List of fictional astronauts

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This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This is an incomplete list of fictional astronauts appearing in various media, including books, film, television shows (live or animated), radio shows, records, and comic books.

To be included in this list, a fictional astronaut must be modeled upon actual astronauts of real-world space programs, as they have actually existed since the beginning of the Space Age, or were envisioned in the years leading up to the Space Age. Criteria include:

  1. A fictional astronaut must be human (not an alien, robot, or animal).
  2. A fictional astronaut must be on a flight originating from the Earth; space travellers engaging in casual voyages between other planets (as in Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica) are not eligible.
  3. A fictional astronaut must be presented as living in the period of the early exploration of Space, i.e. from the beginning of the Space Age to the present, and for a few decades into the future; currently, in the period of about 1960-2050.
  4. A fictional astronaut is preferably part of a real space program, like NASA or the Soviet/Russian space program, or fictional knockoffs of the same (e.g. ANSA, IASA).
  5. A fictional astronaut preferably uses space travel technology within the realm of the possible. Preference should be given to astronauts depicted using real technology (e.g. Apollo, Soyuz, Space Shuttle) or close fictional knockoffs of the same.

Contents

[edit] Early period

Fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age.

Name(s) Appeared in Medium Date of appearance Program / Mission / Spaceship Fictional date Other
Stud. astr. Friede Velten
Wolf Helius
Hans Windegger
Professor Georg Manfeldt		 Woman in the Moon Silent film 1929 Friede contemporary? First film depiction of a moon-rocket and of a countdown. Checkboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear or A4 rockets
Dr. Ludwig Rechenheim,
Charles Greene,
Victor Carroon		 The Quatermass Experiment Television 1953 experimental rocket unknown Astronauts of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Crew of the first manned space mission, only Victor Carroon survives the flight.
Prof. Bernard Quatermass,
Dr. Leo Pugh		 Quatermass II Television 1955 experimental rocket unknown Scientists of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Go into space in an attempt to use a faulty nuclear rocket to blow up an alien asteroid/spacecraft directing a covert invasion of Earth.
Karl Eckstrom
Lisa Van Horn
Floyd Graham, Col.
Harry Chamberlain
William Corrigan, Maj.		 Rocketship X-M Film 1950 X-M ("eXpedition Moon") near future Astronauts on a moon rocket that "accidentally" lands on Mars.
Jim Barnes
Dr. Charles Cargraves
Thayer, Gen.
Joe Sweeney		 Destination Moon Film 1950 Luna near future Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the moon.
Andrew "Jet" Morgan, Captain
Lemuel Barnet
Stephen Mitchell
"Doc" Matthews		 Journey Into Space Radio 1953-1955 Operation Luna 1965+ Trip to the Moon and beyond
Barney Merritt, Capt.
Samuel T. Merritt, Gen.
Mahoney, Sgt.
Jackie Siegle		 Conquest of Space Film 1955 unknown near future Astronauts on a mission to Mars
Daniel MacGregor Dare, Col.,
Albert Fitzwilliam Digby		 Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future Comics 1950-1967 Anastasia 1996+ Astronaut in Earth's Interplanetary Spacefleet, travelled to Venus, Mercury, Saturn
Chris Godfrey Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series Juvenile novels 1957-1979 unknown contemporary? British astronaut for the "United Nations Exploration Agency", launching from Woomera.

[edit] Classic period

Astronauts from the 'Golden Age' of space travel, from its beginnings to the late 1970s, before the building of the Space Shuttle.

