User:Rocketmaniac/List of Astronauts

This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people who trained 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 that have left Low Earth orbit, names in bold are astronauts that have walked on the moon. The flags indicate the astronaut's citizenship at the time of flight(s). As of 2007, more than 450 people had have trained as astronauts.

A

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Joseph M. Acaba	NASA	first Puerto Rican astronaut.
Loren Acton	NASA
Mike Adams	NASA	(1930–1967) X-15
James Adamson	NASA
Viktor M. Afanasyev	RSA
Thomas Akers	NASA
Vladimir Aksyonov	RSA
Buzz Aldrin	NASA	(born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov	RSA
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov	RSA
Andrew M. Allen	NASA
Joseph P. Allen	NASA
Scott Altman	NASA
William Anders	NASA
Clayton Anderson	NASA
Michael P. Anderson	NASA	(1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
(Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
Jerome Apt	NASA
Neil Armstrong	NASA	(born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Anatoly Artsebarsky	RSA
Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)	RSA
Jeffrey Ashby	NASA
Oleg Atkov	RSA
Toktar Aubakirov	RSA	first Kazakh person in space.
Sergei Avdeyev	RSA

B

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
James Bagian	NASA
Ellen Baker	NASA
Michael Baker	NASA
Aleksandr Balandin	RSA
Daniel Barry	NASA
John-David F. Bartoe	NASA
Charlie Bassett	NASA	(1931–1966) original pilot, Gemini 9.
Yuri Baturin	RSA	first Russian politician in space.
Patrick Baudry	ESA	first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
Alan Bean	NASA	flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
Ivan Bella	RSA	first Slovak in space.
Pavel Belyayev	RSA	(1925–1970)
Georgi Beregovoi	RSA	(1921–1995)
Anatoli Berezovoy	RSA
Brian Binnie	NASA	second commercial astronaut.
John Blaha	NASA
Michael J. Bloomfield	NASA
Guion Bluford	NASA	first African-American in space.
Karol Bobko	NASA	first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
Charles Bolden	NASA
Roberta Bondar	CSA	first Canadian woman in space.
Frank Borman	NASA	commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
Kenneth Bowersox	NASA
Charles Brady	NASA	(1951–2006)
Vance Brand	NASA
Daniel Brandenstein	NASA
Roy Bridges.	NASA	Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
Curtis Brown	NASA
David M. Brown	NASA	(1956–2003)
Mark Brown	NASA
James Buchli	NASA
Jay Buckey	NASA
Nikolai Budarin	RSA
Daniel Burbank	NASA
Daniel Bursch	NASA
Valery Bykovsky	RSA	(born 1934)

C

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Robert Cabana	NASA
Charles Camarda	NASA
Kenneth Cameron	NASA
Duane Carey	NASA
Scott Carpenter	NASA	a Project Mercury astronaut.
Gerald Carr	NASA
Sonny Carter	NASA	(1947–1991)
John Casper	NASA
Robert Cenker	NASA	Only RCA Payload Specialist to fly
Gene Cernan	NASA	flew on Apollo 17
*Roger B. Chaffee	NASA	died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
Franklin Chang-Diaz	NASA	first Hispanic-American in space, flew on seven space flights.
Philip K. Chapman	NASA	first Australian-born astronaut.
*Kalpana Chawla	NASA	(1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Maurizio Cheli	ESA
Leroy Chiao	NASA
Kevin Chilton	NASA
Jean-Loup Chrétien	ESA	first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
*Laurel B. Clark	NASA	(1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Mary Cleave	NASA
Jean-François Clervoy	ESA
Michael Clifford	NASA
Michael Coats	NASA
Kenneth Cockrell	NASA
Catherine Coleman	NASA	(born 1960)
Eileen Collins	NASA
Michael Collins	NASA	(born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)
Pete Conrad	NASA	Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
Gordon Cooper	NASA	(1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
Richard Covey	NASA
John Creighton	NASA
Robert Crippen	NASA	Space Shuttle pioneer
Roger Crouch	NASA
Frank Culbertson	NASA
Walter Cunningham	NASA	flew on Apollo 7.
Robert Curbeam	NASA
Nancy Currie	NASA

