Crewed space flights involve missions where astronauts are aboard spacecraft, conducting scientific research, exploration, or technology demonstrations beyond Earth's atmosphere. These missions have achieved remarkable milestones such as orbital flights, Moon landings, space station operations, and advancements in international cooperation.
List of Crewed Space Flights (1961-2024):
- Vostok 1 (1961) - Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth.
- Vostok 2 (1961) - Gherman Titov became the second human to orbit the Earth.
- Vostok 3 and 4 (1962) - First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft.
- Voskhod 1 (1964) - First multi-person crewed mission with three cosmonauts.
- Voskhod 2 (1965) - Alexei Leonov performed the first spacewalk (EVA).
- Soyuz 4 and 5 (1969) - First docking of two crewed spacecraft.
- Soyuz 11 (1971) - Tragically ended with the death of three cosmonauts during re-entry.
- Skylab 2 (1973) - First crewed mission to the Skylab space station.
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975) - First joint U.S.-Soviet space mission, docking of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft.
- Soyuz 22 (1976) - First flight of the Soyuz-T spacecraft.
- Mir EO-1 (1986) - First long-duration crewed mission on the Mir space station.
- Soyuz TM-17 (1993) - First Russian mission to the U.S. space station, Mir.
- Soyuz TM-31 (2000) - First crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
- Shenzhou 5 (2003) - China's first crewed spaceflight with Yang Liwei.
- Soyuz TMA-1 (2002) - First crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Soyuz TMA spacecraft.
- Shenzhou 6 (2005) - China's second crewed spaceflight.
- Soyuz TMA-8 (2006) - Continued ISS crew rotation.
- Soyuz TMA-22 (2011) - Continued ISS crew rotation.
- Shenzhou 13 (2022) - Chinese crewed mission to the Chinese Space Station.
