Some Space Statistics

As one of my first Delphi projects was a front end for a data collection about human spaceflight, just to help me to find errors, to calculate statistics and last not least of course to learn Delphi. As I had some requests about the database I've uploaded most of the tables (except those containing images due to size and copyright) - it is a 600k ZIP archive, the tables are for made with Paradox 5, and the field names are mostly in German, and the database structure is probably far from being optimal. The program itself isn't finished yet (and due to lack of time it won't be in the near future) it anyway can already calculate some nice statistics and generate HTML files of them directly.

As most statistics use tables heavily so a browser without the HTML 3.2 table support will display them garbled.

• Flight times
  • Flight time sorted by astronauts
    The same as a plain text
  • Flight time sorted by nation
  • Flight time sorted by nation, female astronauts only
• Extravehicular activities
  • EVA times sorted by astronauts
  • EVA times sorted by nation
• Humans in space
  • Records of humans in space at once
  • Youngest and oldest astronauts
• The data
  • List of all missions

About the statistics:

As I'm not sure about the nationalities of the cosmonauts from the states of the former Soviet Union all are counted to Russia except the two which for sure come from Kazakhstan.

Only those flights with at least one orbit are counted, so the ballistic flights of Mercury 3 and 4, the two Soyuz launch aborts and the Challenger accident are not in these times.

Dates are always in the notation recommended by the ISO standard 8601, that means year-month-day hour:minute:second. This is simply to avoid all the confusion by the different date notations in different countries; if you want to know more about this ISO standard you can find a summary here. Times are always give in UTC (also known as GMT). The short codes of the nations are taken from another ISO standard, ISO 3166. There's again a summary available on the web collected by the RIPE here; both original document are copyrighted, see at the ISO web server for more info.

The sources

• The NASA web servers, especially the following pages
  • Astronaut biographies at the JSC
  • Kennedy Space Center, history page
  • NASA Shuttle web, archive
  • The Office of Space Flight at the NASA Headquarter
• The publications of the "Raumfahrt-Informations-Dienst", Essen, Germany
• Dennis Newkirk, Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight, Gulf Publishing, 1990
• Dennis R. Jenkins, Space Shuttle, The History of Developing the National Space Transportation System, Motorbooks International, 1992
• Private conversation with Jürgen Stark, Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany
• A list of soviet/russian cosmonauts compiled by Ashot W. Bakunts, Moscow, Russia.
  Here's the english and the russian version of this list.
• The data collected by Jonathan McDowell in his Newsletter "Jonathan's Space Report".

Still searching

• The CapComs of Mercury, Skylab, ASTP and Space Shuttle flights.
• Mission patches of the Soviet/Russian missions.
• The launch and landing times up to the second for most Soviet/Russian missions and some Mercury and Skylab flights. There are also some missions where one can find different values for the seconds, sometimes even the NASA documents contradict themselves. Any clarification for such cases is welcome.
• The landing coordinates for many missions (see the missions list).

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