List of astronauts by name
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name.
More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.
While the term astronaut is sometimes applied to anyone who trains for travel into space—including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists—this article lists only professional astronauts, those who have been selected to train professionally. This includes national space programs, industry and commercial space programs which train and/or hire their own professional astronauts.
Names in italic are astronauts who have left low Earth orbit, names in bold are astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts.
A
Joseph M. Acaba (1967–) — STS-119, Soyuz TMA-04M
Loren Acton (1936—) STS-51-F
Mike Adams (1930–1967) — X-15. Died during space flight
James Adamson (1946–) — STS-28, STS-43
Viktor M. Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33/32
Aydyn Aimbetov — Soyuz TMA-18M
Thomas Akers — STS-41, STS-49, STS-61, STS-79
Vladimir Aksyonov — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2
Buzz Aldrin — Gemini 12, Apollo 11, second person to walk on the Moon
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3
Andrew M. Allen — STS-46, STS-62, STS-75
Joseph P. Allen — STS-5, STS-51-A
Michael Alsbury — Commercial astronaut, killed during test flight PF04 of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise
Christopher Altman — NASA-trained Commercial astronaut, Association of Spaceflight Professionals 2011[1][2]
Scott Altman — STS-90, STS-106, STS-109, STS-125
William Anders — Apollo 8
Clayton Anderson — STS-117/120, STS-131
Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003) — STS-89, STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.
- (Claudie André-Deshays – see Claudie Haigneré)
Dominic A. Antonelli — STS-119, STS-132
Jerome Apt — STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79
Lee Archambault — STS-117, STS-119
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) — Gemini 8, Apollo 11. First person to walk on the Moon.[3][4]
Richard R. Arnold — STS-119
Anatoly Artsebarsky — Soyuz TM-12
Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998) — Soyuz 14
Jeffrey Ashby — STS-93, STS-100, STS-112
Oleg Atkov — Soyuz T-10/11
Toktar Aubakirov — Soyuz TM-13/12
Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor
— Soyuz MS-09, Expedition 56/57
Sergei Avdeyev — Soyuz TM-15, Soyuz TM-22
Anousheh Ansari
— Soyuz TMA-9
B
James P. Bagian, M.D. — STS-29, STS-40
Ellen S. Baker, M.D.
— STS-34, STS-50, STS-71
Michael Baker — STS-43, STS-52, STS-68, STS-81
Aleksandr Balandin — Soyuz TM-9
Michael R. Barratt, M.D. — Soyuz TMA-14, STS-133
Kayla Barron
— No flights.
Daniel Barry — STS-72, STS-96, STS-105
John-David F. Bartoe — STS-51-F
Charlie Bassett (1931–1966) — No flights. Originally assigned to Gemini 9.
Yuri Baturin — Soyuz TM-28/27, Soyuz TM-32/31
Patrick Baudry — STS-51-G
Alan Bean (1932–2018) — Apollo 12, Skylab 3
Robert L. Behnken — STS-123, STS-130, Crew Dragon Demo-2
Ivan Bella — Soyuz TM-29/28
Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970) — Voskhod 2
Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995) — Soyuz 3
Anatoli Berezovoy (1942–2014) — Soyuz T-5/7
Brian Binnie — SpaceShipOne flight 17P
John Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81
Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110
Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53
Karol Bobko — STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J
Eric A. Boe — STS-126, STS-133
Charles Bolden— STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45, STS-60
Roberta Bondar, M.D.
— STS-42
Valentin Bondarenko (1937–1961) – No flights. Died in fire while training in pure oxygen (three weeks before Gagarin's flight).
Andrei Borisenko — Soyuz TMA-21
Frank Borman — Gemini 7, Apollo 8
Stephen G. Bowen — STS-126, STS-132, STS-133
Kenneth Bowersox — STS-50, STS-61, STS-73, STS-82, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1
Charles E. Brady, Jr., M.D. (1951–2006) — STS-78
Vance Brand — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35
Daniel Brandenstein — STS-8, STS-51-G, STS-32, STS-49
Randolph Bresnik – STS-129
Roy Bridges — STS-51-F
Curtis Brown — STS-47, STS-66, STS-77, STS-85, STS-95, STS-103
David M. Brown (1956–2003) — STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
Mark Brown — STS-28, STS-48
James Buchli — STS-51-C, STS-61-A, STS-29, STS-48
Jay C. Buckey, M.D. — STS-90
Nikolai Budarin — STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-27, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1
John S. Bull (1934–2008) — No flights.
