List of astronauts by name

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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 citizenship during time as an astronaut. 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

[edit] 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. Aleksandar 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. Anousheh Ansari first iranian astronaut.
    • (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
18. Jerome Apt
19. Lee Archambault
20. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
21. Anatoly Artsebarsky
22. Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
23. Jeffrey Ashby
24. Oleg Atkov
25. Toktar Aubakirov, first ethnic Kazakh person in space.
26. Sergei Avdeyev

    [edit] B

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

    [edit] C

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

     [edit] D

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

     [edit] E

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

     [edit] F

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

     [edit] G

153. Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
154. Ronald Garan
155. Dale Gardner
156. Guy Gardner
157. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
158. Owen Garriott
159. Charles Gemar
160. Michael Gernhardt
161. Alexander Gerst
162. Edward Gibson
163. Robert L. Gibson
164. Yuri Gidzenko
165. Ed Givens (1930–1967) NASA group 5
166. Yuri Glazkov
167. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
168. Linda Godwin
169. Michael T. Good
170. Viktor Gorbatko
171. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
172. Dominic Gorie
173. Ronald Grabe
174. Georgi Grechko
175. Frederick Gregory
176. William Gregory
177. Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
178. *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.
179. John Grunsfeld
180. Aleksei Gubarev
181. Umberto Guidoni
182. Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space.
183. Sidney Gutierrez

     [edit] H

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

     [edit] I

214. James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
215. Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
216. Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
217. Marsha Ivins

     [edit] J

218. Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
219. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
220. Tamara E. Jernigan
221. Brent W. Jett, Jr.
222. Gregory C. Johnson
223. Gregory H. Johnson
224. Thomas D. Jones

     [edit] K

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

     [edit] L

246. Aleksandr Laveykin
247. Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) MOL, first black astronaunt
248. Wendy Lawrence
249. Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
250. Aleksandr Lazutkin
251. Valentin Lebedev
252. Mark C. Lee
253. David Leestma
254. William B. Lenoir
255. Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space (to make an EVA).
256. Frederick W. Leslie
257. Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
258. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
259. Don Lind
260. Steven Lindsey
261. Jerry Linenger
262. Richard Linnehan
263. Gregory Linteris
     • (Yáng Lìwěi - see Yáng Lìwěi)
264. Paul Lockhart
265. Yuri Lonchakov
266. Michael Lopez-Alegria
267. Christopher Loria
268. John Lounge
269. Jack Lousma
270. Stanley G. Love
271. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
272. G. David Low (1956-2008)
273. Edward Lu
274. 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.
275. Vladimir Lyakhov

     [edit] M

276. Steven MacLean
277. Sandra Magnus
278. Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
279. Yuri Malenchenko
280. 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.)
281. Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
282. / Gennadi Manakov
283. Musa Manarov
284. Michael Massimino
285. Richard Mastracchio
286. Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
287. K. Megan McArthur
288. William S. McArthur
289. Jon McBride
290. Bruce McCandless II
291. *William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
292. Michael McCulley
293. James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
294. Donald McMonagle
295. *Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
296. Carl Meade
297. Bruce Melnick
298. Pamela Melroy
299. / Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
300. Leland D. Melvin
301. Ulf Merbold
302. Ernst Messerschmid
303. Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
304. Andreas Mogensen
305. Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
306. Mamoru Mohri, first professional Japanese astronaut in space.
307. Barbara Morgan
308. Lee Morin
309. Boris Morukov
310. Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
311. Richard Mullane
312. Talgat Musabayev
313. Story Musgrave

     [edit] N

314. Steven R. Nagel
315. George Nelson
316. Grigori Nelyubov (1934–1966) Vostok backup.
317. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
318. Paolo A. Nespoli
319. James H. Newman
320. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
321. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
322. Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
323. Soichi Noguchi
324. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
325. Lisa Nowak
326. Karen Nyberg

     [edit] O

327. Bryan O'Connor
328. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
329. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space.
330. William Oefelein
331. Takuya Onishi
332. *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
333. Yuri Onufrienko
334. Stephen Oswald
335. Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

     [edit] P

336. Gennady Padalka
337. William Pailes
338. Scott Parazynski
339. Ronald A. Parise
340. Robert Parker
341. Luca Parmitano
342. / Nicholas Patrick
343. *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
344. James Pawelczyk
345. Julie Payette
346. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
347. Timothy Peake
348. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
349. Thomas Pesquet
350. Donald Peterson
351. Donald Pettit
352. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
353. John Phillips
354. William Pogue
355. Alan G. Poindexter
356. Mark Polansky
357. Alexander Poleshchuk
358. / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
359. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian, South American and the only lusophone in space.
360. Leonid Popov
361. Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
362. Charles Precourt
363. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

