List of astronauts by name

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. More than 540 people have trained as astronauts. 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 primary citizenship during time as an astronaut.

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James Bagian, M.D. — STS-29, STS-40

Ellen Baker, M.D. — STS-34, STS-50, STS-71

Michael Baker — STS-43, STS-52, STS-68, STS-81

Aleksandr Balandin — Soyuz TM-9

Michael R. Barratt, M.D. — Soyuz TMA-14

Daniel Barry — STS-72, STS-96, STS-105

John-David F. Bartoe — STS-51-F

Charlie Bassett (1931–1966) — No flights. Originally assigned to Gemini 9.

Yuri Baturin — Soyuz TM-28/27, Soyuz TM-32/31. First Russian politician in space.

Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space

Alan Bean — Apollo 12, Skylab 3. Fourth person to walk on the Moon.

Robert L. Behnken — STS-123, STS-130

Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.

Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970) — Voskhod 2

Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995) — Soyuz 3

Anatoli Berezovoy — Soyuz T-5/7

John Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81

Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110

Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53. First African-American in space.

Karol Bobko — STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J. First graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.

Eric A. Boe — STS-126

Charles Bolden— STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45, STS-60

Roberta Bondar, M.D. First Canadian woman in space.

Andrei Borisenko — No flights

Frank Borman — Gemini 7, Apollo 8. Commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.

Stephen G. Bowen — STS-126

Kenneth Bowersox — STS-50, STS-61, STS-73, STS-82, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1

Charles Brady, M.D. (1951–2006) — STS-78

Vance Brand — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35

Daniel Brandenstein — STS-8, STS-51-G, STS-32, STS-49

Randolph Bresnik - STS-129

Roy Bridges — STS-51-F. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997

Curtis Brown — STS-47, STS-66, STS-77, STS-85, STS-95, STS-103

David M. Brown (1956–2003) — STS-107. Died on the Columbia

Mark Brown — STS-28, STS-48

James Buchli — STS-51-C, STS-61-A, STS-29, STS-48

Jay Buckey, M.D. — STS-90

Nikolai Budarin — STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-27, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1

John S. Bull (1934-2008) — No flights.

Daniel Burbank — STS-106, STS-115

Daniel Bursch — STS-51, STS-68, STS-77, STS-108, STS-111

Valery Bykovsky — Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31/29

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Robert Cabana — STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88

Yvonne Cagle, M.D. — No flights.

Fernando Caldeiro (1958-2009) — No flights.

Tracy Caldwell — STS-118

Charles Camarda — STS-114

Kenneth Cameron — STS-37, STS-56, STS-74

Duane Carey — STS-109

Scott Carpenter — Mercury 7

Gerald Carr — Skylab 4

Sonny Carter, M.D., (1947–1991) — STS-33

John Casper — STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77

Christopher Cassidy — STS-127

Robert Cenker — STS-61-C

Gene Cernan — Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17

Roger B. Chaffee (1935-1967), died in the Apollo 1 disaster.

Gregory Chamitoff — STS-124/126

/ Franklin Chang-Diaz — STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111. First Hispanic-American in space.

/ Philip K. Chapman, first Australian-born astronaut — No flights

/ Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) — STS-87, STS-107. First Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Maurizio Cheli

Chen Quan, backup Shenzhou 7.

Leroy Chiao — STS-65, STS-72, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-5

Kevin Chilton — STS-49, STS-59, STS-76

Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space

Laurel B. Clark, M.D. (1961–2003) — STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Mary Cleave — STS-61-B, STS-30

Jean-François Clervoy

Michael Clifford — STS-53, STS-59, STS-76

Michael Coats — STS-41-D, STS-29, STS-39

Kenneth Cockrell — STS-56, STS-69, STS-80, STS-98, STS-111

Catherine Coleman — STS-73, STS-93

Eileen Collins — STS-63, STS-84, STS-93, STS-114

Michael Collins (born 1930) — Gemini 10, Apollo 11. Born in Rome to American parents.

Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999) — Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2. The third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.

Gordon Cooper (1927–2004) — Mercury 9, Gemini 5. First American to fly in space for a day.

Richard Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61

Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA-17

John Creighton — STS-51-G, STS-36, STS-48

Robert Crippen — STS-1, STS-7, STS-41-C, STS-41-G. Flew on the first Space Shuttle mission.

