List of astronauts by name

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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. 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 the astronaut's citizenship at the time of flight(s). As of 2008, more than 480 people had trained as astronauts.

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

[edit] A

1. Joseph M. Acaba, first Puerto Rican astronaut.
2. Loren Acton
3. Mike Adams (1930–1967) X-15
4. James Adamson
5. / Viktor M. Afanasyev
6. Thomas Akers
7. Vladimir Aksyonov
8. Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
9. Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
10. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
11. Andrew M. Allen
12. Joseph P. Allen
13. Scott Altman
14. William Anders
15. Clayton Anderson
16. *Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
    • (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
17. Jerome Apt
18. Lee Archambault
19. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
20. / Anatoly Artsebarsky
21. Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
22. Jeffrey Ashby
23. Oleg Atkov
24. Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
25. Sergei Avdeyev

    [edit] B

26. James Bagian
27. Ellen Baker
28. Michael Baker
29. Aleksandr Balandin
30. Daniel Barry
31. John-David F. Bartoe
32. Charlie Bassett (1931–1966) original pilot, Gemini 9.
33. Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.
34. Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
35. Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
36. Robert L. Behnken
37. Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
38. Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)
39. Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995)
40. Anatoli Berezovoy
41. Brian Binnie, second commercial astronaut.
42. John Blaha
43. Michael J. Bloomfield
44. Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.
45. Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
46. Charles Bolden
47. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
48. Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
49. Kenneth Bowersox
50. Charles Brady (1951–2006)
51. Vance Brand
52. Daniel Brandenstein
53. Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
54. Curtis Brown
55. *David M. Brown (1956–2003)
56. Mark Brown
57. James Buchli
58. Jay Buckey
59. Nikolai Budarin
60. Daniel Burbank
61. Daniel Bursch
62. Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)

    [edit] C

63. Robert Cabana
64. Tracy Caldwell
65. Charles Camarda
66. Kenneth Cameron
67. Duane Carey
68. Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
69. Gerald Carr
70. Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)
71. John Casper
72. Robert Cenker
73. Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
74. *Roger B. Chaffee, died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
75. Gregory Chamitoff
76. / Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic-American in space, flew on seven space flights.
77. / Philip K. Chapman, first Australian-born astronaut.
78. / *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
79. Maurizio Cheli
80. Leroy Chiao
81. Kevin Chilton
82. Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
83. *Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
84. Mary Cleave
85. Jean-François Clervoy
86. Michael Clifford
87. Michael Coats
88. Kenneth Cockrell
89. Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
90. Eileen Collins
91. Michael Collins (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)
92. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
93. Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
94. Richard Covey
95. John Creighton
96. Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
97. Roger Crouch
98. Frank Culbertson
99. Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
100. Robert Curbeam
101. Nancy Currie

     [edit] D

102. Nancy Jan Davis
103. Lawrence J. DeLucas
104. Lev Demin (1926–1998)
105. Frank De Winne
106. Vladimir N. Dezhurov
107. *Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971)
108. Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
109. B. Alvin Drew (born 1962)
110. Brian Duffy
111. Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
112. Bonnie J. Dunbar
113. Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
114. Samuel T. Durrance
115. Vladimir Dzhanibekov

     [edit] E

116. Joe Edwards
117. Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.
118. Anthony W. England
119. Joseph H. Engle
120. Ronald Evans (1933–1990)
121. Reinhold Ewald
122. Léopold Eyharts

     [edit] F

123. John Fabian
124. Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
125. Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
126. Jean-Jacques Favier
127. Fèi Jùnlóng
128. Konstantin Feoktistov
129. Christopher Ferguson
130. Martin Fettman
131. Anatoli Filipchenko
132. John L. Finley (1935–2006), trained for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
133. Edward Fincke
134. Anna Fisher
135. William Frederick Fisher
136. Klaus-Dietrich Flade
137. / Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
138. Michael Foreman
139. Patrick Forrester
140. Michael Fossum
141. Ted Freeman (1930–1964) NASA group 3
142. Stephen Frick
143. Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
144. Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
145. Charles Fullerton
146. Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

