List of space travelers by name
This is an alphabetical list of all space travelers, people who have flown in space.
Names in italic are space travelers who have left Low Earth orbit, names in bold are space travelers who have walked on the moon. The flags indicate the space traveler's citizenship at the time of flight(s). A * next to a name indicates that the person died during spaceflight.
The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The FAI defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 miles). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 80 kilometres (50 miles) are awarded astronaut wings. This list follows the FAI criterion. People who died training for space travel or died during missions that failed to reach the required altitude such as Christa McAuliffe can be found in the article on space disasters.
As of September 25, 2008, a total of 485 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, while 491 people qualify under the U.S. definition. Of those totals, 482 people have reached Earth orbit and 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.[1]
A
Loren Acton
- James Adamson
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Viktor M. Afanasyev
- Thomas Akers
Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese in space.
- Vladimir Aksyonov
Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space.
- Edwin Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
- Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
- Andrew M. Allen
- Joseph P. Allen
- Scott Altman
- William Anders, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)
- Clayton Anderson
- *Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
/ 
Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth space tourist and first female space tourist, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
- Jerome Apt
- Lee Archambault
- Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
- Anatoly Artsebarsky
- Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
- Jeffrey Ashby
- Oleg Atkov
- Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
- Sergei Avdeyev
B
- James Bagian
- Ellen Baker
- Michael Baker
- Aleksandr Balandin
- Daniel Barry
- John-David F. Bartoe
- Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.
Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
- Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
- Robert L. Behnken
Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
- Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)
- Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995)
- Anatoli Berezovoy
- Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
- John Blaha
- Michael J. Bloomfield
- Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.
- Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
- Charles Bolden
Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
- Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
- Kenneth Bowersox
- Charles Brady (1951–2006)
- Vance Brand
- Daniel Brandenstein
- Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
- Curtis Brown
- *David M. Brown (1956–2003)
- Mark Brown
- James Buchli
- Jay Buckey
- Nikolai Budarin
- Daniel Burbank
- Daniel Bursch
- Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)
C
- Robert Cabana
- Tracy Caldwell
- Charles Camarda
- Kenneth Cameron
- Duane Carey
- Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
- Gerald Carr
- Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)
- John Casper
- Robert Cenker
- Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
- Gregory Chamitoff
/ Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic-American in space, flew on seven space flights.
/ *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Maurizio Cheli
- Leroy Chiao
- Kevin Chilton
- Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
- *Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- Mary Cleave
- Jean-François Clervoy
- Michael Clifford
- Michael Coats
- Kenneth Cockrell
- Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
- Eileen Collins
- 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.)
- Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
- Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
- Richard Covey
- John Creighton
- Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
- Roger Crouch
- Frank Culbertson
- Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
- Robert Curbeam
- Nancy Currie
D
- Nancy Jan Davis
- Lawrence J. DeLucas
Frank De Winne
- Vladimir N. Dezhurov
- *Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971)
- Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
- B. Alvin Drew
- Brian Duffy
- Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
- Bonnie J. Dunbar
Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
- Samuel T. Durrance
- Lev Dyomin (1926–1998)
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov, first Uzbekistan-born man in space
E
- Joe Edwards
- Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.
- Anthony W. England
- Joseph H. Engle
- Ronald Evans (1933–1990)
Reinhold Ewald
- Léopold Eyharts
F
- John Fabian
Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
- Jean-Jacques Favier
Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6
- Konstantin Feoktistov
- Christopher Ferguson
- Martin Fettman
- Anatoli Filipchenko
- Edward Fincke
- Anna Fisher
- William Frederick Fisher
- Klaus-Dietrich Flade
/ Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
- Michael Foreman
- Patrick Forrester
- Michael Fossum
- Stephen Frick
- Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
- Charles Fullerton
- Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)
G
- Francis Gaffney
- Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
- Ronald Garan
- Dale Gardner
- Guy Gardner
- Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
- Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
- Owen Garriott
- Richard Garriott
- Charles Gemar
- Michael Gernhardt
- Edward Gibson
- Robert L. Gibson
- Yuri Gidzenko
- Yuri Glazkov
- John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
- Linda Godwin
- Viktor Gorbatko
- Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
- Dominic Gorie
- Ronald Grabe
- Georgi Grechko
- Frederick Gregory
- William Gregory
- Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
- 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.
