This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people trained by a manned spaceflight program to command, fly as a pilot, or serve as a crew member of a manned spacecraft. More than 540 people have been trained as astronauts. Until 2004, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by military agencies or by civilian space agencies. However, with the first sub-orbital flight of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne, 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 the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut.
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
A
Joseph M. Acaba — STS-119
Loren Acton — STS-51-F
Mike Adams (1930–1967) X-15
James Adamson — STS-28, STS-43
/ Viktor M. Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33/32
Thomas Akers — STS-41, STS-49, STS-61, STS-79
Vladimir Aksyonov — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2
Buzz Aldrin (formerly Edwin A. Aldrin) — Gemini 12, Apollo 11
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3
Andrew M. Allen — STS-46, STS-62, STS-75
Joseph P. Allen — STS-5, STS-51-A
Scott Altman — STS-90, STS-106, STS-109, STS-125
William Anders — Apollo 8
Clayton Anderson — STS-117/120, STS-131
Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003) — STS-89, STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.
(Claudie André-Deshays – see Claudie Haigneré)
Dominic A. Antonelli — STS-119, STS-132
Jerome Apt — STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79
Lee Archambault — STS-117, STS-119
Neil Armstrong — Gemini 8, Apollo 11. First person to walk on the Moon.[1][2]
Richard R. Arnold — STS-119
Anatoly Artsebarsky — Soyuz TM-12
Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998) — Soyuz 14
Jeffrey Ashby — STS-93, STS-100, STS-112
Oleg Atkov — Soyuz T-10/11
Toktar Aubakirov — Soyuz TM-13/12
Sergei Avdeyev — Soyuz TM-15, Soyuz TM-22
B
James P. Bagian, M.D. — STS-29, STS-40
Ellen S. 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, STS-133
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
Patrick Baudry — STS-51-G
Alan Bean — Apollo 12, Skylab 3
Robert L. Behnken — STS-123, STS-130
Ivan Bella — Soyuz TM-29/28
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
Karol Bobko — STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J
Eric A. Boe — STS-126, STS-133
Charles Bolden— STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45, STS-60
Roberta Bondar, M.D. — STS-42
Valentin Bondarenko (1937-1961) - no flights. Died in fire while training in pure oxygen (three weeks before Gagarin's flight).
Andrei Borisenko — Soyuz TMA-21
Frank Borman — Gemini 7, Apollo 8
Stephen G. Bowen — STS-126, STS-132, STS-133
Kenneth Bowersox — STS-50, STS-61, STS-73, STS-82, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1
Charles E. Brady, Jr., 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
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 C. 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, Soyuz TMA-22
Daniel Bursch — STS-51, STS-68, STS-77, STS-108, STS-111
Valery Bykovsky — Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31/29
C
Robert D. Cabana — STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88
Yvonne Cagle, M.D., — No flights.
Fernando Caldeiro (1958–2009) — No flights.
Charles Camarda — STS-114
Kenneth D. Cameron — STS-37, STS-56, STS-74
Duane G. Carey — STS-109
Scott Carpenter — Mercury 7[3]
Gerald P. Carr — Skylab 4
Sonny Carter, M.D. (1947–91) — STS-33
John Casper — STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77
Christopher Cassidy — STS-127
Robert J. Cenker — STS-61-C
Eugene Cernan — Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17
Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967), died in the fire in Apollo 1.
Gregory Chamitoff — STS-124/126, STS-134
/ Franklin Chang-Diaz — STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111
/ Philip K. Chapman — No flights
/ Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) — STS-87, STS-107. Died on the crash of the Columbia.
Maurizio Cheli — STS-75
Chen Quan — No flights. Backup for Shenzhou 7.
Leroy Chiao — STS-65, STS-72, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-5
Kevin P. Chilton — STS-49, STS-59, STS-76
Jean-Loup Chrétien — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6, STS-86
Laurel B. Clark, M.D. (1961–2003) — STS-107. Died on the crash of the Columbia.