Daniel Burbank — STS-106, STS-115, Soyuz TMA-22
Daniel Bursch — STS-51, STS-68, STS-77, STS-108/111
Valery Bykovsky — Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31/29
C
Robert D. Cabana — STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88
Yvonne Cagle, M.D.
— No flights.
Fernando Caldeiro (1958–2009) — No flights.
Charles Camarda — STS-114
Kenneth D. Cameron — STS-37, STS-56, STS-74
Zena Cardman
— No flights.
Duane G. Carey — STS-109
Scott Carpenter (1925–2013) — Mercury 7[5]
Gerald P. Carr — Skylab 4
Sonny Carter, M.D. (1947–1991) — STS-33
John Casper — STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77
Josh Cassada — No flights.
Christopher Cassidy — STS-127 Soyuz MS-16
Robert J. Cenker — STS-61-C
Eugene Cernan (1934–2017) — Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17
Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967) Died in the fire in Apollo 1.
Gregory Chamitoff — STS-124/126, STS-134
Franklin Chang-Diaz — STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111
Philip K. Chapman — No flights.
Raja Chari — No flights.
Kalpana Chawla
(1961–2003) — STS-87, STS-107. Died on the crash of the Columbia.
Maurizio Cheli — STS-75
Chen Dong — Shenzhou 11.
Chen Quan — No flights. Backup for Shenzhou 7.
Leroy Chiao — STS-65, STS-72, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-5
Kevin P. Chilton — STS-49, STS-59, STS-76
Jean-Loup Chrétien — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6, STS-86
Laurel B. Clark, M.D.
(1961–2003) — STS-107. Died in the crash of the Columbia.
Mary L. Cleave
— STS-61-B, STS-30
Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — STS-66, STS-84, STS-103
Michael R. Clifford — STS-53, STS-59, STS-76
Michael Coats — STS-41-D, STS-29, STS-39
Kenneth Cockrell — STS-56, STS-69, STS-80, STS-98, STS-111
Catherine Coleman
— STS-73, STS-93, Soyuz TMA-20
Eileen Collins
— STS-63, STS-84, STS-93, STS-114
Michael Collins — Gemini 10, Apollo 11
Charles "Pete" Conrad, (1930–1999) — Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2
Gordon Cooper (1927–2004) — Mercury 9, Gemini 5
Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61
Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA-17
John O. Creighton — STS-51-G, STS-36, STS-48
Robert Crippen — STS-1, STS-7, STS-41-C, STS-41-G
Samantha Cristoforetti
— Soyuz TMA-15M
Roger K. Crouch — STS-83, STS-94
Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. — STS-38, STS-51, STS-105/108
Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7
Robert Curbeam — STS-85, STS-98, STS-116
Nancy J. Currie
— STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, STS-109
D
Bill Dana — X-15 flights 174 and 197
Nancy Jan Davis
— STS-47, STS-60, STS-85
Lawrence J. DeLucas — STS-50
Frank De Winne — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
Vladimir N. Dezhurov — Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971) — Soyuz 11 Died on reentry.
Takao Doi — STS-87, STS-123
Matthew Dominick — No flights.
B. Alvin Drew — STS-118, STS-133
Brian Duffy — STS-45, STS-57, STS-72, STS-92
Charles Duke — Apollo 16
Bonnie J. Dunbar
— STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71, STS-89
Pedro Duque — STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
Samuel T. Durrance — STS-35, STS-67
James Dutton — STS-131
Lev Dyomin (1926–1998) — Soyuz 15
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
— STS-118, Soyuz TMA-18
Vladimir Dzhanibekov — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12, Soyuz T-13
E
Joe Edwards — STS-89
Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987) — Apollo 7
Anthony W. England — STS-51-F
Joe H. Engle — X-15 flights 138, 143, and 153, STS-2, STS-51-I
Jeanette J. Epps
— No flights.
