List of fictional astronauts

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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 1960–2060.
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 1 Early period 2 Classic period 2.1 Mercury 2.2 Gemini 2.3 Apollo 2.4 Modern period 2.4.1 1975–1979 2.4.2 1980–1989 2.4.3 1990–1999 2.4.4 2000–2009 2.4.5 2010–2019 2.5 Futuristic 2.6 To Infinity and Beyond 3 Astronauts in other media 4 References 5 External links

Early period

Fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age.

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Stud. astr. Friede Velten Wolf Helius Hans Windegger Professor Georg Manfeldt	Woman in the Moon (1929), silent film	Friede	Contemporary?
	First film depiction of a moon-rocket and of a countdown. Checkboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear on A4 rockets
Lewis Taine (US), Pierre Leduc (France), James Richards (UK), Victor Hassell (UK), Arnold Clinton (Australia)	Prelude to Space (1947), novel	Prometheus Alpha/Beta	1978
	Candidates for the first manned mission to the moon.[1]
Wilson, Louis Garnett	The Sentinel (1948), short story	Unknown	1996
	Explorers who discover something remarkable on the shores of the Sea of Crises[2]
Karl Eckstrom Lisa Van Horn Floyd Graham, Col. Harry Chamberlain William Corrigan, Maj.	Rocketship X-M (1950), film	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 (1950), film	Luna	Near Future
	Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the moon.
Daniel MacGregor Dare, Col., Albert Fitzwilliam Digby	Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future (1950–1967), comic	Anastasia	1996+
	Astronaut in Earth's Interplanetary Spacefleet, travelled to Venus, Mercury, Saturn
Dr. Ludwig Rechenheim, Charles Greene, Victor Carroon	The Quatermass Experiment (1953), TV	Experimental Rocket	Unknown
	Astronauts of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Crew of the first manned space mission, only Victor Carroon survives the flight.[3]
Andrew "Jet" Morgan, Captain Lemuel Barnet Stephen Mitchell "Doc" Matthews	Journey Into Space (1953–5), radio	Operation Luna	1965+
	British Commonwealth astronauts on a trip to the Moon and beyond.
Hugh Allenby. Commander, Burton. Pilot, Janus. Photographer, Gonzales. Botanist, Randolph. Biologist, Unnamed. Mineralogist	The Holes around Mars (1954), short story	Mars 1	Unknown
	Crew of the first manned expedition to Mars. They discover that the planet is orbited at very low altitude by a Micro black hole[4]
Prof. Bernard Quatermass, Dr. Leo Pugh	Quatermass II (1955), TV	Experimental Rocket	Near Future
	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.,[5][6]
Barney Merritt, Capt. Samuel T. Merritt, Gen. Mahoney, Sgt. Jackie Siegle	Conquest of Space (1955), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on a mission to Mars
Chris Godfrey (UK), Serge Smyslov (USSR), Morrey Kant (USA), Tony Hale (UK)	Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series (1957–79), juvenile novels	Numerous, including Luna 1, Columbus, Lenin and Phoenix	Near contemporary
	British astronaut who makes the first manned spaceflight, launching from Woomera, and international colleagues who later join him in the "United Nations Exploration Agency" for missions to the Moon and all planets in the solar system.
Junius Robb, Capt. (USAF), Hamston, Kingsley, Farnsworth, Anderson	Moon Glow (1958), short story	Project Ajax(?) Ajax XX	Near future
	First Americans to land on the moon[7]
Dan Prescott, Lt.	First Man into Space (1959), film	Y-13 spaceplane	Near future
	Air Force Space Command pilot flies plane into space, returns as monster.

Classic period

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

Mercury

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Mercury (1960–1963)
Jose Jimenez	Jose Jimenez the Astronaut (1961), Jose Jimenez in Orbit (1962), LP records	Mercury	Contemporary
	Astronaut in the United States Interplanetary Expeditionary Force (USIEF). They were going to send a dog... but they thought that would be too cruel.
Michael A. R. Samson ("Mike Mars") Johnny Bluehawk Jack Lannigan Rodney Harger Joseph Stacey Orin McMahan Hart Williams	Mike Mars series (1961–6), novels	Project Quicksilver	Contemporary
	Astronauts in a project paralleling the actual Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects.
Margaret Mackenzie, Lt.	Tarzan, King of the Jungle. #51 (1961), comic	Operation High Ball	Contemporary
	NASA launches a young female pilot into space on a Mercury test flight, under the code name Operation High Ball. The mission goes badly wrong and in an emergency re-entry, the astronaut narrowly escapes death when her capsule lands in a central African lake. She is rescued by Tarzan, who eventually helps her return to civilization, and her home in Massachusetts.
Harry Jackson, Capt. Dennis Lynds, Forrest (First name not given)	What Need of Man? (1961), short story	Project Argus	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts involved in the testing of a fully automated winged orbital re-entry vehicle.[8]
Howard Judgen, Maj.	The Time Factor (1962), novel	Unspecified, (At the conclusion of the novel Judgen mentions "... I may become the second or third man to make a circuit of the moon.")	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut reassigned from the space program to take part in a time travel experiment. [9]
(USAF) Matt Crispin, Duke Dalmead, George Raccoli, (USN) Bruce Blair, Rupert Meredith	A Flight of Chariots (1963), novel	Mercury Columbia 12	Contemporary
	Fictional astronauts added to the original Mercury 7 four months after they were selected. Matt Crispins flight in Columbia 12 ends with an emergency landing in the Gibson Desert when the oxygen system fails.,[10][11]
Sid Stein Mike Seaman	The Trouble with Telstar (1963), short story	Dyna-Soar Nelly Bly	Contemporary
	Astronauts launched to carry out the first in-space repair of a malfunctioning satellite[12]
John Jameson, Col.	The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, Spider-Man 2 (1963–present), comics, TV, and film	Mercury, Apollo	contemporary
	NASA astronaut afflicted with lycanthropy.
Katerina Vasiliyevna Taraskaya, Jr.Lt.	Red Moon (2001), novel	Vostok	c. 1963
	A supporting character is the young and powerful Col. Katerina Borazova. It is revealed that four years earlier, when merely Jr.Lt. Taraskaya, she had been launched into orbit, after the Soviet premier had personally selected her to be the first woman in space. Character is loosely based on Valentina Tereshkova.[13]
Francine Barry	Children of Orion (2010), Online novel	Mercury	September 1963
	In this alternative history novel female pilots are included in NASA's 1962 astronaut group. One of them is to fly a Mercury mission before that programme ends, and become the first woman in space. Francine Barry, a 31 year old civilian test pilot from WA., is selected for the task. The Soviets fly a woman cosmonaut first, but the confident Ms. Barry still rides the fire into orbit, on the final Mercury-Atlas designed Serenity 7.
Alkilina Mikhailovna Chirikova, Jr. Lt.	Paragaea (2006), novel	Vostok	1964
	This novel begins in 1964, with the Soviet Union's second female cosmonaut Jr. Lt. Akilina Chirikova, already aboard Vostok 7, waiting nervously to be blasted into Earth orbit. To her relief, she is launched successfully, but after a couple of uneventful orbits, her ship enters a wormhole, and subsequently she lands in another world, a parallel Earth, called Paragaea.[14]
Maurice Minnifield	Northern Exposure (1990–5), TV	Mercury	Contemporary
	Former NASA astronaut living in Alaska

