List of space travelers by name

This is an alphabetical list of all space travelers, people who have flown in space.

The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 miles). a definition recognized by every country. In the 1960s, the United States Department of Defense awarded the rating of astronaut to military and civilian pilots who flew aircraft higher than 50 miles (80 kilometers). From the Department of Defense, seven USAF and NASA pilots qualified for the Astronaut Badge by flying the sub-orbital X-15 rocket spaceplane. All other men and women traveled to outer space in non-winged rockets or the orbital space shuttle, except for two American test pilots who entered space in the sub-orbital Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne rocket spaceplane. 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. This list follows the FAI criterion.

As of November 16, 2009, a total of 510 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, (516 people have qualified when including the Department of Defense classification). Of those totals, 3 people completed only a sub-orbital flight, 507 people reached Earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low Earth orbit and 12 walked on the Moon. 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.

• Names in italic are space travelers who have left Low Earth orbit, names in bold are space travelers who have walked on the moon. National 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.

A

1. Joseph M. Acaba
2. Loren Acton
3. James Adamson
4. / Viktor M. Afanasyev
5. Thomas Akers
6. Toyohiro Akiyama, the first business-sponsored space traveler and the first Japanese in space.
7. Vladimir Aksyonov
8. Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space, first middle eastern person in space.
9. Edwin Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
10. Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
11. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
12. Andrew M. Allen
13. Joseph P. Allen
14. Scott Altman
15. William Anders, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)
16. Clayton Anderson
17. *Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
    • (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
18. / Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth spaceflight participant and first female spaceflight participant, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
19. Dominic A. Antonelli
20. Jerome Apt
21. Lee Archambault
22. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
23. Richard R. Arnold
24. Anatoly Artsebarsky
25. Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
26. Jeffrey Ashby
27. Oleg Atkov
28. Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
29. Sergei Avdeyev

    B

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

    C

70. Robert Cabana
71. Tracy Caldwell
72. Charles Camarda
73. Kenneth Cameron
74. Duane Carey
75. Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
76. Gerald Carr
77. Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)
78. John Casper
79. Christopher J. Cassidy, 500th astronaut in space.
80. Robert Cenker
81. Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
82. Gregory Chamitoff
83. / Franklin Chang-Diaz, the only Costa Rican, first Hispanic-American in space, holder of the shared record of seven space flights.
84. / *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
85. Maurizio Cheli
86. Leroy Chiao
87. Kevin Chilton
88. Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
89. *Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
90. Mary Cleave
91. Jean-François Clervoy
92. Michael Clifford
93. Michael Coats
94. Kenneth Cockrell
95. Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
96. Eileen Collins
97. 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.)
98. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
99. Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
100. Richard Covey
101. John Creighton
102. Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
103. Roger Crouch
104. Frank Culbertson
105. Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
106. Robert Curbeam
107. Nancy Currie

     D

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

     E

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

     F

130. John Fabian
131. Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
132. Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
133. Jean-Jacques Favier
134. Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6
135. Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009)
136. Christopher Ferguson
137. Martin J. Fettman
138. Andrew J. Feustel
139. Anatoli Filipchenko
140. Michael Fincke
141. Anna Fisher
142. William Frederick Fisher
143. Klaus-Dietrich Flade
144. / Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
145. Kevin A. Ford
146. Michael Foreman
147. Patrick Forrester
148. Michael Fossum
149. Stephen Frick
150. Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
151. Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
152. Charles Fullerton
153. Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

     G

154. Francis Gaffney
155. Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
156. Ronald Garan
157. Dale Gardner
158. Guy Gardner
159. Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
160. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
161. Owen Garriott
162. Richard Garriott, first second generation American in space, son of skylab astronaut, Owen Garriott.
163. Charles Gemar
164. Michael Gernhardt
165. Edward Gibson
166. Robert L. Gibson
167. Yuri Gidzenko
168. Yuri Glazkov (1939—2008)
169. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
170. Linda Godwin
171. Michael T. Good
172. Viktor Gorbatko
173. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
174. Dominic Gorie
175. Ronald Grabe
176. Georgi Grechko
177. Frederick Gregory
178. William Gregory
179. Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
180. 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.
181. John Grunsfeld
182. Aleksei Gubarev
183. Umberto Guidoni
184. Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.
185. Sidney Gutierrez

     H

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

     I

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

     J

221. Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
222. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
223. Tamara E. Jernigan
224. Brent W. Jett, Jr.
225. Jing Haipeng
226. Gregory C. Johnson
227. Gregory H. Johnson
228. Thomas D. Jones

     K

229. Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
230. Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
231. Janet Kavandi
232. James Kelly
233. Mark E. Kelly
234. Scott Kelly
235. Joseph Kerwin
236. Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
237. Robert S. Kimbrough
238. Leonid Kizim
239. Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
240. *Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
241. Yelena V. Kondakova
242. Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space
243. Timothy L. Kopra
244. Valery Korzun
245. Oleg Kotov
246. Vladimir Kovalyonok
247. Konstantin Kozeyev
248. Kevin Kregel
249. / Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2008, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
250. Valeri Kubasov
251. André Kuipers

