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This is a list of astronauts, who are in a restricted sense, Asians.

If "Asian" is restricted to refer to people from the continent of Asia, exclusive of Asian Russia, who are not of predominantly European, African, or American ancestry, then the list is as follows:

The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Asian country of birth and/or ancestry, where different.

The list is divided between those astronauts whose origin or ancestry is in West or South Asia (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria) and those whose origin or ancestry is in East or Central Asia (Mongolia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam).

East and Central Asia

# Image Name
Birth date 		Country Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Phạm Tuân
February 14, 1947 		 Vietnam First Vietnamese and first person of Asian origin to be in space. Soyuz 37 (July 23, 1980)
2 Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
December 5, 1947 		 Mongolia First Mongolian in space. Soyuz 39 (March 22, 1981)
3 Ellison Onizuka
June 24, 1946 		 United States
( Japan) 		First Asian American in space, first person of Japanese ancestry in space STS-51-C (January 27, 1985)
STS-51-L (January 28, 1986)
4 Taylor Wang
June 16, 1940 		 United States
( Republic of China) 		First person of Chinese ancestry in space. STS-51-B (April 29, 1985)
5 Toyohiro Akiyama
July 22, 1942 		 Japan First Japanese citizen in space. Soyuz TM-11/10 (December 2, 1990)
6 Toktar Aubakirov
July 27, 1946 		 Soviet Union
( Kazakhstan) 		First ethnic Kazakh in space. Soyuz TM-13/12 (October 2, 1991)
7 Eugene Trinh
September 14, 1950 		 United States
( South Vietnam) 		First Vietnamese American in space. STS-50 (June 25, 1992)
8 Mamoru Mohri
January 29, 1948 		 Japan STS-47 (September 12, 1992)
STS-99 (February 11, 2000)
9 Talgat Musabayev
January 7, 1951 		 Russia
( Kazakhstan) 		Soyuz TM-19 (July 1, 1994)
Soyuz TM-27 (January 29, 1998)
Soyuz TM-32/31 (April 28, 2001)
10 Chiaki Mukai
May 6, 1952 		 Japan First Japanese woman and first Asian woman in space. STS-65 (July 8, 1994)
STS-95 (October 29, 1998)
11 Koichi Wakata
August 1, 1963 		 Japan Served on the ISS in Expedition 18, 19, 20, Expedition 38/39 and Expedition 68. STS-72 (July 11, 1996)
STS-92 (October 11, 2000)
STS-119/127 (March 15, 2009)
Soyuz TMA-11M (November 7, 2013)
SpaceX Crew-5 (October 5, 2022)
12 Takao Doi
September 18, 1954 		 Japan First Japanese spacewalker. STS-87 (November 19, 1997)
STS-123 (March 11, 2008)
13 Salizhan Sharipov
August 24, 1964 		 Russia
( Kyrgyzstan) 		Of Uzbek ancestry. Served on ISS Expedition 10. STS-89 (January 22, 1998)
Soyuz TMA-5 (October 14, 2004)
14 Mark L. Polansky
June 2, 1956 		 United States
( South Korea) 		First person of Korean ancestry in space. STS-98 (February 7, 2001)
STS-116 (December 9, 2006)
STS-127 (July 15, 2009)
15 Yang Liwei
June 21, 1965 		 China First taikonaut from the People's Republic of China.
First person launched by an independent spaceflight mission from Asia. 		Shenzhou 5 (October 15, 2003)
16 Soichi Noguchi
April 15, 1965 		 Japan Served on the ISS in (Expedition 22/23) and (Expedition 64/65). STS-114 (July 26, 2005)
Soyuz TMA-17 (December 20, 2009)
SpaceX Crew-1 (November 16, 2020)
17, 18 Fei Junlong
May 5, 1965 		 China Shenzhou 6 (October 12, 2005)
Nie Haisheng
October 13, 1964 		 China Shenzhou 6 (October 12, 2005)
Shenzhou 10 (June 11, 2013)
Shenzhou 12 (June 17, 2021)
19 Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
July 27, 1972 		 Malaysia First Malaysian in space. Soyuz TMA-11/10 (October 10, 2007)
20 Yi So-yeon
June 2, 1978 		 South Korea First native Korean in space. Soyuz TMA-11/12 (April 8, 2008)
21 Akihiko Hoshide
December 28, 1968 		 Japan Served on the ISS in (Expedition 32/33). STS-124 (May 31, 2008)
Soyuz TMA-05M (15 July 2012)
SpaceX Crew-2 (23 April 2021)
22, 23, 24 Zhai Zhigang
October 10, 1966 		 China Shenzhou 7 (September 25, 2008)
Shenzhou 13 (October 15, 2021)
Liu Boming (astronaut)
October 29, 1966 		 China Shenzhou 7 (September 25, 2008)
Shenzhou 12 (June 17, 2021)
Jing Haipeng
October 24, 1966 		 China Shenzhou 7 (September 25, 2008)
Shenzhou 9 (June 16, 2012)
Shenzhou 11 (October 17, 2016)
25 Naoko Yamazaki
December 27, 1970 		 Japan STS-131 (April 5, 2010)
26 Satoshi Furukawa
April 4, 1964 		 Japan Served on the ISS in (Expedition 28/29). Soyuz TMA-02M (7 June 2011)
27, 28 Liu Wang
1970 		 China Shenzhou 9 (June 16, 2012), Shenzhou 14 (June 5, 2022–present)
Liu Yang
1978 		 China First Chinese woman in space. Shenzhou 9 (June 16, 2012)
29, 30 Zhang Xiaoguang
May 1966 		 China Shenzhou 10 (June 11, 2013)
Wang Yaping
January 1980 		 China First Asian female astronaut to perform a spacewalk (Shenzhou 13). Shenzhou 10 (June 11, 2013)
Shenzhou 13 (October 15, 2021)
31 Kimiya Yui
January 30, 1970 		 Japan Served on the ISS in (Expedition 44/45). Soyuz TMA-17M (July 22, 2015)
32 Aidyn Aimbetov
July 27, 1972 		 Kazakhstan Soyuz TMA-18M (September 2, 2015)
33 Takuya Onishi
December 22, 1975 		 Japan Served on the ISS in (Expedition 48/49). Soyuz MS-01 (July 7, 2016)
34 Chen Dong
December 12, 1978 		 China Shenzhou 11 (October 17, 2016), Shenzhou 14 (June 5, 2022–present)
35 Norishige Kanai
December 5, 1976 		 Japan Served on the ISS on (Expedition 54/55). Soyuz MS-07 (December 27, 2017)
36 Tang Hongbo
October, 1975 		 China Shenzhou 12 (June 17, 2021)
37 Ye Guangfu
September, 1980 		 China Shenzhou 13 (October 15, 2021)
38, 39 Yusaku Maezawa
22 November, 1975 		 Japan Space tourist from Space Adventures. First space tourists from Japan. First time two Japanese people were launched together. Soyuz MS-20 (December 8, 2021)
Yozo Hirano
1985
40 Cai Xuzhe
May, 1976 		 China Shenzhou 14 (June 5, 2022)
41, 42 Deng Qingming
March, 1966 		 China Shenzhou 15 (September 29, 2022)
Zhang Lu
November, 1976