D

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Nancy Jan Davis	NASA
Lawrence J. DeLucas	NASA
Lev Demin	RSA	(1926–1998)
Frank De Winne	ESA
Vladimir N. Dezhurov	RSA
*Georgi Dobrovolski	RSA	(1928–1971)
Takao Doi	NASA	first Japanese to walk in space.
B. Alvin Drew	NASA	(born 1962)
Brian Duffy	NASA
Charles Duke	NASA	flew on Apollo 16.
Bonnie J. Dunbar	NASA
Pedro Duque	ESA	first Spaniard in space.
Samuel T. Durrance	NASA
Vladimir Dzhanibekov	RSA

E

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Joe Edwards	NASA
Donn F. Eisele	NASA	(1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.
Anthony W. England	NASA
Joseph H. Engle	NASA
Ronald Evans	NASA	(1933–1990)
Reinhold Ewald	ESA
Léopold Eyharts	ESA

F

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
John Fabian	NASA
Muhammed Faris	RSA	first Syrian in space.
Bertalan Farkas	ESA	first Hungarian in space.
Jean-Jacques Favier	ESA
Fèi Jùnlóng	CNSA
Konstantin Feoktistov	RSA
Christopher Ferguson	NASA
Martin Fettman	NASA
Anatoli Filipchenko	RSA
John L. Finley	NASA	(1935–2006), trained for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
Edward Fincke	NASA
Anna Fisher	NASA
William Frederick Fisher	NASA
Klaus-Dietrich Flade	ESA
Michael Foale	NASA	holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
Patrick Forrester	NASA
Michael Fossum	NASA
Ted Freeman	NASA	(1930–1964) NASA group 3
Stephen Frick	NASA
Dirk Frimout	ESA	first Belgian in space.
Christer Fuglesang	ESA	first Swede in space.
Charles Fullerton	NASA
Reinhard Furrer	ESA	(1940–1995)

G

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Francis Gaffney	NASA
Yuri Gagarin	RSA	(1934–1968), first person in space.
Dale Gardner	NASA
Guy Gardner	NASA
Marc Garneau	CSA	first Canadian in space.
Owen Garriott	NASA
Charles Gemar	NASA
Michael Gernhardt	NASA
Edward Gibson	NASA
Robert L. Gibson	NASA
Yuri Gidzenko	RSA
Ed Givens	NASA	(1930–1967) NASA group 5
Yuri Glazkov	RSA
John Glenn	NASA	(born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
Linda Godwin	NASA
Viktor Gorbatko	RSA
Richard Gordon	NASA	flew on Apollo 12.
Dominic Gorie	NASA
Ronald Grabe	NASA
Georgi Grechko	RSA
Frederick Gregory	NASA
William Gregory	NASA
Stanley Griggs	NASA	(1939–1989)
*Virgil Grissom	NASA	(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.
John Grunsfeld	NASA
Aleksei Gubarev	RSA
Umberto Guidoni	ESA
Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha	RSA	first Mongolian in space.
Sidney Gutierrez	NASA

H

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Chris Hadfield	CSA	first Canadian to walk in space.
Claudie Haigneré	ESA	first Frenchwoman in space.
Jean-Pierre Haigneré	ESA
Fred Haise	NASA	flew on Apollo 13.
James Halsell	NASA
Lloyd Hammond	NASA
Gregory Harbaugh	NASA
Bernard Harris	NASA	first African-American to walk in space.
Terry Hart	NASA
Henry Hartsfield	NASA
Frederick Hauck	NASA
Steven Hawley	NASA
Susan Helms	NASA
Karl Henize	NASA	(1926–1993)
Thomas Hennen	NASA
Terence Henricks	NASA
Miroslaw Hermaszewski	RSA	first Pole in space.
John Herrington	NASA	first Native American in space.
Richard Hieb	NASA
Joan Higginbotham	NASA
David Hilmers	NASA
Kathryn Hire	NASA
Charles Hobaugh	NASA
Jeffrey Hoffman	NASA
Scott Horowitz	NASA
Millie Hughes-Fulford	NASA	first female Payload Specialist.
*Rick D. Husband	NASA	(1957–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