Name(s) Appeared in Medium Date of appearance Program / Mission / Spaceship Fictional date Other
Mercury (1960-1963)
Jose Jimenez Jose Jimenez the Astronaut, Jose Jimenez in Orbit LP records 1961-1962 Mercury contemporary Astronaut in the "United States Interplanetary Expeditionary Force." They were going to send a dog... but they thought that would be too cruel.
Michael A. R. "Mike Mars" Samson
Johnny Bluehawk
Jack Lannigan
Rodney Harger
Joseph Stacey
Orin McMahan
Hart Williams		 Mike Mars series Novels 1961-1966 Project Quicksilver contemporary Astronauts in a project parallelling the actual Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects.
John Jameson, Col. The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, Spider-Man 2 Comics, Television, Film 1963-Present Mercury, Apollo contemporary NASA astronaut afflicted with lycanthropy.
Maurice Minnifield Northern Exposure Television 1990-1995 Mercury contemporary Former NASA astronaut living in Alaska
Gemini (1964-1966)
Richard J. Pruett, Maj, USAF;
Jim Dougherty, USAF;
Andrei Yakovlev, Col.		 Marooned Novel 1964 Mercury 7 (Mercury);
Gemini (Gemini);
Vostok IX (Vostok)		 July 1964 NASA astronaut on 7th Mercury flight (MA-10) trapped in orbit due to no retrofire; boilerplate Gemini (GT-2) launched to rescue; Russian cosmonaut also rendezvous. Novel also mentions docking of Vostok VII & VIII and names GT-3 crew as Shepard and Masters
Anthony Nelson, Capt./Maj.,
Roger Healy, Maj.		 I Dream of Jeannie Television 1965-1970 Gemini, Apollo contemporary Career NASA astronauts.
Chris (last name not given)
Unnamed US Astronaut;

Two unnamed cosmonauts;

Two unnamed Osato astronauts;

Two unnamed US astronauts		 You Only Live Twice Film 1967 Jupiter 16 (Gemini);

Unnamed Soviet capsule (Voskhod);

Bird 1 (reusable capsule);

Jupiter 17 (Gemini)		 contemporary Presumed NASA and Soviet Union crews captured by Osato Chemicals (SPECTRE) spacecraft. Bird 1 uses expendable booster for launch; capsule capable of vertical pin-point landing like DC-X. Chris killed at capture due to EVA. Cosmonauts captured next. Capture of Jupiter 17 & probable outbreak of WW III prevented by James Bond.
Tom, Maj. Space Oddity Song 1969 unknown contemporary Astronaut in one-man capsule who loses touch with Earth while on a spacewalk
Marcus Aurelius Belt, Lt. Col. The X-Files, Space Television 1993 Gemini VIII contemporary (flashback to c. 1966) Former NASA astronaut who is possessed by a creature from outer space.
Steve Pitt
"Robert Gauss"
(real name Sam Stonebreaker)		 Death of a Cosmonaut Novel 1969 Gemini 12-A Spring 1967 Crew of a Gemini mission which makes a clandestine rendezvous with a failed Voskhod to carry out an autopsy of the cosmonauts
Dan Cooper SOS dans l'espace and other stories from Tintin magazine Comics 1957-1969 Gemini 13 and others contemporary comic book series by Albert Weinberg
Randy Claggett
John Pope;
Paul Linley		 Space Novel, Television 1982, 1985 Gemini 13,
Apollo 18		 1960s NASA astronauts in James Michener's fictionalized account of the early years of the space program and the TV miniseries made from it.
Apollo (1967-1975)
Roy Fleming;
Fred Gifford, Maj.		 The Reluctant Astronaut Film 1966 Apollo contemporary Russia plans on sending a dentist into space, to show the safety of their space program. NASA launches Fleming, Cape Canaveral's newest janitor, upstaging Russian launch.
Lee Stegler Countdown Film 1968 Gemini (Pilgrim), Apollo near future NASA astronaut using modified Gemini craft to beat the Russians to the Moon.
Al Calavicci, Rear Adm. Quantum Leap Television 1989-1993 Apollo 8 c. 1968 / 1999 NASA Astronaut in Apollo program. Circled the moon ten times. Calavicci landed the spacecraft safely after the computer systems crashed.
Jim Pruett,
Clayton Stone,
Buzz Lloyd;
Andrei Yakovlev;
Jim Dougherty, USAF		 Marooned Film 1969 Ironman One (Apollo);
Voskhod;
X-RV lifting body		 near future NASA astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid.
Unnamed US astronaut The Exorcist Film 1973 Apollo contemporary US astronaut whose death in space is foretold by Regan MacNeil. Connected by author William Peter Blatty to astronaut Billy Cutshaw in The Ninth Configuration.
Rick Lawrence, Capt.,
Ben Pelham,
Dave Anderson		 Stowaway to the Moon Television 1975 Apollo
Camelot		 contemporary NASA astronauts on an Apollo mission who discover a child in the command module.
Billy Cutshaw, Capt. The Ninth Configuration Film 1980 Apollo contemporary US astronaut who lost his sanity just before launching into space. Connected by author William Peter Blatty to astronaut character in The Exorcist.
Robert S. Massey The Red Dove Novel 1982 Apollo 1972, flashback from 1983 US astronaut who has a mental breakdown during a press conference after returning from the moon. Later used by the CIA to persuade a Soviet cosmonaut to defect along with his spacecraft.
Gary Lucas, CDR
Charles Shepherd, LMP
Victor Kendall, CMP;