Gemini

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Gemini (1964–1966)
Dan Cooper	SOS dans l'espace and other Tintin magazine stories (1957–69), comics	Gemini XIII and others	Contemporary
	comic book series by Albert Weinberg
Richard J. Pruett, Maj, USAF; Jim Dougherty, USAF; Andrei Yakovlev, Col.	Marooned (1964), novel	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. Sonya Tiomkin, Maj.	I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), TV	Gemini, Apollo	Contemporary
	Career NASA astronauts. Major Tiomkin is a female Soviet cosmonaut who appears in the episode 'Russian Roulette'.
Unnamed astronaut	The Avengers, episode "Man-eater of Surrey Green" (1965), TV	Unknown; one-man capsule	Contemporary
	British astronaut dies in orbit; capsule re-enters following collision with giant alien plant.
Jennings, Maj. Pilot (First name not given), Bob Wyart, Co-Pilot	Under the Wide and Starry Sky... (1966), short story	Gemini, GT-9	Contemporary
	Fictional Gemini IX crew who find themselves in serious trouble during the last hours of their two week mission. The plot-line apparently based on the original Gemini IX flight plan.[15]
Chris (last name not given) Unnamed US Astronaut; Two unnamed cosmonauts; Two unnamed Osato astronauts; Two unnamed US astronauts	You Only Live Twice (1967), film	Jupiter XVI (Gemini); Unnamed Soviet capsule (Voskhod); Bird 1 (reusable capsule); Jupiter XVII (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 XVII & probable outbreak of WW III prevented by James Bond.
Tom, Maj.	Space Oddity (1969), song	Unknown	Contemporary
	Astronaut in one-man capsule who loses touch with Earth while on a spacewalk
Steve Pitt "Robert Gauss" (real name Sam Stonebreaker)	Death of a Cosmonaut (1969), novel	Gemini XII-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
Randy Claggett John Pope; Paul Linley	Space (1982), novel, (1985), TV	Gemini XIII, Apollo 18 Altair (CSM), Luna (LM)	1960s
	NASA astronauts in James Michener's fictionalized account of the early years of the space program and the TV miniseries made from it.[16]
Marcus Aurelius Belt, Lt. Col.	The X-Files, Space (1993), TV	Gemini VIII	contemporary (flashback to c. 1966)
	Former NASA astronaut who is possessed by a creature from outer space.

