Space Adventures, Inc.

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-born computer scientist, software pioneer, and aviator who moved to the United States in 1968 and earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. He worked at Xerox PARC, where he created Bravo, the first WYSIWYG text editor, and later joined Microsoft in 1981, leading the development of major applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. After 20 years at Microsoft, he founded Intentional Software Corp. in 2002. A U.S. citizen since 1982, Simonyi has had a lifelong passion for space and aviation, beginning as Hungary’s Junior Astronaut at age 13. With over 2,000 hours of flying experience, he participated in the 2007 Orbital Spaceflight Scientific Mission to promote civilian space travel, support space station research, and inspire young people to explore science and space exploration. Courtesy of NASA.

Soyuz TMA-14

Soyuz TMA-14 ferried part of the Expedition 19 crew to and from the International Space Station. Space Tourist Simonyi joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-13.

Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.

Soyuz

Soyuz TMA-10

Soyuz TMA-10 ferried part of the Expedition 15 crew to and from the International Space Station. Space Tourist Simonyi joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-9. During reentry, the Service Module failed to fully separate from the Descent Module, triggering a harsh, steep reentry and landing. Investigators misidentified the cause of the failure, leading it to reoccur on Soyuz TMA-11.

Charles Simonyi

Hungary

Roscosmos

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total time in space.

Elite Spaceflyer

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of space walks.

Frequent Walker

Soyuz TMA-16M

Soyuz TMA-16M ferried three members of the Expedition 43 crew to the International Space Station. This mission launch the "Year In Space" flight of Kelly and Kornienko on the Station. Padalka landed after a six-month mission on the ISS. The flight also landed ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Kazakh cosmonaut Aimbetov.

Soyuz TM-28

This was a crew transportation mission to and from the Mir space station. It brought the EO-25 long duration crew to the station.

Soyuz TMA-4

Soyuz TMA-4 ferried the two-person Expedition 9 crew to and from the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Kuipers joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-3.

Soyuz TMA-04M

Soyuz TMA-04M ferried three members of the Expedition 31 crew to the International Space Station.

Gennady Padalka

Russia

STS-112 (Atlantis)

Atlantis' crew delivered the S1 truss to the International Space Station. A piece of foam broke off the External Tank during launch and damaged a part of one of the Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters, foreshadowing the Columbia accident two missions later. NASA managers decided it was safe to keep flying.

The first reusable launch and landing spacecraft, the Space Shuttle began a new chapter of human space exploration. It launched like a rocket but landed on a runway like a plane. Shuttle crews deployed dozens of commercial satellites and two interplanetary probes to Venus and Jupiter. The Shuttle served as a mini space station and hosted hundreds of biomedical, psychological, physiological, materials science, and physics experiments that have directly benefited life on Earth. The five flight-worthy Shuttles -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour -- flew 135 missions over 30 years. The Shuttles helped construct the Russian Mir space station and brought nearly 80% of the International Space Station to orbit. Shuttles also deployed and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Shuttle

Soyuz TMA-09M

Soyuz TMA-09M ferried three members of the Expedition 36 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-19

Soyuz TMA-19 ferried three members of the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-04

Soyuz MS-04 took two members of the Expedition 51 crew to the International Space Station. Peggy Whitson, who launched on Soyuz MS-03, returned to Earth on this mission.

Fyodor Yurchikhin

Soyuz TMA-17

Soyuz TMA-17 ferried three members of the Expedition 22 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-10M

Soyuz TMA-10M ferried three members of the Expedition 37 crew to the International Space Station.

Oleg Kotov

NASA

SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-8

United States of America

SpaceX flew NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station aboard Dragon.

Crew Dragon is the first privately built and operated orbital spacecraft capable of flying humans. As a reusable SpaceX capsule, it transports crew members to and from the International Space Station. It will also carry paying customers to the Station and low Earth orbit. While it typically accommodates a crew of four, this number can vary depending on the mission.

Crew Dragon

STS-133 (Discovery)

The 39th and final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. The six-person (human) crew delivered to the International Space Station: NASA's final module, Leonardo; 3,735 kg of external equipment and spares; and the humanoid robotic ISScrewmember, Rorbonaut2. Discovery also performed the final hardware and software test of SpaceX's DragonEye sensors for the cargo Dragon resupply capsule. Upon landing, Discovery became the first Space Shuttle to retire from service, having traveled 238,539,663 km over a total of 365 days (one full year) in space. She carried 252 total crewmembers over a 27-year career, making Discovery the current spacecraft to have carried the most people to space.

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