Bruce Cortney, CDR
James Irwin, LMP
Donald K. Slayton, CMP		 Ice Novel 2002 Apollo February 1975 Apollo 19 astronauts on a mission to the Aitken Basin;
Apollo 20 recovery mission
Horace Jones, Col, CDR
Joseph Pelham, Cmdr, DMP
Sydney Loren, Dr, MS		 Sargasso Novel 1977 Apollo 1977 NASA Crew of Apollo 19, a joint mission with the Soviets and the last Apollo flight before the Space Shuttle. They vanish from their spacecraft when it splashes down in the Bermuda Triangle.
Steve Austin, Col.
Kelly Wood, Maj.
Josh Lang
Dr. Leah Russell		 The Six Million Dollar Man Television 1973-1978 Apollo 17 et al. contemporary Austin is a NASA astronaut injured in testing landing characteristics of lifting bodies in anticipation of the Space Shuttle program. Other astronauts appear in the episodes The Rescue of Athena One; Burning Bright (1974); and The Deadly Countdown (1977).
Nate
Andy
Boris
(last names not given)		 Superman II Film 1980 Artemis 2
(Apollo-like)		 contemporary Fictional "Society for International Space Exploration" (SISE)-Soviet joint lunar mission. Crew killed by escaped Kyptonian criminals.
Garrett Breedlove Terms of Endearment, The Evening Star Film 1983, 1996 Apollo contemporary Retired middle-aged astronaut played by Jack Nicholson
Forrest Gump,
Janet Fritch, Maj.		 Forrest Gump Novel 1985 unknown contemporary Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation
Paul Andrews Beyond the Stars Film 1989 Apollo contemporary NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon.
Bob Grodin Alternative 3 Television (hoax documentary) 1977 Apollo contemporary NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase.

[edit] Modern period

Astronauts from recent times, mostly using the Space Shuttle.

Name(s) Appeared in Medium Date of appearance Program / Mission / Spaceship Fictional date Other
Spacelab 10; Unnamed US Astronauts & Unnamed Cosmonauts

Space Shuttle; Chuck Marshall US,
Giorgi (Last name not given) USSR		 Quatermass (TV serial) Television/Novel 1979 Space Station,
Spacelab Ten

Space Shuttle
Not named, call-sign is Mother Bird		 Alternate 1980s Spacelab Ten is a joint US/Soviet space project.
Dr. Holly Goodhead

Numerous unnamed US Marine astronauts		 Moonraker Film 1979 Space Shuttle Moonraker 1-6,

Military Space Shuttle
Marines		 contemporary James Bond and Goodhead launch to Hugo Drax's space station to thrwart his plans. Six shuttles carrying several dozen men and women are also mentioned.
Addison "Skip" Carmichael,
Melanie "Mel" Slozar		 Salvage 1 TV Series 1979 SSTO Vulture Early 1980s Privately built rocket/spacecraft constructed by a scrap-yard dealer. Used for lunar mission with the goal of salvaging Apollo hardware left on the moon.
Steve Bancroft
Lew Price
John Gates, Col., USAF		 Hangar 18 Film 1980 Space Shuttle
Orbiter		 contemporary Launch of the first satellite by a Shuttle crew strikes a nearby UFO killing Gates who is EVA in the cargo bay.
Nikolai Federenko, Major, USSR
Dr. Keith Stoner, NASA		 Voyagers Novel 1981 Soyuz July 1984 Soviet Cosmonaut and American Astronaut who rendezvous with an alien spacecraft some 1 million miles from Earth. Craft is a standard Soyuz docked to three other larger modules assembled at Salyut 6 along with a fourth "tanker" module.
Dove crew; Oleg Sedrov, Cmdr
Nicolay Talin, Co-Pilot
Genin, Meteorologist (First name not given)
Vinnikov (First name not given).		 The Red Dove Novel 1982 Soviet Space Shuttle Dove Alternate 1980's