Apollo

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Apollo (1967–1975)
Lt. Col. Joseph Faulk CDR Lt. Cmdr. Lester Mallon CMP Maj. Max Kovac LMP	Apollo at Go (1963), novel	Apollo	1969
	Crew of first Apollo moon mission, launched on July 5, 1969; landing in Ocean of Storms.[17]
Roberts, Col. Simms, Maj.	Doctor Who "Moon Landing" (1965), comic strip	Unknown (rocket marked "MS")	1970
	First men on the Moon. Country of origin not specified. Mission launches on July 20, 1970.
Roy Fleming; Fred Gifford, Maj.	The Reluctant Astronaut (1966), film	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.,[18][19]
Lee Stegler	Countdown (1968), film	Gemini (Pilgrim), Apollo	Near Future
	NASA astronaut using modified Gemini craft to beat the Russians to the Moon.,[20][21]
Ironman One Jim Pruett, Clayton Stone, Buzz Lloyd; Voskhod Andrei Yakovlev; X-RV Ted Dougherty, USAF	Marooned (1969), film	Ironman One (Apollo); Voskhod; X-RV lifting body	Near Future
	NASA astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid.,[22],[23]
Apollo ?? Unnamed CDR, Lt Col. Richard Martin CMP, Unnamed LMP Anna Christie Capt. Roger Allen CDR, Col. Joseph Busby CMP, William Davis LMP	The Falling Astronauts (1971), novel	Apollo Apollo ??; Anna Christie	Alternate late 1970s?
	When the Command Module Pilot (CMP) of a lunar mission carrying nuclear seismic charges goes berserk, only the missions information officer, a former CMP himself stands between Earth and catastrophe.[24]
Three unnamed US astronauts	Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater (1971), novel	Apollo Apollo 19	Contemporary
	The crew of a returning lunar mission are killed on re-entry because the Command Module systems have been contaminated with a plastic-eating virus.[25]
Unnamed US astronaut	The Exorcist (1973), film	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.
Steve Austin, Col. Kelly Wood, Maj. Josh Lang Dr. Leah Russell	The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–8), TV	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).
Rick Lawrence, Capt., Ben Pelham, Dave Anderson	Stowaway to the Moon (1975), TV	Apollo Camelot	Contemporary
	NASA astronauts on an Apollo mission who discover a child in the command module.[26]
Bob Grodin	Alternative 3 (1977), TV (hoax documentary)	Apollo	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase.
US Rick Delanty, Johnny Baker USSR Pieter Jakov, Leonilla Alexandrova Malik	Lucifer's Hammer (1977), novel	Space Station Spacelab 2 Apollo Soyuz	Alternate 1970s
	Joint US/Soviet crew studying the close approach to Earth of the comet Hamner-Brown from orbit.[27]
Horace Jones, Col, CDR Joseph Pelham, Cmdr, DMP Sydney Loren, Dr, MS	Sargasso (1977), novel	Apollo Apollo 19	1977
	NASA Crew of Apollo 19, a joint mission with the Soviets and the last Apollo flight before advent of the Space Shuttle. They vanish from their spacecraft when it splashes down in the Bermuda Triangle.[28]
Billy Cutshaw, Capt.	The Ninth Configuration (1980), film	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.
Nate Andy Boris (last names not given)	Superman II (1980), film	Artemis 2 (Apollo-like)	Contemporary
	Fictional Society for International Space Exploration (SISE)-Soviet joint lunar mission. Crew killed by escaped Kyptonian criminals.
Robert S. Massey	The Red Dove (1982), novel	Apollo	1972, flashback from 1983
	US astronaut who has a mental breakdown while preparing for a press conference after returning from the moon. Later used by the CIA to persuade a Soviet cosmonaut to defect along with his spacecraft. Note: The Apollo mission mentioned in the novel is implied to be Apollo 17.[29]
Garrett Breedlove	Terms of Endearment (1983), The Evening Star (1996), films	Apollo	Contemporary
	Retired middle-aged astronaut played by Jack Nicholson
Forrest Gump, Janet Fritch, Maj.	Forrest Gump (1985), novel	Unknown	Contemporary
	Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation
Paul Andrews	Beyond the Stars (1989), film	Apollo	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon.[30]
Al Calavicci, Rear Adm.	Quantum Leap (1989–93), TV	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.
Gary Lucas, CDR Charles Shepherd, LMP Victor Kendall, CMP; Bruce Cortney, CDR	Ice (2002), novel	Apollo	February 1975
	Apollo 19 astronauts on a mission to the Aitken Basin; Apollo 20 recovery mission.
Voskhodyeniye Yefgenii Yeremin	Ascent (2007), novel	Zond Project	July 1969
	Soviet Korean War veteran launched on a secret mission to beat Apollo 11 to the moon. When the mission fails he is erased from history.[31]

Modern period

Astronauts from recent times, mostly using the Space Shuttle.

1975–1979

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Spacelab Dynostar; Eddie Van Buren, Cmdr., Russ Walters (US), Bob Townsend, Phillip Lyall, Richard Hart (UK), Rene Lasalle, Jean Lucas (France), Theodore Neumann, Otto Sigmund (Germany), Will Patterson (Australia), Mel Freeman. Orbiter Four; John Hayward, Cdr., Eric Fischer, Daniel Sicura Maj.	The Dynostar Menace (1975), novel	Space Station Spacelab Dynostar Space Shuttle Orbiter Four	Near Future
	A Multinational team of astronauts work under the auspices of the United States Space Authority (USSA) to carry out the first test of a nuclear fusion reactor in earth orbit.[32][33]
Prometheus; Patrick Winter Maj., Ely Bron Dr., Coretta Samuel Dr (Medic)., (US) Nadya Kalinina Maj., Vladimir Kuznekov Col., Gregor Salnikov (USSR), Orbiter; Cooke Maj. Cmdr, Decosta Capt. Pilot	Skyfall (1976), novel	Orbital Power Station Prometheus USAF Space Shuttle Orbiter	Near Future
	A series of malfunctions turn an attempt to launch an orbital solar power station into disaster, trapping the payload in a decaying orbit and forcing the use of a military space shuttle to rescue the crew, even as the race to prevent it crashing into a populated area continues.[34]
Olaf Carlsen; Tom Carlsen, Col. eight others	The Space Vampires (1976), novel; Lifeforce (1985), film	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.
Apollo ??; Thomas Alvar Nicols, Maj., Van Druten, Riley (first names not given) Enterprise; Richard Bradford Ridge, Maj. (Commander), David Priestly (Co-Pilot), Marvin Leisen (Navigator), Jim O'Toole, Archie Carfagno Orpheus; Thomas Alvar Nicols, Maj(Co-Pilot). Richard Bradford Ridge, Maj (Pilot).	The Hermes Fall (1978), novel	Apollo Apollo ??, Orpheus, Space Shuttle Enterprise	1980
	A NASA Moonflight veteran and the commander of the first space shuttle mission are sent on a desperate mission to prevent the asteroid Hermes crashing into the Earth.[35]
Floyd Hartwell, Andrew Bukowski Capt, (Air Force Astronaut Wing), Leonard Dmetriev (USSR), Unnamed Chinese Astronaut	Impact! (1979), novel	Argonaut XX	Contemporary?
	International crew sent to prevent an asteroid impacting Earth.[36]
Spacelab 10; Unnamed US Astronauts & Unnamed Cosmonauts Space Shuttle; Chuck Marshall US, Giorgi (Last name not given) USSR	Quatermass (TV serial) (1979), TV/novel	Space Station, Spacelab 10 Space Shuttle Not named, call-sign is Mother Bird	Near Future
	Spacelab Ten is a joint US/Soviet space project.[37]
Dr. Holly Goodhead Numerous unnamed US Marine astronauts	Moonraker (1979), film/novel	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.[38]
Addison "Skip" Carmichael, Melanie "Mel" Slozar	Salvage 1 (1979), TV	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.