Samantha Cristoforetti

Roger Crouch — STS-83, STS-94

Frank Culbertson — STS-38, STS-51, STS-105/108

Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7

Robert Curbeam — STS-85, STS-98, STS-116

Nancy Currie — STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, STS-109

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Nancy Jan Davis — STS-47, STS-60, STS-85

Lawrence J. DeLucas — STS-50

Frank De Winne, first ESA astronaut to command the ISS.

Vladimir N. Dezhurov — Soyuz TM-21/STS-71

Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971) — Soyuz 11

Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.

B. Alvin Drew — STS-118

Brian Duffy — STS-45, STS-57, STS-72, STS-92

Charles Duke — Apollo 16

Bonnie J. Dunbar — STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71, STS-89

Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.

Samuel T. Durrance — STS-35, STS-67

James Dutton — No flights

Lev Dyomin (1926–1998) — Soyuz 15

Vladimir Dzhanibekov — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-12, Soyuz T-13

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Joe Edwards — STS-89

Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987) — Apollo 7

Anthony W. England — STS-51-F

Joe H. Engle — X-15 flights 138, 143, and 153, STS-2, STS-51-I

Ronald Evans (1933–1990) — Apollo 17

Reinhold Ewald

Léopold Eyharts

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John Fabian — STS-7, STS-51-G

Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.

Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.

Jean-Jacques Favier

Fèi Jùnlóng

Konstantin Feoktistov (1926-2009) — Voskhod 1

Christopher Ferguson — STS-115, STS-126

Martin J. Fettman — STS-58

Andrew J. Feustel — STS-125

Anatoli Filipchenko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16

Michael Fincke — Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-13

John L. Finley (1935–2006) — No flights. Trained for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.

Anna Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-A

William Frederick Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-I

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

/ Michael Foale — STS-45, STS-56, STS-63, STS-84/86, STS-103, Soyuz TMA-3. Holds the American and British time record in space (374 d, 11 h, 19 m).

Kevin A. Ford — STS-128

Michael Foreman — STS-123, STS-129

Patrick Forrester — STS-105, STS-117, STS-128

Michael Fossum — STS-121, STS-124

Ted Freeman (1930–1964) — No flights. NASA group 3.

Stephen Frick — STS-110, STS-122

Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.

Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.

Charles Fullerton — STS-3, STS-51-F

Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

Satoshi Furukawa — No flights

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F. Drew Gaffney, M.D. — STS-40

Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) — Vostok 1. First person in space.

Ronald Garan — STS-124

Dale Gardner — STS-8, STS-51-A

Guy Gardner — STS-27, STS-35

Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.

Owen Garriott — Skylab 3, STS-9

Charles Gemar — STS-38, STS-48, STS-62

Michael Gernhardt — STS-69, STS-83, STS-94, STS-104

Alexander Gerst — No flights.

Edward Gibson — Skylab 4

Robert L. Gibson — STS-41-B, STS-61-C, STS-27, STS-47, STS-71

Yuri Gidzenko — Soyuz TM-22, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TM-34/Soyuz TM-33

Ed Givens (1930–1967) — No flights. NASA group 5.

Yuri Glazkov — Soyuz 24

John Glenn (born 1921) — Mercury 6, STS-95. First American in Earth orbit, later oldest person to fly in space.

Linda Godwin — STS-37, STS-59, STS-76, STS-108

Michael T. Good — STS-125

Viktor Gorbatko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, Soyuz 37/36

Richard Gordon — Gemini 11, Apollo 12

Dominic Gorie — STS-91, STS-99, STS-108, STS-123

Ronald Grabe — STS-51-J, STS-30, STS-42, STS-57

Duane Graveline, M.D. — No flights.

Georgi Grechko — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz T-14/13

Frederick Gregory — STS-51-B, STS-33, STS-44

William Gregory — STS-67

Stanley Griggs (1939–1989) — STS-51-D

Virgil Grissom (1926–1967) — Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3. First person reach orbit a second time. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.

John Grunsfeld — STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125

Aleksei Gubarev — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 28

Umberto Guidoni

Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space.

Sidney Gutierrez — STS-40, STS-59

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Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.

Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.

Jean-Pierre Haigneré

Fred Haise — Apollo 13

James Halsell — STS-65, STS-74, STS-83, STS-94, STS-101

Kenneth Ham — STS-124

Lloyd Hammond — STS-39, STS-64

Jeremy Hansen

Gregory Harbaugh — STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82

Bernard A. Harris, Jr. — STS-55, STS-63. First African-American to walk in space.

