Sunita williams joins the top 10 for longest single space missions

Sunita Williams has set another record in the world of space. NASA’s astronaut Sunita Williams and his colleague Bacha Wilmore in the mission had set out on an 8 -day space mission last year. Both passengers flew on Boeing’s Starliner SpaceCraft. But after reaching the International Space Station, some technical fault came into his spacecraft and both got stuck there. Both passengers could not return to Earth within the stipulated time. His mission went on to pull his mission long. And now after 286 days, he returned to the earth in 2025. But due to this, Sunita Williams has made a new record.

NASA’s Indian -origin astronaut Sunita Williams has made it to the top 10 in the list of passengers on the longest missions in space. On March 19, when Sunita Williams returned to Earth after riding on Spacex Crew-9 dragon spacecraft, she also returned with a achievement with her. Sunita Williams has joined the list of astronauts spending the most time at the International Space Station during a single space mission. And not only this, Sunita has made a place among the top 10 passengers spending the most time in the single mission on ISS.

The list includes names like Valerie Pauliakov to Scott Calie and Pyotra Dabarov who have been astronauts who have been the most ISS in a single mission for the longest time. According to NASA and Space.com, there are all the passengers mentioned below who spent the most time on ISS.

Top 10 astronauts spending the most time in space

1. Valeri polyakov The name of the first number comes on the first number who spent 437 days in space. His longest single spaceflight on MIR (1994–1995) was more than 7000 rounds of the Earth.
2. Sergei avdeyev The name of is in second place who spent 379 days in a single spaceflight. This was Spaceflight MIR (1998–1999).
3. Frank rubio The third place was spent 371 days on the US Spaceflight when a cooltank leak was extended to the mission.
4. Vladimir titov And Musa manarov Fourth in the list, who spent 365 days in MIR (1987–1988). Both of them had done a complete circumambulation of the sun while living in space.
5. Mark vande hei Had spent 355 days in ISS (2021–2022) during which he contributed to the loss of muscle loss and space farming inside the space.
6. Scott kelly And Mikhail Kornienko In ISS (2015-2016), 340 days were spent in space. During this time, he was on a one -year mission of NASA which included a study study on Mars.
7. Christina koch Had spent 328 days in ISS (2019-2020) when he completed 6 spacewalks. Which included the first such spacewalk which included all women astronauts.
8. Peggy whitson Spend 289 days in a single spaceflight. This was completed in the mission (2016-2017).
9. Sunita williams And Butch wilmore He spent 286 days in space (2024-2025) when he was stranded for more than the scheduled time on ISS. The reason was the propulsion problem in Boeing Starliner.
10. Andrew Morgan He spent 272 days on ISS, during which he completed 7 spacewalks and also did research on dark matter.