1980–1989

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(1980–1989)
Steve Bancroft Lew Price John Gates, Col., USAF	Hangar 18 (1980), film	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.,[39][40]
Soyuz 47; Valentin Karpov, Flight Cmdr, Boris Tsiolkovsky, Flight Engineer, Shabir Al'Timimi, Pilot Orbiter 102; Michael Allon, Col, Peter Peabody, Col, David Browne, Col.	The Hunting of Salyut 7 (1981), novel	Soyuz Soyuz 47, Salyut Salyut 7, Space Shuttle Orbiter 102	Near Future
	Palestinian Guest Cosmonaut hijacks an armed Soviet space-station.[41]
Vince Torino Lt. Col, William Cranston Columbia; Christopher 'Rusty' Bishop III Col. Cmdr, Richard Merriman Lt. Col. Pilot Enterprise; Austin 'Tex' Harwood Col. Cmdr, Adrienne Brooks Dr. Pilot Atlantis; Lionel Gerber, Gordon Alexander Yorktown; Jack Lewis Jr Lt. Cmdr (USN), Robert D. Clark Lt. Col (USAF) Hornet Noonan, Schacter (First names not given)	Shuttle (1981), novel	Space Shuttles, Columbia, Enterprise, Atlantis Hypersonic Boosters, Yorktown, Hornet	Late 20th Century
	The first attempt to launch a space shuttle using a manned booster fails leaving both craft stranded in orbit.[42]
Joe Marvin Atlantis; Frank King, Col. (USAF), Pilot, Lew Clay, Cmdr (USN), co-Pilot, George "Hap" Hazard, P/S, Jacqueline Hart, M/S	Shuttle Down (1980/81), magazine serial, (1981), novel	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Near Future
	The shuttle Atlantis is forced to make an emergency landing on Easter Island after launching from Vandenberg, causing an international crisis.[43][44][45][46]
Nikolai Federenko, Major, USSR Dr. Keith Stoner, NASA	Voyagers (1981), novel	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.
Alvin Kingsbury Cmdr, Randy Hull Co-Pilot.	Orbit (1982), novel	Space Shuttle 02	Near future
	When a hypersonic airliner suffers a malfunction that results in it being trapped in orbit NASA prepares a space shuttle for a rescue mission. Note: Novel may have been the inspiration for the film Starflight One.[47]
Dove; Oleg Sedrov, Cmdr Nicolay Talin, Co-Pilot Genin, Meteorologist, Vinnikov (First names not given for the last two crew).	The Red Dove (1982), novel	Soviet Space Shuttle Dove	Near Future 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.[29]
Excalibur; White, Hess, Frisch, Carroll (First names not given) Soyuz Crew; Vladimir Sergeevich Danilov, Yuriy Ivanovich Zhukov	Kiev Footprint (1983), novel	Space Shuttle Excalibur Soyuz	Alternate 1980s
	After the space shuttle Excalibur looses contact with Earth while on a military mission, the Soviet Union sends a Soyuz to investigate.[48]
Christopher Leyland, Lt. Col., William Cooke, Maj., Wren T. Packard Capt., Janet Caulden Capt.	Blind Prophet (1984), novel	Space Shuttles Constitution, Independence	Contemporary/Near Future
	Crews of armed space shuttles sent to destroy Soviet military satellites. The satellites are launched under the guise of the double launch of the space stations Salyut 9 & Salyut 10.[49]
NASA Astronauts, Neil O'Hara, Al Benyon, Jim Bayliss, Mike Pepper. Non-NASA Payload Specialists, Kellinah Assad, David Heinlein.	Dominator (1984), novel	Space Shuttle Dominator (OV-141)	Near Future.
	NASA astronauts assigned to fly the space shuttle Dominator.[50]
Anna Firdova Maj., Sergi Bustovsky Maj., Two unnamed cosmonauts	Black Alert (1985), novel	Soviet Space Station Medusa Soyuz? Minotaur	Contemporary?
	Cosmonauts assigned to crew a nuclear armed space station.[51]
Cecil Howe Cmdr, Eva Jordan Dr. Walker (First name not given)	Def-Con 4 (1985), film	Space Station Nemesis	Near Future ("The day after tomorrow")
	Military astronauts who become trapped in orbit when World War III breaks out.[52][53]
Edward Jupp, Maj. Larry Wahlquist, (First name not given) Newman, Col.	The Krone Experiment (1986), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Crew of a space shuttle on a military mission to capture a Soviet military satellite.[54]
Andie Bergstrom	Space Camp (1986), film	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary
	Astronaut camp instructor who is accidentally launched into space with a bunch of teenagers.
NASA; Chuck Samson Valley Forge; Joe Dover, Cmdr, Bob Ortega, Maj, Brian MacFay, Cpt, Unnamed Pilot Kosmolyot II (1); Andrian E. Bykovsky, Maj. Kosmolyot II (2); Vladimir M. Koidunov, Col.	Alpha Bug (1987), novel	Space Shuttle Valley Forge Kosmolyot II	Near Future
	When a Soviet military spaceplane gets into trouble in orbit the United States sends up a shuttle to investigate. The novel also contains reference to Salyut 9 and an aborted joint US/Soviet space project called Spacelab 5.[55]
Atlantis; Wakeman, CDR, Unnamed American Astronauts Kutuzov; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts	Winter Hawk (1987), novel	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 destroy Atlantis.[56]
Space Shuttle: Peter Venkman Raymond Stantz Egon Spengler Winston Zeddemore Galileo: Kirov, Capt. Irahqua, Lt. McTavish, Lt. Sato, Lt. Whitney, Yeoman	The Real Ghostbusters "Ain't NASA-sarily So" (1987), TV	Space Shuttle Experimental Space Platform Galileo	Contemporary/Near Future
	The Ghostbusters investigate a haunted space station.[57]
Lowell Crawford Col. Cmdr (USAF), Henry "Hank" Doherty Lt Cmdr. Pilot (USN), Alan Cresottie PS, Minh Tran Dr. PS, Ward Culdrew Maj. MS (USMC)	Defcon One (1989), novel	Space Shuttle Columbia	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts assigned to launch SDI satellites.[58]
Jason Grant, Col., Ray Tanner	Moontrap (1989), film	Apollo Space Shuttle Intrepid	Contemporary
	Astronauts using remnant Apollo hardware for a trip to the Moon.
Discovery; Conrad Williams III, Cmdr, Joey Wells, Pilot (US), George Evans (UK), Aelita Zakharov, Vladimir Turnov (USSR), Alex Vonberger (GDR) OV-105; Gerald Bingham, Cmdr, Brad Parker, Pilot, Russell Madlinger.	Night Launch (1989), novel	Space Shuttle Discovery, OV-105	c. 1990
	A sleeper agent for a Neo-Nazi organization hijacks the space shuttle carrying out the first joint US/USSR space mission since the ASTP, forcing NASA to launch the untested replacement for Challenger on a desperate rescue mission.[59]
Space Shuttle; Five Unnamed Military Astronauts Soyuz 881; Nikolai Sitnikov, Three Unnamed Cosmonauts.	Star Shot (1989), novel (First published as Enemy Territory)	Space Shuttle, Soviet Space Shuttle? Soyuz 881	Contemporary
	The Soviet Union attempts to destroy, or if that fails, to steal an experimental SDI satellite.[60][61]
Mikhail Suslov; Dmitri Bulganin Lt Col. Unnamed Co-pilot Intrepid; Frank Mulchahey Maj. Julian Kapuscinski Col. Jerry Rodriquez Dr Constellation; Philip Heitmann Lt Col. (USMC) Jack Townsend Maj. (USAF) Sandford Watkins Maj. (US Army) Soyuz; Vasili Lubinin, Sergi Yemitov Kestrel; Leroy "Mad Dog" Monaghan Cmdr. (USN), Peter "Hot Rod" Lamborghini Col.	Storming Intrepid (1989), novel	Soviet Space Shuttle Mikhail Suslov Space Shuttles Intrepid, Constellation Soyuz Spaceplane Kestrel	Contemporary
	The Soviet Union tries to hijack a space shuttle.[62][63]

