HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT MISSION (1972-2011)

Spacecraft Sponsor Crew Launch Date

Apollo 16 USA 3 4/16/1972
Apollo 17 USA 3 12/7/1972
Skylab 1 USA 0 5/14/1973
Skylab 2 USA 3 5/25/1973
Skylab 3 USA 3 7/28/1973
Soyuz 12 USSR 2 9/27/1973
Skylab 4 USA 3 11/16/1973
Soyuz 19-ASTP USSR 2 7/15/1975
Salyut 5 USSR 0 6/22/1976
Soyuz 21 USSR 2 7/6/1976
Salyut 6 USSR 0 9/29/1977
Soyuz 28 USSR 2 3/2/1978
Soyuz 29 USSR 2 6/15/1978
Soyuz 30 USSR 2 6/27/1978
Soyuz 31 USSR 2 8/26/1978
Soyuz 32 USSR 2 2/25/1979
Soyuz 33 USSR 2 4/10/1979
Soyuz 35 USSR 2 4/19/1980
Soyuz T2 USSR 2 6/5/1980
STS-1 Columbia USA 2 4/12/1981
STS-2 Columbia USA 2 11/12/1981
STS-6 Challlenger USA 4 4/4/1983
STS-7 Challenger USA 5 6/18/1983
STS-9 Columbia USA 6 11/28/1983
41-B, Challenger USA 5 2/3/1984
Soyuz T10B USSR 3 2/8/1984
41-D, Discovery USA 6 8/30/1984
51-A, Discovery USA 4 11/8/1984
51-L, Challenger USA 7 1/28/1986
Mir USSR 0 2/20/1986
Soyuz T15 USSR 2 3/13/1986
Soyuz TM2 USSR 2 2/5/1987
Soyuz TM4 USSR 3 12/21/1987
Soyuz TM6 USSR 3 8/29/1988
STS-26 Discovery USA 5 9/29/1988
Soyuz TM7 USSR 3 11/29/1988
STS-30 Atlantis USA 5 5/4/1989
STS-34 Atlantis USA 5 10/18/1989
STS-31 Discovery USA 5 4/24/1990
STS-41 Discovery USA 5 10/6/1990
STS-47 Endeavor USA 7 9/12/1992
STS-61, Endeavor USA 7 12/2/1993
STS-60 Discovery USA 6 2/3/1994
STS-71 Atlantis USA 7 6/27/1995
STS-82 Discovery USA 7 2/11/1997
STS-95 Discovery USA 7 10/29/1998
STS-88 Endeavor USA 6 12/4/1998
STS-96 Discovery USA 7 5/27/1999
STS-103 Discovery USA 7 12/19/1999
STS-92 Discovery USA 7 10/5/2000
Soyuz TM-31 Russia 3 10/31/2000
STS-98 Atlantis USA 5 2/7/2001
STS 108 Endeavor USA 10 12/5/2001
STS-109 Columbia USA 7 3/1/2002
STS-110 Atlantis USA 7 4/8/2002
STS-112 Atlantis USA 6 10/7/2002
STS-107 Columbia USA 7 1/16/2003
Shenzhou 5 China 1 10/15/2003
SpaceShipOne-15p Private 1 6/21/2004
STS-114 Discovery USA 7 7/26/2005
Shenzhou 6 China 2 10/12/2005
STS-121 Discovery USA 7 7/4/2006
STS-115 Atlantis USA 6 9/9/2006
Soyuz TMA-9 Russia 4 9/18/2009
STS-116 Discovery USA 8 12/9/2006
Soyuz TMA-10 Russia 4 4/7/2007
STS-117 Atlantis USA 8 6/8/2007
STS-120 Discovery USA 8 10/23/2007
STS-122 Atlantis USA 8 2/7/2008
Soyuz TMA-12 Russia 4 4/8/2008
STS-124 Discovery USA 8 5/31/2008
Shenzhou 7 China 3 9/25/2008
STS-19 Discovery USA 8 3/15/2009
Soyuz TMA-14 Russia 4 3/26/2009
STS-125 Atlantis USA 7 5/11/2009
STS-129 Atlantis USA 7 11/16/2009
Soyuz TMA-18 Russia 3 4/2/2010
STS-131 Discovery USA 7 4/5/2010
STS-132 Atlantis USA 6 5/14/2010
Soyuz TMA-19 Russia 3 6/15/2010
STS-133 Discovery USA 6 2/24/2011
Soyuz TMA-21 Russia 3 4/4/2011
Soyuz TMA-02M Russia 3 6/7/2011
STS-135 Atlantis USA 4 7/8/2011
ISSION (1972-2011)

Duartion
11d:1h:51m
12d:13h:51m
2,249d
28d:50m
59d:11h:9m
1d:23h:16m
84d:1h:15m
5d:22h:31m
412d
49d:6h:23m
1763d
7d:22h:16m
139d:14h:18m
7d:22h
7d:20h:49m
175d:36m
1d:23h:1m
184d:20h:11m
3d:22h:19m
2d:6h:21m
2d:6h:13m
5d:2h:14m
6d:2h:24m
10d:7h:47m
7d:23h:16m
236d:22h:50m
6d:56m
7d:23h:45m
1m:13s
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125d:1m
326d:11h:18m
365d:22h:39m
240d:22h:36m
4d:1h
151d:11h:9m
4d:56m
4d:23h:39m
5d:1h:16m
4d:2h:10m
7d:22h:30m
10d:19h:59m
8d:7h:9m
9d:19h:22m
9d:23h:38m
8d:21h:44m
11d:19h:18m
9d:19h:13m
7d:23h:12m
12d:21h:43m
186d:21h:48m
12d:21h:20m
11d:19h:36m
10d:22h:10m
10d:19h:42m
10d:19h:58m
15d:22h:20m
21h:22m
24m
13d:21h:32m
4d:19h:32m
12d:18h:37m