Ronald Evans (1933–1990) — Apollo 17
Reinhold Ewald — Soyuz TM-25/24
Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26, STS-122/123
F
John Fabian — STS-7, STS-51-G
Muhammed Faris — Soyuz TM-3/2
Bertalan Farkas — Soyuz 36/35
Jean-Jacques Favier — STS-78
Fei Junlong — Shenzhou 6
Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009) — Voskhod 1
Christopher Ferguson — STS-115, STS-126, STS-135
Martin J. Fettman — STS-58
Andrew J. Feustel — STS-125, STS-134
Anatoly Filipchenko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16
Michael Fincke — Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-13, STS-134
John L. Finley (1935–2006) — No flights. Trained for the MOL program.
Jack D. Fischer - Soyuz MS-04
Anna Lee Fisher, M.D.
— STS-51-A
William Frederick Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-I
Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
Michael Foale — STS-45, STS-56, STS-63, STS-84/86, STS-103, Soyuz TMA-3
Kevin A. Ford — STS-128, Soyuz TMA-06M
Michael Foreman — STS-123, STS-129
Patrick Forrester — STS-105, STS-117, STS-128
Michael Fossum — STS-121, STS-124, Soyuz TMA-02M
Ted Freeman (1930–1964) — No flights.
Stephen Frick — STS-110, STS-122
Dirk Frimout — STS-45
Christer Fuglesang — STS-116, STS-128
Charles Fullerton (1936–2013) — STS-3, STS-51-F
Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995) — STS-61-A
Satoshi Furukawa — Soyuz TMA-02M franklin Chang
G
F. Drew Gaffney, M.D. — STS-40
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) — Vostok 1. First person in space.
Ronald Garan — STS-124, Soyuz TMA-21
Dale Gardner (1948–2014) — STS-8, STS-51-A
Guy Gardner — STS-27, STS-35
Marc Garneau — STS-41-G, STS-77, STS-97
Owen Garriott (1930–2019) — Skylab 3, STS-9
Charles Gemar — STS-38, STS-48, STS-62
Michael Gernhardt — STS-69, STS-83, STS-94, STS-104
Alexander Gerst — Soyuz TMA-13M
Edward Gibson — Skylab 4
Robert L. Gibson — STS-41-B, STS-61-C, STS-27, STS-47, STS-71
Yuri Gidzenko — Soyuz TM-22, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TM-34/Soyuz TM-33
Ed Givens (1930–1967) — No flights. NASA group 5.
Yuri Glazkov (1939–2008) — Soyuz 24
John Glenn (1921–2016) — Mercury 6, STS-95
Victor Glover — SpaceX Crew-1
Linda Godwin
— STS-37, STS-59, STS-76, STS-108
Michael T. Good — STS-125, STS-132
Viktor Gorbatko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, Soyuz 37/36
Richard Gordon (1929–2017) — Gemini 11, Apollo 12
Dominic Gorie — STS-91, STS-99, STS-108, STS-123
Ronald Grabe — STS-51-J, STS-30, STS-42, STS-57
Duane Graveline, M.D. (1931–2016) — No flights.
Georgi Grechko (1931–2017) — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz T-14/13
Frederick Gregory — STS-51-B, STS-33, STS-44
William Gregory — STS-67
David Griggs (1939–1989) — STS-51-D
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967) — Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
John Grunsfeld — STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Aleksei Gubarev — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 28
Umberto Guidoni — STS-75, STS-100
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa — Soyuz 39
Sidney Gutierrez — STS-40, STS-59
H
Chris Hadfield — STS-74, STS-100, Expedition 34, Expedition 35, Soyuz TMA-07M
Nick Hague — Soyuz MS-10, Soyuz MS-12
Claudie Haigneré
, EAC — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
Fred Haise — Apollo 13
James Halsell — STS-65, STS-74, STS-83, STS-94, STS-101
Kenneth Ham — STS-124, STS-132
Christina Hammock Koch
— Soyuz MS-12/Soyuz MS-13 (Expedition 59/60/61) A member of the first all-female EVA team.
Lloyd Hammond — STS-39, STS-64
Jeremy Hansen — No flights.
