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Class Sub-Class Type of record Performance Date Claimant Status Regionsort descending ID
Space records K-2 Duration 4 h 24 min 29 sec 18 Oct 1969 Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9591
Space records K-2 Greatest mass lifted to altitude 5 320 kg 13 Oct 1964 Vladimir M. Komarov (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9355
Space records K-2 Duration 59 d 11 h 09 min 04 sec 25 Sep 1973 Alan LaVern Bean (USA) ratified - superseded since approved World 9565
Space records K_Absolute Accumulated space flight time 678 d 16 h 33 min 06 sec 22 Mar 1995 Valeri V. Poliakov (RUS) ratified - superseded since approved World 2513
Space records K-2 Duration 211 d 9 h 4 min 32 sec 10 Dec 1982 A. N. Beresovoy (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9536
Space records K-2 Duration 96 d 10 h 0 min 20 sec 16 Mar 1978 Yuri Victorovich Romanenko (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9522
Space records K_Absolute Extravehicular duration on the surface of the celestial body by an astronaut 21 h 31 min 44 sec 14 Dec 1972 Eugene A. Cernan (USA) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 17105
Space records K-2 Total duration of flight of spaceships while linked 4 h 33 min 49 sec 18 Jan 1969 Vladimir Alexandrovich Shatalov (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9592
Space records K-2 Distance travelled 2 639 600 km 15 Aug 1962 Andryan Grigoryevich Nikolaev (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 9351
Space records P-1 Minimum time between two consecutive flights in a reusable vehicle 4 d 23 h 15 min 9 sec 04 Oct 2004 Brian Binnie (USA) ratified - current record World 9882
Space records K_Absolute Greatest mass lifted to altitude 114 969,8 kg 02 Aug 1991 Sts-43 Crew (USA) ratified - current record World 9836
Space records P-2 Altitude in para-circular orbit 258.7 km 12 Nov 1981 Sts-2 Crew (USA) ratified - superseded since approved World 1532
Space records K_Absolute Duration 84 d 01 h 15 min 30,8 sec 08 Feb 1974 Gerald P. Carr (USA) ratified - superseded since approved World 9442
Space records K_Absolute Extravehicular duration in space 9 h 12 min 27 sec 09 Feb 1971 Alan B. Shepard, Jr (USA) ratified - superseded since approved World 10301
Space records K-2 Altitude in elliptical orbit 1 369 km 15 Sep 1966 Charles Conrad Jr. (USA) ratified - current record World 9537
Space records K_Absolute Assembled mass of spaceships linked in flight 388 777 kg 30 Nov 2008 STS-126 (USA) ratified - superseded since approved World 15213

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