I

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
James Irwin	NASA	(1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov	RSA
Georgi Ivanov	RSA	first Bulgarian in space.
Marsha Ivins	NASA

J

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Sigmund Jähn	RSA	first German in space
Mae Jemison	NASA	first African-American woman in space
Tamara E. Jernigan	NASA
Brent W. Jett, Jr.	NASA
Thomas D. Jones	NASA

K

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Leonid Kadenyuk	NSAU	first Ukrainian in space since independence.
Alexander Kaleri	RSA	first Russian in space since independence.
Janet Kavandi	NASA
James Kelly	NASA
Mark E. Kelly	NASA
Scott Kelly	NASA
Joseph Kerwin	NASA
Yevgeny Khrunov	RSA	(1933–2000)
Leonid Kizim	RSA
Petr Klimuk	RSA	first Belarusian in space.
*Vladimir M. Komarov	RSA	(1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
Yelena V. Kondakova	RSA
Valery Korzun	RSA
Oleg Kotov	RSA
Vladimir Kovalyonok	RSA
Konstantin Kozeyev	RSA
Kevin Kregel	NASA
Sergei Krikalev	RSA	six space flights and, as of 2006, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes
Valeri Kubasov	RSA	(born 1935)
André Kuipers	ESA

L

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Aleksandr Laveykin	RSA
Robert Lawrence	NASA	(1935–1967) MOL
Wendy Lawrence	NASA
Vasili Lazarev	RSA	(1928–1990)
Aleksandr Lazutkin	RSA
Valentin Lebedev	RSA
Mark C. Lee	NASA
David Leestma	NASA
William B. Lenoir	NASA
Aleksei Leonov	RSA	first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
Frederick W. Leslie	NASA
Anatoli Levchenko	RSA	(1941–1988)
Byron Lichtenberg	NASA	first NASA Payload Specialist.
Don Lind	NASA
Steven Lindsey	NASA
Jerry Linenger	NASA
Richard Linnehan	NASA
Gregory Linteris	NASA
*(Yáng Lìwěi - see Yáng Lìwěi)
Paul Lockhart	NASA
Yuri Lonchakov	RSA
Michael Lopez-Alegria	NASA
Christopher Loria	NASA
John Lounge	NASA
Jack Lousma	NASA
Jim Lovell	NASA	flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
G. David Low	NASA
Edward Lu	NASA
Shannon Lucid	NASA	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.
Vladimir Lyakhov	RSA

M

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Steven MacLean	CSA
Sandra Magnus	NASA
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov	RSA	(1933–2003)
Yuri Malenchenko	RSA
Franco Malerba	ESA	first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)
Yuri Malyshev	RSA	(1941–1999)
Gennadi Manakov	RSA
Musa Manarov	RSA
Michael Massimino	NASA
Richard Mastracchio	NASA
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II	NASA	(born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
William S. McArthur	NASA
Jon McBride	NASA
Bruce McCandless II	NASA
*William C. McCool	NASA	(1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Michael McCulley	NASA
James McDivitt	NASA	flew on Apollo 9.
Donald McMonagle	NASA
*Ronald McNair	NASA	(1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Carl Meade	NASA
Bruce Melnick	NASA
Pamela Melroy	NASA
Mike Melvill	?????	first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
Leland D. Melvin	NASA
Ulf Merbold	ESA
Ernst Messerschmid	ESA
Edgar Mitchell	NASA	flew on Apollo 14.
Abdul Ahad Mohmand	RSA	first Afghan in space.
Mamoru Mohri	JAXA	first professional Japanese astronaut in space.
Lee Morin	NASA
Boris Morukov	RSA
Chiaki Mukai	JAXA	first Japanese woman in space.
Richard Mullane	NASA
Talgat Musabayev	RSA
Story Musgrave	NASA

