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- A. N. Beresovoy
- Alan B. Shepard, Jr
- Alan L. Bean
- Andryan Grigoryevich Nikolaev
- Brian Binnie
- Charles Conrad Jr.
- David R. Scott
- Eugene A. Cernan
- Frank Borman
- Georgy Stepanovich Shonin
- Georgy Timofeevitch Beregovoi
- Gerald P. Carr
- German Stepanovich Titov
- Gordon L. Cooper
- James A. Lovell Jr.
- James A. Mcdivitt
- John Watts Young
- Michael W. Melvill
- Musa Hiramanovich Manarov
- Neil Armstrong
- Richard F. Gordon
- Ronald E. Evans
- Sts-1 Crew
- Sts-2 Crew
- Sts-3 Crew
- Sts-4 Crew
- Sts-5 Crew
- Sts-6
- Sts-7 Crew
- Sts-9 Crew
- Sts-13 Crew
- Sts-43 Crew
- Sts-48 Crew
- Sts-49 Crew
- Sts-50 Crew
- Sts-61 Crew
- Sts-65 Crew
- Sts-71, Mir 18 & Mir 19 Crew Members
- Sts-82 Crew
- Thomas K. Mattingly
- Thomas P. Stafford
- Valentina Vladimirovna Terechkova
- Valeri V. Poliakov
- Valery Fiodorovich Bikovsky
- Valery V. Ryumin
- Vladimir A. Lyakhov
- Vladimir Kovalyonok
- Walter M. Schirra
- Yuri Alexeevitch Gagarine
- Yuri Victorovich Romanenko
| Class | Sub-Class Sort descending | Type of record | Performance | Date | Claimant | Status | Region | ID | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space records | K-2 | Duration | 330 hr 35 min | 18 Dec 1965 | Frank Borman (USA) (9339) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9339 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-2 | Duration | 365 d 22 h 39 min 47 sec | 21 Dec 1988 | Vladimir Georgevich Titov (URS) (9806) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9806 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-2 | Duration | 211 d 9 h 4 min 32 sec | 10 Dec 1982 | A. N. Beresovoy (URS) (9536) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9536 | → | ⌄ | |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records | K-2 | Duration | 96 d 10 h 0 min 20 sec | 16 Mar 1978 | Yuri Victorovich Romanenko (URS) (9522) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9522 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-2 | Duration | 424 h 58 min 55 sec | 19 Jun 1970 | Andryan Grigoryevich Nikolaev (URS) (9433) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9433 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-2 | Distance travelled while linked | 523 458 km | 13 Mar 1969 | James A. McDivitt (USA) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9576 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-1 | Altitude | 186,307 km | 05 May 1961 | Alan B. Shepard, Jr (USA) (9519) | ratified - current record | World | 9519 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | K-1 | Greatest mass lifted to altitude | 1 832,51 kg | 05 May 1961 | Alan B. Shepard, Jr (USA) (9520) | ratified - current record | World | 9520 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Altitude above the earth's surface with or without maneuvres of the aerospacecraft | 112,01 km | 04 Oct 2004 | Brian Binnie (USA) | ratified - current record | World | 9881 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Length travelled along the trajectory from lift-off to touch down | 46,27 km | 29 Sep 2004 | Michael W. Melvill (USA) (9861) | ratified - current record | World | 9861 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Altitude above the earth's surface with or without maneuvres of the aerospacecraft | 102.9 km | 29 Sep 2004 | Michael W. Melvill (USA) (9859) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 9859 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Duration | 24 min 10 sec | 29 Sep 2004 | Michael W. Melvill (USA) (9858) | ratified - current record | World | 9858 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Greatest mass lifted to altitude | 1 439,8 kg | 04 Oct 2004 | Brian Binnie (USA) (10434) | ratified - current record | World | 10434 | → | ⌄ | |
| 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) (9882) | ratified - current record | World | 9882 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P-1 | Number of people in suborbital flight | 1 | 29 Sep 2004 | Michael W. Melvill (USA) (9862) | ratified - current record | World | 9862 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P_Absolute | Altitude reached above the Earth's surface | 573,670 km | 12 Sep 1991 | Sts-48 Crew (USA) (16916) | ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code | World | 16916 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P_Absolute | Duration | 14 d 17 h 54 min 50 sec | 23 Jul 1994 | Sts-65 Crew (-i-) (16965) | ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code | World | 16965 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P_Absolute | Altitude | 503,83 km | 13 Apr 1984 | Sts-13 Crew (USA) (16919) | ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code | World | 16919 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P_Absolute | Altitude | 325,643 km | 04 Jul 1982 | Sts-4 Crew (USA) (16918) | ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code | World | 16918 | → | ⌄ | |
| Space records | P_Absolute | Duration | 13 d 19 h 30 min 4 sec | 09 Jul 1992 | Sts-50 Crew (USA) (16917) | ratified - superseded since approved | World | 16917 | → | ⌄ |
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