Mary L. Cleave — STS-61-B, STS-30
Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — STS-66, STS-84, STS-103
Michael R. 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, Soyuz TMA-20
Eileen Collins — STS-63, STS-84, STS-93, STS-114
Michael Collins — Gemini 10, Apollo 11
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999) — Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2
Gordon Cooper (1927–2004) — Mercury 9, Gemini 5
Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61
Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA-17
John O. Creighton — STS-51-G, STS-36, STS-48
Robert Crippen — STS-1, STS-7, STS-41-C, STS-41-G
Samantha Cristoforetti
Roger K. Crouch — STS-83, STS-94
Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. — STS-38, STS-51, STS-105/108
Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7
Robert Curbeam — STS-85, STS-98, STS-116
Nancy J. Currie — STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, STS-109
D
Nancy Jan Davis — STS-47, STS-60, STS-85
Lawrence J. DeLucas — STS-50
Frank De Winne — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
Vladimir N. Dezhurov — Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971) — Soyuz 11 Died on reentry.
Takao Doi — STS-87, STS-123
B. Alvin Drew — STS-118, STS-133
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 — STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
Samuel T. Durrance — STS-35, STS-67
James Dutton — STS-131
Lev Dyomin (1926–1998) — Soyuz 15
Tracy Caldwell Dyson — STS-118, Soyuz TMA-18
Vladimir Dzhanibekov — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12, Soyuz T-13
E
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 — Soyuz TM-25/24
Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26, STS-122/123
F
John Fabian — STS-7, STS-51-G
Muhammed Faris — Soyuz TM-3/2
Bertalan Farkas — Soyuz 36/35
Jean-Jacques Favier — STS-78
Fèi Jùnlóng — Shenzhou 6
Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009) — Voskhod 1
Christopher Ferguson — STS-115, STS-126, STS-135
Martin J. Fettman — STS-58
Andrew J. Feustel — STS-125, STS-134
Anatoly Filipchenko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16
Michael Fincke — Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-13, STS-134
John L. Finley (1935–2006) — No flights. Trained for the MOL program.
Anna Lee Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-A
William Frederick Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-I
Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
/ Michael Foale — STS-45, STS-56, STS-63, STS-84/86, STS-103, Soyuz TMA-3
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, Soyuz TMA-02M
Ted Freeman (1930–1964) — No flights
Stephen Frick — STS-110, STS-122
Dirk Frimout — STS-45
Christer Fuglesang — STS-116, STS-128
Charles Fullerton — STS-3, STS-51-F
Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995) — STS-61-A
Satoshi Furukawa — Soyuz TMA-02M
G
F. Drew Gaffney, M.D. — STS-40
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) — Vostok 1. First person in space.
Ronald Garan — STS-124, Soyuz TMA-21
Dale Gardner — STS-8, STS-51-A
Guy Gardner — STS-27, STS-35
Marc Garneau — STS-41-G, STS-77, STS-97
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 (1939–2008) — Soyuz 24
John Glenn — Mercury 6, STS-95
Linda Godwin — STS-37, STS-59, STS-76, STS-108
Michael T. Good — STS-125, STS-132
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. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
John Grunsfeld — STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Aleksei Gubarev — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 28
Umberto Guidoni — STS-75, STS-100
Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha — Soyuz 39
Sidney Gutierrez — STS-40, STS-59
H
Chris Hadfield — STS-74, STS-100
Claudie Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
Fred Haise — Apollo 13
James Halsell — STS-65, STS-74, STS-83, STS-94, STS-101
Kenneth Ham — STS-124, STS-132
Lloyd Hammond — STS-39, STS-64
Jeremy Hansen — No flights
Gregory Harbaugh — STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. — STS-55, STS-63
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 — Soyuz 30
José Hernández — STS-128
John Herrington— STS-113
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 — STS-124
Millie Hughes-Fulford — STS-40
Douglas G. Hurley — STS-127, STS-135
Rick D. Husband (1957–2003) — STS-96, STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
I
James Irwin (1930–1991) — Apollo 15
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov — Soyuz 29/31
Anatoli Ivanishin — Soyuz TMA-22
Georgi Ivanov — Soyuz 33
Marsha Ivins — STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98
J
Sigmund Jähn — Soyuz 31/29
Mae Jemison, M.D. — STS-47
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 — Shenzhou 7
Gregory C. Johnson — STS-125
Gregory H. Johnson — STS-123, STS-134
Thomas D. Jones — STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98
K
Leonid Kadenyuk — STS-87
Alexander Kaleri — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3, Soyuz TMA-01M
Janet L. Kavandi — STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
James M. Kelly — STS-102, STS-114
Mark Kelly — STS-108, STS-121, STS-124, STS-134
Scott Kelly — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M
Gokul Kevin — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M
Joseph Kerwin, M.D. — Skylab 2
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000) — Soyuz 5/4
Robert S. Kimbrough — STS-126
Leonid Kizim (1941–2010) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Petr Klimuk — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30
Pyotr Kolodin — no flights, backup for several missions.
Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1. Died during re-entry of first Soyuz spacecraft.
Yelena Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84
Dmitri Kondratyev — Soyuz TMA-20
Oleg Kononenko — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-03M
Timothy L. Kopra — STS-127/128
Mikhail Korniyenko — Soyuz TMA-18
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
Valeri Kubasov — Soyuz 6, Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36/35
André Kuipers — Soyuz TMA-4/3, Soyuz TMA-03M
L
Aleksandr Laveykin — Soyuz TM-2
Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) — No flights. Trained for MOL program.
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(1939–2010) — STS-5
Aleksei Leonov — Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19 - first human to conduct a space walk.
Frederick W. Leslie — STS-73
Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988) — Soyuz TM-4/3
Byron Lichtenberg — STS-9, STS-45
Don Lind — STS-51-B
Steven Lindsey — STS-87, STS-95, STS-104, STS-121, STS-133
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 — 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 — No flights
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 — STS-52, STS-115
Sandra Magnus — STS-112, STS-126/119, STS-135
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 — STS-46
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, STS-131
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 on the Columbia.
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 on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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 — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19
Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A
Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger — STS-131
Curt Michel — No flights
Edgar Mitchell — Apollo 14
Andreas Mogensen
Abdul Ahad Mohmand — Soyuz TM-6/5
Mamoru Mohri — STS-47, STS-99
Barbara Morgan — STS-118
Lee Morin — STS-110
Boris Morukov — STS-106
Chiaki Mukai, M.D. — STS-65, STS-95
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
N
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) — No flights. Vostok backup.
Rodolfo Neri Vela — STS-61-B
Paolo A. Nespoli — STS-120, Soyuz TMA-20
James H. Newman — STS-51, STS-69, STS-88, STS-109
Claude Nicollier — STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103
Niè Hǎishèng — Shenzhou 6
Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004) — Vostok 3, Soyuz 9
Soichi Noguchi — STS-114, Soyuz TMA-17
/ Carlos I. Noriega — STS-84, STS-97
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
Wubbo Ockels — STS-61-A
William Oefelein — STS-116
Brian O'Leary — No flights
John D. Olivas — STS-117, STS-128
Takuya Onishi — No flights
Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986) — STS-51-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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 — No flights.
/ Nicholas Patrick — STS-116, STS-130
Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971) — Soyuz 11. Died on reentry.
James Pawelczyk — STS-90
Julie Payette — STS-96, STS-127
Gary Payton — STS-51-C
Timothy Peake — No flights.
Philippe Perrin, EAC — STS-111
Thomas Pesquet — No flights.
Donald Peterson — STS-6
Donald Pettit — STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1, STS-126, Soyuz TMA-03M
Pham Tuan — Soyuz 37/36
John Phillips — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6, STS-119
William Pogue — Skylab 4
Alan G. Poindexter — STS-122, STS-131
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
Marcos Pontes — Soyuz TMA-8
Leonid Popov — Soyuz 35/37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7/5
Pavel Popovich (1930–2009) — Vostok 4, Soyuz 14
Charles Precourt — STS-55, STS-71, STS-84, STS-91
Dumitru Prunariu — Soyuz 40
R
Ilan Ramon (1954–2003) — STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
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, STS-132
Thomas Reiter — Soyuz TM-22, STS-121/116
Vladimír Remek — Soyuz 28
Judith Resnik (1949–1986) — STS-41D. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L)
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
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
Valery 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 — No flights
Aleksandr Samokutyayev — Soyuz TMA-21
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005) — Soyuz 15
Robert Satcher, M.D. — STS-129
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — STS-51-G
Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14
Svetlana Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12
Wally Schirra (1923–2007) — Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7
Hans Schlegel — STS-55, STS-122
Harrison Schmitt — Apollo 17
Rusty Schweickart — Apollo 9
Dick Scobee (1939–1986) — STS-41-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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) — No flights.
