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.

Early period

Fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age.

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Georg Manfredt, Prof. Walt Turner Wolf Helius (Engineer) Friede Velten (Student Astronomer) Hans Windegger (Engineer)	Woman in the Moon (1929), silent film	Friede	Contemporary?
	First film depiction of a Moon rocket and of a countdown. Checkerboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear on A4 rockets.[1]
Harrison (US) (Captain/Astronomer) Dick Jarvis (US) (Chemist) Pierre Leroy (France) (Biologist) Karl Putz (Germany) (Engineer)	A Martian Odyssey (1934), Valley of Dreams (1934), short stories	Ares	21st century
	First men on Mars; landing site in Mare Cimmerium. Cardoza made first voyage to Moon ten years earlier; "de Lancey flight" to Venus was unsuccessful.[2][3][4]
Pavel Ivanovich Sedikh (Scientist) Marina (Assistant)	Kosmicheskiy reys (1935), film	Soviet Union	1946
	Scientist and assistant are joined by young stowaway on first voyage to Moon.[5]
Unnamed (President/Secretary/Treasurer) Ivan Schnitzel (Photographer) Isaac Guzzbaum (Auditor) Eric Wobblewit (Humourist) Two unnamed crewmembers	How We Went to Mars (1938), short story	Snoring-in-the-Hay Rocket Society (UK) Pride of the Galaxy	April 1952
	Amateur crew of first manned spaceflight accidentally reach Mars. Landing near Solis Lacus.[6]
Farley (Last name not given)	The Rocket of 1955 (1941?), short story	Unknown	1955
	Mars-bound astronaut, who discovers too late that his spacecraft is the product of a gigantic confidence trick; killed when it explodes during liftoff.[7][8]
David (last name not given)	Inheritance (1947), short story	A.15 A.20 (David/Goliath) A.21	Near Future
	Welsh test pilot on suborbital rocket flights from Atlas Mountains in Africa.[9]
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.[10]
Rocket number seventeen (Russia): Mikichenko (no first name given) Rocket number nineteen (US): George Vincent Quinn Rocket number twenty (US): John J. Armstrong	Dreadful Sanctuary (1948), serial; (1951), novel	Unknown (Russia, United States)	1972
	Pilot Quinn and inventor Armstrong commandeer Moon-rockets to prevent third world war. Quinn makes first manned Moon landing in Copernicus.[11] Significantly revised for 1963 paperback edition.
Wilson Louis Garnett	The Sentinel (1948), short story	Unknown	1996
	Explorers who discover something remarkable on the shores of the Sea of Crises.[12]
Jim Barnes Charles Cargraves, Dr. Thayer, Gen. Joe Sweeney (Radio Operator)	Destination Moon (1950), film	Luna	Near Future
	Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the moon.[13]
Floyd Graham, Col. (Pilot) Harry Chamberlain (Navigator) William Corrigan, Maj. Karl Eckstrom, Dr. Lisa Van Horn, Dr.	Rocketship X-M (1950), film	X-M ("eXpedition Moon")	Near Future
	Astronauts on a moon rocket that "accidentally" lands on Mars.[14]
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.
Steve Abbott (Journalist) Jim Barker (Engineer) Jackson, Prof. (Scientist) Lane, Dr. (Scientist) Carol Stafford (Physicist)	Flight to Mars (1951), film	The Pentagon	c. 2001
	First manned Mars mission encounters dying Martian civilization.[15]
Wayne Crowder	Vital Factor (1951), short story Tales of Tomorrow Test Flight (1951), TV	Wayne Crowder Enterprises	Near Future
	Spacecraft on privately financed test flight is redirected to Mars.[16][17][18]
Mercury expedition: R. Doyle Borrell (Navigator) Glynne (Radio Operator) (no first names given) Unnamed crewmembers Inner Station: R. Doyle, Cmdr. (Training) Apprentices: Tim Benton (Senior apprentice) Ronnie Jordan Norman Powell Karl Hasse Peter van Holberg Five unnamed apprentices Unnamed crewmembers Space Hospital: Hawkins, Dr. (no first name given) (Biologist) Unnamed scientist Unnamed crewmembers Sirius: Jones, Capt. (Pilot) (no first name given) Inter-orbit ferry: Unnamed pilots	Islands in the Sky (1952), novel	Mercury expedition Space stations: Inner Station (Space Station One/Residential Station) Space Hospital Relay Station Two Spacecraft: Sirius Morning Star The Skylark of Space (ferry) Inter-orbit ferry Earth ferry (spaceplane)	Late 21st century
	16-year-old Roy Malcolm wins trip to Inner Station on television quiz. Doyle took part in first expedition to Mercury years earlier; Morning Star made first circumnavigation of Venus in 1985.[19]
Jeff Foldingchair Eros: Miles Vance, Capt. Nat Rothman (Pilot/Geologist) Richard "Dick" Steele (Engineer) Paul Sokolsky, Dr. (Physician/Biologist) Lewis "Lew" Wong (Radar Operator) Ginger Parsons (Cook/Photographer) Charles "Chuck" Svensen	Marooned on Mars (1952), novel	United States / Space Commission (under United Nations charter): Eros	Future
	First manned Mars mission, launched from Moon base. 18-year-old Svensen stows away after being replaced on crew by Wong due to his age. Foldingchair is a long-time rocket pilot who stowed away on the second manned Moon mission 25 years earlier.[20]
Robert "Robbie" Malcolm (Captain) Bart (Scientist) Jack	Tales of Tomorrow Appointment on Mars (1952), TV	Standard Motors (sponsor)	Future
	Three men on first expedition to Mars turn on each other.[21][22]
Paula Martin Bennett	Tales of Tomorrow Flight Overdue (1952), TV	Unknown	Near Future
	Ambitious aviatrix joins Moon mission.[23][24]
Allen Rice, Maj.	Thanasphere (1952), short story	United States Air Force Project Cyclops	Contemporary
	First man in outer space discovers that it is inhabited by ghosts.[25][26]
Martin Dearborn, Capt. George Beebe Unnamed colonists	Missing Men of Saturn (1953), novel	Unknown	Future
	Dearborn and his colonists, the first humans to reach the Saturn system, are captured on Titan by Saturnians, resulting in their descendants spending the next hundred years on Saturn.[27]
"Bright Eyes" Briteis, Col. (Commander) Bill Moore, Maj. Wernher, Dr.	Project Moonbase (1953), film	Project Moon Base (US)	1970
	First lunar orbital mission turns into Moon landing when Wernher is unmasked as an imposter. The female Col. Briteis was the first human in space.[28]
Ludwig Rechenheim, Dr. 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.[29][30]