- John Grunsfeld
- Aleksei Gubarev
- Umberto Guidoni
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.
- Sidney Gutierrez
H
- Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.
- Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré
- Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.
- James Halsell
- Kenneth Ham
- Lloyd Hammond
- Gregory Harbaugh
- Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space.
- Terry Hart
- Henry Hartsfield
- Frederick Hauck
- Steven Hawley
- Susan Helms
- Karl Henize (1926–1993)
- Thomas Hennen
- Terence Henricks
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.
- John Herrington, first Native American in space.
- Richard Hieb
- Joan Higginbotham
- David Hilmers
- Kathryn Hire
- Charles Hobaugh
- Jeffrey Hoffman
- Scott Horowitz
- Akihiko Hoshide
- Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.
- *Rick D. Husband (1957–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
I
- James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
- Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
- Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
- Marsha Ivins
J
Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
- Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
- Tamara E. Jernigan
- Brent W. Jett, Jr.
- Jing Haipeng
- Gregory H. Johnson
- Thomas D. Jones
K
Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
- Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
- Janet Kavandi
- James Kelly
- Mark E. Kelly
- Scott Kelly
- Joseph Kerwin
- Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
- Leonid Kizim
- Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
- *Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
- Yelena V. Kondakova
- Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space
- Valery Korzun
- Oleg Kotov
- Vladimir Kovalyonok
- Konstantin Kozeyev
- Kevin Kregel
- / Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2006, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
- Valeri Kubasov
André Kuipers
L
- Aleksandr Laveykin
- Wendy Lawrence
- Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin
- Valentin Lebedev
- Mark C. Lee
- David Leestma
- William B. Lenoir
- Aleksei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
- Frederick W. Leslie
- Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
- Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
- Don Lind
- Steven Lindsey
- Jerry Linenger
- Richard Linnehan
- Gregory Linteris
- Liu Boming
- Yang Liwei - see under Y
- Paul Lockhart
- Yuri Lonchakov
- / Michael Lopez-Alegria
- John Lounge
- Jack Lousma
- Stanley G. Love
- Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
- G. David Low (1956—2008)
- Edward Lu
- Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
- Vladimir Lyakhov
M
- Steven MacLean
- Sandra Magnus
- Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
- Yuri Malenchenko
- 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.)
- Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
- / Gennadi Manakov
- Musa Manarov, first Azerbaidjan-born man in space
- Michael Massimino
- Richard Mastracchio
- Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
- William McArthur
- Jon McBride
- Bruce McCandless II
- *William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- Michael McCulley
- James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
- Donald McMonagle
- *Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Carl Meade
- Bruce Melnick
- Pamela Melroy
- Leland D. Melvin
/ Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
- Ulf Merbold
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
- Mamoru Mohri
- Barbara Morgan
- Lee Morin
- Boris Morukov
- Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
- Richard Mullane
- Talgat Musabayev
- Story Musgrave
N
- Steven R. Nagel
- Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
- George Nelson
Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
- Paolo A. Nespoli
- James H. Newman
Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
- Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
- Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
- Soichi Noguchi
- Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
- Lisa Nowak
- Karen Nyberg
O
- Bryan O'Connor
- Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
- Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.
- William Oefelein
- John D. Olivas
- Gregory Olsen, third "space tourist".