Gregory Harbaugh — STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. — STS-55, STS-63
Terry Hart — STS-41-C
Henry Hartsfield (1933–2014) — STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A
Frederick Hauck — STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26
Steven Hawley — STS-41-D, STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-82, STS-93
Susan Helms
— STS-54, STS-64, STS-78, STS-101, STS-102/105
Karl Henize (1926–1993) — STS-51-F
Thomas Hennen — STS-44
Terence Henricks — STS-44, STS-55, STS-70, STS-78
Mirosław Hermaszewski — Soyuz 30
José M. Hernández — STS-128
John Herrington— STS-113
Richard Hieb — STS-39, STS-49, STS-65
Joan Higginbotham
— STS-116
David Hilmers — STS-51-J, STS-26, STS-36, STS-42
Robert Hines — No flights.
Kathryn Hire
— STS-90, STS-130
Charles Hobaugh — STS-104, STS-118, STS-129
Warren Hoburg — No flights.
Jeffrey Hoffman — STS-51-D, STS-35, STS-46, STS-61, STS-75
Donald Holmquest, M.D. — No flights.
Michael S. Hopkins — Soyuz TMA-10M, SpaceX Crew-1
Scott Horowitz — STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105
Akihiko Hoshide — STS-124, Soyuz TMA-05M
Millie Hughes-Fulford
— STS-40
Douglas G. Hurley — STS-127, STS-135, Crew Dragon Demo-2
Rick Husband (1957–2003) — STS-96, STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
I
J
Sigmund Jähn — Soyuz 31/29
Mae Jemison, M.D.
— STS-47
Tamara E. Jernigan
— STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96
Brent W. Jett, Jr. — STS-72, STS-81, STS-97, STS-115
Jing Haipeng — Shenzhou 7, Shenzhou 9, Shenzhou 11
Gregory C. Johnson — STS-125
Gregory H. Johnson — STS-123, STS-134
Thomas D. Jones — STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98
Zenon Jankowski — Soyuz 30 Backup
K
Leonid Kadeniuk — STS-87
Alexander Kaleri — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3, Soyuz TMA-01M
Janet L. Kavandi
— STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
James M. Kelly — STS-102, STS-114
Mark Kelly — STS-108, STS-121, STS-124, STS-134
Scott Kelly — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-16M/18M
Joseph Kerwin, M.D. — Skylab 2
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000) — Soyuz 5/4
Jonny Kim — No flights.
Robert S. Kimbrough — STS-126.
Leonid Kizim (1941–2010) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Petr Klimuk — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30
Pete Knight — X-15 flight 190
Pyotr Kolodin — No flights, backup for several missions.
Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1. Died during re-entry of first Soyuz spacecraft.
Yelena Kondakova
— Soyuz TM-20/STS-84
Dmitri Kondratyev — Soyuz TMA-20
Oleg Kononenko — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-03M, Soyuz MS-11
Timothy L. Kopra — STS-127/128
Mikhail Korniyenko — Soyuz TMA-18, Soyuz TMA-16M/18M
Valery Korzun — Soyuz TM-24, STS-111/113
Oleg Kotov — Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-17, Soyuz TMA-10M
Vladimir Kovalyonok — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29/31, Soyuz T-4
Konstantin Kozeyev — Soyuz TM-33/32
Kevin Kregel — STS-70, STS-78, STS-87, STS-99
Sergei Krikalev — Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-12/Soyuz TM-13, STS-60, STS-88, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TMA-6
Valeri Kubasov — Soyuz 6, Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36/35
André Kuipers — Soyuz TMA-4/3, Soyuz TMA-03M
Robb Kulin — No flights.
L
Aleksandr Laveykin — Soyuz TM-2
Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) — No flights. Trained for MOL program.
Wendy Lawrence
— STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, STS-114
Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a
Aleksandr Lazutkin — Soyuz TM-25
Valentin Lebedev — Soyuz 13, Soyuz T-5/7
Mark C. Lee — STS-30, STS-47, STS-64, STS-82
David Leestma — STS-41-G, STS-28, STS-45
William B. Lenoir (1939–2010) — STS-5
Alexei Leonov (1934-2019) — Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19. First human to conduct a space walk.
Frederick W. Leslie — STS-73
Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988) — Soyuz TM-4/3
Byron Lichtenberg — STS-9, STS-45
Don Lind — STS-51-B
Kjell N. Lindgren — Soyuz TMA-17M
Steven Lindsey — STS-87, STS-95, STS-104, STS-121, STS-133
Jerry Linenger — STS-64, STS-81/84
Richard Linnehan — STS-78, STS-90, STS-109, STS-123
Gregory Linteris — STS-83, STS-94
Liu Boming — Shenzhou 7
Liu Wang — Shenzhou 9
Liu Yang
— Shenzhou 9
- (Yáng Lìwěi – see Yáng Lìwěi)
Anthony Llewellyn — No flights.