Space Station: Pepper, Gen. (USAF) (Commanding Officer) (no first name given) Unnamed space taxi pilot Unnamed personnel Moon rocket: George Merola, Capt. (USAF) (Pilot/Navigator) Dan Forbes, 1st Lt. (USAF) (Engineer) Fred Gehardt, Dr. (Geologist) Peter Phelps, M.D. (Physician) Ted Baker	Rocket to Luna (1953), novel	United States Air Force	September 1983
	17-year-old Space Academy cadet Baker, an accidental addition to the crew, crashes first manned Moon rocket in Mare Crisium, forcing him and Forbes to make 1000-mile trek to supply dump in Mare Imbrium near Archimedes.[31]
Stephen Mitchell, Dr. Lisa Frank	Spaceways (1953), film	AS-2	Near Future
	American rocket scientist Mitchell, an adviser to British space program, makes first manned spaceflight to prove himself innocent of murder.[32]
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/Astronomer) Burton (Pilot) Janus (Photographer) Gonzales (Botanist) Randolph (Biologist) Peters (Mineralogist)	The Holes Around Mars (1954), short story	Mars I	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.[33]
Richard Donald Stanton, Dr. Walter Gordon Jerome "Jerry" Lockwood, Dr.	Riders to the Stars (1954), film	Unknown (US)	Near Future
	Astronauts make suborbital flights to capture meteors.[34]
Reverdy L. "Rev" McMillen, III, 1st Lt. (USAF) Rescue ship: Frank Pickrell, Capt. Four unnamed crewmembers	The Cave of Night (1955), short story	Unknown (US)	Near Future
	Efforts to rescue McMillen from orbit inspire humanity to explore space. Pickrell later commands orbital platform Doughnut.[35][36]
Samuel T. Merritt, Gen. Barney Merritt, Capt. Andre Fodor Imoto Mahoney, Sgt. Jackie Siegle	Conquest of Space (1955), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on a mission to Mars.[37]
RM-1: Unnamed captain Frank (Navigator) Bill (Radio Operator) Joe (Engineer) (no last names given)	Disneyland Man and the Moon (aka Tomorrow the Moon) (1955), TV	Space Station Number One (S-1) RM-1 (Moonship)	Near Future
	Crew of first manned voyage around the Moon.[38]
Tim Rocket ship: Frank Doc (Physician) Roger Fred Moonbeam III: Frank Doc (Physician) Roger Fred Bill Unnamed crewmembers Moonbeam IV: Rusty Unnamed crewmembers The Cow: Tom (Captain) Four unnamed crewmembers Moon Ship I: Roger Unnamed crewmembers Moon Ship II: Frank Unnamed crewmembers Moon Ship III: Tom (Captain) Doc (Physician) (no last names given) Unnamed crewmembers (Bill and Fred also on expedition)	Peter and the Rocket Ship (1955), Peter and the Two-Hour Moon (1956), Peter and the Moon Trip (1957), chapter books	United States Army: Unnamed rocket ship Moonbeam III (rocket) Moonbeam IV (rocket) Two-Hour Moon (Space Station) The Cow Moon Ship I Moon Ship II Moon Ship III	Near Future
	Young Peter Sills accompanies crews of first manned spaceflight, Moonbeam III mission to build humanity's first space station, and first manned lunar landing. The Cow flies around Moon; Moon Ships I, II and III land in Bay of Rainbows near Sea of Rains, where crews build moon base.[39][40][41]
Bernard Quatermass, Prof. Leo Pugh, Dr.	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.[42][43][44]
"Ridge" Ridging (Geophysicist) "Shan" Shandara (Cartographer) Tazewell (No first names given) Unnamed crewmembers	Dust Rag (1956), short story	The Project: Albireo	Future (20th century)
	On first moon expedition, Ridging and Shandara are endangered by dust in Plato crater.[45][46]
M 76: Stephen Maxwell, Prof. (Commander/Navigator) Petifer (Pilot) Bertram "Bert" Hapton Gordon Holder (Fuel Consumption Engineer) Unnamed crewmember US spacecraft: Stilwell, Gen. Vanburg, Capt. Boles, Lt. John DeLut (Biologist) Jaeger (Mathematician) Unnamed crewmembers	No Man Friday (aka First on Mars) (1956), novel	M 76 (UK) Unnamed spacecraft (United States Air Force)	c. 1957 – 1972
	Holder is stranded on Mars after his crewmates die in decompression accident. American spacecraft lands at latitude -35.[47]
Michael Haydon, Cmdr. "Lefty" Blake Merrity, Prof. (Scientist) Larry Noble Kim Hamilton (Reporter/Stowaway)	Satellite in the Sky (1956), film	Project Stardust (UK)	Near Future
	Spaceplane carries atomic bomb into orbit.[48]
Endeavour (UK) Unnamed (Commander) Trevor Williams, Prof. (Astronomer) Henderson (Geophysicist) Dave Bolton (Navigator) Unnamed crewmembers Goddard (USA) "Van" Vandenburg, Capt. (Commander) Paynter, Dr (Geophysicist) Anderson, Dr (Astronomer) Unnamed crewmembers Ziolkovski (USSR) Krasnin (Commander) Vladimir Surov (Botanist) Unnamed crewmembers	Venture to the Moon (1956), series of short stories	Endeavour Goddard Ziolkovski	Near Future (after 1972)
	First manned expedition to the Moon, joint UK/US/Russian project; landing in Mare Imbrium. Richards and Shannon named as discoverers of life in Eratosthenes five years later. Vandenburg later travels to Mars, Krasnin to the inner solar system.[49]
Eldon Galbraithe, Dr. (Commander) Herbert Ellis (Radio operator) John Borden (Scientist) Henry "Hank" Jaffe (Engineer)	World Without End (1956), film	Unknown	March 1957
	Astronauts returning from Mars orbital mission travel forward in time to the year 2508.[50]
Norris Caird, Cmdr. (Pilot) Kerry (Medical Officer/Deputy Pilot/Navigator) John Patterson (US) (Electronics Officer) Robert "Bob" Vaughan (Engineer/Geologist) Janet Ross (Stowaway)	High Vacuum (1957), novel	Ministry of Astronautics (M.O.A.) (UK): Alpha	Near Future
	First manned Moon rocket crash-lands in Mare Imbrium due to added weight of stowaway.[51]
Communications Satellite Two Unnamed (Narrator) Sven Olsen (Construction) Jock Duncan (Cook/Doctor) Jim (no last name given) (Engineer) Gregory "Gregg" Wendell (Junior station announcer) Unnamed (Head of transport section) Unnamed crewmembers Solar Observatory Julie (no last name given) (Solar physicist) Unnamed crewmembers Starfire Captain Stevens Unnamed crewmembers	The Other Side of the Sky (1957), series of short stories	Space Service: Communications Satellite Two (aka Relay Two) Solar Observatory Starfire	Late 1970s January 1, 2001
	Workers building communications relay satellite and studying Sun in late 1970s. In 2001 narrator's son departs aboard Starfire, flagship of ten-ship Mars expedition.[52]
Robert "Bob" Calder, Col. Sharman, Dr. Unnamed crewmembers	20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), film	United States	Near Future
	Mission to Venus brings back egg of dinosaur-like creature.[53]
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.