May 1983 - January 1984		 Co-pilot of first Soviet Space Shuttle decides to defect to the United States along with his spacecraft after he discovers that the shuttle is carrying a thermonuclear weapon.
Excalibur Crew; NASA Astronauts: White, Hess, Frisch & Carroll (first names not given)

Soyuz Crew; Vladimir Sergeevich Danilov, Yuriy Ivanovich Zhukov		 Kiev Footprint Novel 1983 Space Shuttle
Excalibur

Soyuz		 Alternate 1980's After the space shuttle Excalibur looses contact with Earth while on a military mission, the Soviet Union sends a Soyuz to investigate.
NASA Astronauts, Christopher Leyland Lt. Col.,
William Cooke, Maj.,
Wren T. Packard Capt.,
Janet Caulden Capt.		 Blind Prophet Novel 1984 Space Shuttles
Constitution,
Independence		 Contemporary/Near Future Crews of armed space shuttles sent to destroy Soviet military satellites.
NASA Astronauts,
Neil O'Hara,
Al Benyon,
Jim Bayliss,
Mike Pepper.

Non-NASA Payload Specialists,
Kellinah Assad,
David Heinlein.		 Dominator Novel 1984 Space Shuttle
Dominator (OV-141)		 Alternate 1990s NASA astronauts assigned to fly the space shuttle Dominator.
Olaf Carlsen;

Tom Carlsen, Col.
eight others		 The Space Vampires;

Lifeforce		 Novel;

Film		 1976;

1985		 spaceship Hermes;

ESA Space Shuttle
HMS Churchill, rescue shuttle		 early 21st century;

near future		 Hermes crew finds alien craft adrift in open space;

While investigating Halley's Comet an ESA/NASA crew of nine aboard the Churchill find an alien craft. Rescue shuttle returns aliens and Carlsen to Earth.
Edward Jupp, Maj.
Larry Wahlquist,
(First name not given) Newman, Col.		 The Krone Experiment Novel 1986 Space Shuttle c. 1986 Crew of a space shuttle on a military mission to capture a Soviet military satellite.
Andie Bergstrom Space Camp Film 1986 Space Shuttle Atlantis contemporary Astronaut camp instructor who is accidentally launched into space with a bunch of teenagers.
Atlantis crew; Wakeman, CDR, Unnamed American Astronauts

Kutuzov crew; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts		 Winter Hawk Novel 1987 Space Shuttle Atlantis

Raketoplan* Kutuzov		 Contemporary/Near Future Atlantis is in orbit to rendezvous with a Soviet space shuttle, while the Kutuzov deploys a Soviet laser weapon to destroyAtlantis.
Jason Grant, Col.,
Ray Tanner		 Moontrap Film 1989 Apollo,
Space Shuttle
Intrepid		 contemporary Astronauts using remnant Apollo hardware for a trip to the Moon.
Mikhail Suslov crew; Dmitri Bulganin Lt Col.
Unnamed Co-pilot

Intrepid crew; Frank Mulchahey Maj.
Julian Kapuscinski Col.
Jerry Rodriquez Dr

Constellation crew; Philip Heitmann Lt Col. (USMC)
Jack Townsend Maj. (USAF)
Sandford Watkins Maj. (US Army)

Soyuz crew; Vasili Lubinin,
Sergi Yemitov

Kestrel crew; Leroy "Mad Dog" Monaghan Cmdr. (USN),
Peter "Hot Rod" Lamborghini Col.