Terry Hart — STS-41-C

Henry Hartsfield — STS-4, STS-41-D, STS-61-A

Frederick Hauck — STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26

Steven Hawley — STS-41-D, STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-82, STS-93

Susan Helms — STS-54, STS-64, STS-78, STS-101, STS-102/105

Karl Henize (1926–1993) — STS-51-F

Thomas Hennen — STS-44

Terence Henricks — STS-44, STS-55, STS-70, STS-78

Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.

José Hernández — STS-128

John Herrington— STS-113. First Native American in space.

Richard Hieb — STS-39, STS-49, STS-65

Joan Higginbotham — STS-116

David Hilmers — STS-51-J, STS-26, STS-36, STS-42

Kathryn Hire — STS-90, STS-130

Charles Hobaugh — STS-104, STS-108, STS-129

Jeffrey Hoffman — STS-51-D, STS-35, STS-46, STS-61, STS-75

Donald Holmquest, M.D. — No flights.

Scott Horowitz — STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105

Akihiko Hoshide

Millie Hughes-Fulford — STS-40. First female Payload Specialist.

Douglas G. Hurley — STS-127

Rick D. Husband (1957–2003) — STS-96, STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

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James Irwin (1930–1991) — Apollo 15

Aleksandr Ivanchenkov — Soyuz 29/31

Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.

Marsha Ivins — STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98

J

Sigmund Jähn, first German in space

Mae Jemison, M.D. — STS-47. First African-American woman in space.

Tamara E. Jernigan — STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96

Brent W. Jett, Jr. — STS-72, STS-81, STS-97, STS-115

Jing Haipeng

Gregory C. Johnson — STS-125

Gregory H. Johnson — STS-123

Thomas D. Jones — STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98

K

Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.

Alexander Kaleri — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3

Janet Kavandi — STS-91, STS-99, STS-104

James Kelly — STS-102, STS-114

Mark E. Kelly — STS-108, STS-121, STS-124

Scott Kelly — STS-103, STS-118

Joseph Kerwin, M.D. — Skylab 2. Became the first physician in space.

Yevgeny Khrunov — Soyuz 5/4 (1933–2000)

Robert S. Kimbrough — STS-126

Leonid Kizim — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15

Petr Klimuk — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30. First Belarusian in space.

Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1. Died during re-entry of first Soyuz spacecraft.

Yelena V. Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84

Dmitri Kondratyev — No flights

Oleg Kononenko — Soyuz TMA-12

Timothy L. Kopra — STS-127/128

Mikhail Korniyenko — No flights

Valery Korzun — Soyuz TM-24, STS-111/113

Oleg Kotov — Soyuz TMA-10

Vladimir Kovalyonok — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29/31, Soyuz T-4

Konstantin Kozeyev — Soyuz TM-33/32

Kevin Kregel — STS-70, STS-78, STS-87, STS-99

/ Sergei Krikalev — Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-12/Soyuz TM-13, STS-60, STS-88, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TMA-6. Record for longest time in space (803 d, 9 h 39 m).

Valeri Kubasov — Soyuz 6, Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36/35

André Kuipers, M.D.

L

Aleksandr Laveykin — Soyuz TM-2

Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) — No flights. MOL, first black astronaut.

Wendy Lawrence — STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, STS-114

Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a

Aleksandr Lazutkin — Soyuz TM-25

Valentin Lebedev — Soyuz 13, Soyuz T-5/7

Mark C. Lee — STS-30, STS-47, STS-64, STS-82

David Leestma — STS-41-G, STS-28, STS-45

William B. Lenoir — STS-5

Aleksei Leonov — Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19. First person to make an EVA).

Frederick W. Leslie — STS-73

Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988) — Soyuz TM-4/3

Byron Lichtenberg — STS-9, STS-45. First NASA Payload Specialist.

Don Lind — STS-51-B

Steven Lindsey — STS-87, STS-95, STS-104, STS-121

Jerry Linenger — STS-64, STS-81/84

Richard Linnehan — STS-78, STS-90, STS-109, STS-123

Gregory Linteris — STS-83, STS-94

Liu Boming, performed EVA on Shenzhou 7

• (Yáng Lìwěi - see Yáng Lìwěi)

Anthony Llewellyn — No flights.

