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Most time in space

Astronauts and cosmonauts ranked by cumulative days in space (Wikidata).

#PersonDays in spaceFlights
1Oleg KononenkoRussia1,110.66
2Gennady PadalkaRussia878.55
3Yuri MalenchenkoSoviet Union827.46
4Sergei KrikalevSoviet Union803.48
5Aleksandr KaleriSoviet Union769.35
6Sergey AvdeyevRussia747.64
7Anton ShkaplerovRussia709.34
8Valeri PolyakovRussia678.74
9Peggy WhitsonUnited States675.27
10Fyodor YurchikhinRussia672.95
11Anatoly Yakovlevich SolovyevSoviet Union651.07
12Sunita WilliamsUnited States608.04
13Sergey RyzhikovRussia603.13
14Aleksey OvchininRussia595.24
15Donald PettitUnited States590.15
16Sergey ProkopyevRussia567.62
17Oleg ArtemyevRussia560.83
18Viktor AfanasyevSoviet Union555.85
19Yury UsachovRussia552.95
20Michael FinckeUnited States548.34
21Sergey VolkovRussia547.93
22Pavel VinogradovRussia546.93
23Oleg NovitskiySoviet Union545.15
24Musa ManarovSoviet Union541.03
25Oleg SkripochkaSoviet Union536.23
26Jeffrey WilliamsUnited States534.14
27Mikhail TyurinRussia532.14
28Oleg KotovRussia526.33
29Mark T. Vande HeiUnited States523.43
30Scott KellyUnited States520.45
31Mikhail KorniyenkoRussia516.43
32Koichi WakataJapan504.87
33Aleksandr ViktorenkoSoviet Union498.15
34Anatoli IvanishinRussia476.23
35Barry E. WilmoreUnited States464.33
36Michael BarrattUnited States446.63
37Nikolai BudarinRussia444.15
38Yury RomanenkoSoviet Union430.85
39Sergey Kud-SverchkovSoviet Union426.02
40Ivan VagnerRussia416.22
41Thomas PesquetFrance396.52
42Aleksandr Aleksandrovich VolkovSoviet Union391.53
43Yury OnufriyenkoUkraine389.63
44Shane KimbroughUnited States388.73
45Vasily TsibliyevRussia381.72
46Valery KorzunRussia381.73
47Vladimir TitovSoviet Union378.06
48Christopher CassidyUnited States377.73
49Leonid KizimUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic374.74
50Nick HagueUnited States373.83
51Nikolay ChubRussia373.82
52Michael FoaleUnited States373.87
53Aleksandr SerebrovSoviet Union373.05
54Tracy Caldwell DysonUnited States372.83
55Valery RyuminSoviet Union371.75
56Dmitrij PetelinRussia370.91
57Francisco RubioUnited States370.91
58Satoshi FurukawaJapan366.42
59Alexander GerstGermany362.12
60Vladimir SolovyovSoviet Union362.03
61Pyotr DubrovRussia355.23
62Anne McClainUnited States351.32
63Thomas ReiterGermany350.23
64Alexander MisurkinRussia346.33
65Aleksandr SkvortsovRussia345.33
66Sōichi NoguchiJapan344.43
67Talgat MusabayevSoviet Union341.44
68Akihiko HoshideJapan340.53
69Thomas MarshburnUnited States337.43
70Andrey BorisenkoRussia337.42
71Maksim SurayevSoviet Union334.52
72Mike Hopkins (astronaut)United States333.52
73Roman RomanenkoSoviet Union333.52
74Vladimir LyakhovSoviet Union333.34
75Aleksandr SamokutyayevRussia331.52
76Shannon WalkerUnited States330.62
77Yuri GuidzenkoSoviet Union329.95
78Christina KochUnited States328.63
79Paolo NespoliItaly313.13
80Kjell LindgrenUnited States312.22
81Gennady ManakovRussia309.92
82Aleksandr Pavlovich AleksandrovSoviet Union309.83
83Kimiya YuiJapan308.42
84Joseph M. AcabaUnited States306.03
85Sergey RyazanskyRussia305.02
86Kathleen RubinsUnited States300.12
87Michael López-AlegríaUnited States296.76
88Andrew R. MorganUnited States271.52
89Gennadi StrekalovSoviet Union268.98
90Takuya ŌnishiJapan262.82
91Viktor SavinykhSoviet Union252.75
92Alexey ZubritskyRussia245.01
93Jonny KimUnited States245.01
94Vladimir DezhurovRussia244.24
95Timothy KopraUnited States244.03
96Christopher WilliamsUnited States241.01
97Sergei MikayevRussia241.01
98Oleg AtkovSoviet Union237.02
99Alexander GrebenkinRussia235.11
100Jeanette J. EppsUnited States235.11

Sources: GCAT (CC BY 4.0) for launches; Wikidata (CC0) for people.