John McLaren, Prof. (US)	The Day the Sky Exploded (1958), film	US/Russia/UK: X-Z atomic rocket	Near Future
	First attempted circumnavigation of Moon results in Earth being threatened with meteorite bombardment.[54]
Romer Temple S-2: Ken Pickering (USAF) Aztec: Adam Philip Crag (Commander) Max Edward Prochaska (Electronics Chief) Gordon Wells Nagel (Oxygen systems) Igor Malin (impersonating Martin LeRoy Larkwell) (Mechanical maintenance/construction) Astronaut: Michael Gotch, Col. (USAF) Fredrick Gunter (Secretary-General of the United Nations) Unnamed pilot Two unnamed crewmembers "Bandit": Otto Richter (East Germany) (Scientist) Two unnamed crewmembers "Red Dog": Four unnamed crewmembers	First on the Moon (1958), novel	United States Air Force Step One: S-2 (Satelloid) Aztec Astronaut (atomic spacecraft) "Eastern World": "Bandit" "Red Dog"	Near Future
	American mission to establish moonbase in Arzachel crater is opposed by unnamed "enemy" power from behind Iron Curtain, and complicated by presence of ringer in crew. Pickering is first human in space aboard "satelloid", a spaceplane with small wings.[55]
Stepan Mikhailovich Ivankov, Maj.[lower-alpha 1] Bryant "Bud" Ashland, Capt. (USAF)	The Manned Missiles (1958), short story	Soviet Union United States	Contemporary/Near Future
	Ivankov, the first man in space, and Ashland, the first American in space, die when their spacecraft collide in orbit.[56][57]
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.[58]
John Corcoran, Maj.	Night of the Blood Beast (1958), film	X-100	Contemporary/Near Future
	First man launched into orbit; dies on reentry.
British Satellite Station: Unnamed commander George Montgomery "Ticker" Troon, Flt Lt, VC Nobby Dobbin Unnamed crewmembers British Moon-Station: Michael Troon (Station-Commander) Reeves (Sub-Commander) Calmore (Sub-Commander) Ellen (Physician) (no last name given) Hughes Witley, Sgt. Unnamed crewmembers Soviet Moon-Station: Alexei Goudenkovitch Budorieff, Gen. (Red Army) (Commander) Zinochek, Col. 354 unnamed crewmembers Figurão: Raul Campaneiro (Commander) Geoffrey "Geoff" Montgomery Trunho, Capt. (Navigator) Camilo Botoes, Lt. (Electronics Officer/Geologist)	The Outward Urge (1958), novel	British Satellite Station British Moon-Station Soviet Moon-Station Skyforce, Space Division (Estados Unidos do Brasil): E.U.B. Spacevessel Figurão	November 1994 2044 December 9, 2093 – June 24, 2094
	In 1994, Ticker Troon sacrifices himself to save British Satellite Station from enemy missile. Fifty years later, his son Michael commands British Moon-Station in Archimedes crater during nuclear war on Earth which results in destruction of American Moon-Station in Copernicus and Soviet Moon-Station in Ptolemy. In 2094, Michael's great-grandson Geoff is fatally stranded on Mars after first manned landing when Figurão becomes disabled. Landing on April 18, 2094, in Isidis-Syrtis Major area at 48°N 275°E / 48°N 275°E / 48; 275.[59]
Unnamed (Space Station Supervisor) Unnamed doctors	Who's There? (1958), short story	Space Station	Early 1980s
	Spaceman hears mysterious noises during spacewalk. Bernie Summers named as earlier spacewalk casualty.[60]
Thomas "Tom" O'Bannion, Col. Iris "Irish" Ryan, Dr. Theodore Gettell, Prof. (Scientist) Sam Jacobs, CWO	The Angry Red Planet (1959), film	MR-1	Near Future
	First manned Mars mission encounters bizarre dangers.[61]
Space station: James Benedict (Station head) Matthews, Col. Kurt Easton (Observer) Lunar spacecraft: Dave Reynolds (Commander)	Destination Space (1959), film	Space station Lunar spacecraft (US)	Near Future
	Failed attempts to launch first lunar orbit mission from space station.[62]
Moonship McRoberts, Maj. (Commander) (First name not given) Brad Summers, Capt. (Copilot) Space Station Anderson, Col. (Commander) (First name not given) Milton, Dr. (Astronomer) (First name not given) Unnamed crewmembers Ferry rocket Unnamed pilot	First Boy on the Moon (1959), novel	United States Space Force: Moonship Space Station Ferry rocket	Near Future
	Two boys and a frog stow away on the first manned mission to the Moon.[63]
Dan Prescott, Lt.	First Man into Space (aka Satellite of Blood) (1959), film	Y-12 spaceplane Y-13 spaceplane	Near Future
	Air Force Space Command pilot flies plane into space, returns as monster.[64]
Homeland: Eugene Kornev/Andrew Gordon (Scientist) Andrei Gordienko Typhoon: Robert Klark Erwin Verst Meteor: Gregory Somov/Craig Matthews	Nebo Zovyot (1959), film Battle Beyond the Sun (1962), film	Space station Rodina Typhoon Meteor
	Soviet film re-edited for American release, with characters renamed. Rodina and Typhoon (nations of origin unspecified in Soviet version; "South Hemis" and "North Hemis" in American version) both attempt first Mars flight, but an emergency rescue leads to a landing on the asteroid Icarus instead. The events in the Soviet version turn out to be a dream.[65]
Unnamed (USSR) (Chief Co-ordinator of Project Ares) Jim Hutchins (US) (Assistant) Hutchins' wife (unnamed)	Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting... (1959), short story	Astronautics Authority: First Lunar Base Project Ares Alpha Beta Gamma	1977
	First manned Mars expedition in preparation at lunar base inside crater Plato; meanwhile, Hutchins' son is first human born off-Earth. References to past events include US Navy rescue of cosmonaut Dimitri Kalinin in South Pacific; Jerry Wingate making first manned orbit of Moon; landing of Hermann Oberth in Bay of Rainbows with loss of crew members.[66]
Mike Ferris (USAF)	The Twilight Zone Where Is Everybody? (1959), TV	United States Air Force	Contemporary
	Air Force astronaut trainee hallucinates himself in empty town during isolation experiment.[67][68][69]

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 / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Mercury (1960–1963)
Clegg Forbes, Col. Ed Harrington, Col. William Gart, Maj.	The Twilight Zone And When the Sky Was Opened (1959), TV	X-20	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts return from first manned space flight and begin to vanish from the world and people's memories.[70][71]
Corey Donlin, Col. Pierson	The Twilight Zone I Shot an Arrow into the Air (1960), TV	Arrow One	Contemporary/Near Future
	Three survivors of eight-man crew crash on what they think is an asteroid, but turns out to be Nevada.[72][73]
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.