Paul Lockhart — STS-111, STS-113
Yuri Lonchakov — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-13
Michael Lopez-Alegria — STS-73, STS-92, STS-113, Soyuz TMA-9
Christopher Loria — No flights.
John Lounge — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-35
Jack Lousma — Skylab 3, STS-3
Stanley G. Love — STS-122
Jim Lovell — Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13
G. David Low (1956–2008) — STS-32, STS-43, STS-57
Edward Lu — STS-84, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2
Shannon Lucid
— STS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, STS-76/79.
Vladimir Lyakhov — Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-6/5
M
David Mackay — VSS Unity VF-01
Steven MacLean — STS-52, STS-115
Sandra Magnus
— STS-112, STS-126/119, STS-135
Oleg Makarov (1933–2003) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a, Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz T-3
Yuri Malenchenko — Soyuz TM-19, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Soyuz TMA-11, Soyuz TMA-05M, Soyuz TMA-19M
Franco Malerba — STS-46
Ravish Malhotra — No flights. India's backup cosmonaut for the Intercosmos program.
Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999) — Soyuz T-2, Soyuz T-11/10
Gennadi Manakov — Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-16
Musa Manarov — Soyuz TM-4/6, Soyuz TM-11
Nicole Aunapu Mann
— No flights.
Thomas Marshburn, M.D. — STS-127
Michael Massimino — STS-109, STS-125
Richard Mastracchio — STS-106, STS-118, STS-131, Soyuz TMA-11M
Michael Masucci — VSS Unity VF-01
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II — Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51-C.
K. Megan McArthur
— STS-125
William S. McArthur — STS-58, STS-74, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-7
Jon McBride — STS-41-G
Bruce McCandless II (1937–2017) — STS-41-B, STS-31
Anne McClain
— Soyuz MS-11.
William C. McCool (1961–2003) — STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
Michael J. McCulley — STS-34
John B. McKay (1922-1975) — X-15 flight 150 (awarded posthumously)
James McDivitt — Gemini 4, Apollo 9
Donald McMonagle — STS-39, STS-54, STS-66
Ronald McNair (1950–1986) — STS-41-B. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
Carl Meade — STS-38, STS-50, STS-64
Jessica Meir
— Soyuz MS-15 (Expedition 61/62) A member of the first all-female EVA team.
Bruce Melnick — STS-41, STS-49
Pamela Melroy
— STS-92, STS-112, STS-120
Mike Melvill — SpaceShipOne flight 15P and 16P
Leland D. Melvin — STS-122, STS-129
Ulf Merbold — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19
Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A
Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger
— STS-131
Curt Michel (1934–2015) — No flights.
Aleksandr Misurkin – Soyuz TMA-08M
Edgar Mitchell (1930–2016) — Apollo 14
Andreas Mogensen — Soyuz TMA-18M
Jasmin Moghbeli
— No flights.
Abdul Ahad Mohmand — Soyuz TM-6/5
Mamoru Mohri — STS-47, STS-99
Andrew R. Morgan — Soyuz MS-13
Barbara Morgan
— STS-118
Lee Morin — STS-110
Boris Morukov (1950–2015) — STS-106
Beth Moses — VSS Unity VF-01
Chiaki Mukai, M.D.
— STS-65, STS-95
Richard Mullane — STS-41-D, STS-27, STS-36
/
Talgat Musabayev — Soyuz TM-19, Soyuz TM-27, Soyuz TM-32/31
Story Musgrave, M.D. — STS-6, STS-51-F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, STS-80
N
Steven R. Nagel — STS-51-G, STS-61-A, STS-37, STS-55
George Nelson — STS-41-C, STS-61-C, STS-26
Grigori Nelyubov (1934–1966) — No flights. Vostok backup.