 Storming Intrepid Novel 1989 Soviet Space Shuttle Mikhail Suslov

Space Shuttles Intrepid, Constellation

Soyuz

Spaceplane Kestrel		 contemporary The Soviet Union tries to hijack a space shuttle.
Matt Gosling, Commander,
Paul Balchin, Pilot,
Stella Richards, Payload Manager		 Torus Novel 1990 Space Shuttle Colorado early 2000s Crew of Space Shuttle on a mission to retrieve derelict satellites from geosynchronous orbit.
Freedom: Alex Seerey Col.,
John Quanty Maj.,
Hugh Lyghtson,
Scott Dawkins,
Joseph King,
Celia Hereson,
Lee Wynn,
Judith Cianta

Lincoln: Two unnamed astronauts (Commander & Co-Pilot).		 Ghost Beyond Earth Novel 1993 Space Station
Freedom

Space Shuttle
Lincoln		 Contemporary/near future Space station crew is attacked by a diabolical entity in orbit. The survivors are rescued by the space shuttle Lincoln.
Buzz Aldrin,
Homer Simpson,
Race Banyon		 The Simpsons (Deep Space Homer) Television 1994 Space Shuttle Corvair contemporary Simpson is drafted as a NASA astronaut for publicity purposes
Harmon_Rabb Cmdr. JAG (episode title: recovery) TV Series 1995 Space Shuttle 1996 A pilot is killed while training for a shuttle mission. JAG tries to determine who is responsible so that they can repair a satellite.
Henry "Bull" Eckert, Col.,
Jack Riles, Col.		 The Cape Television 1996-1997 Space Shuttle contemporary NASA career astronauts.
S.R. Hadden Contact Film 1997 Soyuz contemporary Billionaire industrialist's privately financed spaceflight to Mir.
Gateway crew;

Atlantis crew;

RV-1 crew;		 Fallout Film 1998 Space Station Gateway

Space Shuttle Atlantis

X-33 RV-1		 March/April 2015 Russian rebels hijack a space station.
Atlantis crew;
William Sharp, Col. (CMR)
Jennifer Watts (PLT)
Gruber (Nuclear Tech)
Charles 'Chick' Chapple
Max Lennert
'Rockhound'
Harry Stamper;
Davis, Col. (CMR)
Tucker (PLT)
Halsey, Lt. (Nuclear Tech)
Oscar Choi
A.J. Frost
Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear
Freddy Noonan;
Lev Andropov
 Armageddon Film 1998 Space Shuttle Atlantis;

X-71 Military Space Shuttles:
Freedom,
Independence;

Mir (greatly expanded)		 contemporary Atlantis destroyed by meteoroids preceding asteroid on collision course with Earth. X-71s each with 3 crew and 4 person drilling teams refuel at Mir, rescue Andropov from its destruction.
Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner, Capt.
Oren Monash, (plt)
Andrea 'Andy' Baker
Dr. Gus Partenza
Mark Simon
 Deep Impact Film 1998 Space Shuttle Atlantis,
Messiah		 near future Astronauts on mission to destroy an oncoming comet.
Spencer Armacost, Cdr.
Alex Streck, Capt.		 The Astronaut's Wife Film 1999 Space Shuttle Victory contemporary NASA astronauts, narrowly escape death after an explosion during an EVA. Streck dies from a massive stroke shortly after returning to earth. Armacost seems to be in good health, but he suffers a mysterious and sinister personality change after the mission.
John Crichton Farscape Television 1999-2004 Space Shuttle Collaroy,
Farscape One		 contemporary/near future IASA astronaut lost in space. His father was former astronaut Jack Crichton.
Jim Rowland Col., Cmdr,
Lee Everett, Pilot,
Gail Scott, Payload Specialist,
Sharon Ling, Mission Specialist,
three unnamed astronauts.		 Shadow Watch Novel 1999 Space Shuttle Orion 2001 Crew of Space Shuttle Orion. Col. Rowland is killed when sabotage causes the shuttle to catch fire on the launch pad.
Frank Corvin,
William "Hawk" Hawkins, Col.,
Jerry O'Neill
Tank Sullivan
Ethan Glance
Roger Hines		 Space Cowboys Film 2000 Space Shuttle contemporary NASA astronauts on a satellite salvage mission.
Chuck Taggart
Kurt Mendel
Neil Taggart
Sarah Forbes
Angela Perry		 Odyssey 5 Television 2002 Space Shuttle
Odyssey		 August 7, 2007,
Time Travel to 2002		 Crew sent back in time 5 years by a being called the Seeker to attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth. Trivia Note:Part of the pilot episode's plotline is based on that of Quatermass II.
Robert Iverson, Cmdr
Rebecca Childs, Maj
Flight Engineer Timmins		 The Core Film 2003 Space Shuttle Endeavour contemporary Shuttle crew who make an emergency landing on Sepulveda Dam spillway.
Musa Khiromanovich Ivanov, Cmdr, CIS,
Anatole Konstantinovich Krivalapov, Flight Engineer, CIS,
Sable Jones, NASA		 Times Eye Novel 2004 Soyuz 2037 Personnel returning from the International Space Station who pass through a temporal discontinuity shortly after undocking.
Yukari Morita, Cmdr
Matsuri Mortia, Backup Cmdr
Akane Miura, Specialist		 Rocket Girls Anime (2007), based on Light Novel (1995) 2007 Spacecraft Tanpopo, Coconut and Mangosteen 2007 Teenage pilots of the fictional Solomon Space Agency, trained to perform orbital repairs on satellites, who later assist the Space Shuttle Atlantis in launching an unmanned probe to Pluto, the Orpheus.
Charles Farmer