11d:19h:7m
215d:8h:23m
12d:20h:45m
196d:17h:5m
13d:20h:12m
15d:2h:24m
12d:18h:22m
198d:16h:20m
13d:18h:13m
2d:20h:27m
12d:19h:30m
198d:16h:42m
12d:21h:37m
10d:19h:16m
176d:1h:19m
15d:2h:47m
11d:18h:29m
163d:7h:11m
12d:19h:5m
TBD
TBD
12d:18h:29m
Mission
First moon landing 3 lunar EVAs totaling 20h:14m collected 97kg(213 lb) of lunar samples lunar
Sixth pilot lunar landing 3 lunar EVAs totalling 22h:4m collected 110kg(243 lb) of samples; recor
First US space station occupied by Skylab 2,3 and 4 crew; reentered 7/11/1979
First american piloted orbiting space station made long flight tests, crew repair damage caused during
Crew system and operational tests exceeded pre-mission plans for scientific activities 3; EVAs t
After Soyuz 11 accident new life support system was tested
Final Skylab mission endurance record until Soyuz 29- Salyut 6; 4 EVAs set then record spacew
First US/USSR joint flight docked with Apollo 18 for 2 days conducted experiment shared meal
4th space station occupied by 2 crews for 65 days; reentered 8/8/1977
First Salyut-5 occupation 48 days; acid fumes forced return
5th Space Station occupied for 676 days by 5 long stay + 11 visiting crews returned 7/28/1982
First International crew USSR and Czecho-slovakia to Salyut-6
first 100 + day flight to Salyut-6 returned in Soyuz-31 progress 2,3 and 4 resupply the complex
2nd International crew USSR and Poland to Salyut-6
3rd International crew USSR and East Germany to Salyut-6 returned in Soyuz 29
Cosmonauts board Salyut-6 endurance record return in Soyuz 34 progress 5,6 and 7 resupply t
4th international crew USSR and Bulgaria failed to dock with Salyut-6 after engine failure
4th Salyut-6 long stay; endurance record; returned in Soyuz 37; progress 8, 9 and 11 resupply t
First manned spaceflight of the new spacecraft manual docking with Salyut-6
First Space Shuttle; second orbit test flight, some thermal title lost
First reuse of space shuttle 2nd orbit test flight test of Canadian robot arm RMS; 5 day mission
First Challenger flight; first shuttle EVA tracking & data relay satellite TDRS
First US women in space; first 5 person crew; 2 COMSATs German platform SPAS-1
First German on US mission first 6 person crew first space lab mission SL-1
First undeterred EVA & and testing of MMU jetpack; first Kennedy space center landing; 2 COM
First long trip crew to Salyut-7; 6 EVAs totalling 22h:56m, returned in Soyuz T11
First flight of Discovery; First commercial pay load specialists 3 communication satellite
First satellite retrieval/ return 2 COMSATs
Exploded during lift off all were killed
New generation space station with 6 docking ports; occupied by multiple crews
First Mir occupation excursion to Salyut-7 5 May to 6 June two Salyut EVAs totalling 8h:50m re
2nd Mir long stay new endurance record return in Soyuz TM-3
3rd Mir long stay occupation new endurance record 3 EVAs totalling 13h:40m returned in
4th Mir long Stay
Redesigned shuttle makes first flight tracking/ data relay satellite TDRS-C
5th Mir long stay returned in Soyuz TM-6 Volkov/Krikalev in TM-7
Magellan Venus orbiter launched on IUS stage arrived Venus August 1990
Galileo Jupiter Orbiter launched on IUS stage arrived Jupiter December 1995
Deployed Hubble Space Telescope HST set shuttle altitude record of 619 km (385 miles)
Ulysses solar probe launched on US stage
50th shuttle mission first black woman in space first Japanese national; Lee and Devis first mar
First Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions; 5 EVAs for 4 crew. Akers set new US EVA du
First Russian on US shuttle attempt to deploy the wake shield facility a device to create vacuum
First Mir docking/ crew exchange 100th US human space flight spacelab carried
2nd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 5 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 33h:11m replaced 1
Spacelab-SM, SPARTAN-201 John Glenn reflight
ISS Assembly flight 2A Unity module
ISS Assembly flight 2A 1; Starshine
3rd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission 3 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 24h:33m
100th shuttle flight
Carried expedition 1 crew to ISS
Destiny Laboratory Module delivered to the International Space Station
4th crew to the ISS 3rd crew returned to the Earth
HST servicing mission
Delivered the S-0 truss the ISS' backbone
Delivered S-1 truss to ISS
Craft and crew lost during reentry
First Chinese manned space flight
First commercial manned space flight
The space shuttle's returned to space
China's 2nd manned space flight
ISS utilization & logistics flight ULF-1.1, Leonardo MPLM, performed ISS maintenance, delivere
ISS Assembly flight 12A, installed the P3/P4 integrated truss and second set of solar arrays with
Exchanged Soyuz TMA-9 for TMA-8 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle ; delivered exp
ISS Assembly flight 12A.1, installed the P5 integrated truss, rewired ISS power system, Spacela
Exchanged Soyuz TMA-10 for TMA-9 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; deelivered ex
ISS Assembly 13A, installed the S3/S4 integrated truss and 3rd set of solar arrayswith rotary joi
ISS Assembly flight 10A, installed Harmony Node 2 module, relocated p6 integrated truss, exch
ISS assembly flight 1E, delivered ESA's Columbus Laboratory, exchanged crew members Eyh
Exchanged Soyuz TMA-12 for TMA-11 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered E
ISS assembly flight 1J, delivered Japanese Kibo Pressurized Module and Remote Manipulator
First Chinese 3 man crew; First Chinese EVA by Zhai (20 min); released sub-satellite (40 kg)
ISS assembly flight 15A, installed the S6 integrated truss and 4th set of solar arrays, exchange
Exchanged Soyuz TMA-14 for TMA-13 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered ex
5th HST servicing mission( last planned ); 5 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 36h:56m
ISS utilization & Logistics Flight ULF-3, EXPRESS Logistic carrier ELC-1& ELC-2, delivered spa
delivered expedition 23/2 crew; remained docked to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle.
IS assembly flight 19A, Leonardo MPLM, replaced Ammonia tank & rate gyro assemblies; 3 EV
ISS Utilization and Logistic Flight ULF-4, delivered Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module; 3 E
Delivered expedition 24/25 crew; remained docked to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle
ISS Utilization & Logistics Flight ULF-5, EXPRESS Logistic Carrier ELC-4, Permanent Muti-Pur
Delivered expedition 27/28 crew; remained docked to serve ISS as an emergency escape vehic
Delivered expedition 28/29 crew; remained docked to serve ISS as an emergency escape vehic
ISS Utilization and Logistics Flight ULF-7, Raffaelo MPLM, Lightweight Multipurpose Carrier (LM
en in space