Paul Lockhart — STS-111, STS-113

Yuri Lonchakov — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-13

Michael Lopez-Alegria — STS-73, STS-92, STS-113, Soyuz TMA-9

Christopher Loria

John Lounge — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-35

Jack Lousma — Skylab 3, STS-3

Stanley G. Love — STS-122

Jim Lovell — Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13

G. David Low (1956-2008) — STS-32, STS-43, STS-57

Edward Lu — STS-84, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2

Shannon Lucid — STS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, STS-76/79.

Vladimir Lyakhov — Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-6/5

M

Steven MacLean

Sandra Magnus — STS-112, STS-126/119

Oleg Makarov (1933–2003) — Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18a, Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz T-3

Yuri Malenchenko — Soyuz TM-19, STS-106, Soyuz TMA-2, Soyuz TMA-11

Franco Malerba, first Italian in space.

Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999) — Soyuz T-2, Soyuz T-11/10

/ Gennadi Manakov — Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-16

Musa Manarov — Soyuz TM-4/6, Soyuz TM-11

Thomas Marshburn, M.D. — STS-127

Michael Massimino — STS-109, STS-125

Richard Mastracchio — STS-106, STS-118

Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II — Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51-C.

K. Megan McArthur — STS-125

William S. McArthur — STS-58, STS-74, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-7

Jon McBride — STS-41-G

Bruce McCandless II — STS-41-B, STS-31

William C. McCool (1961–2003) — STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Michael McCulley — STS-34

James McDivitt — Gemini 4, Apollo 9

Donald McMonagle — STS-39, STS-54, STS-66

Ronald McNair (1950–1986) — STS-41-B. Died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Carl Meade — STS-38, STS-50, STS-64

Bruce Melnick — STS-41, STS-49

Pamela Melroy — STS-92, STS-112, STS-120

Leland D. Melvin — STS-122, STS-129

Ulf Merbold

Ernst Messerschmid

Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger — No flights

Curt Michel — No flights.

Edgar Mitchell — Apollo 14

Andreas Mogensen

Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.

Mamoru Mohri, first professional Japanese astronaut in space.

Barbara Morgan — STS-118

Lee Morin — STS-110

Boris Morukov — STS-106

Chiaki Mukai, M.D., first Japanese woman in space.

Richard Mullane — STS-41-D, STS-27, STS-36

Talgat Musabayev — Soyuz TM-19, Soyuz TM-27, Soyuz TM-32/31

Story Musgrave, M.D. — STS-6, STS-51-F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, STS-80

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Steven R. Nagel — STS-51-G, STS-61-A, STS-37, STS-55

George Nelson — STS-41-C, STS-61-C, STS-26

Grigori Nelyubov (1934–1966) Vostok backup.

Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.

Paolo A. Nespoli

James H. Newman — STS-51, STS-69, STS-88, STS-109

Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.

Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6

Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004) — Vostok 3, Soyuz 9

Soichi Noguchi

Carlos I. Noriega — STS-84, STS-97. First Peruvian-born person in space.

Lisa Nowak — STS-121

Karen Nyberg — STS-124

O

Bryan O'Connor — STS-61-B, STS-40

Ellen Ochoa — STS-56, STS-66, STS-96, STS-110. First Hispanic woman in space.

Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space.

William Oefelein — STS-116

Brian O'Leary — No flights.

John D. Olivas — STS-117, STS-128

Takuya Onishi

Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986) — STS-51-C. Died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Yuri Onufrienko — Soyuz TM-23, STS-108/111

Stephen Oswald — STS-42, STS-56, STS-67

Robert Overmyer (1936–1996) — STS-5, STS-51-B

P

Gennady Padalka — Soyuz TM-28, Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-14

William Pailes — STS-51-J

Scott Parazynski, M.D. — STS-66, STS-86, STS-95, STS-100, STS-120

Ronald A. Parise (1951-2008) — STS-35, STS-67

Robert Parker — STS-9, STS-35

Luca Parmitano

/ Nicholas Patrick — STS-116, STS-130

Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971) — Soyuz 11. Died on reentry.

James Pawelczyk — STS-90

Julie Payette

Gary Payton — STS-51-C. First military astronaut.

Timothy Peake — No flights.

Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space

Thomas Pesquet

Donald Peterson — STS-6

Donald Pettit — STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1, STS-126

Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.

