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Some results of cosmonaut training in Yu. A. Gagarin cosmonaut training center from 1960 to 2006

COSMONAUT TRAINING
SPACE MISSIONS AND COSMONAUTS’ FLIGHT TIME
TRAINED EXPEDITIONS
EVA OPERATIONS

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COSMONAUT TRAINING

Beginning from 1961 up to October 2006 in Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center:

• 422 persons completed training;
• 212 persons performed space flights;
• 210 persons did not perform flights.

The cosmonauts from 30 countries have been trained in Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
 

Country	Number of persons who completed training	Number of persons who performed spaceflight aboard Russian spacecraft	Country	Number of persons who completed training	Number of persons who performed spaceflight aboard Russian spacecraft
Austria	2	1	Cuba	2	1
England	2	1	Mongolia	2	1
Afghanistan	2	1	Poland	2	1
Bulgaria	3	2	Russia	76	40
Belgium	1	1	Romania	2	1
Brazil	1	1	Syria	2	1
Hungary	2	1	Slovakia	2	1
Vietnam	2	1	USSR	158	59
Germany	8	5	USA	114	87
Netherland	1	-	Ukraine	1	1
India	2	1	France	7	6
Spain	1	-	Сzechoslovakia	2	1
Italy	1	1	Sweden	1	-
Kazakhstan	3	1	SAR	1	1
Canada	5	3	Japan	7	2
China	7	-

While training every cosmonaut has to pass three stages:

• basic training;
• advanced training;
• increment-specific training.

There were 401 people who worked on orbit from 1961 to February 2006. Totally they spent 22,790 man-days on orbit or more than 62 years.

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SPACE MISSIONS AND COSMONAUTS' FLIGHT TIME

The total number of launches of spacecraft aboard which were cosmonauts trained in the GCTC is 127. The most flights were performed in 1980,1997 and 2000 – 6 launches every year. There were 8 launches in 2001. Totally 224 cosmonauts and astronauts who completed training in the GCTC have worked on orbit, among them:

• Krikalyov S.K performed 6 flights;
• Djanibekov V.A., Solovyov A.Ya., Strekalov G.M. performed 5 flights each;
• 8 cosmonauts performed 4 flights each;
• 25 cosmonauts performed 3 flights each;
• 62 cosmonauts performed 2 flights each;
• 127 cosmonauts performed 1 flight each.

S.V. Avdeev had the longest space flight time - it equals 747 days.

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TRAINED EXPEDITIONS

There were 8 orbital complexes which were operated by 95 expeditions from 1961 to February 2001. The most expeditions of 37 were working on the Mir orbital complex that was flying on orbit for 5510 days or more than 15 years. The total flight time of all Mir expedition is 12348 man-days or 33.83 years.
 

Orbital complex	Number of expeditions		complex's flight time (day)	Expeditions' flight tim (day/person)
	primary	visiting
Salyut-1	1		175	77
Salyut –3А	1		213	31
Salyut –4	2		768	185
Salyut –5А	2		412	133
Salyut –6	6	9	1703	1517
Salyut –7	6	4	3215	2207
Mir	28	9	5510	12348
ISS	12	9	2642	6053

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EVA OPERATIONS

During manned spaceflight history 117 spacewalks were performed. Totally cosmonauts spent 1003 man-hours (42 days) in the outer space. Solovyov A.Ya. performed the biggest number (16) of EVAs, the total duration of which is 3 days 7 hours 2 minutes. Avdeyev S.V. and Serebrov A.A. performed 10 EVAs each.
In 2001 the cosmonauts spent the longest time in the outer space - 15 EVAs, the total duration of which is 68 hours or 137 man-hours.
 

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