List of spaceflight records (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of spaceflight records" in English language version.

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19nasa.gov

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airspacemag.com

Chaikin, Andrew (October 2014). "Untethered". Air and Space Magazine.

apnews.com

Ramakrishnan, Adithi (27 December 2024). "NASA's Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun's scorching surface". Associated Press. Retrieved 27 December 2024.

asc-csa.gc.ca

"Alouette I and II". Canadian Space Agency. Government of Canada. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2017.

asteroidmission.org

"NASA'S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu". OSIRIS-REx Mission. NASA. 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2018-12-20.

astronautix.com

"Astronautix.com: Mercury MR-3". Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
"R-1V". Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.

asu.edu

lroc.asu.edu

Robinson, Mark (26 February 2024). "Intuitive Machines IM-1 On The Moon!". www.lroc.asu.edu. Retrieved 26 February 2024.

axiomspace.com

"Ax-4 Crew Launches to International Space Station" (Press release). Axiom Space. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.

bbc.com

Russian astronaut record-breaker Padalka returns to Earth, BBC News, 12 September 2015
"Philae probe makes historic comet landing". BBC News. 12 November 2014.

cbsnews.com

"Astronaut Christina Koch sets new record for longest single space flight by a woman". CBS News. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

chinadaily.com.cn

usa.chinadaily.com.cn

"China's space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis" Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. Chinadaily.com.cn.16 December 2012.

cnbc.com

Sheetz, Michael (2020-05-30). "SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts to space for the first time in historic US mission". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-05-31.

cnn.com

Barnett, Amanda (6 March 2015). "NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins orbiting Ceres". CNN.
McKirdy, Euan (25 March 2015). "Opportunity rover celebrates marathon milestone". CNN.

dailynews.com

"Spacewalking astronauts pull off urgent station repairs". Los Angeles Daily News. May 23, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2023.

doi.org

Williamson, Mark (1998). "Protecting the space environment: Are we doing enough?". Space Policy. 14 (1): 5–8. doi:10.1016/S0265-9646(97)00038-6.

esa.int

esa. "Rosetta arrives at comet destination".

fai.org

"Astronautic World Records: Spacecraft with one astronaut – General category". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. This only counts the duration of solo flight within a mission, so a longer mission with solo flight, such as Apollo 17 at 12d+13h duration is surpassed because the solo undocked duration was only 3d+7h.)

flightglobal.com

"MAJOR SPACE "FIRSTS'-AN AMERICAN ASSESSMENT" (PDF). Flight. 91 (3028): 459. 1967-03-23. Retrieved 2009-04-15.

gctc.ru

"GCTC, Biographies of Cosmonauts: Solovyev, Anatoly Yakovlevich". Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Archived from the original on 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2017-10-31.

ghostarchive.org

"TMRO:Space – Looking forward to 2018 – Orbit 11.01". YouTube. 6 January 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.

guinnessworldrecords.com

"Guinness World Record: First species of plant to flower in space".

hostingersite.com

violet-clam-514180.hostingersite.com

Altemus, Steve (28 February 2024). "Intuitive Machines Press Release" (PDF). Mindsviewpress.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 13, 2024.

jaxa.jp

global.jaxa.jp

"Successful Launch, H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 37 Encapsulating SHIKISAI and TSUBAME". Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Retrieved 2023-06-22.

marines.mil

"My steps for Bataan". United States Marine Corps Flagship. Retrieved 13 April 2022.

nasa.gov

"Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)". NASA. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
"Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)". NASA. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
Potter, Sean (2020-05-30). "NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Test of SpaceX Crew Dragon". NASA. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
"International Space Station Visiting Vehicles - NASA". Retrieved 2024-03-27.
"Krikalev Sets Time-in-Space Record". NASA. 2005-08-16. Archived from the original on 2005-09-08. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
Northon, Karen (2016-03-11). "Astronaut Scott Kelly to Retire from NASA in April". NASA. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
"10 Years and Counting". NASA. 28 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
"NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Breaks Another Orbit Record". NASA. 2019-06-13. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
"Parker Solar Probe Presskit" (PDF). nasa.gov. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

history.nasa.gov

"Apollo 13 The Seventh Mission: The Third Lunar Landing Attempt 11 April–17 April 1970". NASA. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
"Extravehicular Activity". NASA.
Siddiqi, Asif A. "Challenge to Apollo" (PDF). NASA. p. 253.