Squarely Stable	N/A (Early 1960s)	Mercury	Contemporary
	Husband of Primly Stable, super-perfect astronaut wife in skits performed by Rene Carpenter and other Mercury wives.[74][75]
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.[76]
Four unnamed astronauts "Dead-Eye" Dick Williamson, Maj. Gabby Stark, Col. Pluto III/Pluto IV: Lucius L. "Lucky" Lucas, Col. Pluto V: Myron Philpot Phipps, Maj. (Ph.D.)	The Astronaut (1962), novel	United States Air Force Project Pluto: Pluto III Pluto IV Pluto V	Contemporary
	Military Earth-orbit project in competition with U.S. Army and Navy efforts. Lucas' death is falsely announced to cover up Pluto IV launch failure; Phipps becomes first American in orbit on Pluto V.[77]
Howard Judgen, Maj.	The Time Factor (1962), novel	Unspecified[lower-alpha 2]	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut reassigned from the space program to take part in a time travel experiment.[79]
(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 Crispin's flight in Columbia 12 ends with an emergency landing in the Gibson Desert when the oxygen system fails.[80][81]
Caroline Baker, Maj.	The Adventures of Little Archie The Missing Astronaut Mystery (1963), comic	Mercury-Atlas	1963
	All America is watching anxiously as Major Caroline Baker prepares to become the first female astronaut by making a brief solo spaceflight on a late Mercury-Atlas mission. After being launched successfully, Baker's re-entry is far off course and she is kidnapped by Soviet agents when she splashes down.[82]
Steve Crandon	The Outer Limits The Man with the Power (1963), TV	Unknown	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut recruited for telekinetic asteroid mining project.[83]
Joseph Reardon, Capt.	The Outer Limits The Man Who Was Never Born (1963), TV	Unknown	1963
	Astronaut who travels through "time convulsion" in Earth orbit and finds himself on post-apocalyptic Earth in 2148.[84][85]
Sid Stein Mike Seaman	The Trouble with Telstar (1963), short story	Dyna-Soar Nelly Bly	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts launched to carry out the first in-space repair of a malfunctioning satellite.[86]
Robert Gaines (Maj./Col.)	Twilight Zone The Parallel (1963), TV	Unknown	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut visits parallel universe where John F. Kennedy is not the President.[87][88][89]
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.
Andy (no last name given)	Andy Astronaut (1968), picture book	Unknown (one-man capsule)	Contemporary
	Profile of typical astronaut's career and spaceflight.[90]
Hal Brennan, Col. Michael "Mike" Barnes, Dr.	Countdown (1970), novel	NASA: Hermes program	Early 1960s
	Astronauts in follow-up program to Mercury, using one-man Hermes spacecraft launched by Titan rockets. Barnes is nearly killed on program's final mission due to oxygen system failure.[91]
Maurice Minnifield	Northern Exposure (1990–5), TV	Mercury	Contemporary
	Former NASA astronaut living in Alaska.
Amerika Bomber/Silbervogel: Horst Reinhardt,[lower-alpha 3] Lt. (Luftwaffe) Lucky Linda: Rudy "Skid" Sloman, Capt./Lt. (USN)	Goddard's People (aka Operation Blue Horizon) (1991), short story V-S Day (2014), novel	Luftwaffe: Silbervogel ("Silver Bird") (A-9 Amerika Bomber in short story) United States Army Air Force: Project Blue Horizon X-1 (Lucky Linda)	January 19, 1942 - May 26, 1944 (Alternate History) / 1991 (Alternate History) (short story) August 20, 1941 - June 1, 1943 (Alternate History) / June 1, 2013 (Alternate History) (novel)
	Alternate history in which Nazi Germany and the US launched first manned spaceflights in 1943 (1944 in short story). Set in same timeline as Steele's short story "John Harper Wilson" and novel The Tranquillity Alternative (q.v.).[92][93][94]
Charles "Chuck" Jones	Voyage (1996), novel	Mercury	Early 1960s (Alternate History)
	Second American to orbit Earth (on mission similar to Mercury-Atlas 7) in alternate history in which President Kennedy is wounded, and Jacqueline Kennedy killed, in November 1963 shooting.[95]
Lloyd Macadam, Col. (AIT) Bricker (USSR)	Astronauts in Trouble: Space: 1959 (2000), graphic novel	Aerospace Intelligence Taskforce (AIT) (part of USAF)	1959
	When Soviet agent Bricker commandeers secret US moon rocket, Col. Macadam climbs aboard as rocket takes off to make sure that first man on Moon is American.[96]
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.[97]
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.[98]
Francine Barry	Children of Orion (2010), online novel	Mercury	September 1963 (Alternate History)
	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 program ends and become the first woman in space. Francine Barry, a 31 year old civilian test pilot, is selected for the task. The Soviets fly a woman cosmonaut first, but the confident Ms. Barry still rides into orbit on the final Mercury-Atlas, designed Serenity 7.
Yelena Z. Kovalovski, Lt.	The Sea of Okhotsk (2011), novel	Vostok	November 1963
	Fantasy novel in which veteran Soviet Air Force flight instructor Lt. Yelena Kovalovski becomes the second woman in space, aboard Vostok 7.[99][100]
Natalya Dmitrievna Kubasova, Lt.	Sparrow's Flight (2011), novel	Vostok	September 1960
	In September 1960, the Soviet Union is ready to launch the first human into space. A female Soviet Air Force pilot, Lt. Natalya Kubasova, is launched in a Vostok capsule, but just after reaching orbit, the capsule malfunctions and the cosmonaut plunges to earth, landing in the American mid-West.[101]
Unnamed American astronaut	Hoax Hunters Issue Nº.0 (2013), online comic	Mercury	1961 and Contemporary
	Astronaut launched into orbit prior to John Glenn to investigate Soviet space activity. He and the crow accidentally launched with him are bizarrely affected when exposed to Zero-point energy.[lower-alpha 4][102]
Tatyana Fedorova, Capt. Alexander Mikhailov, Maj.	Into the Silent Sea (2013), short film	Vostok	1963
	In early 1963, the Politburo presses leaders of the space program to put Captain Fedorova, trainee cosmonaut and daughter of a senior Party official, into space on the Vostok 5B mission. When launch is brought forward, the risks of a mission failure increase. Fedorova is deemed too well-connected to be risked, so is replaced by Mikhailov. After a successful launch, he becomes stranded in orbit, and losing contact with his base, his final contact with Earth is with an Italian radio operator.[103]

Gemini

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Gemini (1964–1966)
Dan Cooper, Capt. RCAF Nadia Kalinskaya, Lt. Soviet Air Force Jacques Souris, Lt. French Air Force Sonya Gombinski, Capt. Polish Air Force	SOS dans l'espace, Trois Cosmonautes, Apollo appelle Soyouz and other Tintin magazine stories (1957–69), comics. Cooper, Souris and Kalinskaya all complete solo spaceflights in the Trois Cosmonautes. Kalinskaya and Gombinski (Poland's first cosmonaut) make an all-female Soyuz flight in Apollo appelle Soyouz.	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 and VIII and names GT-3 crew as Shepard and Masters.