Ronald Sega — STS-60, STS-76
/ Piers Sellers — STS-112, STS-121, STS-132
/ Aleksandr Serebrov — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-17
Vitali Sevastyanov (1935–2010) — Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18
Yuri Shargin — Soyuz TMA-5/4
Salizhan Sharipov — STS-89, Soyuz TMA-5
Rakesh Sharma — Soyuz T-11/10
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 — Soyuz TMA-22
Georgi Shonin (1935–1997) — Soyuz 6
Loren Shriver — STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, M.D. — Soyuz TMA-11/10
Oleg Skripochka — Soyuz TMA-01M
Aleksandr Skvortsov — Soyuz TMA-18
Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993) — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Michael J. Smith (1945-1986). Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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
Vladimir Solovyov — Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Aleksei Sorokin (1931–1976) — No flights. Voskhod 1 backup.[4]
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, STS-133
Krasimir Stoyanov— No flights.
/ 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, — STS-41-G, STS-31, STS-45
Maksim Surayev — Soyuz TMA-16
Steven Swanson — STS-117, STS-119
John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982) — Apollo 13
T
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — Soyuz 38
Daniel Tani — STS-108, STS-120/122
Joseph Tanner — STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115
James M. Taylor (1930–1970) — No flights. Assigned to MOL project.
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 — STS-99
Robert Thirsk, M.D. — STS-78, Soyuz TMA-15
/ 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 NASA astronaut training.
Kathryn Thornton — STS-33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73
William E. Thornton, M.D. — STS-8, STS-51-B
Pierre Thuot — STS-36, STS-49, STS-62
Gherman Titov (1935–2000) — Vostok 2
/ Vladimir Titov — Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-4/6, STS-63, STS-86
Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93
Valery Tokarev — STS-96, Soyuz TMA-7
Sergei Treshchov — STS-111/113
Eugene Trinh — STS-50
Richard Truly — STS-2, STS-8
Bjarni Tryggvason — STS-85
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 — Soyuz TM-13/12
/ 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 — Soyuz 34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5, STS-134
Igor Volk — Soyuz T-12
/ Alexander Volkov — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13
Sergey Volkov — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-02M
Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971) — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11. Died on Soyuz 11.
Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21
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 — STS-72, STS-92, STS-119/127
Rex Walheim — STS-110, STS-122, STS-135
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.
Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19
Ulrich Walter — STS-55
Carl Walz — STS-51, STS-65, STS-79, STS-108/111
Taylor Wang — STS-51-B
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, Soyuz TMA-19
Edward White (1930–1967) — Gemini 4. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Peggy Whitson — 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. — STS-90, STS-118
Donald Williams — STS-51-D, STS-34
Jeffrey Williams — STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16
Sunita "Suni" Williams — STS-116/117
Barry Wilmore – STS-129
Stephanie Wilson — STS-121, STS-120, STS-131
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 — STS-131
Yáng Lìwěi — Shenzhou 5
Boris Yegorov, M.D. (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1
Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Yi So-yeon — Soyuz TMA-12/11
John Young — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
Kimiya Yui — No flights
Fyodor Yurchikhin — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-19
Z
Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
George D. Zamka — STS-120, STS-130
Zhai Zhigang — Shenzhou 7
Vitaliy Zholobov — Soyuz 21
Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23
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 the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut.