     [edit] G

147. Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
148. Ronald Garan
149. Dale Gardner
150. Guy Gardner
151. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
152. Owen Garriott
153. Charles Gemar
154. Michael Gernhardt
155. Edward Gibson
156. Robert L. Gibson
157. Yuri Gidzenko
158. Ed Givens (1930–1967) NASA group 5
159. Yuri Glazkov
160. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
161. Linda Godwin
162. Viktor Gorbatko
163. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
164. Dominic Gorie
165. Ronald Grabe
166. Georgi Grechko
167. Frederick Gregory
168. William Gregory
169. Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
170. *Virgil Grissom (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
171. John Grunsfeld
172. Aleksei Gubarev
173. Umberto Guidoni
174. Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space.
175. Sidney Gutierrez

     [edit] H

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

     [edit] I

205. James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
206. Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
207. Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
208. Marsha Ivins

     [edit] J

209. Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
210. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
211. Tamara E. Jernigan
212. Brent W. Jett, Jr.
213. Gregory H. Johnson
214. Thomas D. Jones

     [edit] K

215. Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
216. Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
217. Janet Kavandi
218. James Kelly
219. Mark E. Kelly
220. Scott Kelly
221. Joseph Kerwin
222. Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
223. Leonid Kizim
224. Petr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
225. *Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
226. Yelena V. Kondakova
227. Oleg Kononenko
228. Valery Korzun
229. Oleg Kotov
230. Vladimir Kovalyonok
231. Konstantin Kozeyev
232. Kevin Kregel
233. / Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2006, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
234. Valeri Kubasov (born 1935)
235. André Kuipers

     [edit] L

236. Aleksandr Laveykin
237. Robert Lawrence (1935–1967) MOL, first black astronaunt
238. Wendy Lawrence
239. Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
240. Aleksandr Lazutkin
241. Valentin Lebedev
242. Mark C. Lee
243. David Leestma
244. William B. Lenoir
245. Aleksei Leonov, first person to walk in space (to make an EVA).
246. Frederick W. Leslie
247. Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
248. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
249. Don Lind
250. Steven Lindsey
251. Jerry Linenger
252. Richard Linnehan
253. Gregory Linteris
     • (Yáng Lìwěi - see Yáng Lìwěi)
254. Paul Lockhart
255. Yuri Lonchakov
256. Michael Lopez-Alegria
257. Christopher Loria
258. John Lounge
259. Jack Lousma
260. Stanley G. Love
261. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
262. G. David Low (1956-2008)
263. Edward Lu
264. Shannon Lucid, 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.
265. Vladimir Lyakhov

     [edit] M

266. Steven MacLean
267. Sandra Magnus
268. Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
269. Yuri Malenchenko
270. Franco Malerba, first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)
271. Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
272. / Gennadi Manakov
273. Musa Manarov
274. Michael Massimino
275. Richard Mastracchio
276. Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
277. William McArthur
278. Jon McBride
279. Bruce McCandless II
280. *William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
281. Michael McCulley
282. James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
283. Donald McMonagle
284. *Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
285. Carl Meade
286. Bruce Melnick
287. Pamela Melroy
288. / Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
289. Leland D. Melvin
290. Ulf Merbold
291. Ernst Messerschmid
292. Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
293. Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
294. Mamoru Mohri, first professional Japanese astronaut in space.
295. Lee Morin
296. Boris Morukov
297. Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
298. Richard Mullane
299. Talgat Musabayev
300. Story Musgrave

     [edit] N

301. Steven R. Nagel
302. George Nelson
303. Grigori Nelyubov (1934–1966) Vostok backup.
304. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
305. Paolo A. Nespoli
306. James H. Newman
307. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
308. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
309. Andrian Nikolayev (1929–2004)
310. Soichi Noguchi
311. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
312. Lisa Nowak
313. Karen Nyberg

     [edit] O

314. Bryan O'Connor
315. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
316. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space.
317. William Oefelein
318. *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
319. Yuri Onufrienko
320. Stephen Oswald
321. Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

     [edit] P

322. Gennady Padalka
323. William Pailes
324. Scott Parazynski
325. Ronald A. Parise
326. Robert Parker
327. / Nicholas Patrick
328. *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
329. James Pawelczyk
330. Julie Payette
331. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
332. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
333. Donald Peterson
334. Donald Pettit
335. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
336. John Phillips
337. William Pogue
338. Alan G. Poindexter
339. Mark Polansky
340. Alexander Poleshchuk
341. / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
342. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
343. Leonid Popov
344. Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
345. Charles Precourt
346. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