NASA: Stardust I: Anthony "Tony" Nelson, Capt./Maj. (USAF) Roger "Rog" Healey, Capt./Maj. Leslie "Les" Wingate, Cmdr. (LMP) Pete Conway, Lt. (USNR) Rich Ross, Cmdr. Biff "Jetstream" Jellico, Maj. (USAF) USSR: Sonya Tiomkin, Maj. Gregorian, Maj.	I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), TV	Stardust I, Gemini, Project Alpha, Apollo	Contemporary
	Career NASA astronauts. Nelson, Healey and Wingate orbit the Moon in the episode "Around the World in 80 Blinks" (1969),[104] and are in quarantine after Moon mission in "The Solid Gold Jeannie" (1970). Other astronauts and cosmonauts appear in the episodes "The Lady in the Bottle" (1965), "Russian Roulette" (1965), "Tomorrow Is Not Another Day" (1968), "My Sister, the Home Wrecker" (1969) and "Never Put a Genie on a Budget" (1969).[105][106]
Igor Ivan	Gilligan's Island Nyet, Nyet, Not Yet (1965), TV	Voskhod?	Contemporary
	Cosmonauts who land on Gilligan's isle.[107]
Paradowsky, Col. Borovin, Maj. Franco Ciccio	002 Operazione Luna (1965), film	Voskhod?	Contemporary
	When cosmonauts Paradowsky and Borovin disappear in space, Italian criminals Franco and Ciccio, their doubles, are kidnapped and launched into space to cover up the mission's apparent failure.[108]
Unnamed astronaut	The Avengers Man-Eater of Surrey Green (1966), TV	Unknown; one-man capsule	Contemporary
	British astronaut dies in orbit; capsule re-enters following collision with giant alien plant.[109]
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.[110]
Mac MacKenzie, Capt. Hector "Hec" Canfield, Lt.	It's About Time (1966–67), TV	NASA: Scorpio	Contemporary
	Sitcom about astronauts who travel back in time and meet caveman family.[111]
Jupiter XVI: Chris (last name not given) Unnamed US astronaut Voskhod (?): Two unnamed cosmonauts Bird 1: Two unnamed Osato astronauts Jupiter XVII: 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 and probable outbreak of World War III prevented by James Bond.[112]
Voskhod 3: Vladimir Kostrov, Maj. Andrei Subbotin, Maj. Aurora 1: Vladimir Kostrov, Maj. Sergei Nofikov, Capt. Zhenia Svetlova, Sen. Lt. Dawn 1: Andrei Gorolev, Capt.	Cosmonauts on the Earth (Космонавты живут на Земле) (1968), Russian-language novel	Voskhod 3 (Voskhod) Aurora 1 (Soyuz) Dawn 1 (Zond)	Contemporary
	Semi-fictional work follows the lives and missions of nine cosmonauts recruited to fly the space missions which follow Vostok and Voskhod in period 1965-67. Seven ex-Soviet Air Force Pilots and two female champion sky-divers train to fly on the next generation of Soviet rockets. "Aurora" and "Dawn" are analogous to Soyuz and Zond spacecraft of the real Soviet programme. Capt. Gorelov becomes the first man to fly around the moon, while Sen. Lt. Svetlova replaces her close friend Marina Berzhenkova in the "Aurora" capsule at the last moment to become the first woman to make a spacewalk.[113]
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.
Charles "Hickory" Lee, Maj., US Army Timothy "Tim" Bell Harry Jensen, Capt., USAF Edward "Ed" Cater, Maj., USAF Gemini XIII Randolph "Randy" Claggett, Maj., USMC (Command Pilot) John Pope, Cmdr., USN (Pilot) Apollo 18 Randy Claggett, CDR John Pope, CMP Paul Linley, LMP	Space (1982), novel; James A. Michener's Space (1985), TV	Gemini XIII, Apollo 18 Altair (CSM)/Luna (LM)	1960s-1970s
	NASA astronauts in James Michener's fictionalized account of the early years of the space program and the TV miniseries made from it.[114]
Alexander Alexandrovich "Sasha" Oryolin, Col. (Pilot) Konstantine K. "Kostya" Strogolshikov, Col.	Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing (1993), novel	Voskhod 2	1965
	First spacewalk mission, similar to the real Voskhod 2; cosmonauts survive crash landing in Ural Mountains.[115]
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.[116]
Vladimir Pavlovich Viktorenko Unnamed cosmonaut	Voyage (1996), novel	Voskhod 3	1966 (Alternate History)
	First flight of alternate history cosmonaut Viktorenko, who later takes part in Moonlab/Soyuz mission.[95]
Dmitri Selonovich	Doctor Who "Space Oddity" (2013), comic strip	Vostok 11 (Vostok)	1965
	Cosmonaut killed by Vashta Nerada while making first human spacewalk on classified military mission.[117]

Apollo

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Apollo (1967–1975)
John Mason (Pilot) Larry Carter (Co-Pilot)	First Men to the Moon (1960), novel	Unknown	Near Future
	Spaceflight veterans Mason and Carter make first manned Moon landing near lunar north pole, using direct ascent mission mode and spaceplane fifth stage. Launch and landing on Pacific atoll.[118]
Richmond D. "Rich" Talbot, Capt. (USAF)	Starfire (1960), novel Moon Pilot (1962), film	United States Air Force Project Starfire	May 22–29, 1960 (novel) Contemporary (film)
	First American manned lunar orbit mission.[119][120][121]
Unnamed female cosmonaut	Hate (aka At the End of Orbit) (1961), short story	Unknown	Contemporary/Near Future
	First human to orbit Moon crashes in Pacific Ocean near Thursday Island; dies when Hungarian refugee pearl diver prevents her from being rescued before her air runs out.[122]
Joseph Faulk, Lt. Col. (CDR) Lester "Les" Mallon, Lt. Cmdr. (CMP) Max Kovac, Maj. (LMP)	Apollo at Go (1963), novel	Apollo	July 1969
	Crew of first Apollo moon mission, launched on July 5, 1969; landing in Ocean of Storms.[123]
Martin Mel Lockhart	The Crawling Hand (1963), film	Unknown	Near Future
	While returning from second manned Moon mission, astronaut Lockhart asks for his spacecraft to be destroyed, but returns to Earth as animate severed arm.[124]
Francis Spender, Col.	A Question of Re-Entry (1963), short story	United Nations Space Department Goliath 7	Early 1970s
	First man to land on the Moon is eaten by cannibals after crash landing in Brazilian jungle.[125][126]
Apollo 3: Charles "Chiz" Stewart, Jr., Col. (USAF) (CDR) (unnamed in novel) Rick Lincoln, Lt. (USN) (Navigator) Lee Stegler (Co-Pilot) (named Steven James "Steve" Lawrence in novel) Pilgrim One: Lee Stegler/Steve Lawrence Vostok/Voskhod: Alexis Plekhanov Vostok/Voskhod: 3 unnamed cosmonauts (1 unnamed cosmonaut in novel)	The Pilgrim Project (1964), novel Countdown (1968), film	NASA: Apollo 3 Gemini (Pilgrim One) (Mercury in novel) Soviet Union: 2 Voskhods (2 Vostoks in novel)	Near Future
	NASA astronaut using modified Gemini craft (Mercury in novel) to beat the Russians to the Moon. Landing near Surveyor 6 in Oceanus Procellarum.[127][128][129][130]
Roberts, Col. Simms, Maj.	Doctor Who "Moon Landing" (1965), comic strip	Unknown (rocket marked "MS")	July 1970
	First men on the Moon. Country of origin not specified. Mission launches on July 20, 1970.
