posted 02-06-2021 05:23 AM            

On Monday (Feb. 8, 2021) at 01:42:50 UTC (on Sunday, Feb. 7 at 8:42:50 p.m. EST), Crew-1 aboard the International Space Station flight duration will be longer than the mission of the U.S. last station Skylab crew (Jerry Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue) on the same day but 47 years ago (84 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes, 32 seconds).

The duration of the flight is planned from 160 to 170 days.

The longest mission of one spacecraft onboard ISS so far has been the 215-day Soyuz TMA-09 mission (Sept. 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007), with the two person crew of American Michael Lopez-Alegria with the Russian Mikhail Tyurin.

posted 02-07-2021 01:55 PM               

ISS, Skylab astronauts connect over new US spacecraft flight record

Astronauts on the International Space Station celebrated their SpaceX spacecraft reaching a milestone on Sunday (Feb. 7), by connecting with a former NASA astronaut who helped set the previous, long-standing record.

The four crew members who launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft "Resilience" last November marked their capsule surpassing the 84 days, 1 hour and 15 minutes that was the prior U.S. record for a spacecraft in flight, as set by the Apollo command module that flew on the Skylab 4 orbital workshop mission in 1973 to 1974.