N

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Steven R. Nagel	NASA
George Nelson	NASA
Grigori Nelyubov	RSA	(1934–1966) Vostok backup.
Rodolfo Neri Vela	NASA	first Mexican in space.
James H. Newman	NASA
Claude Nicollier	ESA	first Swiss in space.
Niè Hǎishèng	CNSA	flew on Shenzhou 6
Andrian Nikolayev	RSA	(1929–2004)
Soichi Noguchi	JAXA
Carlos I. Noriega	NASA	first Peruvian-born person in space.
Lisa Nowak	NASA

O

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Bryan O'Connor	NASA
Ellen Ochoa	NASA	first Hispanic woman in space.
Wubbo Ockels	ESA	first Dutchman in space.
William Oefelein	NASA
*Ellison Onizuka	NASA	(1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Yuri Onufrienko	RSA
Stephen Oswald	NASA
Robert Overmyer	NASA	(1936–1996)

P

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Gennady Padalka	RSA
William Pailes	NASA
Scott Parazynski	NASA
Ronald A. Parise	NASA
Robert Parker	NASA
Nicholas Patrick	NASA
*Viktor Patsayev	RSA	(1933–1971)
James Pawelczyk	NASA
Julie Payette	CSA
Gary Payton	NASA	first military astronaut.
Philippe Perrin	ESA	first Morocco-born man in space
Donald Peterson	NASA
Donald Pettit	NASA
Pham Tuân	RSA	first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
John Phillips	NASA
William Pogue	NASA
Mark Polansky	NASA
Alexander Poleshchuk	RSA
Valeri Polyakov	RSA	holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
Marcos Pontes	BSA	first Brazilian in space.
Leonid Popov	RSA
Pavel Popovich	RSA	first Ukrainian-born person in space.
Charles Precourt	NASA
Dumitru Prunariu	RSA	first Romanian in space.

R

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
*Ilan Ramon (1954–2003)	NASA	first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
William Readdy	NASA
Kenneth Reightler	NASA
James F. Reilly	NASA
Thomas Reiter	ESA	first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
Vladimír Remek	RSA	first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
*Judith Resnik	NASA	(1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Paul W. Richards	NASA
Richard N. Richards	NASA
Sally Ride	NASA	first American woman in space.
*Patricia Robertson	NASA	(1963–2001)
Stephen Robinson	NASA
Russell L. Rogers	NASA	(1928–1967) Dyna Soar
Yuri Romanenko	RSA
Kent Rominger	NASA
Stuart Roosa	NASA	(1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
Jerry L. Ross	NASA	flew on seven space flights.
Valeri Rozhdestvensky	RSA
Nikolay Rukavishnikov	RSA	(1932–2002)
Mario Runco, Jr.	NASA
Valery Ryumin	RSA

S

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor	?????	first Malaysian in space.
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	?????
Albert Sacco	NASA
Gennadi Sarafanov	RSA	(1942–2005)
Viktor Savinykh	RSA
Svetlana Savitskaya	RSA	first woman to walk in space.
Wally Schirra	NASA	(1923–2007)
Hans Schlegel	ESA
Harrison Schmitt	NASA	flew on Apollo 17.
Rusty Schweickart	NASA
*Dick Scobee	NASA	(1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Winston Scott	NASA
David Scott	NASA
Paul Scully-Power	NASA
Richard Searfoss	NASA
Rhea Seddon	NASA
Elliott See	NASA	(1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.
Ronald Sega	NASA
Piers Sellers	NASA
Aleksandr Serebrov	RSA
Vitali Sevastyanov	RSA
Doug Shane	?????	commercial astronaut trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
Yuri Shargin	RSA	first Russian military cosmonaut
Salizhan Sharipov	RSA
Rakesh Sharma	RSA	first Indian in space.
Vladimir Shatalov	RSA
Brewster Shaw	NASA
Alan Shepard	NASA	(1923–1998), first American in space.
William Shepherd	NASA
*(Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
Georgi Shonin	RSA	(1935–1997)
Loren Shriver	NASA
Peter Siebold	?????	commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
Donald "Deke" Slayton	NASA	(1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
Steven Smith	NASA
Anatoly Solovyev	RSA	first Latvia born astronaut, holds the world record for time spent during space walks, has 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.
Vladimir Solovyov	RSA
Aleksei Sorokin	RSA	(1931–1976) Voskhod 1 backup.
Sherwood Spring	NASA
Robert Springer	NASA
Thomas Patten Stafford	NASA
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper	NASA
Robert Stewart	NASA
Susan Still	NASA
Gennady Strekalov	RSA	(1940–2004)
Frederick Sturckow	NASA
Kathryn Sullivan	NASA	first American woman to walk in space.
John "Jack" Swigert	NASA	(1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