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
A
Joseph M. Acaba — STS-119
Loren Acton — STS-51-F
Mike Adams (1930–1967) X-15
James Adamson — STS-28, STS-43
/ Viktor M. Afanasyev — Soyuz TM-11, Soyuz TM-18, Soyuz TM-29, Soyuz TM-33/32
Thomas Akers — STS-41, STS-49, STS-61, STS-79
Vladimir Aksyonov — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2
Buzz Aldrin (formerly Edwin A. Aldrin) — Gemini 12, Apollo 11
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3
Andrew M. Allen — STS-46, STS-62, STS-75
Joseph P. Allen — STS-5, STS-51-A
Scott Altman — STS-90, STS-106, STS-109, STS-125
William Anders — Apollo 8
Clayton Anderson — STS-117/120, STS-131
Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003) — STS-89, STS-107. Died in the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.
(Claudie André-Deshays – see Claudie Haigneré)
Dominic A. Antonelli — STS-119, STS-132
Jerome Apt — STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79
Lee Archambault — STS-117, STS-119
Neil Armstrong — Gemini 8, Apollo 11. First person to walk on the Moon.[1][2]
Richard R. Arnold — STS-119
Anatoly Artsebarsky — Soyuz TM-12
Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998) — Soyuz 14
Jeffrey Ashby — STS-93, STS-100, STS-112
Oleg Atkov — Soyuz T-10/11
Toktar Aubakirov — Soyuz TM-13/12
Sergei Avdeyev — Soyuz TM-15, Soyuz TM-22
B
James P. Bagian, M.D. — STS-29, STS-40
Ellen S. 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, STS-133
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
Patrick Baudry — STS-51-G
Alan Bean — Apollo 12, Skylab 3
Robert L. Behnken — STS-123, STS-130
Ivan Bella — Soyuz TM-29/28
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
Karol Bobko — STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J
Eric A. Boe — STS-126, STS-133
Charles Bolden— STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45, STS-60
Roberta Bondar, M.D. — STS-42
Valentin Bondarenko (1937-1961) - no flights. Died in fire while training in pure oxygen (three weeks before Gagarin's flight).
Andrei Borisenko — Soyuz TMA-21
Frank Borman — Gemini 7, Apollo 8
Stephen G. Bowen — STS-126, STS-132, STS-133
Kenneth Bowersox — STS-50, STS-61, STS-73, STS-82, STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1
Charles E. Brady, Jr., 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
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 C. 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, Soyuz TMA-22
Daniel Bursch — STS-51, STS-68, STS-77, STS-108, STS-111
Valery Bykovsky — Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31/29
C
Robert D. Cabana — STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88
Yvonne Cagle, M.D., — No flights.
Fernando Caldeiro (1958–2009) — No flights.
Charles Camarda — STS-114
Kenneth D. Cameron — STS-37, STS-56, STS-74
Duane G. Carey — STS-109
Scott Carpenter — Mercury 7[3]
Gerald P. Carr — Skylab 4
Sonny Carter, M.D. (1947–91) — STS-33
John Casper — STS-36, STS-54, STS-62, STS-77
Christopher Cassidy — STS-127
Robert J. Cenker — STS-61-C
Eugene Cernan — Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17
Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967), died in the fire in Apollo 1.
Gregory Chamitoff — STS-124/126, STS-134
/ Franklin Chang-Diaz — STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111
/ Philip K. Chapman — No flights
/ Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) — STS-87, STS-107. Died on the crash of the Columbia.
Maurizio Cheli — STS-75
Chen Quan — No flights. Backup for Shenzhou 7.
Leroy Chiao — STS-65, STS-72, STS-92, Soyuz TMA-5
Kevin P. Chilton — STS-49, STS-59, STS-76
Jean-Loup Chrétien — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6, STS-86
Laurel B. Clark, M.D. (1961–2003) — STS-107. Died on the crash of the Columbia.
