Most accumulated time on spacewalks

Cosmonaut Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (USSR/Russia) accrued a total of 82 hours 22 minutes in open space during his five space expeditions between 1988 and 1998 – more than any other astronaut to date. The next two longest aggregate times spent on spacewalks are held by US astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria (67 hours 40 minutes) and Peggy Whitson (60 hours 21 minutes).

Solovyev also set the record for most spacewalks by any person: 16.

Solovyev’s space flights were all to the Mir Space Station, including one trip when he was delivered to Mir by the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1995. Solovyev spent a total of 651 days in space over the course of his five missions. His final mission ended with the landing of Soyuz TM-26 on 19 February 1998.

He retired as a cosmonaut in 1999 as one of the few people who had flown into space under the flags of both the Soviet Union and Russia.