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Astronauts
RANKED BY CUMULATIVE TIME IN SPACE
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CHECKED 29 SEPT 2026
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Astronauts
The people who have spent the longest off the planet, ranked by total time in space.
| Rank | Astronaut | Time in space | Spacewalks | Agency | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Oleg Kononenko | 1,110 d 12 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 02 | Gennady Padalka | 878 d 11 h | 10 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 03 | Yuri Malenchenko | 827 d 9 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 04 | Sergei Krikalev | 803 d 13 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 05 | Aleksandr Kaleri | 769 d 6 h | 5 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 06 | Sergei Avdeyev | 747 d 14 h | 10 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 07 | Anton Shkaplerov | 709 d 8 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 08 | Peggy Whitson | 695 d 6 h | 10 spacewalks | Axiom Space | American |
| 09 | Valeri Polyakov | 678 d 16 h | 0 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 10 | Fyodor Yurchikhin | 672 d 20 h | 9 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 11 | Anatoly Solovyev | 651 d 0 h | 16 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 12 | Sunita Williams | 608 d 0 h | 9 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 13 | Sergey Ryzhikov | 603 d 1 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 14 | Aleksey Ovchinin | 595 d 4 h | 1 spacewalk | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 15 | Donald Pettit | 590 d 1 h | 2 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 16 | Sergey Prokopyev | 567 d 15 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 17 | Oleg Artemyev | 560 d 18 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 18 | Viktor Afanasyev | 555 d 18 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 19 | Yury Usachov | 552 d 22 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 20 | Edward Michael Fincke | 548 d 8 h | 9 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 21 | Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov | 547 d 22 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 22 | Pavel Vinogradov | 546 d 22 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 23 | Aleksandr Skvortsov | 545 d 23 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 24 | Oleg Novitskiy | 545 d 1 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 25 | Musa Manarov | 541 d 0 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 26 | Oleg Skripochka | 536 d 3 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 27 | Jeffrey Williams | 534 d 2 h | 5 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 28 | Mikhail Tyurin | 532 d 2 h | 5 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 29 | Oleg Kotov | 526 d 5 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 30 | Mark T. Vande Hei | 523 d 8 h | 4 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 31 | Scott Kelly | 520 d 10 h | 3 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 32 | Mikhail Kornienko | 516 d 10 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 33 | Koichi Wakata | 504 d 18 h | 2 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
| 34 | Aleksandr Viktorenko | 489 d 1 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 35 | Anatoli Ivanishin | 476 d 4 h | 0 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 36 | Barry E. Wilmore | 464 d 8 h | 5 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 37 | Michael Barratt | 446 d 15 h | 3 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 38 | Nikolai Budarin | 444 d 1 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 39 | Jessica Meir | 432 d 7 h | 6 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 40 | Pyotr Dubrov | 431 d 15 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 41 | Yury Romanenko | 430 d 18 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 42 | Sergey Kud-Sverchkov | 426 d 0 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 43 | Chen Dong | 418 d 15 h | 6 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 44 | Ivan Vagner | 416 d 3 h | 0 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 45 | Andrei Fedyaev | 413 d 14 h | 0 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 46 | Thomas Pesquet | 396 d 11 h | 6 spacewalks | European Space Agency | French |
| 47 | Zhang Lu | 396 d 3 h | 7 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 48 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov | 391 d 11 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 49 | Yury Onufriyenko | 389 d 14 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 50 | Robert S. Kimbrough | 388 d 17 h | 9 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 51 | Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov | 387 d 0 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 52 | Vasily Tsibliyev | 381 d 15 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 53 | Valery Korzun | 381 d 15 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 54 | Christopher Cassidy | 377 d 17 h | 10 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 55 | Leonid Kizim | 374 d 17 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 56 | Ye Guangfu | 374 d 13 h | 3 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 57 | Nick Hague | 373 d 20 h | 4 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 58 | Nikolai Chub | 373 d 20 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 59 | Michael Foale | 373 d 18 h | 4 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 60 | Aleksandr Serebrov | 372 d 22 h | 10 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 61 | Tracy Caldwell Dyson | 372 d 18 h | 4 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 62 | Valery Ryumin | 371 d 17 h | 1 spacewalk | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 63 | Dmitriy Petelin | 370 d 21 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 64 | Francisco Rubio | 370 d 21 h | 3 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 65 | Samantha Cristoforetti | 370 d 5 h | 1 spacewalk | European Space Agency | Italian |
| 66 | Luca Parmitano | 366 d 23 h | 6 spacewalks | European Space Agency | Italian |
| 67 | Satoshi Furukawa | 366 d 8 h | 0 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
| 68 | Cai Xuzhe | 364 d 18 h | 5 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 69 | Alexander Gerst | 362 d 1 h | 1 spacewalk | European Space Agency | German |
| 70 | Vladimir Solovyov | 361 d 22 h | 8 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 71 | Anne McClain | 351 d 4 h | 3 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 72 | Thomas Reiter | 350 d 5 h | 3 spacewalks | European Space Agency | German |
| 73 | Alexander Misurkin | 346 d 7 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 74 | Soichi Noguchi | 344 d 9 h | 4 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
| 75 | Talgat Musabayev | 341 d 11 h | 7 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Kazakh |
| 76 | Akihiko Hoshide | 340 d 11 h | 4 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
| 77 | Christina Koch | 337 d 15 h | 6 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 78 | Thomas Marshburn | 337 d 9 h | 5 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 79 | Andrei Borisenko | 337 d 8 h | 0 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 80 | Maksim Surayev | 334 d 12 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 81 | Michael S. Hopkins | 333 d 12 h | 5 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 82 | Roman Romanenko | 333 d 11 h | 1 spacewalk | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 83 | Vladimir Lyakhov | 333 d 7 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 84 | Aleksandr Samokutyayev | 331 d 11 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 85 | Shannon Walker | 330 d 13 h | 0 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 86 | Yuri Gidzenko | 330 d 2 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 87 | Paolo Nespoli | 313 d 2 h | 0 spacewalks | European Space Agency | Italian |
| 88 | Kjell N. Lindgren | 312 d 5 h | 2 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 89 | Gennadi Manakov | 309 d 21 h | 3 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 90 | Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov | 309 d 18 h | 2 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 91 | Kimiya Yui | 308 d 9 h | 0 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
| 92 | Joseph M. Acaba | 306 d 0 h | 3 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 93 | Sergey Ryazansky | 304 d 23 h | 4 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 94 | Kathleen Rubins | 300 d 1 h | 4 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 95 | Michael López-Alegría | 296 d 16 h | 10 spacewalks | Axiom Space | American |
| 96 | Zhu Yangzhu | 281 d 9 h | 2 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 97 | Tang Hongbo | 279 d 10 h | 3 spacewalks | China National Space Administration | Chinese |
| 98 | Andrew R. Morgan | 271 d 12 h | 7 spacewalks | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | American |
| 99 | Gennadi Strekalov | 268 d 22 h | 6 spacewalks | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russian |
| 100 | Takuya Onishi | 262 d 18 h | 0 spacewalks | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Japanese |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026