T

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Daniel Tani	NASA
Joseph Tanner	NASA
James M. Taylor	NASA	(1930–1970) MOL
Valentina Tereshkova	RSA	first woman in space.
Norman Thagard	NASA
Gerhard Thiele	ESA
Robert Thirsk	CSA
Andrew Thomas	NASA
Donald Thomas	NASA
Stephen Thorne	NASA	(1953–1986), died before completing his NASA astronaut training.
Kathryn Thornton	NASA	first woman to make multiple EVAs.
William Thornton	NASA
Pierre Thuot	NASA
Gherman Titov	RSA	(1935–2000), first human to spend a full 24 hour day in orbit. He was the Soviet Union's second cosmonaut.
Vladimir Titov	RSA
Michel Tognini	ESA
Valery Tokarev	RSA
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez	RSA	the first Cuban, first Hispanophone, and first person of African ancestry in space.
Sergei Treschev	RSA
Eugene Trinh	NASA	first Vietnamese-American in space.
Richard Truly	NASA
Bjarni Tryggvason	CSA
Vasili Tsibliyev	RSA
Mikhail Tyurin	RSA

U

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Yury Usachev	RSA

V

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Lodewijk van den Berg	NASA
James "Ox" van Hoften	NASA
Vladimir Vasyutin	RSA	(1952–2002)
Charles Veach	NASA	(1944–1995)
Franz Viehböck	RSA	first Austrian in space.
Alexander Viktorenko	RSA
Pavel Vinogradov	RSA
Roberto Vittori	ESA
Igor Volk	RSA
*Vladislav Volkov	RSA	(1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
Alexander Volkov	RSA
Boris Volynov	RSA	first Jew in space.
James Voss	NASA
Janice Voss	NASA

W

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Koichi Wakata	JAXA
Rex Walheim	NASA
Charles D. Walker	NASA
David M. Walker	NASA	(1944–2001)
Joseph A. Walker	NASA	(1921–1966), first person to enter space twice.
Ulrich Walter	ESA
Carl Walz	NASA
Mary Weber	NASA
Paul Weitz	NASA
James Wetherbee	NASA
Douglas Wheelock	NASA
*Edward White	NASA	(1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
Peggy Whitson	NASA
Terrence Wilcutt	NASA
Clifton Williams	NASA	(1932–1967), died in a training accident.
Dafydd Williams	CSA
Donald Williams	NASA
Jeffrey Williams	NASA
Sunita "Suni" Williams	NASA	As of 2007, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
Stephanie Wilson	NASA
Peter Wisoff	NASA
David Wolf	NASA
Neil Woodward	NASA
Alfred Worden	NASA

Y

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Yáng Lìwěi	CNSA	first person launched by the Chinese space program.
Boris Yegorov	RSA	(1937–1994)
Aleksei Yeliseyev	RSA
John Young	NASA	flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
Fyodor Yurchikhin	RSA

Z

Astronaut	Space Agency	Notes
Sergei Zalyotin	RSA
Vitaliy Zholobov	RSA
Vyacheslav Zudov	RSA

See also

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

Notes

Category:Lists of astronauts