     [edit] R

347. *Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
348. William Readdy
349. Kenneth Reightler
350. James F. Reilly
351. Garrett Reisman
352. Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
353. Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
354. *Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
355. Paul W. Richards
356. Richard N. Richards
357. Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
358. *Patricia Robertson (1963–2001)
359. Stephen Robinson
360. Russell L. Rogers (1928–1967) Dyna Soar
361. Yuri Romanenko
362. Kent Rominger
363. Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
364. Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
365. Valeri Rozhdestvensky
366. Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
367. Mario Runco, Jr.
368. / Valery Ryumin

     [edit] S

369. Albert Sacco
370. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
371. Viktor Savinykh
372. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
373. Wally Schirra (1923–2007)
374. Hans Schlegel
375. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
376. Rusty Schweickart
377. *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
378. Winston Scott
379. David Scott
380. / Paul Scully-Power
381. Richard Searfoss
382. Rhea Seddon
383. Elliott See (1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.
384. Ronald Sega
385. / Piers Sellers
386. / Aleksandr Serebrov
387. Vitali Sevastyanov
388. Doug Shane, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
389. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
390. Salizhan Sharipov ^[1]
391. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
392. Vladimir Shatalov
393. Brewster Shaw
394. Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
395. William Shepherd
     • (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
396. Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
397. Loren Shriver
398. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space.
399. Peter Siebold, commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
400. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
401. Steven Smith
402. / Anatoly Solovyev first Latvia born astronaut, holds the world record for time spent during space walks, has 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.
403. Vladimir Solovyov
404. Aleksei Sorokin^[2] (1931–1976) Voskhod 1 backup.
405. Sherwood Spring
406. Robert Springer
407. Thomas Patten Stafford
408. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
409. Robert Stewart
410. Susan Still
411. / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
412. Frederick Sturckow
413. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
414. Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
415. John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

     [edit] T

416. Daniel Tani
417. Joseph Tanner
418. James M. Taylor (1930–1970) MOL
419. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
420. Norman Thagard
421. Gerhard Thiele
422. Robert Thirsk
423. / Andrew Thomas
424. Donald Thomas
425. Stephen Thorne (1953–1986), died before completing his NASA astronaut training.
426. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
427. William Thornton
428. Pierre Thuot
429. Gherman Titov (1935–2000), first human to spend a full 24 hour day in orbit. He was the Soviet Union's second cosmonaut.
430. Vladimir Titov
431. Michel Tognini
432. Valery Tokarev
433. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban, first Hispanophone, and first person of African ancestry in space.
434. Sergei Treshchev
435. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
436. Richard Truly
437. Bjarni Tryggvason
438. Vasili Tsibliyev
439. Mikhail Tyurin

     [edit] U

440. Yury Usachev

     [edit] V

441. / Lodewijk van den Berg
442. James "Ox" van Hoften
443. Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
444. Charles Veach (1944–1995)
445. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
446. Alexander Viktorenko
447. Pavel Vinogradov
448. Roberto Vittori
449. Igor Volk
450. Alexander Volkov
451. Sergey Volkov son of Alexander Volkov.
452. *Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
453. Boris Volynov, first Jew in space.
454. James Voss
455. Janice Voss

     [edit] W

456. Koichi Wakata
457. Rex Walheim
458. Charles Walker
459. David M. Walker (1944–2001)
460. Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice.
461. Ulrich Walter
462. Carl Walz
463. Mary Weber
464. Paul Weitz
465. James Wetherbee
466. Douglas Wheelock
467. *Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
468. Peggy Whitson
469. Terrence Wilcutt
470. Clifton Williams (1932–1967), died in a training accident.
471. Dafydd Williams
472. Donald Williams
473. Jeffrey Williams
474. Sunita "Suni" Williams As of 2007, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
475. Stephanie Wilson
476. Peter Wisoff
477. David Wolf
478. Neil Woodward
479. Alfred Worden

     [edit] Y

480. Yáng Lìwěi, first person launched by a Chinese space program
481. Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
482. Aleksei Yeliseyev
483. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
484. Fyodor Yurchikhin

     [edit] Z

485. Sergei Zalyotin
486. Vitaliy Zholobov
487. Vyacheslav Zudov

[edit] 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

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Salihzan Sharipov
2. ^ Kosmonautenbiographie: Alexej Sorokin

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