Mir and Space Station Cosmonauts

He is a veteran of six spaceflights, including two long-duration missions to Mir, two short-duration missions aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, and two long-duration missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days, 18 hours) during one trip.

Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times.

His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112.

In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3.

His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

During the mission, he served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.

He flew to the ISS on September 21, 2022 with Soyuz MS-22, which was damaged while being docked to the station, and returned to Earth on September 27, 2023 with Soyuz MS-23 after spending a year in space.

She made her first flight to space in 2022 to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX Crew-5, the first Roscosmos cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S.

She flew one long duration mission to the International Space Station from 2014 to 2015 before retiring from the cosmonaut corps in 2016.

He is a veteran of three space flights, including twice to the Mir Soviet space station, and is the father of cosmonaut Sergey Volkov.

He was commander for the 9-day Mir EP-2 visiting ("lifeboat" swap) crew June 1988 launched aboard Soyuz TM-5 and returned aboard Soyuz TM-4.

On January 20, 2022, at a meeting of the Roscosmos Interdepartmental Commission, he was approved as Flight Engineer 2 of the International Space Station Expedition 71.