User:Rocketmaniac/List of Astronauts

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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people who trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the first sub-orbital flight of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created - the commercial astronaut.

While the term astronaut is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists, this article only lists professional astronauts. A list of everyone who has flown in space can be found at List of space travelers by name.

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

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

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

[edit] B

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

[edit] C

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

[edit] D

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

[edit] E

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

[edit] F

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

[edit] G

Astronaut Space Agency Notes
Francis Gaffney NASA
Yuri Gagarin RSA (1934–1968), first person in space.
Dale Gardner NASA
Guy Gardner NASA
Marc Garneau CSA first Canadian in space.
Owen Garriott NASA
Charles Gemar NASA
Michael Gernhardt NASA
Edward Gibson NASA
Robert L. Gibson NASA
Yuri Gidzenko RSA
Ed Givens NASA (1930–1967) NASA group 5
Yuri Glazkov RSA
John Glenn NASA (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
Linda Godwin NASA
Viktor Gorbatko RSA
Richard Gordon NASA flew on Apollo 12.
Dominic Gorie NASA
Ronald Grabe NASA
Georgi Grechko RSA
Frederick Gregory NASA
William Gregory NASA
Stanley Griggs NASA (1939–1989)
*Virgil Grissom NASA (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
John Grunsfeld NASA
Aleksei Gubarev RSA
Umberto Guidoni ESA
Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha RSA first Mongolian in space.
Sidney Gutierrez NASA

[edit] H

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

[edit] I

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

[edit] J

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

[edit] K

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

[edit] L

Astronaut Space Agency Notes
Aleksandr Laveykin RSA
Robert Lawrence NASA (1935–1967) MOL
Wendy Lawrence NASA
Vasili Lazarev RSA (1928–1990)
Aleksandr Lazutkin RSA
Valentin Lebedev RSA
Mark C. Lee NASA
David Leestma NASA
William B. Lenoir NASA
Aleksei Leonov RSA first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
Frederick W. Leslie NASA
Anatoli Levchenko RSA (1941–1988)
Byron Lichtenberg NASA first NASA Payload Specialist.
Don Lind NASA
Steven Lindsey NASA
Jerry Linenger NASA
Richard Linnehan NASA
Gregory Linteris NASA
*(Yáng Lìwěi - see Yáng Lìwěi)
Paul Lockhart NASA
Yuri Lonchakov RSA
Michael Lopez-Alegria NASA
Christopher Loria NASA
John Lounge NASA
Jack Lousma NASA
Jim Lovell NASA flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
G. David Low NASA
Edward Lu NASA
Shannon Lucid NASA first Asian-born woman in space. Holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record until it was exceeded by Sunita Williams on June 16, 2007.
Vladimir Lyakhov RSA

[edit] M

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

[edit] N

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

[edit] O

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

[edit] P

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

[edit] R

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

[edit] S

Astronaut Space Agency Notes
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor  ????? first Malaysian in space.
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud  ?????
Albert Sacco NASA
Gennadi Sarafanov RSA (1942–2005)
Viktor Savinykh RSA
Svetlana Savitskaya RSA first woman to walk in space.
Wally Schirra NASA (1923–2007)
Hans Schlegel ESA
Harrison Schmitt NASA flew on Apollo 17.
Rusty Schweickart NASA
*Dick Scobee NASA (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Winston Scott NASA
David Scott NASA
Paul Scully-Power NASA
Richard Searfoss NASA
Rhea Seddon NASA
Elliott See NASA (1927–1966) original command pilot, Gemini 9.
Ronald Sega NASA
Piers Sellers NASA
Aleksandr Serebrov RSA
Vitali Sevastyanov RSA
Doug Shane  ????? commercial astronaut trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
Yuri Shargin RSA first Russian military cosmonaut
Salizhan Sharipov

[1]

 RSA
Rakesh Sharma RSA first Indian in space.
Vladimir Shatalov RSA
Brewster Shaw NASA
Alan Shepard NASA (1923–1998), first American in space.
William Shepherd NASA
*(Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
Georgi Shonin RSA (1935–1997)
Loren Shriver NASA
Peter Siebold  ????? commercial astronaut, trained to pilot SpaceShipOne.
Donald "Deke" Slayton NASA (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
Steven Smith NASA
Anatoly Solovyev RSA first Latvia born astronaut, holds the world record for time spent during space walks, has 77+ hours over 16 separate outings.
Vladimir Solovyov RSA
Aleksei Sorokin[2] RSA (1931–1976) Voskhod 1 backup.
Sherwood Spring NASA
Robert Springer NASA
Thomas Patten Stafford NASA
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper NASA
Robert Stewart NASA
Susan Still NASA
Gennady Strekalov RSA (1940–2004)
Frederick Sturckow NASA
Kathryn Sullivan NASA first American woman to walk in space.
John "Jack" Swigert NASA (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

[edit] T

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

[edit] U

Astronaut Space Agency Notes
Yury Usachev RSA

[edit] V

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

[edit] W

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

[edit] Y

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

[edit] Z

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

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/people/oral-histories/sharipov.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/german/sorokin_aleksei.htm


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