     L

252. Aleksandr Laveykin
253. Guy Laliberté
254. Wendy Lawrence
255. Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
256. Aleksandr Lazutkin
257. Valentin Lebedev
258. Mark C. Lee
259. David Leestma
260. William B. Lenoir
261. Aleksei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
262. Frederick W. Leslie
263. Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
264. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
265. Don Lind
266. Steven Lindsey
267. Jerry Linenger
268. Richard Linnehan
269. Gregory Linteris
270. Liu Boming
     • Yang Liwei - see under Y
271. Paul Lockhart
272. Yuri Lonchakov
273. / Michael Lopez-Alegria
274. John Lounge
275. Jack Lousma
276. Stanley G. Love
277. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
278. G. David Low (1956—2008)
279. Edward Lu
280. Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
281. Vladimir Lyakhov

     M

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

     N

320. Steven R. Nagel
321. Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
322. George Nelson
323. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
324. Paolo A. Nespoli
325. James H. Newman
326. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
327. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
328. Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
329. Soichi Noguchi
330. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
331. Lisa Nowak
332. Karen Nyberg

     O

333. Bryan O'Connor
334. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
335. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.
336. William Oefelein
337. John D. Olivas
338. Gregory Olsen, third spaceflight participant.
339. *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
340. Yuri Onufrienko
341. Stephen Oswald
342. Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

     P

343. Gennady Padalka
344. William Pailes
345. Scott Parazynski
346. Ronald A. Parise (1951—2008)
347. Robert Parker
348. Nicholas Patrick
349. *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
350. James Pawelczyk
351. Julie Payette
352. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
353. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
354. Donald Peterson
355. Donald Pettit
356. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
357. John Phillips
358. William Pogue
359. Alan G. Poindexter
360. Mark Polansky
361. Alexander Poleshchuk
362. / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
363. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
364. Leonid Popov
365. Pavel Popovich (1930—2009), first Ukrainian-born person in space.
366. Charles Precourt
367. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

     R

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

     S

389. Albert Sacco
390. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
391. Robert Satcher
392. Viktor Savinykh
393. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
394. Wally Schirra (1923—2007)
395. Hans Schlegel
396. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
397. Rusty Schweickart
398. *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
399. David Scott
400. Winston Scott
401. / Paul Scully-Power
402. Richard Searfoss
403. Rhea Seddon
404. Ronald Sega
405. / Piers Sellers
406. / Aleksandr Serebrov
407. Vitali Sevastyanov
408. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
409. Salizhan Sharipov , first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
410. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
411. Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
412. Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
413. Brewster Shaw
414. Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
415. William Shepherd
     • (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
416. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
417. Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
418. Loren Shriver
419. Mark Shuttleworth, second spaceflight participant and first South African in space.
420. / Charles Simonyi, fifth spaceflight participant.
421. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
422. Steven Smith
423. > Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space
424. Vladimir Solovyov
425. Sherwood Spring
426. Robert Springer
427. Thomas Patten Stafford
428. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
429. Robert Stewart
430. Susan Still
431. Nicole Stott
432. / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
433. Frederick Sturckow
434. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
435. Maksim Surayev
436. Steven Swanson
437. John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

     T

438. 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.
439. Daniel Tani
440. Joseph Tanner
441. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
442. Norman Thagard
443. Gerhard Thiele
444. Robert Thirsk
445. / Andrew Thomas
446. Donald Thomas
447. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
448. William Thornton
449. Pierre Thuot
450. Dennis Tito, first self-funded spaceflight participant.
451. Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
452. Vladimir Titov
453. Michel Tognini
454. Valery Tokarev
455. Sergei Treschev
456. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
457. Richard Truly
458. Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space
459. Vasili Tsibliyev
460. Mikhail Tyurin

     U

461. Yury Usachev

     V

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

     W

477. Koichi Wakata
478. Rex Walheim
479. Charles Walker
480. David M. Walker, (1944–2001)
481. Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.
482. Ulrich Walter
483. Carl Walz
484. Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.
485. Mary Weber
486. Paul Weitz
487. James Wetherbee
488. Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
489. Douglas H. Wheelock
490. Peggy Whitson
491. Terrence Wilcutt
492. Dafydd Williams
493. Donald Williams
494. Jeffrey Williams
495. Sunita "Suni" Williams
496. Barry Wilmore
497. Stephanie Wilson
498. Peter Wisoff
499. David Wolf
500. Alfred Worden

     Y

501. Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese national in space.
502. Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
503. Aleksei Yeliseyev
504. Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.
505. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
506. / Fyodor Yurchikhin, First Greek in space, first Georgia-born man in space

     Z

507. Sergei Zalyotin
508. George D. Zamka
509. Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese to walk in space.
510. Vitaliy Zholobov
511. 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