John Phillips — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6, STS-119

William Pogue — Skylab 4

Alan G. Poindexter — STS-122

Mark Polansky — STS-98, STS-116, STS-127

Alexander Poleshchuk — Soyuz TM-16

/ Valeri Polyakov, M.D. — Soyuz TM-6/7, Soyuz TM-18/20. Record for longest continuous period in space (437 days)

Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian, South American and the only lusophone in space.

Leonid Popov — Soyuz 35/37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7/5

Pavel Popovich (1930-2009) — Vostok 4, Soyuz 14. First Ukrainian-born person in space.

Charles Precourt — STS-55, STS-71, STS-84, STS-91

Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

R

Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

William Readdy — STS-42, STS-51, STS-79

Kenneth Reightler — STS-48, STS-60

James F. Reilly — STS-89, STS-104, STS-117

Garrett Reisman — STS-123/124

Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.

Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.

Judith Resnik (1949–1986) — STS-41-D died on the Challenger

Sergei Revin — No flights

Paul W. Richards — STS-102

Richard N. Richards — STS-28, STS-41, STS-50, STS-64

Sally Ride — STS-7, STS-41-G. First American woman in space.

Patricia Robertson, M.D. (1963–2001) — No flights.

Stephen Robinson — STS-85, STS-95, STS-114, STS-130

Russell L. Rogers (1928–1967) — No flights. Assigned to the Dyna Soar project.

Roman Romanenko — Soyuz TMA-15

Yuri Romanenko — Soyuz 26/27, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2/3

Kent Rominger — STS-73, STS-80, STS-85, STS-96, STS-100

Stuart Roosa (1933–1994) — Apollo 14

Jerry L. Ross — STS-61-B, STS-27, STS-37, STS-55, STS-74, STS-88, STS-110

Valeri Rozhdestvensky — Soyuz 23

Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002) — Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, Soyuz 33

Mario Runco, Jr. — STS-44, STS-54, STS-77

/ Valery Ryumin — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 32/34, Soyuz 35/37, STS-91

S

Albert Sacco — STS-73

David Saint-Jacques

Aleksandr Samokutyayev — No flights

Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005) — Soyuz 15

Robert Satcher, M.D. — STS-129. Became the first orthopedic surgeon in space.

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14

Svetlana Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12. First woman to walk in space.

Wally Schirra (1923–2007) — Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7

Hans Schlegel

Harrison Schmitt — Apollo 17

Rusty Schweickart — Apollo 9

Dick Scobee (1939–1986) — STS-41-C. Died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

David Scott — Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15

Winston Scott — STS-72, STS-87

/ Paul Scully-Power — STS-41-G

Richard Searfoss — STS-58, STS-76, STS-90

Rhea Seddon, M.D. — STS-51-D, STS-40, STS-58

Elliott See (1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.

Ronald Sega — STS-60, STS-76

/ Piers Sellers — STS-112, STS-121

/ Aleksandr Serebrov — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-17

Vitali Sevastyanov — Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18

Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut — Soyuz TMA-5/4

Salizhan Sharipov — STS-89, Soyuz TMA-5

Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.

Vladimir Shatalov — Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10

Brewster Shaw — STS-9, STS-61-B, STS-28

Alan Shepard (1923–1998) — Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14. First American in space.

William Shepherd — STS-27, STS-41, STS-52, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102

• (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)

Anton Shkaplerov — No flights

Georgi Shonin (1935–1997) — Soyuz 6

Loren Shriver — STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, M.D., first Malaysian in space.

Oleg Skripochka — No flights

Aleksandr Skvortsov — No flights

Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993) — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. First selected as a Mercury astronaut.

Steven Smith— STS-68, STS-82, STS-103, STS-110

/ Anatoly Solovyev — Soyuz TM-5/4, Soyuz TM-9, Soyuz TM-15, STS-71/Soyuz TM-21, Soyuz TM-26. First Latvia-born astronaut, Record for EVA time (77+ hours in 16 spacewalks).

Vladimir Solovyov — Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15

Aleksei Sorokin (1931–1976) — No flights. Voskhod 1 backup.

Sherwood Spring — STS-61-B

Robert Springer — STS-29, STS-38

Thomas Patten Stafford — Gemini 6A, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper — STS-115, STS-126

Robert Stewart — STS-41-B, STS-51-J

Susan Still Kilrain — STS-83, STS-94

Nicole Marie Passonno Stott — STS-128

/ Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz T-11/10, Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71

Frederick Sturckow — STS-88, STS-105, STS-117, STS-128

Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space — STS-41-G, STS-31, STS-45. First American woman to walk in space.

