List of Hispanic astronauts
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The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-speaking country of birth or ancestry.
Orbital
[edit]| # | Image | Name Birth date |
Country | Comment | Missions (Launch date) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez January 29, 1942 |
 Cuba
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First person from Latin America to fly in space. First person of African descent in space. First Cuban in space. | Soyuz 38 (September 18, 1980) |
| 2 | 
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Rodolfo Neri Vela February 19, 1952 |
 Mexico
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First Mexican in space. | STS-61-B (November 26, 1985) |
| 3 | 
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Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 |
 United States(  Costa Rica)
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First Costa Rican astronaut | STS-61-C (January 12, 1986) STS-34 (October 18, 1989) STS-46 (July 31, 1992) STS-60 (February 3, 1994) STS-75 (February 22, 1996) STS-91 (June 2, 1998) STS-111 (June 5, 2002) |
| 4 | 
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Sidney M. Gutierrez June 27, 1951 |
United States ( Mexico)
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First U.S.-born Hispanic astronaut | STS-40 (June 5, 1991) STS-59 (April 9, 1994) |
| 5 | 
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Ellen Ochoa May 10, 1958 |
United States ( Mexico)
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First female Hispanic astronaut | STS-56 (April 8, 1993) STS-66 (November 3, 1994) STS-96 (May 27, 1999) STS-110 (April 8, 2002) |
| 6 | 
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Michael Lopez-Alegria May 30, 1958 |
United States- Spain[1]( Spain)
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First Spanish-born astronaut | STS-73 (October 20, 1995) STS-92 (October 11, 2000) STS-113 (November 24, 2002) Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18, 2006) Axiom Mission 1 (April 8, 2022) |
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Carlos I. Noriega October 8, 1959 |
United States (  Peru)
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First Peruvian-born astronaut | STS-84 (May 15, 1997) STS-97 (November 30, 2000) |
| 8 | 
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Pedro Duque March 14, 1963 |
Spain
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First Spanish astronaut without dual citizenship | STS-95 (October 29, 1998) Soyuz TMA-3/2 (October 18, 2003) |
| 9 | 
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John D. Olivas May 25, 1965 |
United States ( Mexico)
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STS-117 (June 8, 2007) STS-128 (August 28, 2009) | |
| 10 | 
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George D. Zamka June 29, 1962 |
United States (  Colombia)
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STS-120 (October 23, 2007) STS-130 (February 8, 2010) | |
| 11 | 
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Joseph M. Acaba May 17, 1967 |
United States (  Puerto Rico)
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First Puerto Rican astronaut | STS-119 (March 15, 2009) Soyuz TMA-04M (May 15, 2012)[2] Soyuz MS-06 (September 12, 2017) |
| 12 | 
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José M. Hernández August 7, 1962 |
United States ( Mexico)
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First migrant farm worker in space. | STS-128 (August 28, 2009) |
| 13 | 
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Serena M. Auñón April 9, 1976 |
United States ( Cuba)
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Soyuz MS-09 (June 6, 2018) | |
| 14 | 
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Francisco Rubio
December 11, 1975 |
United States (  El Salvador)
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First salvadoreño astronaut. | Soyuz MS-22 (Sept. 21, 2022) |
Suborbital
[edit]| # | Name Birth date |
Country | Comment | Missions (Launch date) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katya Echazarreta June 16, 1995 |
 United States( Mexico)
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Suborbital flight to a height of 106 km | Blue Origin NS-21 (June 4, 2022)
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Other Hispanic astronauts
[edit]| Image | Name Birth date |
Country | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| José López Falcón February 8, 1950 |
Cuba
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Backup for Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez on Soyuz 38 | |
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Ricardo Peralta y Fabi |
Mexico
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Backup for Rodolfo Neri Vela on STS-61-B |
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Fernando Caldeiro June 12, 1958 |
United States (  Argentina)
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Died October 3, 2009. |
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Marcos Berríos 1984 |
United States ( Puerto Rico)
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Selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 23 |