Rodolfo Neri Vela — STS-61-B
Paolo A. Nespoli — STS-120, Soyuz TMA-20
James H. Newman — STS-51, STS-69, STS-88, STS-109
Claude Nicollier — STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103
Nie Haisheng — Shenzhou 6, Shenzhou 10
Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004) — Vostok 3, Soyuz 9
Soichi Noguchi — STS-114, Soyuz TMA-17, SpaceX Crew-1
Carlos I. Noriega — STS-84, STS-97
Oleg Novitskiy — Soyuz TMA-06M
Lisa Nowak
— STS-121
Karen Nyberg
— STS-124, Soyuz TMA-09M
O
Bryan O'Connor — STS-61-B, STS-40
Ellen Ochoa
— STS-56, STS-66, STS-96, STS-110
Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014) — STS-61-A
William Oefelein — STS-116
Loral O'Hara
— No flights.
Brian O'Leary — No flights.
John D. Olivas — STS-117, STS-128
Takuya Onishi — Expedition 48/49.
Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986) — STS-51-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
Yuri Onufrienko — Soyuz TM-23, STS-108/111
Stephen Oswald — STS-42, STS-56, STS-67
Aleksey Ovchinin — Soyuz TMA-20M
Robert Overmyer (1936–1996) — STS-5, STS-51-B
P
Gennady Padalka — Soyuz TM-28, Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-14, Soyuz TMA-04M, Soyuz TMA-16M
William Pailes — STS-51-J
Scott Parazynski, M.D. — STS-66, STS-86, STS-95, STS-100, STS-120
Ronald A. Parise (1951–2008) — STS-35, STS-67
Robert Parker — STS-9, STS-35
Luca Parmitano — Soyuz TMA-09M
Nicholas Patrick — STS-116, STS-130
Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971) — Soyuz 11. Died on reentry.
James Pawelczyk — STS-90
Julie Payette
— STS-96, STS-127
Gary Payton — STS-51-C
Timothy Peake — Soyuz TMA-19M
Philippe Perrin, EAC — STS-111
Thomas Pesquet — Soyuz MS-03
Donald Peterson — STS-6
Donald Pettit — STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1, STS-126, Soyuz TMA-03M
Phạm Tuân — Soyuz 37/36
John Phillips — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6, STS-119
William Pogue — Skylab 4
Alan G. Poindexter (1961–2012) — STS-122, STS-131
Mark Polansky — STS-98, STS-116, STS-127
Alexander Poleshchuk — Soyuz TM-16
Valeri Polyakov, M.D. — Soyuz TM-6/7, Soyuz TM-18/20
Marcos Pontes — Soyuz TMA-8
Leonid Popov — Soyuz 35/37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7/5
Pavel Popovich (1930–2009) — Vostok 4, Soyuz 14
Charles Precourt — STS-55, STS-71, STS-84, STS-91
Dumitru Prunariu — Soyuz 40
R
Ilan Ramon (1954-2003) — STS-107 Died on the Columbia.
William Readdy — STS-42, STS-51, STS-79
Kenneth Reightler — STS-48, STS-60
James F. Reilly — STS-89, STS-104, STS-117
Garrett Reisman — STS-123/124, STS-132
Thomas Reiter — Soyuz TM-22, STS-121/116 Expedition 13
Vladimír Remek — Soyuz 28
Judith Resnik
(1949–1986) — STS-41D. Died on the Challenger. (STS-51L)
Sergei Revin — Soyuz TMA-04M
Paul W. Richards — STS-102
Richard N. Richards — STS-28, STS-41, STS-50, STS-64
Sally Ride
(1951–2012) — STS-7, STS-41-G. First American woman in space.
Patricia Robertson, M.D.
(1963–2001) — No flights.
Stephen Robinson — STS-85, STS-95, STS-114, STS-130
Russell L. Rogers (1928–1967) — No flights. Assigned to the Dyna Soar project.
Roman Romanenko — Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz TMA-07M
Yuri Romanenko — Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2/3
Kent Rominger — STS-73, STS-80, STS-85, STS-96, STS-100
Stuart Roosa (1933–1994) — Apollo 14
Jerry L. Ross — STS-61-B, STS-27, STS-37, STS-55, STS-74, STS-88, STS-110
Valery Rozhdestvensky — Soyuz 23
Kathleen (Kate) Rubins — ISS Expedition 48, Expedition 49
Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002) — Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, Soyuz 33
Mario Runco, Jr. — STS-44, STS-54, STS-77
Sergei Ryazanski — Soyuz TMA-10M
Valery Ryumin — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz 35/37, STS-91
S
Albert Sacco — STS-73
David Saint-Jacques — Soyuz MS-11.