jsc.nasa.gov

"Astronaut Biography". NASA. 11 February 2015.
"Ronal Evans Biographical Data". NASA. April 1990. Retrieved 21 June 2015. longest time in lunar orbit, 147 hours, 48 minutes

blogs.nasa.gov

Garcia, Mark (6 February 2020). "Christina Koch Completes 328-Day Mission in Space". blogs.nasa.gov. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
Garcia, Mark (30 January 2025). "Spacewalkers Complete Radio Hardware Removal and Microbe Search". blogs.nasa.gov. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

history.msfc.nasa.gov

"Mission Report: Apollo 17 – The Most Productive Lunar Expedition" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

hq.nasa.gov

"Apollo 17 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription" (PDF). NASA.

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

"Where are the Voyagers?". Retrieved 2023-07-03. Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.

nasaspaceflight.com

Gebhardt, Chris (12 April 2011). "Anniversaries: 50 years of human spaceflight – 30 years for Shuttle". NASASpaceFlight (not affiliated with NASA). Retrieved 22 June 2015.
"ISS astronauts complete 200th station EVA for maintenance tasks". NASASpaceflight.com. 12 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.

npr.org

Palca, Joe (19 April 2021). "Success! NASA's Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars". National Public Radio. Retrieved 19 April 2021.

nytimes.com

Schwirtz, Michael (2009-03-30). "Staying Put on Earth, Taking a Step to Mars". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
Leary, Warren (4 Feb 1994). "Man in the News: Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev; Symbol of New Cooperation". New York Times. Cape Canaveral. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
Corum, Jonathan (30 April 2015). "Messenger's Collision Course With Mercury". The New York Times.

penny4nasa.org

Thompson, Curtiss (29 June 2015). "Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time Spent In Space". Penny4NASA. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2015.

reuters.com

"China beats rivals to successfully launch first methane-liquid rocket". Reuters. 12 July 2023.

russianspaceweb.com

Zak, Anatoly (2 January 2022). "Russian space program in 2021". RussianSpaceWeb.com. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

space.com

"Making History: China's First Human Spaceflight". Space.com. 28 September 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
Pearlman, Robert (17 June 2010). "Cosmonaut Leonid Kizim, Who Visited 2 Space Stations in 1 Mission, Dies". Space.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
Wall, Mike (11 March 2015). "The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records". Space.com. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
Pearlman, Robert (26 March 2015). "One Year in Space: A History of Ultra-Long Missions Off Planet Earth". Space.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
Tate, Karl (17 April 2013). "Cosmic Menagerie: A History of Animals in Space (Infographic)" (infographic). Space.com. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
"Used SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellite, Then Lands in Historic 1st Reflight". Space.com. 30 March 2017.
David, Leonard (18 December 2019). "China's Farside Moon Rover Breaks Lunar Longevity Record". Space.com.
Jones, Andrew (7 December 2020). "China's Chang'e 5 aces lunar orbit docking needed to bring moon samples home". Space News. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

spacefacts.de

"Astronauts and Cosmonauts flown in space (in alphabetical order)". spacefacts.de. The alphabetical list of astronauts provides the "Total Persons" "Total Person Flights" as well as the "Total person days", excepting the time of astronauts currently in orbit
"Manned spaceflights". spacefacts.de. The flight list allows is searched to determine which flight is in orbit, and when it reached orbit. This allows determination of "Total in orbit (@ update) and update the "Total person days" accordingly.
"ISS Expedition Reports". www.spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
"Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by "Time in Space")". spacefacts.de. The current missions are listed but not included in day count.
"Astronauts and Cosmonauts with EVA Experience (sorted by "EVA Time")". Spacefacts. 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
"Astronauts and Cosmonauts with EVA Experience (sorted by "EVA Time")". www.spacefacts.de. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

spaceflight101.com

"Falcon 9 Closes Record Year with 4th Iridium Launch, 1st Stage Disposal Gathers Flight Data – Falcon 9 – Iridium 4". Spaceflight101. 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
"Japanese H-IIA Rocket Fires Into Orbit with Climate Change Satellite & Super-Low Altitude Testbed – H-IIA – GCOM-C1". Spaceflight101. 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2023-06-22.

