Made in space
Most travel in space
Story Musgrave (USA) participated between 1983 and 1996 in six space missions, totaling 53 days of flight. In his last journey (between November 19 and December 7, 1996) space shuttle Columbia made 278 revolutions per orbit and crossed over 11.27 million km in 17 days 15 h 53 min. Captain John Young (USA) performed the first space 6 flights between 1965 and 1983, totaling 34 days of space flight. The only astronaut who has equaled the record of six space missions is Franklin Chang-Diaz (Costa Rica-), the total of the years 1986 to 1988, 52 days in space.
The highest altitude reached
On 15 April 1970 Apollo 13s mission crew Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise to remote record of 254 km and 400.171 km lunar surface of the Earth. The mission of Apollo 13 was the subject of the movie (U.S., 1995) with Tom Hanks in the role of Jim Lovell.
The isolated man
During the Apollo moon mission 15, which lasted from July 30 until August 1, 1971, Alfred Worden, command module pilot, was at most away from his peers: 3596.4 km. Meanwhile, his colleagues, David Scott and James Irwin, were based on Hadley, studying the lunar surface.