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List of astronauts by name

This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the first sub-orbital flight of the 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 travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists, this article only lists professional astronauts. A list of everyone who has flown in space can be found at List of space travelers by name.

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 citizenship at the time of flight(s). As of 2008, more than 480 people had trained as astronauts.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

  1. Joseph M. Acaba, first Puerto Rican astronaut.
  2. Loren Acton
  3. Mike Adams (1930–1967) X-15
  4. James Adamson
  5. / Viktor M. Afanasyev
  6. Thomas Akers
  7. Vladimir Aksyonov
  8. Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
  9. Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
  10. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
  11. Andrew M. Allen
  12. Joseph P. Allen
  13. Scott Altman
  14. William Anders
  15. Clayton Anderson
  16. *Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  17. Jerome Apt
  18. Lee Archambault
  19. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
  20. / Anatoly Artsebarsky
  21. Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
  22. Jeffrey Ashby
  23. Oleg Atkov
  24. Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
  25. Sergei Avdeyev

    B

  26. James Bagian
  27. Ellen Baker
  28. Michael Baker
  29. Aleksandr Balandin
  30. Daniel Barry
  31. John-David F. Bartoe
  32. Charlie Bassett (1931–1966) original pilot, Gemini 9.
  33. Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.
  34. Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
  35. Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
  36. Robert L. Behnken
  37. Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
  38. Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)
  39. Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995)
  40. Anatoli Berezovoy
  41. Brian Binnie, second commercial astronaut.
  42. John Blaha
  43. Michael J. Bloomfield
  44. Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.
  45. Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
  46. Charles Bolden
  47. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
  48. Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
  49. Kenneth Bowersox
  50. Charles Brady (1951–2006)
  51. Vance Brand
  52. Daniel Brandenstein
  53. Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
  54. Curtis Brown
  55. *David M. Brown (1956–2003)
  56. Mark Brown
  57. James Buchli
  58. Jay Buckey
  59. Nikolai Budarin
  60. Daniel Burbank
  61. Daniel Bursch
  62. Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)

    C

  63. Robert Cabana
  64. Tracy Caldwell
  65. Charles Camarda
  66. Kenneth Cameron
  67. Duane Carey
  68. Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
  69. Gerald Carr
  70. Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)
  71. John Casper
  72. Robert Cenker
  73. Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
  74. *Roger B. Chaffee, died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
  75. Gregory Chamitoff
  76. / Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic-American in space, flew on seven space flights.
  77. / Philip K. Chapman, first Australian-born astronaut.
  78. / *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  79. Maurizio Cheli
  80. Leroy Chiao
  81. Kevin Chilton
  82. Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
  83. *Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  84. Mary Cleave
  85. Jean-François Clervoy
  86. Michael Clifford
  87. Michael Coats
  88. Kenneth Cockrell
  89. Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
  90. Eileen Collins
  91. Michael Collins (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)
  92. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
  93. Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
  94. Richard Covey
  95. John Creighton
  96. Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
  97. Roger Crouch
  98. Frank Culbertson
  99. Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
  100. Robert Curbeam
  101. Nancy Currie

    D

  102. Nancy Jan Davis
  103. Lawrence J. DeLucas
  104. Lev Demin (1926–1998)
  105. Frank De Winne
  106. Vladimir N. Dezhurov
  107. *Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971)
  108. Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
  109. B. Alvin Drew (born 1962)
  110. Brian Duffy
  111. Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
  112. Bonnie J. Dunbar
  113. Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
  114. Samuel T. Durrance
  115. Vladimir Dzhanibekov

    E

  116. Joe Edwards
  117. Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.
  118. Anthony W. England
  119. Joseph H. Engle
  120. Ronald Evans (1933–1990)
  121. Reinhold Ewald
  122. Léopold Eyharts

    F

  123. John Fabian
  124. Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
  125. Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
  126. Jean-Jacques Favier
  127. Fèi Jùnlóng
  128. Konstantin Feoktistov
  129. Christopher Ferguson
  130. Martin Fettman
  131. Anatoli Filipchenko
  132. John L. Finley (1935–2006), trained for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
  133. Edward Fincke
  134. Anna Fisher
  135. William Frederick Fisher
  136. Klaus-Dietrich Flade
  137. / Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
  138. Michael Foreman
  139. Patrick Forrester
  140. Michael Fossum
  141. Ted Freeman (1930–1964) NASA group 3
  142. Stephen Frick
  143. Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
  144. Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
  145. Charles Fullerton
  146. Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

    G

  147. Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
  148. Ronald Garan
  149. Dale Gardner
  150. Guy Gardner
  151. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
  152. Owen Garriott
  153. Charles Gemar
  154. Michael Gernhardt
  155. Edward Gibson
  156. Robert L. Gibson
  157. Yuri Gidzenko
  158. Ed Givens (1930–1967) NASA group 5
  159. Yuri Glazkov
  160. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
  161. Linda Godwin
  162. Viktor Gorbatko
  163. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
  164. Dominic Gorie
  165. Ronald Grabe
  166. Georgi Grechko
  167. Frederick Gregory
  168. William Gregory
  169. Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
  170. *Virgil Grissom (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
  171. John Grunsfeld
  172. Aleksei Gubarev
  173. Umberto Guidoni
  174. Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space.
  175. Sidney Gutierrez