- *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Yuri Onufrienko
- Stephen Oswald
- Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)
P
- Gennady Padalka
- William Pailes
- Scott Parazynski
- Ronald A. Parise (1951—2008)
- Robert Parker
- Nicholas Patrick
- *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
- James Pawelczyk
- Julie Payette
- Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
- Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
- Donald Peterson
- Donald Pettit
Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
- John Phillips
- William Pogue
- Alan G. Poindexter
- Mark Polansky
- Alexander Poleshchuk
- / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
- Leonid Popov
- Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
- Charles Precourt
Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.
R
*Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- William Readdy
- Kenneth Reightler
- James F. Reilly
- Garrett Reisman
- Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
- *Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- Paul W. Richards
- Richard N. Richards
- Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
- Stephen Robinson
- Yuri Romanenko
- Kent Rominger
- Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
- Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
- Valeri Rozhdestvensky
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
- Mario Runco, Jr.
- / Valery Ryumin
S
- Albert Sacco
- Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
- Viktor Savinykh
- Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
- Wally Schirra (1923—2007)
- Hans Schlegel
- Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
- Rusty Schweickart
- *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- David Scott
- Winston Scott
/ Paul Scully-Power
- Richard Searfoss
- Rhea Seddon
- Ronald Sega
- / Piers Sellers
- / Aleksandr Serebrov
- Vitali Sevastyanov
- Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
- Salizhan Sharipov [2], first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
- Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
- Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
- Brewster Shaw
- Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
- William Shepherd
- (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
- Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
- Loren Shriver
- Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and first South African in space.
- / Charles Simonyi, fifth space tourist.
- Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
- Steven Smith
- > Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Sherwood Spring
- Robert Springer
- Thomas Patten Stafford
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
- Robert Stewart
- Susan Still
- / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
- Frederick Sturckow
- Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
- Steven Swanson
- John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.
T
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space. He was also the first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space.
- Daniel Tani
- Joseph Tanner
- Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
- Norman Thagard
- Gerhard Thiele
- Robert Thirsk
- / Andrew Thomas
- Donald Thomas
- Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
- William Thornton
- Pierre Thuot
- Dennis Tito, first self-funded space tourist.
- Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
- Vladimir Titov
- Michel Tognini
- Valery Tokarev
- Sergei Treschev
- Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
- Richard Truly
- Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space
- Vasili Tsibliyev
- Mikhail Tyurin
U
- Yury Usachev
V
- / Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut.
- James "Ox" van Hoften
- Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
- Charles Veach (1944–1995)
Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
- / Alexander Viktorenko
- Pavel Vinogradov
- Roberto Vittori
- Igor Volk
- Sergey Volkov son of Alexander Volkov.
- *Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
- Alexander Volkov
- Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.
- James Voss
- Janice Voss
W
- Koichi Wakata
- Rex Walheim
- Charles Walker
- David M. Walker, (1944–2001)
- Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.
- Ulrich Walter
- Carl Walz
- Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.
- Mary Weber
- Paul Weitz
- James Wetherbee
- Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
- Douglas H. Wheelock
- Peggy Whitson
- Terrence Wilcutt
- Dafydd Williams
- Donald Williams
- Jeffrey Williams
- Sunita "Suni" Williams
- Stephanie Wilson
- Peter Wisoff
- David Wolf
- Alfred Worden
Y
- Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese national in space.
- Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
- Aleksei Yeliseyev
Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.
- John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
- Fyodor Yurchikhin, first Georgia-born man in space
Z
- Sergei Zalyotin
- George D. Zamka
- Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese to walk in space.
- Vitaliy Zholobov
- Vyacheslav Zudov
See also
- List of space travelers by nationality
- Timeline of space travel by nationality
- List of astronauts by name
- List of Apollo astronauts
- Space Shuttle crews
- List of human spaceflights
- Spaceflight records
References
- ^ Manned astronautics: facts and figures, http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/other/stat_kk.sht, Alexander Anikeev, September 11, 2006, accessed September 15, 2006
- ^ Salizhan Sharipov