Frank Masterson, Col, USAF		 The Astronaut Farmer Film 2007 Mercury
The Dreamer		 contemporary Ex-USAF pilot with degree in aerospace engineering builds his own Mercury capsule and Atlas launch vehicle for a self-funded flight in Earth orbit. Masterson is a friend of Farmer and a shuttle astronaut.
Astronaut Jones Saturday Night Live Televison 1990s Collecting Stones contemporary A man with a packed suitcase, on a mission collecting stones and hiking up alien skirts

[edit] Futuristic

Astronauts on lunar bases, performing interplanetary travel, and other feats not yet achieved.

Name(s) Appeared in Medium Date of appearance Program / Mission / Spaceship Fictional date Other
Sky Masters, Maj. Sky Masters of the Space Force Comic strip 1958-1961 unknown near future Astronaut in the United States Space Force.
Moon
Edward McCauley, Col. Men Into Space Television 1959-1960 various missions c. 1970-1980 Future astronauts go to the moon, build a space station and go on to Mars.
Major Perry Rhodan
Captain Reginald Bell
Captain Clark G. Fletcher
Lieutenant Eric Manoli (names from the US-English translation)		 Perry Rhodan series Novellas, comics, movie, audio books 1961-Present Enterprise Stardust 1971 The astronauts are members of the United States Space Force and are their mission is the first moon-landing – where they find a marooned alien space ship and its crew.
Multi-national astronauts;
Joseph Cavor
Katherine 'Kate' Callender
Arnold Bedford		 First Men in the Moon Film 1964 UN spacecraft;
Cavorite sphere		 1960s;
flashback to 1899		 UN crew on Moon discover evidence of 19th century British lunar expedition. Aged survivor Bedford tells what occurred.
Peter Lattemore, US
Eileen Forbes, US;

