7:00 The longest spaceflights: 1. Valeri Polyakov - 438 days 2. Sergei Avdeyev - 380 days 3. Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Frank Rubio - 371 days
Fun fact: Bruce McCandless II, who made the 1st untethered spacewalk, was years earlier the _Apollo 11_ capsule communicator (“CAPCOM”) for the Gold Team at Houston’s Mission Control, whose shift served most notably during the launch.
My fav launch ever has to be back in 2015 when the Soyuz crew decided to blast Europe's "Final countdown" over the comms for Mr. Peake and crew. Even the news reporter giggled
Imagine the feeling of being the first humans and life forms to be on the moon. Perhaps the only life forms to be on our moon. Unimaginable. I hope to see a day where we get back to our explorations up there. One day.
The longest time spent on ISS was actually a accidental. The Soyuz spacecraft that brought those crew to ISS suffer a coolant leak and the Russians decide that the Soyuz was unable to conduct the crew return safely. The next Soyuz mission that supposed to have crew was launched uncrewed to enable the safe return of those astronauts.
The space shuttle was wildly expensive and couldn't even past low earth orbit cause it only had that much fuel. As for the one capsule for years the soyuz is pretty reliable all things considered, if it ain't broke don't fix it, but also most space programs are underfunded right now so no new human spacecraft have been viable until recently, spending isn't anything like it was in the 60s
I'm disappointed that Tim Peake didn't mention the Canadian CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen who is part of the Artemis 2 crew (especially when he specifically mentioned nations that are not part of Artemis)
Fall of the Soviet Union, poverty, when people sold their values just to buy food, and corruption of the nineties, corruption of the first half of the 2000's and only since 2010's space program became valuable for us