Aleksandr Samokutyayev — Soyuz TMA-21, Soyuz TMA-14M
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005) — Soyuz 15
Robert Satcher, M.D. — STS-129
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — STS-51-G
Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14
Svetlana Savitskaya
— Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12
Wally Schirra (1923–2007) — Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7
Hans Schlegel — STS-55, STS-122
Harrison Schmitt — Apollo 17
Rusty Schweickart — Apollo 9
Dick Scobee (1939–1986) — STS-41-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
David Scott — Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15
Winston Scott — STS-72, STS-87
/
Paul Scully-Power — STS-41-G
Richard Searfoss (1956–2018) — STS-58, STS-76, STS-90
Rhea Seddon, M.D.
— STS-51-D, STS-40, STS-58
Elliot See (1927–1966) — No flights.
Ronald Sega — STS-60, STS-76
Piers Sellers (1955–2016) — STS-112, STS-121, STS-132
Aleksandr Serebrov (1944–2013) — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-17
Yelena Serova
— Soyuz TMA-14M
Vitali Sevastyanov (1935–2010) — Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18
Doug Shane — Commercial astronaut, SpaceShipOne 2003
Yuri Shargin — Soyuz TMA-5/4
Salizhan Sharipov — STS-89, Soyuz TMA-5
Rakesh Sharma — Soyuz T-11/10
Helen Sharman — Soyuz TM-12, Soyuz TM-11
Vladimir Shatalov — Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Brewster Shaw — STS-9, STS-61-B, STS-28
Alan Shepard (1923–1998) — Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14. First American in space.
William Shepherd — STS-27, STS-41, STS-52, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102
- (Nancy Sherlock – see Nancy Currie)
Anton Shkaplerov — Soyuz TMA-22, Soyuz TMA-15M
Georgi Shonin (1935–1997) — Soyuz 6
Loren Shriver — STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, M.D. — Soyuz TMA-11/10
Peter Siebold — Commercial astronaut, SpaceShipOne 2003
Oleg Skripochka — Soyuz TMA-01M
Aleksandr Skvortsov — Soyuz TMA-18— Soyuz TMA-12M
Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993) — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Michael J. Smith (1945–1986). Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
Steven Smith— STS-68, STS-82, STS-103, STS-110
Anatoly Solovyev — Soyuz TM-5/4, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26
Vladimir Solovyov — Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Sherwood Spring — STS-61-B
Robert Springer — STS-29, STS-38
Thomas Patten Stafford — Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
— STS-115, STS-126
Robert Stewart — STS-41-B, STS-51-J
Susan Still Kilrain
— STS-83, STS-94
Nicole Marie Passonno Stott
— STS-128, STS-133
Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov[6] No flights
Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-11/10, Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Mark Stucky — VSS Unity VP-03
Frederick Sturckow — STS-88, STS-105, STS-117, STS-128, VSS Unity VP-03
Kathryn Sullivan
, — STS-41-G, STS-31, STS-45
Maksim Surayev — Soyuz TMA-16, Soyuz TMA-13M
Steven Swanson — STS-117, STS-119
John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982) — Apollo 13
T
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — Soyuz 38
Daniel Tani — STS-108, STS-120/122
Joseph Tanner — STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115
Evgeny Tarelkin — Soyuz TMA-06M
James M. Taylor (1930–1970) — No flights. Assigned to MOL project.
Valentina Tereshkova
— Vostok 6. First woman in space.
Norman Thagard, M.D. — STS-7, STS-51-B, STS-30, STS-42, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Gerhard Thiele — STS-99
Robert Thirsk, M.D. — STS-78, Soyuz TMA-15
Andrew Thomas — STS-77, STS-89/91, STS-102, STS-114
Donald Thomas — STS-65, STS-70, STS-83, STS-94
Stephen Thorne (1953–1986) — No flights. Died before completing NASA astronaut training.