Mary L. Cleave — STS-61-B, STS-30
Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — STS-66, STS-84, STS-103
Michael R. 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, Soyuz TMA-20
Eileen Collins — STS-63, STS-84, STS-93, STS-114
Michael Collins — Gemini 10, Apollo 11
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999) — Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2
Gordon Cooper (1927–2004) — Mercury 9, Gemini 5
Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61
Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA-17
John O. Creighton — STS-51-G, STS-36, STS-48
Robert Crippen — STS-1, STS-7, STS-41-C, STS-41-G
Samantha Cristoforetti
Roger K. Crouch — STS-83, STS-94
Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. — STS-38, STS-51, STS-105/108
Walter Cunningham — Apollo 7
Robert Curbeam — STS-85, STS-98, STS-116
Nancy J. Currie — STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, STS-109
D
Nancy Jan Davis — STS-47, STS-60, STS-85
Lawrence J. DeLucas — STS-50
Frank De Winne — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
Vladimir N. Dezhurov — Soyuz TM-21/STS-71
Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971) — Soyuz 11 Died on reentry.
Takao Doi — STS-87, STS-123
B. Alvin Drew — STS-118, STS-133
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 — STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
Samuel T. Durrance — STS-35, STS-67
James Dutton — STS-131
Lev Dyomin (1926–1998) — Soyuz 15
Tracy Caldwell Dyson — STS-118, Soyuz TMA-18
Vladimir Dzhanibekov — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12, Soyuz T-13
E
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 — Soyuz TM-25/24
Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26, STS-122/123
F
John Fabian — STS-7, STS-51-G
Muhammed Faris — Soyuz TM-3/2
Bertalan Farkas — Soyuz 36/35
Jean-Jacques Favier — STS-78
Fèi Jùnlóng — Shenzhou 6
Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009) — Voskhod 1
Christopher Ferguson — STS-115, STS-126, STS-135
Martin J. Fettman — STS-58
Andrew J. Feustel — STS-125, STS-134
Anatoly Filipchenko — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 16
Michael Fincke — Soyuz TMA-4, Soyuz TMA-13, STS-134
John L. Finley (1935–2006) — No flights. Trained for the MOL program.
Anna Lee Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-A
William Frederick Fisher, M.D. — STS-51-I
Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
/ Michael Foale — STS-45, STS-56, STS-63, STS-84/86, STS-103, Soyuz TMA-3
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, Soyuz TMA-02M
Ted Freeman (1930–1964) — No flights
Stephen Frick — STS-110, STS-122
Dirk Frimout — STS-45
Christer Fuglesang — STS-116, STS-128
Charles Fullerton — STS-3, STS-51-F
Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995) — STS-61-A
Satoshi Furukawa — Soyuz TMA-02M
G
F. Drew Gaffney, M.D. — STS-40
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) — Vostok 1. First person in space.
Ronald Garan — STS-124, Soyuz TMA-21
Dale Gardner — STS-8, STS-51-A
Guy Gardner — STS-27, STS-35
Marc Garneau — STS-41-G, STS-77, STS-97
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 (1939–2008) — Soyuz 24
John Glenn — Mercury 6, STS-95
Linda Godwin — STS-37, STS-59, STS-76, STS-108
Michael T. Good — STS-125, STS-132
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. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
John Grunsfeld — STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Aleksei Gubarev — Soyuz 17, Soyuz 28
Umberto Guidoni — STS-75, STS-100
Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha — Soyuz 39
Sidney Gutierrez — STS-40, STS-59
H
Chris Hadfield — STS-74, STS-100
Claudie Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
Fred Haise — Apollo 13
James Halsell — STS-65, STS-74, STS-83, STS-94, STS-101
Kenneth Ham — STS-124, STS-132
Lloyd Hammond — STS-39, STS-64
Jeremy Hansen — No flights
Gregory Harbaugh — STS-39, STS-54, STS-71, STS-82
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. — STS-55, STS-63
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 — Soyuz 30
José Hernández — STS-128
John Herrington— STS-113
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 — STS-124
Millie Hughes-Fulford — STS-40
Douglas G. Hurley — STS-127, STS-135
Rick D. Husband (1957–2003) — STS-96, STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
I
James Irwin (1930–1991) — Apollo 15
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov — Soyuz 29/31
Anatoli Ivanishin — Soyuz TMA-22
Georgi Ivanov — Soyuz 33
Marsha Ivins — STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98
J
Sigmund Jähn — Soyuz 31/29
Mae Jemison, M.D. — STS-47
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 — Shenzhou 7
Gregory C. Johnson — STS-125
Gregory H. Johnson — STS-123, STS-134
Thomas D. Jones — STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98
K
Leonid Kadenyuk — STS-87
Alexander Kaleri — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3, Soyuz TMA-01M
Janet L. Kavandi — STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
James M. Kelly — STS-102, STS-114
Mark Kelly — STS-108, STS-121, STS-124, STS-134
Scott Kelly — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M
Gokul Kevin — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M
Joseph Kerwin, M.D. — Skylab 2
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000) — Soyuz 5/4
Robert S. Kimbrough — STS-126
Leonid Kizim (1941–2010) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Petr Klimuk — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30
Pyotr Kolodin — no flights, backup for several missions.
Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1. Died during re-entry of first Soyuz spacecraft.
Yelena Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84
Dmitri Kondratyev — Soyuz TMA-20
Oleg Kononenko — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-03M
Timothy L. Kopra — STS-127/128
Mikhail Korniyenko — Soyuz TMA-18
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
Valeri Kubasov — Soyuz 6, Soyuz 19, Soyuz 36/35
André Kuipers — Soyuz TMA-4/3, Soyuz TMA-03M
L
Aleksandr Laveykin — Soyuz TM-2
Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) — No flights. Trained for MOL program.
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(1939–2010) — STS-5
Aleksei Leonov — Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19 - first human to conduct a space walk.
Frederick W. Leslie — STS-73
Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988) — Soyuz TM-4/3
Byron Lichtenberg — STS-9, STS-45
Don Lind — STS-51-B
Steven Lindsey — STS-87, STS-95, STS-104, STS-121, STS-133
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 — 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 — No flights
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 — STS-52, STS-115
Sandra Magnus — STS-112, STS-126/119, STS-135
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 — STS-46
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, STS-131
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 on the Columbia.
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 on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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 — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19
Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A
Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger — STS-131
Curt Michel — No flights
Edgar Mitchell — Apollo 14
Andreas Mogensen
Abdul Ahad Mohmand — Soyuz TM-6/5
Mamoru Mohri — STS-47, STS-99
Barbara Morgan — STS-118
Lee Morin — STS-110
Boris Morukov — STS-106
Chiaki Mukai, M.D. — STS-65, STS-95
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
N
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) — No flights. Vostok backup.
Rodolfo Neri Vela — STS-61-B
Paolo A. Nespoli — STS-120, Soyuz TMA-20
James H. Newman — STS-51, STS-69, STS-88, STS-109
Claude Nicollier — STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103
Niè Hǎishèng — Shenzhou 6
Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004) — Vostok 3, Soyuz 9
Soichi Noguchi — STS-114, Soyuz TMA-17
/ Carlos I. Noriega — STS-84, STS-97
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
Wubbo Ockels — STS-61-A
William Oefelein — STS-116
Brian O'Leary — No flights
John D. Olivas — STS-117, STS-128
Takuya Onishi — No flights
Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986) — STS-51-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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 — No flights.
/ Nicholas Patrick — STS-116, STS-130
Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971) — Soyuz 11. Died on reentry.
James Pawelczyk — STS-90
Julie Payette — STS-96, STS-127
Gary Payton — STS-51-C
Timothy Peake — No flights.
Philippe Perrin, EAC — STS-111
Thomas Pesquet — No flights.
Donald Peterson — STS-6
Donald Pettit — STS-113/Soyuz TMA-1, STS-126, Soyuz TMA-03M
Pham Tuan — Soyuz 37/36
John Phillips — STS-100, Soyuz TMA-6, STS-119
William Pogue — Skylab 4
Alan G. Poindexter — STS-122, STS-131
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
Marcos Pontes — Soyuz TMA-8
Leonid Popov — Soyuz 35/37, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7/5
Pavel Popovich (1930–2009) — Vostok 4, Soyuz 14
Charles Precourt — STS-55, STS-71, STS-84, STS-91
Dumitru Prunariu — Soyuz 40
R
Ilan Ramon (1954–2003) — STS-107. Died on the Columbia.
