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18 Mar 2025

60 years ago Alexei Leonov made the first ever spacewalk

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22 May 2024

New Astronautic Records Commission logo reflects a new era in spaceflight

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07 Feb 2024

Floating in space: 40 years since the first untethered space walk

Awards
26 Jul 2023

The CIAM Legends Medal: Honouring the Best of the Best in Aeromodelling and Spacemodelling

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19 May 2023

Test pilot Scott Neumann elected President of FAI Astronautic Records Commission (ICARE)

Awards
26 Aug 2022

FAI Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal for USA's Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley

Space
26 Jul 2022

Meet the crew aboard the first ever all-civilian spaceflight

Records & Achievements
05 May 2021

60 years since Alan Shepard became first American in space

Records & Achievements
19 Apr 2021

World's First Space Station launched 50 years ago today

Records & Achievements
12 Apr 2021

‘Let's go!’ – FAI celebrates 60th Anniversary of Gagarin’s space flight

Records

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Class Sub-Class Type of record Performance Date Claimant Status Region ID
Space records K-2 Duration 25 h 11 min 07 Aug 1961 German Stepanovich Titov (URS) (9329) ratified - superseded since approved World 9329
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Space records K-2 Distance travelled 703 143 km 07 Aug 1961 German Stepanovich Titov (URS) (9330) ratified - superseded since approved World 9330
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Space records K-1 Altitude 186,307 km 05 May 1961 Alan B. Shepard, Jr (USA) (9519) ratified - current record World 9519
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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
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Space records K-2 Greatest mass lifted to altitude 4 725 kg 12 Apr 1961 Yuri Alexeevitch Gagarine (URS) (9328) ratified - superseded since approved World 9328
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Space records K-2 Duration 1 h 48 min 12 Apr 1961 Yuri Alexeevitch Gagarine (URS) (9326) ratified - superseded since approved World 9326
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Space records K-2 Altitude in elliptical orbit 327 km 12 Apr 1961 Yuri Alexeevitch Gagarine (URS) ratified - current record World 9327
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