1990–1999

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(1990–1999)
Matt Gosling, Commander, Paul Balchin, Pilot, Stella Richards, Payload Manager	Torus (1990), novel	Space Shuttle Colorado	Early 2000s
	Crew of Space Shuttle on a mission to retrieve derelict satellites from geosynchronous orbit.[64]
(US) Hes Adams, Heinemann, O'Grady, Marshall, Wilson (First names not provided for the last four US crew), (UK) Michael Dreyfuss Maj.	Westwind (1990), novel	Space Shuttle Argos	Contemporary/near future
	Anglo-American crew of a routine shuttle mission that ends disastrously when the shuttles systems fail on final approach.[65]
Shuttle-C:Chuck Conard, Maj, Coates, Capt, Byron, Col, Gibbons, Col, Unnamed Marine Colonel Nomad: Donald J. Pollock, Col, Chuck Conard, Maj	Hawkeye (1991), novel	Space Shuttle Shuttle-C Nomad Spaceplane	Contemporary/near future
	Spy satellites belonging to the major powers are destroyed by an unknown foe.[66]
Freedom: Tom Jenkins, Cmdr (US), Julia Magriffe, MS (Canada), Di Lella, Dr (Italy), Detrich (Germany), Two unnamed astronauts. Edo:Sekigawa, Cmdr (Japan), Kroeger, MS, (Germany), Unnamed crewman Nomad (1): Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt, Frank Rowan Nomad (2):Frank Rowan, Gates, Capt Nomad (3):Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt, James Henry Mackenzie, Maj.	Cobra (1991), novel (released after Hawkeye)	Space Station Freedom Space Shuttle (Japanese) Edo Nomad Spaceplane	Contemporary/near future
	A multi-national conspiracy threatens Space Station Freedom and its crew in an attempt to gain control of space.[67]
Trikon; Daniel Tighe Cmdr, Lorraine Renoir Dr, Freddie Aviles, Lance Muncie, Kurt Jaeckle, Carla Sue Gamble, Russell Cramer, Jeffries, Stanley (First names not given for the last two). Also scientists and technicians from Japan, United Europe & the United States. Constellation; N. J. Wiliamson Cmdr, Williams, Duncan Yeager; Unnamed pilot and co-pilot.	The Trikon Deception (1992), novel	Space Station Trikon Space Shuttle Constellation Spaceplane Yeager	Near Future 15 August 1998 – 7 December 1998
	Personnel who work aboard and support the worlds first commercial space-station.[68]
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 (1993), novel	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.[69]
Buzz Aldrin, Homer Simpson, Race Banyon	The Simpsons, ep. Deep Space Homer (1994), TV	Space Shuttle Corvair	Contemporary
	Simpson is drafted as a NASA astronaut for publicity purposes
David Kennedy	High Flight (1995), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Former shuttle pilot, who now heads a major aeronautics firm.[70]
Col. Fisher, Lt.Cdr. Mark Lowrey, Capt. Tang, Maj. Russell, Capt. Matthews	JAG, episode "Recovery" (1995), TV	Space Shuttle	1996
	A pilot is killed while training for a shuttle mission. JAG investigators Harmon Rabb and Meg Austin try to determine who is responsible so that the shuttle can launch to repair a spy satellite.
Sergei Orlov, Gen	Op Center: Mirror Image (1995), novel	Soyuz	Contemporary
	Veteran Cosmonaut (One of whose missions seems to have been based on Soyuz 33), assigned to command Russia's new Combined Operations Center located beneath the Hermitage Museum.[71]
Henry "Bull" Eckert, Col., Jack Riles, Col.	The Cape (1996–7), TV	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	NASA career astronauts.
Adam Freis, Col. Atlantis; NASA, Marc Franklin Dr., Cmdr, Vic Green Lt. Col., Pilot, Arlan Burns Maj., Frank Purvis, FKA, Alexandra Koslovsky MS, Orlov, Nichi (First names not given for the last two crew members)	Ignition (1996), novel	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary
	As the Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares to lift off on a resupply mission to Mir, extortionists take over Cape Kennedy and threaten to blow up the shuttle and its crew on the launch pad unless a ransom is paid.[72][73]
S.R. Hadden	Contact (1997), film	Soyuz	Contemporary
	Billionaire industrialist's privately financed spaceflight to Mir.
Jiang Ling Lt.	Titan (1997), novel	Shenzhou	Contemporary
	First Chinese human spaceflight, Lei Feng 1, is launched in late 2004. The solo astronaut is a young female PLAAF officer. The craft and flight profile are remarkably similar to the Shenzhou missions flown several years after the novel was published.
Gateway crew; Atlantis crew; RV-1 crew;	Fallout (1998), film	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 (1998), film	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 (1998), film	Space Shuttle Atlantis, Messiah	Near Future
	Astronauts on mission to destroy an oncoming comet.
Spencer Armacost, Cdr. Alex Streck, Capt.	The Astronaut's Wife (1999), film	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 (1999–2004), TV	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 (1999), novel	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.[74]