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, STS-132
Thomas Reiter — Soyuz TM-22, STS-121/116
Vladimír Remek — Soyuz 28
Judith Resnik (1949–1986) — STS-41D. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L)
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
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
Valery 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 — No flights
Aleksandr Samokutyayev — Soyuz TMA-21
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005) — Soyuz 15
Robert Satcher, M.D. — STS-129
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud — STS-51-G
Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14
Svetlana Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12
Wally Schirra (1923–2007) — Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7
Hans Schlegel — STS-55, STS-122
Harrison Schmitt — Apollo 17
Rusty Schweickart — Apollo 9
Dick Scobee (1939–1986) — STS-41-C. Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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) — No flights.
Ronald Sega — STS-60, STS-76
/ Piers Sellers — STS-112, STS-121, STS-132
/ Aleksandr Serebrov — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz TM-17
Vitali Sevastyanov (1935–2010) — Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18
Yuri Shargin — Soyuz TMA-5/4
Salizhan Sharipov — STS-89, Soyuz TMA-5
Rakesh Sharma — Soyuz T-11/10
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 — Soyuz TMA-22
Georgi Shonin (1935–1997) — Soyuz 6
Loren Shriver — STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, M.D. — Soyuz TMA-11/10
Oleg Skripochka — Soyuz TMA-01M
Aleksandr Skvortsov — Soyuz TMA-18
Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993) — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Michael J. Smith (1945-1986). Died on the Challenger (STS-51L).
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
Vladimir Solovyov — Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Aleksei Sorokin (1931–1976) — No flights. Voskhod 1 backup.[4]
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, STS-133
Krasimir Stoyanov— No flights.
/ 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, — STS-41-G, STS-31, STS-45
Maksim Surayev — Soyuz TMA-16
Steven Swanson — STS-117, STS-119
John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982) — Apollo 13
T
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez — Soyuz 38
Daniel Tani — STS-108, STS-120/122
Joseph Tanner — STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115
James M. Taylor (1930–1970) — No flights. Assigned to MOL project.
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 — STS-99
Robert Thirsk, M.D. — STS-78, Soyuz TMA-15
/ 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 NASA astronaut training.
Kathryn Thornton — STS-33, STS-49, STS-61, STS-73
William E. Thornton, M.D. — STS-8, STS-51-B
Pierre Thuot — STS-36, STS-49, STS-62
Gherman Titov (1935–2000) — Vostok 2
/ Vladimir Titov — Soyuz T-8, Soyuz TM-4/6, STS-63, STS-86
Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93
Valery Tokarev — STS-96, Soyuz TMA-7
Sergei Treshchov — STS-111/113
Eugene Trinh — STS-50
Richard Truly — STS-2, STS-8
Bjarni Tryggvason — STS-85
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 — Soyuz TM-13/12
/ 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 — Soyuz 34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5, STS-134
Igor Volk — Soyuz T-12
/ Alexander Volkov — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13
Sergey Volkov — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-02M
Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971) — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11. Died on Soyuz 11.
Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21
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 — STS-72, STS-92, STS-119/127
Rex Walheim — STS-110, STS-122, STS-135
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.
Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19
Ulrich Walter — STS-55
Carl Walz — STS-51, STS-65, STS-79, STS-108/111
Taylor Wang — STS-51-B
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, Soyuz TMA-19
Edward White (1930–1967) — Gemini 4. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Peggy Whitson — 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. — STS-90, STS-118
Donald Williams — STS-51-D, STS-34
Jeffrey Williams — STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16
Sunita "Suni" Williams — STS-116/117
Barry Wilmore – STS-129
Stephanie Wilson — STS-121, STS-120, STS-131
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 — STS-131
Yáng Lìwěi — Shenzhou 5
Boris Yegorov, M.D. (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1
Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
Yi So-yeon — Soyuz TMA-12/11
John Young — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
Kimiya Yui — No flights
Fyodor Yurchikhin — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-19
Z
Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
George D. Zamka — STS-120, STS-130
Zhai Zhigang — Shenzhou 7
Vitaliy Zholobov — Soyuz 21
Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23