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People with the most crewed launches.

#PersonCrewed launchesDays in space
1Sergei KrikalevSoviet Union8803.4
2Gennadi StrekalovSoviet Union8268.9
3Peggy WhitsonUnited States7675.2
4Anatoly Yakovlevich SolovyevSoviet Union7651.0
5Koichi WakataJapan7504.8
6Michael FoaleUnited States7373.8
7Franklin Chang-DíazUnited States766.8
8Jerry L. RossUnited States758.0
9Oleg KononenkoRussia61,110.6
10Yuri MalenchenkoSoviet Union6827.4
11Vladimir TitovSoviet Union6378.0
12Michael López-AlegríaUnited States6296.7
13Shannon LucidUnited States6223.1
14Ken BowersoxUnited States6211.6
15Susan J. HelmsUnited States6211.0
16James S. VossUnited States6202.2
17John E. BlahaUnited States6161.1
18Vladimir DzhanibekovSoviet Union6145.7
19Norman ThagardUnited States6140.6
20Jim WetherbeeUnited States666.4
21Curtis BrownUnited States657.7
22Story MusgraveUnited States653.4
23John YoungUnited States634.8
24Gennady PadalkaRussia5878.5
25Aleksandr KaleriSoviet Union5769.3
26Fyodor YurchikhinRussia5672.9
27Donald PettitUnited States5590.1
28Viktor AfanasyevSoviet Union5555.8
29Yury UsachovRussia5552.9
30Oleg NovitskiySoviet Union5545.1
31Scott KellyUnited States5520.4
32Aleksandr ViktorenkoSoviet Union5498.1
33Nikolai BudarinRussia5444.1
34Yury RomanenkoSoviet Union5430.8
35Aleksandr SerebrovSoviet Union5373.0
36Valery RyuminSoviet Union5371.7
37Yuri GuidzenkoSoviet Union5329.9
38Viktor SavinykhSoviet Union5252.7
39Carl E. WalzUnited States5230.5
40Daniel W. BurschUnited States5226.9
41Leonid PopovSoviet Union5200.6
42Andy ThomasUnited States5177.4
43David WolfUnited States5168.4
44William ShepherdUnited States5159.3
45Georgy GrechkoSoviet Union5134.9
46Kent RomingerUnited States567.1
47Kenneth CockrellUnited States564.5
48Tamara E. JerniganUnited States563.1
49Steven LindseyUnited States562.9
50John M. GrunsfeldUnited States558.6
51Scott E. ParazynskiUnited States557.6
52Marsha IvinsUnited States555.9
53James D. HalsellUnited States552.4
54Jeffrey A. HoffmanUnited States550.5
55Bonnie J. DunbarUnited States550.4
56Janice E. VossUnited States549.2
57Robert L. GibsonUnited States536.2
58Roberto VittoriItaly535.5
59Steven HawleyUnited States532.1
60Oleg Grigoryevich MakarovSoviet Union520.7
61Sergey AvdeyevRussia4747.6
62Anton ShkaplerovRussia4709.3
63Valeri PolyakovRussia4678.7
64Sunita WilliamsUnited States4608.0
65Aleksey OvchininRussia4595.2
66Michael FinckeUnited States4548.3
67Jeffrey WilliamsUnited States4534.1
68Mikhail TyurinRussia4532.1
69Leonid KizimUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic4374.7
70Talgat MusabayevSoviet Union4341.4
71Vladimir LyakhovSoviet Union4333.3
72Vladimir DezhurovRussia4244.2
73Leroy ChiaoUnited States4229.3
74Richard MastracchioUnited States4227.6
75Stephen BowenUnited States4226.4
76William S. McArthurUnited States4224.9
77Vladimir KovalyonokSoviet Union4216.4
78Jing HaipengChina4201.7
79Yury LonchakovSoviet Union4200.8
80Sandra MagnusUnited States4157.4
81Frank L. CulbertsonUnited States4143.6
82Nicole StottUnited States4103.2
83Léopold EyhartsFrance468.9
84Richard M. LinnehanUnited States459.9
85Mark KellyUnited States454.1
86Thomas David JonesUnited States453.0
87Kevin R. KregelUnited States452.8
88Scott AltmanUnited States451.5
89Frederick W. SturckowUnited States451.4
90Wendy B. LawrenceUnited States451.2
91Ulf MerboldGermany449.9
92Pete ConradUnited States449.2
93Dominic L. Pudwill GorieUnited States449.0
94Scott J. HorowitzUnited States447.4
95Peter WisoffUnited States444.3
96Joseph R. TannerUnited States443.6
97Jean-Loup ChrétienUnited States443.5
98James H. NewmanUnited States443.4
99Donald A. ThomasUnited States443.3
100Michael L. GernhardtUnited States443.3

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