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All crewed orbital spaceflights have utilized prograde orbits.
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The retrieved stack exchange discussion questions whether any humans have orbited in retrograde orbits, but does not provide definitive evidence to support the claim.

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Have any humans orbited the Earth in anything other than a prograde orbit?
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# Have any humans orbited the Earth in anything other than a prograde orbit? Tags: crewed-spaceflight, orbit - Score: 9 - Views: 2114 - Answers: 2 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Moo (288 rep) - Asked: 2019-05-20 - Site: space ## Question As per the title, have any humans been launched into an orbit around the Earth which is anything other than prograde? E.g. retrograde or polar. ## Answers ### Answer by Organic Marble (score: 13 [ACCEPTED]) The highest inclination human spaceflight I have found is Voskhod 2 at 64.8 degrees. Soyuz 22 and Voskhod 1 were close (64.75 and 64.7 degrees respectively). So none were ever retrograde. (I thought the Soviet military Almaz stations had higher inclinations but it appears the manned ones were at 51.6 degrees. My searching of Russian space history is not optimum, so I easily might have missed something.) Update: See also https://space.stackexchange.com/a/58208/6944 for a possible higher inclination that I missed (Vostok 6, 65.09 degrees) but sources vary on the value of the inclination. Still not retrograde. ### Answer by Matt Harasymczuk (score: 9) Due to the safety concerns highest inclination achievable from Kennedy Space Center was arou
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