     [edit] R

364. *Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
365. William Readdy
366. Kenneth Reightler
367. James F. Reilly
368. Garrett Reisman
369. Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
370. Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
371. *Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
372. Paul W. Richards
373. Richard N. Richards
374. Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
375. *Patricia Robertson (1963–2001)
376. Stephen Robinson
377. Russell L. Rogers (1928–1967) Dyna Soar
378. Roman Romanenko
379. Yuri Romanenko
380. Kent Rominger
381. Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
382. Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
383. Valeri Rozhdestvensky
384. Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
385. Mario Runco, Jr.
386. / Valery Ryumin

     [edit] S

387. Albert Sacco
388. David Saint-Jacques
389. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
390. Viktor Savinykh
391. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
392. Wally Schirra (1923–2007)
393. Hans Schlegel
394. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
395. Rusty Schweickart
396. *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
397. Winston Scott
398. David Scott
399. / Paul Scully-Power
400. Richard Searfoss
401. Rhea Seddon
402. Elliott See (1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.
403. Ronald Sega
404. / Piers Sellers
405. / Aleksandr Serebrov
406. Vitali Sevastyanov
407. Doug Shane, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
408. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
409. Salizhan Sharipov ^[1]
410. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
411. Vladimir Shatalov
412. Brewster Shaw
413. Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
414. William Shepherd
     • (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
415. Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
416. Loren Shriver
417. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space.
418. Peter Siebold, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
419. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993), a Mercury astronaut.
420. Steven Smith
421. / Anatoly Solovyev first Latvia born astronaut, holds the world record for time spent during space walks, has 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.
422. Vladimir Solovyov
423. Aleksei Sorokin^[2] (1931–1976) Voskhod 1 backup.
424. Sherwood Spring
425. Robert Springer
426. Thomas Patten Stafford
427. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
428. Robert Stewart
429. Susan Still
430. / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
431. Frederick Sturckow
432. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
433. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
434. John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

     [edit] T

435. Daniel Tani
436. Joseph Tanner
437. James M. Taylor (1930–1970) MOL
438. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
439. Norman Thagard
440. Gerhard Thiele
441. Robert Thirsk
442. / Andrew Thomas
443. Donald Thomas
444. Stephen Thorne (1953–1986), died before completing his NASA astronaut training.
445. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
446. William Thornton
447. Pierre Thuot
448. Gherman Titov (1935–2000), first human to spend a full 24 hour day in orbit. He was the Soviet Union's second cosmonaut.
449. Vladimir Titov
450. Michel Tognini
451. Valery Tokarev
452. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban, first Hispanophone, and first person of African ancestry in space.
453. Sergei Treshchev
454. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
455. Richard Truly
456. Bjarni Tryggvason
457. Vasili Tsibliyev
458. Mikhail Tyurin

     [edit] U

459. Yury Usachev

     [edit] V

460. / Lodewijk van den Berg
461. James "Ox" van Hoften
462. Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
463. Charles Veach (1944–1995)
464. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
465. Alexander Viktorenko
466. Pavel Vinogradov
467. Roberto Vittori
468. Igor Volk
469. Alexander Volkov
470. Sergey Volkov first second generation person in space, son of Alexander Volkov.
471. *Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
472. Boris Volynov, first Jew in space.
473. James Voss
474. Janice Voss

     [edit] W

475. Koichi Wakata
476. Rex Walheim
477. Charles D. Walker
478. David M. Walker (1944–2001)
479. Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice.
480. Ulrich Walter
481. Carl Walz
482. Mary Weber
483. Paul Weitz
484. James Wetherbee
485. Douglas Wheelock
486. *Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
487. Peggy Whitson
488. Terrence Wilcutt
489. Clifton Williams (1932–1967), died in a training accident.
490. Dafydd Williams
491. Donald Williams
492. Jeffrey Williams
493. Sunita "Suni" Williams As of 2007, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
494. Stephanie Wilson
495. Peter Wisoff
496. David Wolf
497. Neil Woodward
498. Alfred Worden

     [edit] Y

499. Naoko Yamazaki
500. Yáng Lìwěi, first person launched by a Chinese space program
501. Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
502. Aleksei Yeliseyev
503. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
504. Kimiya Yui
505. / Fyodor Yurchikhin- First Greek in Space

     [edit] Z

506. Sergei Zalyotin
507. Vitaliy Zholobov
508. Vyacheslav Zudov

[edit] See also

• Timeline of space travel by nationality
• List of Apollo astronauts
• List of human spaceflights
• Space Shuttle crews
• List of United States Marine Corps astronauts
• Spaceflight records

[edit] Notes

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

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