List of space travelers by name

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This is an alphabetical list of all space travelers, people who have flown in space.

Names in italic are space travelers who have left Low Earth orbit, names in bold are space travelers who have walked on the moon. The flags indicate the space traveler's citizenship at the time of flight(s). A * next to a name indicates that the person died during spaceflight.

The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The FAI defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 miles). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 80 kilometres (50 miles) are awarded astronaut wings. This list follows the FAI criterion. People who died training for space travel or died during missions that failed to reach the required altitude such as Christa McAuliffe can be found in the article on space disasters.

As of June 5, 2008, a total of 482 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, while 488 people qualify under the U.S. definition. Of those totals, 479 people have reached Earth orbit and 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.^[1]

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. Loren Acton
2. James Adamson
3. / Viktor M. Afanasyev
4. Thomas Akers
5. Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese in space.
6. Vladimir Aksyonov
7. Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space.
8. Edwin 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, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)
15. Clayton Anderson
16. *Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
    • (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
17. / Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth space tourist and first female space tourist, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
18. Jerome Apt
19. Lee Archambault
20. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
21. Anatoly Artsebarsky
22. Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
23. Jeffrey Ashby
24. Oleg Atkov
25. Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
26. Sergei Avdeyev

    [edit] B

27. James Bagian
28. Ellen Baker
29. Michael Baker
30. Aleksandr Balandin
31. Daniel Barry
32. John-David F. Bartoe
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 (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
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. Gregory Chamitoff
75. / Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic-American in space, flew on seven space flights.
76. / *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
77. Maurizio Cheli
78. Leroy Chiao
79. Kevin Chilton
80. Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
81. *Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
82. Mary Cleave
83. Jean-François Clervoy
84. Michael Clifford
85. Michael Coats
86. Kenneth Cockrell
87. Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
88. Eileen Collins
89. 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.)
90. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
91. Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
92. Richard Covey
93. John Creighton
94. Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
95. Roger Crouch
96. Frank Culbertson
97. Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
98. Robert Curbeam
99. Nancy Currie

    [edit] D

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

     [edit] E

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

     [edit] F

121. John Fabian
122. Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
123. Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
124. Jean-Jacques Favier
125. Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6
126. Konstantin Feoktistov
127. Christopher Ferguson
128. Martin Fettman
129. Anatoli Filipchenko
130. Edward Fincke
131. Anna Fisher
132. William Frederick Fisher
133. Klaus-Dietrich Flade
134. / Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
135. Michael Foreman
136. Patrick Forrester
137. Michael Fossum
138. Stephen Frick
139. Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
140. Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
141. Charles Fullerton
142. Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

     [edit] G

143. Francis Gaffney
144. Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
145. Ronald Garan
146. Dale Gardner
147. Guy Gardner
148. Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
149. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
150. Owen Garriott
151. Charles Gemar
152. Michael Gernhardt
153. Edward Gibson
154. Robert L. Gibson
155. Yuri Gidzenko
156. Yuri Glazkov
157. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
158. Linda Godwin
159. Viktor Gorbatko
160. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
161. Dominic Gorie
162. Ronald Grabe
163. Georgi Grechko
164. Frederick Gregory
165. William Gregory
166. Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
167. 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.
168. John Grunsfeld
169. Aleksei Gubarev
170. Umberto Guidoni
171. Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.
172. Sidney Gutierrez

     [edit] H

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

     [edit] I

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

     [edit] J

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

     [edit] K

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

     [edit] L

233. Aleksandr Laveykin
234. Wendy Lawrence
235. Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
236. Aleksandr Lazutkin
237. Valentin Lebedev
238. Mark C. Lee
239. David Leestma
240. William B. Lenoir
241. Aleksei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
242. Frederick W. Leslie
243. Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
244. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
245. Don Lind
246. Steven Lindsey
247. Jerry Linenger
248. Richard Linnehan
249. Gregory Linteris
     • Yang Liwei - see under Y
250. Paul Lockhart
251. Yuri Lonchakov
252. / Michael Lopez-Alegria
253. John Lounge
254. Jack Lousma
255. Stanley G. Love
256. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
257. G. David Low (1956—2008)
258. Edward Lu
259. Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
260. Vladimir Lyakhov

     [edit] M

261. Steven MacLean
262. Sandra Magnus
263. Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
264. Yuri Malenchenko
265. 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.)
266. Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
267. / Gennadi Manakov
268. Musa Manarov, first Azerbaidjan-born man in space
269. Michael Massimino
270. Richard Mastracchio
271. Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
272. William McArthur
273. Jon McBride
274. Bruce McCandless II
275. *William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
276. Michael McCulley
277. James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
278. Donald McMonagle
279. *Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
280. Carl Meade
281. Bruce Melnick
282. Pamela Melroy
283. Leland D. Melvin
284. / Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
285. Ulf Merbold
286. Ernst Messerschmid
287. Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
288. Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
289. Mamoru Mohri
290. Barbara Morgan
291. Lee Morin
292. Boris Morukov
293. Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
294. Richard Mullane
295. Talgat Musabayev
296. Story Musgrave