    H

  176. Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.
  177. Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.
  178. Jean-Pierre Haigneré
  179. Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.
  180. James Halsell
  181. Kenneth Ham
  182. Lloyd Hammond
  183. Gregory Harbaugh
  184. Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space.
  185. Terry Hart
  186. Henry Hartsfield
  187. Frederick Hauck
  188. Steven Hawley
  189. Susan Helms
  190. Karl Henize (1926–1993)
  191. Thomas Hennen
  192. Terence Henricks
  193. Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.
  194. John Herrington, first Native American in space.
  195. Richard Hieb
  196. Joan Higginbotham
  197. David Hilmers
  198. Kathryn Hire
  199. Charles Hobaugh
  200. Jeffrey Hoffman
  201. Scott Horowitz
  202. Akihiko Hoshide
  203. Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.
  204. *Rick D. Husband (1957–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

    I

  205. James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
  206. Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
  207. Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
  208. Marsha Ivins

    J

  209. Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
  210. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
  211. Tamara E. Jernigan
  212. Brent W. Jett, Jr.
  213. Gregory H. Johnson
  214. Thomas D. Jones

    K

  215. Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
  216. Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
  217. Janet Kavandi
  218. James Kelly
  219. Mark E. Kelly
  220. Scott Kelly
  221. Joseph Kerwin
  222. Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
  223. Leonid Kizim
  224. Petr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
  225. *Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
  226. Yelena V. Kondakova
  227. Oleg Kononenko
  228. Valery Korzun
  229. Oleg Kotov
  230. Vladimir Kovalyonok
  231. Konstantin Kozeyev
  232. Kevin Kregel
  233. / Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2006, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
  234. Valeri Kubasov (born 1935)
  235. André Kuipers

    L

  236. Aleksandr Laveykin
  237. Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) MOL, first black astronaunt
  238. Wendy Lawrence
  239. Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
  240. Aleksandr Lazutkin
  241. Valentin Lebedev
  242. Mark C. Lee
  243. David Leestma
  244. William B. Lenoir
  245. Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space (to make an EVA).
  246. Frederick W. Leslie
  247. Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
  248. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
  249. Don Lind
  250. Steven Lindsey
  251. Jerry Linenger
  252. Richard Linnehan
  253. Gregory Linteris
  254. Paul Lockhart
  255. Yuri Lonchakov
  256. Michael Lopez-Alegria
  257. Christopher Loria
  258. John Lounge
  259. Jack Lousma
  260. Stanley G. Love
  261. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
  262. G. David Low (1956-2008)
  263. Edward Lu
  264. Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. Holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record until it was exceeded by Sunita Williams on June 16, 2007.
  265. Vladimir Lyakhov

    M

  266. Steven MacLean
  267. Sandra Magnus
  268. Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
  269. Yuri Malenchenko
  270. Franco Malerba, first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)
  271. Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
  272. / Gennadi Manakov
  273. Musa Manarov
  274. Michael Massimino
  275. Richard Mastracchio
  276. Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
  277. William McArthur
  278. Jon McBride
  279. Bruce McCandless II
  280. *William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  281. Michael McCulley
  282. James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
  283. Donald McMonagle
  284. *Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  285. Carl Meade
  286. Bruce Melnick
  287. Pamela Melroy
  288. / Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
  289. Leland D. Melvin
  290. Ulf Merbold
  291. Ernst Messerschmid
  292. Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
  293. Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
  294. Mamoru Mohri, first professional Japanese astronaut in space.
  295. Lee Morin
  296. Boris Morukov
  297. Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
  298. Richard Mullane
  299. Talgat Musabayev
  300. Story Musgrave

    N

  301. Steven R. Nagel
  302. George Nelson
  303. Grigori Nelyubov (1934–1966) Vostok backup.
  304. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
  305. Paolo A. Nespoli
  306. James H. Newman
  307. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
  308. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
  309. Andrian Nikolayev (1929–2004)
  310. Soichi Noguchi
  311. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
  312. Lisa Nowak
  313. Karen Nyberg

    O

  314. Bryan O'Connor
  315. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
  316. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space.
  317. William Oefelein
  318. *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  319. Yuri Onufrienko
  320. Stephen Oswald
  321. Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