2000–2009

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(2000–2009)
Frank Corvin, William "Hawk" Hawkins, Col., Jerry O'Neill Tank Sullivan Ethan Glance Roger Hines	Space Cowboys (2000), film	Space Shuttle Daedalus	Contemporary
	NASA astronauts on a satellite salvage mission.
Christopher "Chief" Hart, Col.	The Switch (2000), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Career astronaut accused of murder.[75]
Julie Foley	Men with Brooms (2002), film		Contemporary
	Astronaut for the American Space Agency (ASA)
Chuck Taggart Kurt Mendel Neil Taggart Sarah Forbes Angela Perry	Odyssey 5 (2002), TV	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. 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 (2003), film	Space Shuttle Endeavour	Contemporary
	Shuttle crew who make an emergency landing on Sepulveda Dam spillway.
Marina Potaski	Воры и проститутки (Vory i prostitutki) (2004), Russian film	Soyuz TM	1999
	TV reporter Marina Potaski travels to Mir to persuade a cosmonaut to return to earth when he is unwilling to abandon the space station.
Robert Parker NASA, Yuri Andropov FKA, Hideki Kawahara JAXA.	The Day After Tomorrow (2004), film/novel	International Space Station	2004
	ISS crew observes Earth entering an Ice Age.[76]
Musa Khiromanovich Ivanov, Cmdr, FKA, Anatole Konstantinovich Krivalapov, Flight Engineer, FKA, Sable Jones, NASA	Times Eye (2004), novel	Soyuz-TMA	2037
	Personnel returning from the International Space Station pass through a temporal discontinuity shortly after undocking.[77]
Lei Dongjin, Lt. Col., Lin Xi, Maj.	Shenzhou (2005), Chinese TV	Shenzhou	2003
	30-part TV dramatisation about the events leading up to China's first manned spaceflight, Shenzhou V, in 2003. Two PLAAF pilots, a man and a woman, are the leading contenders to become the first Chinese nationals to be sent into space.[78][79]
Charles Farmer Doug Masterson, Col, USAF	The Astronaut Farmer (2007), film	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.
NASA, Ruth Goldman Dr, Bill Wallace, Derek Mills, FKA Nikola Ulinov Cmdr.	Plague Year: A Novel, (2007), novel	International Space Station Space Shuttle Endeavour	Near Future
	Astronauts trapped in orbit when a nanotech plague renders large parts of the Earths surface uninhabitable.[80]
Yukari Morita, Cmdr Matsuri Mortia, Backup Cmdr Akane Miura, Specialist	Rocket Girls (2007), anime (based on the 1995 light novel of the same name)	Spacecraft Tanpopo, Coconut and Mangosteen	2007
	Teenage pilots of the fictional Solomon Space Agency (SSA), trained to perform orbital repairs on satellites, who later assist the Space Shuttle Atlantis in launching the unmanned Orpheus probe to Pluto.

2010–2019

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Stan Arsenievich	The Cosmonaut (2011?), film	Soviet Moonshot program Kolibri module (fictional)	c.1970–1975
	Only member of the first Soviet manned mission to the moon. He gets lost during the trip to the Moon; upon his return, he has been inexplicably transported to an alternate Earth.