spaceflightnow.com

Harwood, William (2001-03-11). "Marathon spacewalk sets new record". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
"SpaceX launch dazzles, delivering 10 more satellites for Iridium – Spaceflight Now". Retrieved 2023-06-22.

spacenews.com

Jones, Andrew (2024-12-17). "Shenzhou-19 astronauts complete record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
Jones, Andrew (2024-06-25), "Chang'e-6 delivers first lunar far side samples to Earth after 53-day mission", SpaceNews

t.me

"Госкорпорация «Роскосмос»" [State Corporation Roscosmos]. Telegram (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-12-16.

theguardian.com

Burke, Jason (24 September 2014). "India's Mars satellite successfully enters orbit, bringing country into space elite". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2014. India has become the first nation to send a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first attempt, and the first Asian nation to do so.

thestar.com.my

"2nd LD-Writethru-Xinhua Headlines: China completes first spacecraft rendezvous, docking in lunar orbit, | The Star". www.thestar.com.my. Retrieved 2020-12-05.

usra.edu

hou.usra.edu

"Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe: Impact Location Refined" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

vg.no

Bjørnstad, Nora Thorp (2 December 2024). "Jannicke Mikkelsen blir første nordmann i verdensrommet: Her er det første bildet" [Jannicke Mikkelsen becomes the first Norwegian in space: Here is the first photo]. VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 March 2025.

voanews.com

"One American, Two Russians Blast Off in Russian Spacecraft to International Space Station". Voice of America. 2023-09-15. Retrieved 2023-12-15.

washingtonpost.com

Sawyer, Kathy (8 October 1998). "John Glenn: The Second Time Around". The Washington Post.

web.archive.org

"Astronautix.com: Mercury MR-3". Archived from the original on December 28, 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
"Krikalev Sets Time-in-Space Record". NASA. 2005-08-16. Archived from the original on 2005-09-08. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
Thompson, Curtiss (29 June 2015). "Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record For Most Time Spent In Space". Penny4NASA. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
"10 Years and Counting". NASA. 28 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
"Astronautic World Records: Spacecraft with one astronaut – General category". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. This only counts the duration of solo flight within a mission, so a longer mission with solo flight, such as Apollo 17 at 12d+13h duration is surpassed because the solo undocked duration was only 3d+7h.)
"Mission Report: Apollo 17 – The Most Productive Lunar Expedition" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
Polaris Dawn Mission Overview Briefing. August 19, 2024. Event occurs at 12:00. Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
"GCTC, Biographies of Cosmonauts: Solovyev, Anatoly Yakovlevich". Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Archived from the original on 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
"R-1V". Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
"Chandrayaan-1 Moon Impact Probe: Impact Location Refined" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
"Ching'e 2 to reaches liberation point 2". 2011-08-27. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011.
"China's space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis" Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. Chinadaily.com.cn.16 December 2012.
Altemus, Steve (28 February 2024). "Intuitive Machines Press Release" (PDF). Mindsviewpress.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 13, 2024.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Harvey, Brian; Zakutnyaya, Olga (2011). Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions. Chichester, UK: Springer Praxis Books. OCLC 1316077842.

x.com

McDowell, Jonathan [@planet4589] (April 1, 2025). "First Space Force orbit data for Fram-2 out , showing it in a 202 x 413 km x 90.01 deg orbit" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
Rogge, Rabea [@rprogge] (27 November 2024). "We just completed another round of training!" (Tweet). Retrieved 10 March 2025 – via Twitter.
Polaris Dawn Mission Overview Briefing. August 19, 2024. Event occurs at 12:00. Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

xinhuanet.com

news.xinhuanet.com

"Ching'e 2 to reaches liberation point 2". 2011-08-27. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011.

youtube.com

"TMRO:Space – Looking forward to 2018 – Orbit 11.01". YouTube. 6 January 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22.