List of spacemen

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According to the definition of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), space begins at an altitude of 100 km above the earth's surface; Space travelers are therefore people who have exceeded this limit, regardless of whether it was an orbital or suborbital flight. However, the conclusion that anyone who has flown over the 100-kilometer mark should automatically be a space traveler is not without controversy. The International Association of Space Explorers (ASE), for example, only recognizes people as space travelers who have completed at least one orbit of the earth during a space flight, which does not apply to suborbital flights. All international space agencies have followed this definition to date. NASA, for example, did not award the first two Mercury pilots, Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, the astronaut wings as an outer badge for participating in space flights for their suborbital flights. Because of possible conflicts of interest with the official organizations, the US company Virgin Galactic, which in the future wants to organize excursions for tourists to the edge of space with the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, only calls its candidates "private astronauts".

The following list of spacemen , sorted alphabetically by country and surname, contains 575 people, ten of whom are not spacemen according to the definition of the FAI (as of May 30, 2020):

In the country statistics of the manned space flight , the first space travelers of each country are listed at the time of the space flight. Here they are marked with the corresponding flag symbol.

Afghanistan

1 spaceman:

Belgium

2 spacemen:

Brazil

1 spaceman:

Bulgaria

2 spacemen:

China

11 spacemen:

Denmark

1 spaceman:

German Democratic Republic

1 spaceman:

  • Sigmund Jähn (1937-2019) - Soyuz 31 / 29 , the first German astronaut (3 September 1978)Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR

Federal Republic of Germany

10 spacemen:

Abdul Ahad Momand is listed under Afghanistan because he only obtained German citizenship after his space flight.

France

10 spacemen:

Great Britain

7 spacemen:

India

1 spaceman:

Iran

1 spaceman:

Israel

1 spaceman:

  • Ilan Ramon (1954–2003) - STS-107 , first Israeli spaceman (January 16, 2003)IsraelIsrael

Italy

7 spacemen:

Japan

12 spacemen:

Canada

10 spacemen:

Kazakhstan

3 spacemen:

Cuba

1 spaceman:

Malaysia

1 spaceman:

Mexico

1 spaceman:

Mongolia

1 spaceman:

Netherlands

2 spacemen:

Lodewijk van den Berg was no longer a Dutch citizen at the time of the space flight, so he is listed under USA .

Austria

1 spaceman:

Poland

1 spaceman:

Romania

1 spaceman:

Russia

Russian citizens who made their first space flight before the dissolution of the Soviet Union are listed under Soviet Union .

51 spacemen:

Saudi Arabia

1 spaceman:

Sweden

2 spacemen:

Switzerland

1 spaceman:

Slovakia

see also: Czechoslovakia

1 spaceman:

Soviet Union

The first Soviet cosmonauts (from left to right): Pawel Popowitsch (cosmonaut No. 4), Yuri Gagarin (No. 1), Valentina Tereschkowa (No. 6), Andrijan Nikolajew (No. 3), Valeri Bykowski (No. 5), German Titov (No. 2)

Contains all space travelers launched before the end of the Soviet Union

See also: Kazakhstan , Russia , Ukraine

71 spacemen:

The following ten cosmonauts also flew into space as Russian citizens after the collapse of the Soviet Union : Alexander Viktorenko , Anatoly Solovyov , Gennady Manakov , Alexander Serebrov , Viktor Afanassiev , Valeri Polyakov , Sergei Krikalev , Vladimir Titov , Gennadi Strekalov and Valeri Ryumin .

Spain

1 spaceman:

South Africa

1 spaceman:

South Korea

1 spaceman:

Syria

1 spaceman:

Czechoslovakia

see also: Slovakia

1 spaceman:

  • Vladimír Remek (* 1948) - Soyuz 28 , first Czechoslovak spaceman; first spaceman not from the Soviet Union or the USA (March 10, 1978)CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia

Ukraine

1 spaceman:

Hungary

2 spacemen:

United States

356 spacemen:

United Arab Emirates

1 spaceman:

Vietnam

1 spaceman:

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