to the powerless station and carried out extensive repairs. The crew used Soyuz T-13 to aim Salyut 7's solar arrays at the Sun to charge the station's batteries. It took two months and a Progress resupply craft filled with replacement parts to bring the station more or less back to operational status. Dzhanibekov landed with Soyuz T-13 while Savinykh remained on Salyut with Soyuz T-14.

Soyuz T-6

Soyuz T-6 launched a three-person visitation mission to Salyut 7's Elbrus crew. The flight focused on cardiovascular research and marked the first Soviet-French mission and the first time a French person reached space. Docking to Salyut 7 occurred manually after the automated rendezvous system stopped working.

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