Futuristic

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

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Moon
Edward McCauley, Col.	Men Into Space (1959–60), TV	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 (1961–present), novellas, comics, audiobooks, film	Enterprise Stardust	1971
	The astronauts are members of the United States Space Force (USSF) and 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 (1964), film	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.
Sirius;(USAF) Davis, Acton (Last names not given) Space Station One: 'Santa Fe' ; Dr Felix Coulter, Director, Unnamed US Astronauts Little Bear; (V-POTUS) Melvin K. Green	Hunter-Killer (1966), novel	Sirius Space Station One: Santa Fe Little Bear	Alternate 1970s
	After the Air Force sends two men to the moon but fails to bring them back safely, the Navy decides to upstage them by sending the Vice-President into orbit using an uprated Polaris missile.[81]
Peter Lattemore, US Eileen Forbes, US; Igor Baklenikov, USSR Anna Soblova, USSR	Way...Way Out (1966), film	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".
Moonbase Sinus Medii; Ed Speedwell, Capt (Commander). Ivan Flyenov, Capt (2nd in Command). Jerry Owyee, Lt (3rd in Command). Rocky Rhodes, Lt. Harold Cummings, Dr. Irene Stone, Dr. Lois White, Dr. Mike O'Riley Unnamed Astronauts. Moon Orbiting Space Station 1; Six Unnamed Astronauts Moon Orbiting Space Station 2; Yuri Chisodva, Capt. Five Unnamed Astronauts Aristotle; Dick Peterson, Capt. Unnamed Astronauts Agamemnon; Ed Speedwell, Capt. Jean Chelsea-Smith, Lt. (RAF), Peter Chorosous.	Class G-Zero, (1976?), novel	Moonbase Sinus Medii Space Station Skylab V Moon Orbiting Space Station 1 Moon Orbiting Space Station 2 Space Shuttles Orbiter 8, Orbiter 10 Nuclear Lunar Shuttles Aristotle, Agamemnon	Near Future (Alternate 1990s?)
	Astronauts of the International Space Agency (ISA) who find themselves dealing with a first contact situation.[82]
NASA; Douglas Cummings, Don Wayne Wehrmacht; Franz Bethwig	Vengeance 10, (1980), novel	Unknown, V-10	2009, flashback to 1938–45.
	Two American astronauts stumble across the final remnants of Nazi Germany's Moon Program.[83]
Douglas Morgan, Lisa Morgan, Fred Simpson, Martin Kobol, William Demain, Catherine Demain, Larry LaStrande, Sylvia Dortman, Blair, Marrett, Haley (First names not given for the last three.) Other unnamed astronauts.	Trial By Fire (1982), novel	Unknown Space Station Space Shuttle	Near Future
	Personnel at a moonbase in the crater Alphonsus which becomes the last outpost of civilization when the Earth is devastated by a massive solar flare and the nuclear strikes it triggers.[84]
USA Jersey Colony; Eli Steinmetz, Willie Shea, Kurt Perry Dr, Dawson (First name not given), Gallagher (First name not given), Cooper (First name not given), Snyder (First name not given), Russell (First name not given), Two unnamed astronauts Columbus; Jack Sherman, Cmdr. Unnamed Astronauts Gettysberg Dave Jurgens, Cmdr Carl Burkhart, Co-Pilot. Unnamed Mission Specialists USSR Selenos 4; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 5; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 6; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 8; (FKA); Two Unnamed Cosmonauts, (Soviet Army); Grigory Leuchenko, Maj. Dmitry Petrov, Lt. Ivan Ostrovski, Sgt. Mikhail Yuschuk, Cpl. Unnamed corporal.	Cyclops (1986), novel	Cosmos Luna Selenos 4-6 & 8 Moonbase Jersey Colony Space Station Columbus Space Shuttle Gettysberg	Near Future
	The actions of members of an illegal lunar colony cause a crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union. Mention is made in the novel of Salyuts 9 & 10.[85]
Sam Bell	Moon (2009), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut tending an automated mining facility on the Moon's far side.
"Counter-Earth"
John Kane, UK Glenn Ross, Col., US	Doppelgänger (1969), film (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)	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.
Neil Stryker	The Stranger (1973), TV	Patriot (3-man interplanetary craft)	Contemporary
	Astronaut who crash-lands on a duplicate of Earth ruled by a totalitarian regime.
Venus
Jefferson Barton, Brig. Gen.	The Outer Limits, Cold Hands, Warm Heart (1964), TV	Unknown	Future
	Astronaut who succumbs to a mysterious disease after a mission to Venus.
Arthur Cory (last names not given)	I Am the Doorway (1978), short story	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 (1964), film	Mars Gravity Probe-1 (Elinor M)	Future
	Astronauts visiting Mars; one dies, the other is stranded.
Swenson Col.(Command Pilot), Witthoft, Reilly Dr. (First names not given)	Pioneer Trip (1967), short story	Unknown	1976
	Crew of the first manned US mission to Mars, faced with a critical medical emergency five weeks out from Earth.[86]
Friedman Capt, Gulliver Lt, Haertel MS, Unnamed Astronauts	Welcome to Mars (1967), novel	Project Ares Von Braun Two unnamed sister ships	c. 1980s
	After two teenagers get stranded on Mars testing a home made anti-gravity device, NASA is forced to mount a rescue mission using more conventional means.[87]
George Cosby Dr, Ralph Norton Maj, William O'Brien, Mack Sheldon, Irwin Trott, Allan Watts Dr, Briggs, Compton, Glennon, Gray, Jenkins, Lawrenson, McKinley, Morphy, Radcliffe, Thompson, Vaux, Wellgarth, Williams	The Earth is Near (1970 (German), 1973 (English)), novel	Project Alpha	Near Future
	Crew of the first manned expedition to Mars.[88]
Carrington, Maj. Jim Daniels Joe Lefee Frank Michaels Charles Van Lyden	Doctor Who The Ambassadors of Death (1970), TV	Mars Probe Project	Contemporary
	Crews of Mars Probe Six, Mars Probe Seven and Recovery Seven. Daniels was killed on Mars by non-Martian aliens, driving Carrington insane; Van Lyden attempts recovery of Lefee and Michaels.
Brice Randolph, Col.	The Astronaut (1972), TV	Unknown	Near Future
	NASA delays disclosure of death of astronaut on a mission to Mars; another man is surgically altered to deceive the wife and the public.
Phoenix One; Tadell Hansard (US), Anoshi Wantanabe (Japan), Bapti Lal Bose (India) Phoenix Two; Feodore Aleksandrovitch Asturnov (Russia), Dirk Welles (UK), Bern Callieux (Pan-European Community of Nations) Space Shuttles; Unnamed US astronauts.	The Far Call (1973), serial, (1978), novel	Phoenix Program Phoenix One Phoenix Two	1983
	International crew of the first manned mission to Mars.[89][90][91][92]
Charles Brubaker, Col. Peter Willis, Lt. Col. John Walker, Cmdr.	Capricorn One (1978), film/novel	Capricorn One, (Apollo-like)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts secretly removed from a NASA mission to Mars – aboard a faulty ship – that goes terribly wrong.[93]
Prometheus One; Steve West, Mike (Last name not given), McManus (First name not given), Prometheus Two; Three Unnamed Astronauts	The Incredible Melting Man, (1978), novelization	Prometheus Program Prometheus One Prometheus Two	Near Future
	Crews of the first American manned missions to Mars, attacked by an unknown force once they land. (Plotline is very heavily influenced by The Quatermass Experiment & Who Goes There?)[94]
Tom Easton Bill Frager Michael McKendrick	Meteor (1979), film/novel	Challenger-2	Near Future
	Astronauts on a spacecraft traveling to Mars that happens to look exactly like Skylab.[95]
NASA Ed Christophers, Rokby, Sylvester, Patterson, Dwyer (First names not given for the last four US crew). FKA Mikhail Aleksander, Vassili Karklin, Anatole Kuznetzov, Tchigorin, Ilyashenko (First names not given for the last two Russian crew). ESA Thomas Cavendish, Cesare Montuori, Kristian Niskanen, Axel Lorenz	The Olympus Gambit (1983), novel	Eris (renamed Pallas Athene)	Near Future
	International crew of the first manned mission to Mars.[96]
John Mark Kelly, Lt. Rose Kumagawa Andrei Novakovich	Star Trek: Voyager, One Small Step (1999), TV	Ares IV	2032
	NASA astronauts on an early mission to Mars
Luke Graham Renée Coté Nicholas Willis Sergei Kirov Woodrow "Woody" Blake Jim McConnell Terri Fisher Phil Ohlmyer	Mission to Mars (2000), film	Unknown	c. 2020
	NASA astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars and a follow-up mission to rescue them.
Lee Forbes, Cmdr. Susan Roberts Tanya Webster Paul Webster	Doctor Who Red Dawn (2000), audio play	Ares One	2000s
	Crew of privately funded NASA mission. Tanya turns out to be part-Martian.
Kate Bowman, Cmdr. Dr. Quinn Burchenal Dr. Bud Chantillas Robby Gallagher Chip Pettengill Ted Santen, Lt.	Red Planet (2000), film	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.
Annie Norris, Col. (cmdr.) Tom Tyler, Maj. Sam Tyler Ray Carling Chris Skelton	Life on Mars "Life is a Rock" (2009), TV	Aries Project Hyde 1-2-5	2035
	Crew travels to Mars in suspended animation, using "neural-stims" to keep brains occupied; as a result, Sam Tyler believes he is time-traveling NYPD detective.
Adelaide Brooke, Cmdr. Ed Gold Tarak Ital Andy Stone Margaret Cain Mia Bennett Yuri Kerenski Steffi Ehrlich Roman Groom	Doctor Who The Waters of Mars (2009), TV	Bowie Base One	2059
	First humans on Mars (contradicting other Doctor Who stories), menaced by a water-based Martian lifeform and destined by history to die.
Jupiter
Bramley Capt, Weeke F/O, Rand Cmdr, 38 unnamed astronauts.	Plague from Space (1965), novel	Pericles	Near Future?
	Crew of the first mission to land on Jupiter. The sole survivor returns to Earth carrying a deadly disease.[97]
Dr. David Bowman Dr. Frank Poole Dr. Hunter Dr. Kimball Dr. Kaminsky	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) film/novel	Discovery One	2001
	Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near Jupiter (on Iapetus in the book, and Kimball was renamed Whitehead).
Guy Crayford	Doctor Who The Android Invasion (1975), TV	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.
Tanya Kirbuk Vladimir Rudenko Vasili Orlov Heywood Floyd R. Chandra Walter Curnow	2010: Odyssey Two (1982), novel 2010 (1984), film	Alexei Leonov	2010
	Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One.
Hachirota Hoshino, Werner Locksmith, Hakim Ashmead, Kho Cheng-Shin, Goro Hoshino	Planetes (2003), anime	Von Braun	2075
	First manned space mission to Jupiter.
Kim Kronotska, Cmdr. Tom Braudy Samuel (no last name given)	Doctor Who Memory Lane (2006), audio play	Led Zeppelin IV	2010s (?)
	Commonwealth Space Programme mission to Jupiter that goes wrong.
Saturn
Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (aka Sean Geoffrey, Sean Jeffrey)	Star Trek, Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967), TV	Unknown	Early 21st century
	Leader of the first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn.
Steve West, Col.	The Incredible Melting Man (1977), film	Scorpio V	Future
	Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to Saturn.[98][99]
Other
Sky Masters, Maj.	Sky Masters of the Space Force (1958–61), comic	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut in the United States Space Force.
Zeus IV Glyn Williams Dan Schultz Zeus V Terry Cutler	Doctor Who The Tenth Planet (1966), TV	Zeus IV Zeus V	1986 (2000 in some sources)
	International Space Command astronauts in Zeus spacecraft (similar to Gemini). Zeus IV explodes, killing Williams and Schultz; Zeus V had already been launched for rescue attempt.
Andros V Unnamed American Astronauts Zond 19 Unnamed Soviet Cosmonauts	The Andromeda Strain (1969), novel	Andros Project Andros V Zond Project Zond 19	Near Future
	Astronauts killed when the Andromeda organism destroys the heat shields of their spacecraft on re-entry.[100]
William "Buck" Rogers, Capt.	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–81), TV	Ranger 3	1987
	NASA astronaut whose voyage in a Space Shuttle-like "deep space probe" results in suspended animation
Wayfarer 1; Theodore Ludendorff Cmdr, Five unnamed astronauts Wayfarer 2; Jake Ryder, Speed Spencer, Faye McFarland, Boris Mechanov, Ada Lin, Irwin Rote Von Braun; Ki Susato, Unnamed astronauts.	Reach (1989), novel	Wayfarer Program Wayfarer 1 Wayfarer 2 Space Station Von Braun	2037–2040
	When the first expedition to a mysterious cluster of objects passing outside the orbit of Pluto meets trouble a second expedition is sent to investigate.[101]