NASA: Frank Lewis, Dr. (Physiologist) (UK) Stern (Pilot-Astronaut) (no first name given) Roy Villiers, Capt. (Pilot-Astronaut) Apollo: Bill Sanders, CDR Thomas, Co-Pilot (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut Apollo?: Karl Simmonds (Command Pilot) Bob Mitchell (Co-Pilot) Mike Gransome, Maj. (USAF) (Third Pilot) Zenno Fillipini, Dr. (Italy) (Scientific Observer) Ulysses: Don Hart (Command Pilot) Roger Cope (Co-Pilot) Joseph (Pilot) (no first name given) Jean Romain, Prof. (France) (Scientific Observer)	Kings of Infinite Space (1967), novel	NASA: Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM Unnamed CSM/LM Project Ulysses	Autumn 1969 – c. 1970
	New group of NASA astronauts selected in 1969 combines pilots and scientists and includes international component. Sanders commands lunar mission aborted when Thomas falls ill in flight. Spaceflight veterans Simmonds and Hart join new astronauts on missions using "Saturn VI" rocket (Saturn V with booster rockets added): four-man lunar mission with expanded spacecraft and Project Ulysses deep-space mission.[131]
Roy Fleming Fred Gifford, Maj.	The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), 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.[132][133][134]
Walter "Walt" Emmons (CDR) Ed MacKenzie (CMP) Michael "Mike" Carter (LMP)	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors One Small Step for Man (1969), TV	Apollo Unnamed (CSM)/Retriever (LM)	Contemporary
	Apollo crew experiences medical emergency prior to lunar landing. Carter is first black astronaut on Moon mission.
Kenneth "Ken" McGeorge, Maj.	The Hardy Boys The Arctic Patrol Mystery (1969), novel	Apollo	Contemporary
	Astronaut kidnapped in Iceland while training for Moon mission.[135]
Ironman One: Jim Pruett Clayton Stone, Ph.D. Buzz Lloyd Voskhod: Andrei Yakovlev X-RV: Ted Dougherty, USAF	Marooned (1969), film, novel	Ironman One (Apollo) Voskhod X-RV lifting body	Near Future
	NASA astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid.[136][137][138][139]
Unnamed astronaut	Squaps, the Moonling (1969), picture book	Unknown	Contemporary/Near Future
	An astronaut takes a moon creature home to meet his children.[140]
Jerry McGrath, Maj. (USAF) (Command Pilot) Earl Boggs, Maj. (USAF) (Pilot) Andrew "Andy" Zapf, Col. (USAF) (Backup pilot/CAPCOM)	Countdown (1970), novel	Federal Space Agency (FSA): Hermes II (command module) Pegasus Orbiting Laboratory	Near Future (Early 1970s)
	Post-Apollo wet workshop space station with potential military applications. Zapf is a Gemini and Apollo veteran.[91]
Unnamed CSM/LM Franklin Grimsby, Maj. Falcon Lt. Cmdr. Jonathan Cornelius Evans, CDR Jimmy Webster, CMP Charlie Willmers, LMP	Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You? (1971), short story	Unknown Craft Apollo Unnamed CSM/Falcon (LM)	1969
	The first astronaut to walk on the Moon returns shaken, his sleep disturbed with nightmares, when he finds evidence he is not actually the first astronaut to reach the Moon.[141]
Unnamed CSM/LM 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 Unnamed CSM/LM; Anna Christie (CSM)/Unnamed (LM)	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.[142]
Dick Matthews, Col. (CDR) Jim Dunlap, Maj. (CMP) Frank Perry, Capt. (LMP)	Here's Lucy Lucy and the Astronauts (1971), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Astronauts returning from moon are quarantined with Lucy Carter.[143]
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.[144]
Shuckworth Shanks Showler (no first names given)	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), novel	Commuter Capsule	1972
	Astronauts ferry hotel staff aboard Commuter Capsule to Space Hotel "U.S.A.", where they are attacked by Vermicious Knids.[145]
Walter Monaghan	Revelations (1972), novel	Fifteenth Expedition	1970s
	Twenty-ninth man on Moon attempts to reveal terrible secrets about space program on exploitative TV talk show.[146]
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.
Fergusson, CDR Hennis Drake (first names not given)	The Medusa Touch (1973), novel; The Medusa Touch (1978), film	Achilles 6 (Apollo-like) Unnamed CSM/LM	Contemporary/Near Future
	Moon mission is doomed by telekinetic John Morlar.[147]
Steve Austin, Col. Kelly Wood, Maj. Josh Lang David Tate Leah Russell, Dr.	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; The Pioneers (1974); and The Deadly Countdown (1977).
Capt. Roland "Rick" Lawrence (USN), CDR Benjamin "Ben" Pelham, CMP Col. David "Dave" Anderson, LMP Tom Estes, CAPCOM Flip Crowell, CAPCOM[lower-alpha 5] Irving "Irv" Sellers (backup)[lower-alpha 6]	Stowaway to the Moon: The Camelot Odyssey (1973), novel; Stowaway to the Moon (1975), TV	Apollo Camelot (CSM)/Little Dipper (LM)	Contemporary
	NASA astronauts on an Apollo mission to the Altai Highlands who discover a child in the command module.[148][149]
Michael Kamp, Capt.	Dhalgren (1974), novel	Apollo	Contemporary?