     [edit] N

297. Steven R. Nagel
298. Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
299. George Nelson
300. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
301. Paolo A. Nespoli
302. James H. Newman
303. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
304. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
305. Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
306. Soichi Noguchi
307. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
308. Lisa Nowak
309. Karen Nyberg

     [edit] O

310. Bryan O'Connor
311. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
312. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.
313. William Oefelein
314. John D. Olivas
315. Gregory Olsen, third "space tourist".
316. *Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
317. Yuri Onufrienko
318. Stephen Oswald
319. Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

     [edit] P

320. Gennady Padalka
321. William Pailes
322. Scott Parazynski
323. Ronald A. Parise (1951—2008)
324. Robert Parker
325. Nicholas Patrick
326. *Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
327. James Pawelczyk
328. Julie Payette
329. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
330. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
331. Donald Peterson
332. Donald Pettit
333. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
334. John Phillips
335. William Pogue
336. Alan G. Poindexter
337. Mark Polansky
338. Alexander Poleshchuk
339. / Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
340. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
341. Leonid Popov
342. Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
343. Charles Precourt
344. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

     [edit] R

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

     [edit] S

365. Albert Sacco
366. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
367. Viktor Savinykh
368. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
369. Wally Schirra (1923—2007)
370. Hans Schlegel
371. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
372. Rusty Schweickart
373. *Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
374. David Scott
375. Winston Scott
376. / Paul Scully-Power
377. Richard Searfoss
378. Rhea Seddon
379. Ronald Sega
380. / Piers Sellers
381. / Aleksandr Serebrov
382. Vitali Sevastyanov
383. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
384. Salizhan Sharipov ^[2], first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
385. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
386. Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
387. Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
388. Brewster Shaw
389. Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
390. William Shepherd
     • (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
391. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
392. Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
393. Loren Shriver
394. Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and first South African in space.
395. / Charles Simonyi, fifth space tourist.
396. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
397. Steven Smith
398. > Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space
399. Vladimir Solovyov
400. Sherwood Spring
401. Robert Springer
402. Thomas Patten Stafford
403. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
404. Robert Stewart
405. Susan Still
406. / Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
407. Frederick Sturckow
408. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
409. Steven Swanson
410. John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

     [edit] T

411. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space. He was also the first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space.
412. Daniel Tani
413. Joseph Tanner
414. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
415. Norman Thagard
416. Gerhard Thiele
417. Robert Thirsk
418. / Andrew Thomas
419. Donald Thomas
420. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
421. William Thornton
422. Pierre Thuot
423. Dennis Tito, first self-funded space tourist.
424. Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
425. Vladimir Titov
426. Michel Tognini
427. Valery Tokarev
428. Sergei Treschev
429. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
430. Richard Truly
431. Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space
432. Vasili Tsibliyev
433. Mikhail Tyurin

     [edit] U

434. Yury Usachev

     [edit] V

435. / Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut.
436. James "Ox" van Hoften
437. Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
438. Charles Veach (1944–1995)
439. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
440. / Alexander Viktorenko
441. Pavel Vinogradov
442. Roberto Vittori
443. Igor Volk
444. Sergey Volkov son of Alexander Volkov.
445. *Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
446. Alexander Volkov
447. Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.
448. James Voss
449. Janice Voss

     [edit] W

450. Koichi Wakata
451. Rex Walheim
452. Charles Walker
453. David M. Walker, (1944–2001)
454. Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.
455. Ulrich Walter
456. Carl Walz
457. Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.
458. Mary Weber
459. Paul Weitz
460. James Wetherbee
461. Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
462. Douglas H. Wheelock
463. Peggy Whitson
464. Terrence Wilcutt
465. Dafydd Williams
466. Donald Williams
467. Jeffrey Williams
468. Sunita "Suni" Williams
469. Stephanie Wilson
470. Peter Wisoff
471. David Wolf
472. Alfred Worden

     [edit] Y

473. Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese astronaut.
474. Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
475. Aleksei Yeliseyev
476. Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.
477. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
478. Fyodor Yurchikhin, first Georgia-born man in space

     [edit] Z

479. Sergei Zalyotin
480. George D. Zamka
481. Vitaliy Zholobov
482. Vyacheslav Zudov

[edit] See also

• List of space travelers by nationality
• Timeline of space travel by nationality
• List of astronauts by name
• List of Apollo astronauts
• Space Shuttle crews
• List of human spaceflights
• Spaceflight records

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[edit] References

1. ^ Manned astronautics: facts and figures, http://space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/other/stat_kk.sht, Alexander Anikeev, September 11, 2006, accessed September 15, 2006
2. ^ Salizhan Sharipov