Kathryn Thornton
— STS-33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73
William E. Thornton, M.D. — STS-8, STS-51-B
Pierre Thuot — STS-36, STS-49, STS-62
Gherman Titov (1935–2000) — Vostok 2
Vladimir Titov — Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-4/6, STS-63, STS-86
Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93
Valery Tokarev — STS-96, Soyuz TMA-7
Sergei Treshchov — STS-111/113
Eugene Trinh — STS-50
Richard Truly — STS-2, STS-8
Bjarni Tryggvason — STS-85
Vasili Tsibliyev — Soyuz TM-17, Soyuz TM-25
Mikhail Tyurin — STS-105/108, Soyuz TMA-9, Soyuz TMA-11M
V
Lodewijk van den Berg — STS-51-B
James "Ox" van Hoften — STS-41-C, STS-51-I
Ivan Vagner — Soyuz MS-16
Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002) — Soyuz T-14
Charles Veach (1944–1995) — STS-39, STS-52
Franz Viehböck — Soyuz TM-13/12
Alexander Viktorenko — Soyuz TM-3/2, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-20
Pavel Vinogradov — Soyuz TM-26, Soyuz TMA-8
Terry Virts — STS-130, Soyuz TMA-15M
Roberto Vittori — Soyuz 34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5, STS-134
Igor Volk — Soyuz T-12
Alexander Volkov — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13
Sergey Volkov — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-02M, Soyuz TMA-18M
Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971) — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11. Died on Soyuz 11.
Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21
James Voss — STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/105
Janice Voss
(1956–2012) — STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99
W
Koichi Wakata — STS-72, STS-92, STS-119/127, Soyuz TMA-11M
Rex Walheim — STS-110, STS-122, STS-135
Charles D. Walker — STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B
David M. Walker (1944–2001) — STS-51-A, STS-30, STS-53, STS-69
Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966) — X-15 flights 77, 90, and 91.
Shannon Walker
— Soyuz TMA-19, SpaceX Crew-1
Ulrich Walter — STS-55
Carl Walz — STS-51, STS-65, STS-79, STS-108/111
Taylor Wang — STS-51-B
Wang Yaping — Shenzhou 10
Jessica Watkins
— No flights.
Mary Weber
— STS-70, STS-101
Paul Weitz — Skylab 2, STS-6
James Wetherbee — STS-32, STS-52, STS-63, STS-86, STS-102, STS-113
Douglas Wheelock — STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19
Ed White (1930–1967) — Gemini 4. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Robert Michael White — X-15 flight 62
Peggy Whitson
— STS-111/113, Soyuz TMA-11
Terrence Wilcutt — STS-68, STS-79, STS-89, STS-106
Clifton "C.C." Williams (1932–1967) — No flights. Died in a training accident.
Dafydd Williams, M.D. — STS-90, STS-118
Donald Williams (1942–2016) — STS-51-D, STS-34
Jeffrey Williams — STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16
Sunita "Suni" Williams
— STS-116/117, Soyuz TMA-05M
Barry Wilmore – STS-129, Soyuz TMA-14M
Stephanie Wilson
— STS-121, STS-120, STS-131
Gregory R. Wiseman – Soyuz TMA-13M
Peter Wisoff — STS-57, STS-68, STS-81, STS-92
David Wolf, M.D. — STS-58, STS-86/89, STS-112, STS-127
Neil Woodward — No flights.
Alfred Worden — Apollo 15
Y
Naoko Yamazaki
— STS-131
Yang Liwei — Shenzhou 5
Boris Yegorov, M.D. (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1
Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Yi So-yeon
— Soyuz TMA-12/11
John Young (1930–2018) — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
Kimiya Yui — Soyuz TMA-17M
Fyodor Yurchikhin — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-19, Soyuz TMA-09M
Z
Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
George D. Zamka — STS-120, STS-130
Zhai Zhigang — Shenzhou 7
Zhang Xiaoguang — Shenzhou 10
Vitaliy Zholobov — Soyuz 21
Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23
See also
- Dead astronauts
- List of space travelers by nationality
- List of Apollo astronauts
- List of cosmonauts
- List of human spaceflights
- List of female astronauts
- List of Jewish astronauts
- List of Muslim astronauts
- List of United States Marine Corps astronauts
- List of Asian American astronauts
- List of Hispanic astronauts
- List of African-American astronauts
- Space Shuttle crews
- Spaceflight records
- Timeline of space travel by nationality
References
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- "Gemini 8". Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- "Apollo 11 Command and Service Module (CSM)". Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- "Mercury Atlas 7". Retrieved 2009-10-12.
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