	Apollo astronaut who visits the city of Bellona.[150]
William Driscoll David Kneller Leonard Wenger (CMP) Harold Hansar (LMP)	The Last Canadian (aka Death Wind, The Last American) (1974), novel	Apollo 23 ("John") (CSM/Lunar Exploration Module) Moonlab I Moonlab II	Near Future
	Astronauts left without guidance from Houston after plague wipes out human life in United States.[151]
Melville (no first name given)	My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974), short story	Unknown (Three-man spacecraft)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut recovering from "mental breakdown in space."[152][153]
Bob Grodin	Alternative 3 (1977), TV (hoax documentary)	Apollo	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase.
Richard "Dick" Royce, Cmdr. (USN) Stan Richmond (CMP)	Hawaii Five-O Shake Hands With The Man On The Moon (1977), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Washed-up astronaut Royce gets involved with crooked real estate developer.
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.[154][155]
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.[156]
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.
Trippett, Capt. (USN) Slade (first names not given)	News from the Sun (1981), short story	NASA	Unknown
	Trippett was the last man on the moon; Slade was a trainee astronaut who washed out of the space program.[157][158]
Robert S. Massey	The Red Dove (1982), novel	Apollo[lower-alpha 7]	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.[159]
Garrett Breedlove	Terms of Endearment (1983), The Evening Star (1996), films	Apollo	Contemporary
	Retired middle-aged astronaut played by Jack Nicholson.
Thomas Jefferson Stamford, Col. (USAF) (CDR)	The Object of the Attack (1984), short story	Apollo 20	1974 / 1982–1988
	Retired NASA astronaut, rumored to have commanded secret Apollo 20 mission to place nuclear missile station in Mare Imbrium, becomes world-renowned religious leader.[160][161]
Christopher J. "Chris" Ahern, Col. (USAF)	Simon & Simon The Wrong Stuff (1984), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Veteran of 1971 moonwalk works for aerospace company connected to porn film.[162]
Forrest Gump Janet Fritch, Maj.	Forrest Gump (1985), novel	Unknown	Contemporary
	Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation.[163]
William "Bill" Miles, Ph.D.	Remington Steele Steele in the Chips (1985), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Astronaut who walked on Moon promotes Booster Bars for food company.[164]
Paul Andrews	Beyond the Stars (1989), film	Apollo	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon.[165]
John Harper "Johnny" Wilson, Maj. (USSF) (Commander) Neil Holliday, Capt. (USSF) (Eagle One Pilot/Second-in-command) 18 unnamed astronauts	John Harper Wilson (1989), short story	United States Space Force (USSF) Luna One: Eagle One, Eagle Two (passenger ships) Eagle Three (cargo ship)	July 1969 (Alternate History) / 1988 (Alternate History)
	In alternate history, Eagle One makes first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969, in Sea of Tranquility; Wilson is first man on Moon. USSF spacecraft Columbus made first manned lunar flyby in December 1968 (crew unnamed). Set in same timeline as Steele's short story "Goddard's People" and novel The Tranquillity Alternative (q.v.).[166][167]
Dave "Rockford" Muldorff, Col. (USAF) (CDR) Thomas Milburne "Tom" Gavin, Maj. (USAF) (CMP) Richard Edgar "Dick" Baedecker, Col. (USMC) (LMP)	Phases of Gravity (1989), novel	Apollo Peregrine (CSM)/Discovery (LM)	December 1971 / June 1987–November 1988
	In June 1987, Baedecker takes a business trip to India and begins a voyage of self-discovery. 1971 landing near Marius Crater in Oceanus Procellarum.[168]
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.
Mitiok Sviridenko (Trainee) Luna-17B: Sema Anikin (First stage) Ivan Grechka (Second stage) Otto Plucis (Third stage) Dima Matiushevich (Lunar module) Omon Matveevich Krivomazov[lower-alpha 8] (call sign Ra) (Lunokhod) Luna-17B: Pasiuk "Pasha" Drach, Maj. Zurab "Zura" Pratsvania, Capt. Salyut: Armen Vezirov Djambul Mezhelaitis	Omon Ra (1992), novel	Luna-17B/Lunokhod Salyut	1970s
	With the Soviet Union unable to operate automated spacecraft, young cosmonauts train for suicide mission to lunar farside.[169]
Roy "Eject" Richard "Dick" Howard "Howie" (no last names given)	Walking on the Moon (1992), short story	Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM	Contemporary (July 4)
	Apollo crew reunites for holiday get-together. Set in same timeline as Steele's Near-Space series.[170]
Boris Prishkin, Col. Ekaterina Univer "Katya" Prishkin Soyuz 4: Dmitry Mikhailovich "Mitya" Zhukovsky, Col. (Commander) Soyuz 5: Konstantine K. "Kostya" Strogolshikov, Col. (Commander) Valya Glavtop, Capt. Kolya Grin, Capt. (latter two transfer to Soyuz 4) Luna 15: Dmitry Mikhailovich Zhukovsky, Major-General (Command Pilot) Konstantine K. Strogolshikov, Major-General Alexander Alexandrovich "Sasha" Oryolin, Major-General (Flight Engineer) Cosmonaut squadron: Yurka Adama-Bibliov Vitya Artzybashev, Capt. Misha Cherryntevsky, Maj. Zhora Fedyuninsky, Maj. Valya Glavtop, Capt. Kolya Grin, Capt. Kopa Kandidim, Capt. Trifya Miserbiev Tima Schtange, Lt. Genka Stumpelkin, Lt. Vasya Tevyelook, Lt. Cosmonaut candidates: Peter Apollonovich "Petya" Nevsky, Lt. Marcus Gogol, Dr. Lev Lympyet, Prof. Arkady Volgamints, Maj.	Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing (1993), novel	Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5 Luna 15 (Soyuz) Laikushka (lunar lander)	June 17, 1968 - July 21, 1969
	Cosmonauts in renewed push for lunar landing. Oryolin, Strogolshikov and Zhukovsky command squadron within Cosmonaut Corps. Soyuz 4/5 fly January 14-18, 1969 (as in reality). Luna 15 launches July 14, 1969; crash landing (in Sea of Crisis) and loss of contact on July 21. Nevsky, Stumpelkin, Gogol and Lympyet later fly Earth orbital missions in the 1970s and 1980s; Nevsky becomes commander of Cosmonaut Corps and visits Tranquillity Base with Stumpelkin at turn of century. Boris Prishkin was a cosmonaut in the early days of the Russian program; Katya Prishkin was one of four female cosmonauts trained for Vostok 6.[115]
Charles "Ace" Galvin, Lt. Col. Buzz Thompson	Wings The Wrong Stuff (1994), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Moonwalker Galvin is invited to endorse Sandpiper Air.[171]