West and South Asia

# Image Name
Birth date 		Country Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Rakesh Sharma
January 13, 1949 		 India First Indian in space. Soyuz T-11/10 (April 3, 1984)
2 Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
June 27, 1956 		 Saudi Arabia First Saudi and first Arab in space. STS-51-G (June 17, 1985)
3 Muhammed Faris
May 26, 1951 		 Syria First Syrian in space. Soyuz TM-3/2 (July 22, 1987)
4 Musa Manarov
March 22, 1951 		 Soviet Union
( Azerbaijan) 		First Azeri in space. Soyuz TM-4 (December 21, 1987)
Soyuz TM-11 (December 2, 1990)
5 Abdul Ahad Mohmand
January 1, 1959 		 Afghanistan First Afghan in space. Soyuz TM-6/5 (August 29, 1988)
6 Kalpana Chawla
March 17, 1962 		 United States
( India) 		First Indian-American in space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (19 November 1997)
STS-107 (16 January 2003)
7 Fyodor Yurchikhin
January 3, 1959 		 Russia
( Georgia) 		First Georgian in space, of Pontic Greek ancestry. Served on the ISS in Expedition 15. STS-112 (October 7, 2002)
Soyuz TMA-10 (April 7, 2007)
8 Ilan Ramon
June 20, 1954 		 Israel First Israeli in space. Died on the Columbia. STS-107 (January 16, 2003)
9 Anousheh Ansari
September 12, 1966 		 United States
( Iran) 		First Iranian-American in space. Soyuz TMA-9/8 (September 18, 2006)
10 Hazza Al Mansouri
December 13, 1983 		 United Arab Emirates First United Arab Emirates in space. Soyuz MS-15/12 (September 25, 2019)
40 Eytan Stibbe
January 12, 1958 		 Israel Space tourist from Axiom Space. First Space tourist from Israel. Axiom Mission 1 (April 8, 2022)

Other Asian-born astronauts

Several Soviet and Russian cosmonauts of Russian ethnicity, and some American astronauts not of Asian ancestry, were born in Asian Russia and other parts of Asia:

See also

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