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	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Benjamin Grimm	Fantastic Four (1961–present), comic	Experimental interstellar spacecraft	Contemporary
	Private space venture, astronauts bizarrely affected by cosmic rays.
Col. Steve Zodiac, Professor Matthew Matic, Venus	Fireball XL5 (1962), TV	Fireball XL5	2062
	Commander of the Fireball XL5 of the World Space Patrol.
Cap. Larry Dart, Slim, Husky	Space Patrol (1963), TV	Space Patrol	2100
	Commander of Galasphere 347 of the Space Patrol.
Zefram Cochrane	Star Trek: The Original Series (Metamorphosis) (1967), TV Star Trek: First Contact (1996), film	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 (1968), film	Icarus	1972
	ANSA astronauts on an interstellar mission, perhaps to Bellatrix.
Robert O'Bannion, Andrei Voronov, Carlos Pascual, May Connearney, Sidney Lee, Doris McNerty, Aaron Hatfield, Jerry Grote, Chen Shu Li, Alicia Montiverdi, Lou D'Orazio, Marlene Ettinger, and other unnamed astronauts	As On A Darkling Plain (1972), novel	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on missions to Jupiter & Sirius[102]
John Cope, Five unnamed astronauts	Cold Fusion (1999), novel	Argos Program Argos 2	Near Future
	Crew of the first manned expedition to another solar system.[103]

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.

References

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