    P

  322. Gennady Padalka
  323. William Pailes
  324. Scott Parazynski
  325. Ronald A. Parise
  326. Robert Parker
  327. / Nicholas Patrick
  328. *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
  329. James Pawelczyk
  330. Julie Payette
  331. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
  332. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
  333. Donald Peterson
  334. Donald Pettit
  335. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
  336. John Phillips
  337. William Pogue
  338. Alan G. Poindexter
  339. Mark Polansky
  340. Alexander Poleshchuk
  341. / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
  342. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
  343. Leonid Popov
  344. Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
  345. Charles Precourt
  346. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

    R

  347. *Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  348. William Readdy
  349. Kenneth Reightler
  350. James F. Reilly
  351. Garrett Reisman
  352. Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
  353. Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
  354. *Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  355. Paul W. Richards
  356. Richard N. Richards
  357. Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
  358. *Patricia Robertson (1963–2001)
  359. Stephen Robinson
  360. Russell L. Rogers (1928–1967) Dyna Soar
  361. Yuri Romanenko
  362. Kent Rominger
  363. Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
  364. Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
  365. Valeri Rozhdestvensky
  366. Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
  367. Mario Runco, Jr.
  368. / Valery Ryumin

    S

  369. Albert Sacco
  370. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
  371. Viktor Savinykh
  372. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
  373. Wally Schirra (1923–2007)
  374. Hans Schlegel
  375. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
  376. Rusty Schweickart
  377. *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  378. Winston Scott
  379. David Scott
  380. / Paul Scully-Power
  381. Richard Searfoss
  382. Rhea Seddon
  383. Elliott See (1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.
  384. Ronald Sega
  385. / Piers Sellers
  386. / Aleksandr Serebrov
  387. Vitali Sevastyanov
  388. Doug Shane, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
  389. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
  390. Salizhan Sharipov [1]
  391. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
  392. Vladimir Shatalov
  393. Brewster Shaw
  394. Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
  395. William Shepherd
  396. Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
  397. Loren Shriver
  398. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space.
  399. Peter Siebold, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
  400. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
  401. Steven Smith
  402. / Anatoly Solovyev first Latvia born astronaut, holds the world record for time spent during space walks, has 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.
  403. Vladimir Solovyov
  404. Aleksei Sorokin[2] (1931–1976) Voskhod 1 backup.
  405. Sherwood Spring
  406. Robert Springer
  407. Thomas Patten Stafford
  408. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
  409. Robert Stewart
  410. Susan Still
  411. / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
  412. Frederick Sturckow
  413. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
  414. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
  415. John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

    T

  416. Daniel Tani
  417. Joseph Tanner
  418. James M. Taylor (1930–1970) MOL
  419. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
  420. Norman Thagard
  421. Gerhard Thiele
  422. Robert Thirsk
  423. / Andrew Thomas
  424. Donald Thomas
  425. Stephen Thorne (1953–1986), died before completing his NASA astronaut training.
  426. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
  427. William Thornton
  428. Pierre Thuot
  429. Gherman Titov (1935–2000), first human to spend a full 24 hour day in orbit. He was the Soviet Union's second cosmonaut.
  430. Vladimir Titov
  431. Michel Tognini
  432. Valery Tokarev
  433. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban, first Hispanophone, and first person of African ancestry in space.
  434. Sergei Treshchev
  435. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
  436. Richard Truly
  437. Bjarni Tryggvason
  438. Vasili Tsibliyev
  439. Mikhail Tyurin

    U

  440. Yury Usachev

    V

  441. / Lodewijk van den Berg
  442. James "Ox" van Hoften
  443. Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
  444. Charles Veach (1944–1995)
  445. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
  446. Alexander Viktorenko
  447. Pavel Vinogradov
  448. Roberto Vittori
  449. Igor Volk
  450. Alexander Volkov
  451. Sergey Volkov son of Alexander Volkov.
  452. *Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
  453. Boris Volynov, first Jew in space.
  454. James Voss
  455. Janice Voss

    W

  456. Koichi Wakata
  457. Rex Walheim
  458. Charles Walker
  459. David M. Walker (1944–2001)
  460. Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice.
  461. Ulrich Walter
  462. Carl Walz
  463. Mary Weber
  464. Paul Weitz
  465. James Wetherbee
  466. Douglas Wheelock
  467. *Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
  468. Peggy Whitson
  469. Terrence Wilcutt
  470. Clifton Williams (1932–1967), died in a training accident.
  471. Dafydd Williams
  472. Donald Williams
  473. Jeffrey Williams
  474. Sunita "Suni" Williams As of 2007, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
  475. Stephanie Wilson
  476. Peter Wisoff
  477. David Wolf
  478. Neil Woodward
  479. Alfred Worden

    Y

  480. Yáng Lìwěi, first person launched by a Chinese space program
  481. Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
  482. Aleksei Yeliseyev
  483. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
  484. Fyodor Yurchikhin

    Z

  485. Sergei Zalyotin
  486. Vitaliy Zholobov
  487. Vyacheslav Zudov

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Salihzan Sharipov
  2. ^ Kosmonautenbiographie: Alexej Sorokin


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