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[헤럴드경제=김수한 기자] The crew members of Elon Musk’s private space exploration company SpaceX changed the record of their longest stay in space in 47 years in U.S. history to 87 days (local time).
According to Me The Hill and Live Science on the 10th,’Crew-1′, consisting of 4 astronauts of SpaceX, was on the 85th day of the mission at the International Space Station (ISS) on the 7th. It renewed the 84th.
The previous 84-day record was set by Skylab 4 crew members who performed their last mission at the NASA’s first space station’skylab’ in 1974.
Since then, records of staying in space for more than 84 days came out one after another, but all were recorded while performing missions through spacecraft launched by other countries. NASA has not performed manned space exploration missions since the retirement of the space shuttle (space shuttle) in 2011.
Crew-1 arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on November 15 last year after a 27-hour flight on the manned spacecraft’Resilience”s’Crew Dragon’ from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Crew-1, consisting of three NASA members, Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Research and Development Organization (JAXA), is also the first crew member to go to space orbit through a private company to perform a given mission.
Previously, two astronauts from SpaceX went to the ISS in the first successful launch in May of last year to the ISS and returned to Earth after completing a short-term mission of 64 days and transferred the mission to Crew-1.
Crew-1’s mission period is six months, and the longest record in the United States is expected to be set every day until they return. SpaceX plans to launch another Dragon capsule to the ISS to replace Crew-1 members in April.
After one flight, the longest record of continuous sojourn without leaving space was 437 days and 18 hours, held by Russian Valery Polyakov, 79, who stayed at the old Russian space station Mir from January 1994 to March the following year.
In addition, Russian astronaut Gennadi Padalka, 63, was recorded as the longest staying person in space, returning completely to Earth on September 12, 2015 after living in space for 879 days after flying five times.