Igor Baklenikov, USSR
Anna Soblova, USSR		 Way...Way Out Film 1966 unknown 1989 US sends a married couple to live on the moon and operate a weather station close to a nearby Soviet lunar base. Couples have a space race to see who will have the first "moon baby".
"Counter-Earth"
Neil Stryker The Stranger Television 1973 unknown contemporary Astronaut who crash-lands on a duplicate of Earth ruled by a totalitarian regime.
John Kane, UK
Glenn Ross, Col., US		 Doppelgänger
(Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)		 Film 1969 Phoenix / Dove
(SSTO lifting body);
DOPPELGANGER lifting body		 near-future EUROSEC mission to a newly discovered unknown planet orbiting exactly the opposite side of the Sun from Earth.
Venus
Jefferson Barton, Brig. Gen. The Outer Limits, Cold Hands, Warm Heart Television 1964 unknown future Astronaut who succumbs to a mysterious disease after a mission to Venus.
Arthur
Cory
(last names not given)		 I Am the Doorway Short Story 1978 Project Zeus contemporary Presumed NASA Crew on flight to Venus similar to cancelled Manned Venus Flyby. Arthur infected with alien organism during EVA; left paraplegic when parachutes malfunction. Cory dies in landing.
Mars
Dan McReady, Col.
Christopher "Kit" Draper, Cdr.		 Robinson Crusoe on Mars Film 1964 Mars Gravity Probe-1 (Elinor M) future Astronauts visiting Mars; one dies, the other is stranded.
Brice Randolph, Col. The Astronaut Television 1972 unknown near future Astronaut who dies on a mission to Mars.
Charles Brubaker, Col.,
Peter Willis, Lt. Col.,
John Walker, Cdr.		 Capricorn One Film 1978 Capricorn One,
(Apollo-like)		 contemporary/near future Astronauts on a NASA mission to Mars that goes terribly wrong.
Luke Graham
Renée Coté
Nicholas Willis
Sergei Kirov
Woodrow "Woody" Blake
Jim McConnell
Terri Fisher
Phil Ohlmyer		 Mission to Mars Film 2000 unknown c. 2020 NASA astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars and a follow-up mission to rescue them.
Kate Bowman, Cmdr.
Dr. Quinn Burchenal
Dr. Bud Chantillas
Robby Gallagher
Chip Pettengill
Ted Santen, Lt.		 Red Planet Film 2000 Mars-1 2057 Commercially sponsored crew investigates reported oxygen reduction of automated terraforming of Mars. Solar flare complicates mission and landing crew are at mercy of rogue robot.
John Mark Kelly, Lt.
Rose Kumagawa
Andrei Novakovich		 Star Trek: Voyager, One Small Step Television 1999 Ares IV 2032 NASA astronauts on an early mission to Mars
Tom Easton
Bill Frager
Michael McKendrick		 Meteor Film 1979 Challenger-2 near future Astronauts on a spacecraft orbiting Mars that happens to look exactly like Skylab
Jupiter
Guy Crayford Doctor Who
The Android Invasion		 Television 1975 XK-5 Space Raider contemporary UK Senior Space Defence astronaut vanished, presumed dead, on Jupiter mission saved by Kraal alien race who use him in their plans for invasion of Earth.
David Bowman,
Frank Poole,
Dr. Hunter,
Dr. Kimball,
Dr. Kaminsky		 2001: A Space Odyssey Film/Novel 1968 Discovery One 2001 Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near Jupiter (on Iapetus in the book)
Tanya Kirbuk,
Vladimir Rudenko,
Vasili Orlov,
Heywood Floyd,
R. Chandra,
Walter Curnow		 2010: Odyssey Two and 2010 Film/Novel 1982,1984 Alexei Leonov 2010 Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One.
Saturn
Sean Jeffrey Christopher (aka Sean Geoffrey, Shaun Geoffrey) Star Trek, Tomorrow Is Yesterday Television 1967 unknown Early 21st century Leader of the first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn.
Steve West, Col. The Incredible Melting Man Film 1977 Scorpio V future Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to Saturn.
Other
William "Buck" Rogers, Capt. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Television 1979-1981 Ranger 3 1987 NASA astronaut whose voyage in a Space Shuttle-like "deep space probe" results in suspended animation

[edit] To Infinity and Beyond

Astronauts performing or attempting feats beyond the capabilities of the present or near future, such as interstellar travel.

Name(s) Appeared in Medium Date of appearance Program / Mission / Spaceship Fictional date Other
Reed Richards,
Susan Storm,
Johnny Storm,
Benjamin Grimm		 Fantastic Four Comics 1961-Present Experimental interstellar spacecraft contemporary Private space venture, astronauts bizarrely affected by cosmic rays.
Zefram Cochrane Star Trek: The Original Series (Metamorphosis)
Star Trek: First Contact		 Television, film 1967, 1996 Phoenix 2063 First use of warp drive by an Earth vessel in the Star Trek timeline.
George Taylor, Col.
Dodge,
Landon,
Stewart		 Planet of the Apes Film 1968 Icarus 1972 ANSA astronauts on an interstellar mission, perhaps to Bellatrix.

[edit] Astronauts in other media

Several toy astronaut dolls and action figures were produced in response to the popularity of astronauts in the 1960s. Most of them had no associated storylines. They included:

  • Johnny and Jane Apollo, 1968 plastic toys with accessories including a "Moon Rover".
  • Barbie, the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume, in the 1960s.
  • Billy Blastoff, an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s.
  • The Major Matt Mason line of toys from 1968, including Major Mason himself, Lt. Jeff Long, Sgt. Storm, and Doug Davis.
  • Moon McDare, a generic astronaut figure from 1965, packaged with various accessories.

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