record for continuous occupation of space?

[apollokid]

I'm too lazy to research it myself, so I'll just ask here, cuz I know someone will know: What's the record for the longest continuous human time in orbit around Earth? Has there been someone or another up there since the ISS was launched? When was the last gap when no one was in orbit? Apologies if I've missed it in a FAQ or something ...

 

[radarredux]

> <i><font color="yellow">What's the record for the longest continuous human time in orbit around Earth?</font>/i><br /><br />Not sure, but I think it was the guy who went up to Mir as a citizen of the USSR and came home a citizen of Russia.</i>

 

[tap_sa]

Longest stay: Valery Polyakov, 437-days, 17-hours, 58-minutes 04 seconds<br /><br />edit: Last gap of human presence in orbit was probably somewhere between last MIR and first ISS expeditions.

 

[thermionic]

<br />A similar question,<br /><br /> What has the greatest number of people in space been?<br /><br />I think I remember 13, and we have 9 right now?