Maksim Surayev — Soyuz TMA-16

John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982) — Apollo 13

T

Daniel Tani — STS-108, STS-120/122

Joseph Tanner — STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115

James M. Taylor (1930–1970) — No flights. MOL

Valentina Tereshkova — Vostok 6. First woman in space.

Norman Thagard, M.D. — STS-7, STS-51-B, STS-30, STS-42, Soyuz TM-21/STS-71

Gerhard Thiele

Robert Thirsk, M.D.

/ Andrew Thomas — STS-77, STS-89, STS-91, STS-102, STS-114

Donald Thomas — STS-65, STS-70, STS-83, STS-94

Stephen Thorne (1953–1986) — No flights. Died before completing his NASA astronaut training.

Kathryn Thornton — STS-33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73. First woman to make multiple EVAs.

William Thornton, M.D. — STS-8, STS-51-B

Pierre Thuot — STS-36, STS-49, STS-62

Gherman Titov (1935–2000) — Vostok 2. First person to spend a day in space.

/ Vladimir Titov — Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-4/6, STS-63, STS-86

Michel Tognini

Valery Tokarev — STS-96, Soyuz TMA-7

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban, first Hispanophone, and first person of African ancestry in space.

Sergei Treshchov — STS-111/113

Eugene Trinh — STS-50. First Vietnamese-American in space.

Richard Truly — STS-2, STS-8

Bjarni Tryggvason

Vasili Tsibliyev — Soyuz TM-17, Soyuz TM-25

Mikhail Tyurin — STS-105/108, Soyuz TMA-9

U

Yury Usachov — Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-23, STS-101, STS-102/STS-105

V

/ Lodewijk van den Berg — STS-51-B

James "Ox" van Hoften — STS-41-C, STS-51-I

Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002) — Soyuz T-14

Charles Veach (1944–1995) — STS-39, STS-52

Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.

/ Alexander Viktorenko — Soyuz TM-3/2, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-20

Pavel Vinogradov — Soyuz TM-26, Soyuz TMA-8

Terry Virts — STS-130

Roberto Vittori

Igor Volk — Soyuz T-12

/ Alexander Volkov — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13, Soyuz TM-13

Sergey Volkov — Soyuz TMA-12. Son of Alexander Volkov.

Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971) — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11. Died on Soyuz 11.

Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21. First Jew in space.

James Voss — STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/105

Janice Voss — STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99

W

Koichi Wakata

Rex Walheim — STS-110, STS-122

Charles D. Walker — STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B

David M. Walker (1944–2001) — STS-51-A, STS-30, STS-53, STS-69

Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966) — X-15 flights 77, 90, and 91. First person fly higher than 100 km twice.

Shannon Walker — No flights

Ulrich Walter

Carl Walz — STS-51, STS-65, STS-79, STS-108/111

Mary Weber — STS-70, STS-101

Paul Weitz — Skylab 2, STS-6

James Wetherbee — STS-32, STS-52, STS-63, STS-86, STS-102, STS-113

Douglas Wheelock — STS-120

Edward White (1930–1967) — Gemini 4. First American to make an EVA. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.

Peggy Whitson, holds the American record for time spent in space — STS-111/113, Soyuz TMA-11

Terrence Wilcutt — STS-68, STS-79, STS-89, STS-106

Clifton Williams (1932–1967) — No flights. Died in a training accident.

Dafydd Williams, M.D.

Donald Williams — STS-51-D, STS-34

Jeffrey Williams — STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16

Sunita "Suni" Williams — STS-116/117. As of 2007, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.

Barry Wilmore - STS-129

Stephanie Wilson — STS-121, STS-120

Peter Wisoff — STS-57, STS-68, STS-81, STS-92

David Wolf, M.D. — STS-58, STS-86/89, STS-112, STS-127

Neil Woodward — No flights.

Alfred Worden — Apollo 15

Y

Naoko Yamazaki — No flights

Yáng Lìwěi, first person launched by a Chinese space program

Boris Yegorov, M.D. (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1

Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10

Yi So-yeon — Soyuz TMA-12

John Young — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9

Kimiya Yui

Fyodor Yurchikhin — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10. Born in Georgia, of Pontic Greek ancestry.

Z

Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34

George D. Zamka — STS-120, STS-130

Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese national to conduct a spacewalk

Vitaliy Zholobov — Soyuz 21

Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23

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
• List of Muslim astronauts
• List of married couples among space travelers