Grandpa (unnamed), CDR	Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon (1996), picture book	Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM	Contemporary
	Apollo astronaut tells his grandchild bedtime story about his trip to the Moon.[172]
Unnamed astronaut	In the MSOB (1996), short story	Apollo	c. 2020
	The last surviving astronaut to walk on the Moon is euthanized in nursing home.[173][174]
Prospero One Roly Gough, Wg Cdr (Commander) Geoff Lighthill, Dr Bob Nash (CAPCOM)	Prospero One (1996), short story	Prospero	April 26, 1974 (Alternate History)
	Crew of the first independently launched British spacecraft. Story set in same alternate history as Stephen Baxter's Voyage (q.v.).[175]
Apollo 3? Alan York (USAF) Unknown program: Daniel Gary Frederick March	Rats Saw God (1996), novel	Apollo	Contemporary
	Moonwalker York has troubled teenage son.[176]
NASA: Ted Curval Bob Gold (Scientist-astronaut) Apollo 11: Joseph "Joe" Muldoon, Col. (LMP) X-15: Philip "Phil" Stone, Maj. (USAF) Apollo/Moonlab: Charles "Chuck" Jones, CDR James "Jim" Dana Phil Stone Moonlab/Soyuz: Grissom Joe Muldoon, Col. (CDR) Adam Bleeker Phil Stone Komarov Vladimir Pavlovich Viktorenko, Lt. Col. (Commander) Aleksandr Solovyov Apollo-N: Chuck Jones, CDR Jim Dana, CMP Ben Priest, Col.	Voyage (1996), novel	NASA: Apollo 11 NASA/USAF: X-15-1 NASA: Apollo/Moonlab: Enterprise (CSM) Moonlab (Wet Workshop) Moonlab/Soyuz: Grissom (CSM) Soyuz T-3 (Komarov) Moonlab Apollo-N (NERVA)	July 1969 (Alternate History) October 27, 1969 (Alternate History) August 1976 (Alternate History) November–December 1980 (Alternate History) November 28-December 4, 1980 (Alternate History)
	In alternate history, Muldoon is Apollo 11 LMP rather than Buzz Aldrin; Stone flies 200th and last mission of X-15 program in October 1969. Jones, Dana and Stone place Moonlab in lunar orbit in 1976. Soyuz T-3 (launched with N-1 rocket) docks with NASA Moonlab on December 1, 1980. Apollo-N, 1980 test flight of NERVA engine, ends in disaster.[95]
Apollo: Slade (CDR) Al Pond (CMP) Bado, Col. (USAF) (LMP) Apollo: Williams (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut Soviet mission: Unnamed cosmonaut Prometheus: Jim Richards, Capt. (RAF) Taine (no first name given)	Moon Six (1997), Sun-Drenched (1998), short stories	Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM Apollo Unnamed LM/Lunar Payload Module/Lunar Flying Unit Soviet lunar lander Royal Air Force: Prometheus (Alpha/Beta)	1970 (Alternate Histories)
	In Moon Six, Bado finds himself shifting between parallel universes while on the Moon; in Sun-Drenched, Slade and Bado are stranded on Moon when Command Module explodes in lunar orbit, killing Pond. Landing near Surveyor 7 or 8 landing site, near Tycho.[177][178]
Apollo 18 Bruce Cortney, CMP Apollo 19 Gary Lucas, CDR Victor "Vic" Kendall, CMP Charles "Charlie" Shepherd, LMP Apollo 20 Bruce Cortney, CDR	Ice (2002), novel	Apollo 18 Unnamed CSM/LM Apollo 19 Quest (CSM)/Starlight (LM) Apollo 20 Unnamed CSM/LM	February 1975
	Apollo 19 astronauts on a mission to the Aitken Basin; Apollo 20 recovery mission. Apollo 18 mission to Schröter's Valley in the Ocean of Storms is part of back-story.[179]
Robert "Bobby" Paradise	Paradise (2004), film	Apollo	Contemporary
	Apollo astronaut who becomes a televangelist after his return to Earth.
Chet Aston	Astronaut of the Year (2005), short story	Apollo?	Contemporary
	Veteran of thirteen spaceflights has become lonely and rude in his old age.[180][181]
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.[182]
Unnamed CSM/LM Frank Allen, CDR Unnamed CMP Max Donnelly, LMP	The Cassandra Project (2010), short story	Apollo	Late 1968
	Secret landing before Apollo 11 to investigate alien dome in Cassegrain Crater. Astronauts' names changed in 2012 novel adaptation.[183]
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.
Cmdr. Nathan "Nate" Walker, CDR Lt. Col. John Grey, CMP Capt. Benjamin "Ben" Anderson, LMP	Apollo 18 (2011), film	Apollo Freedom (CSM)/Liberty (LM)	December 1974
	Apollo 18 astronauts on top-secret DOD mission to the lunar south pole discover dead Russian cosmonaut and alien life.
Vance Peterson, Col.	Adrift on the Sea of Rains (2012), novella	Apollo	Late 1980s (Alternate History)
	Commander of US military Moon base which follows on from, and uses hardware developed for, the Apollo program.
Unnamed CSM/LM Sidney Myshko, CDR Brian Peters, CMP Louie "Crash" Able, LMP[lower-alpha 9] Frank Kirby, CAPCOM Unnamed CSM/LM Aaron Walker, CDR Amos Bartlett, CMP Lenny Mullen, LMP	The Cassandra Project (2012), novel	Apollo	January 11–21, 1969 April 1969
	Secret landings before Apollo 11 to investigate alien dome in Cassegrain Crater.[184]
Apollo 18 Cmdr. Robert "Bob" Cartwright, CDR Maj. Steve Dayton, CMP Mason Gale, LMP Rick Delahousse, CAPCOM Rodinia Col. Boris Vasiliyevich Petrov (Commander) Alexander Ivanovich "Sasha" Kruchinkin (Cosmonaut-Engineer)	Sea of Crises (2012), novel	Apollo Lexington (CSM)/Concord (LM) Soviet Union: Rodinia	September 1976 / Contemporary
	Apollo 18 mission to Mare Crisium to investigate secret Soviet moonbase.[185]
Unnamed astronaut	Louie Model (2014), TV	Apollo	Contemporary
	Former astronaut who walked on Moon punches Louie after he injures his daughter.

Modern period

Astronauts from recent times, mostly using the Space Shuttle.

1975–1979

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
(1975–1979)
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 working under the auspices of the United States Space Authority (USSA) to carry out the first test of a nuclear fusion reactor in earth orbit.[186][187]
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.[188]
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.
Unnamed CSM/LM; 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 Unnamed CSM/LM, Orpheus (CSM), 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.[189]
Floyd Hartwell, Andrew Bukowski Capt, (Air Force Astronaut Wing), Leonard Dmetriev (USSR), Unnamed Chinese Astronaut	Impact! (1979), novel	Argonaut XX	Contemporary?
	International astronauts on a mission to prevent an asteroid impacting Earth.[190]
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.[191]
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.[192]
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 / Spacecraft	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 conducting an EVA in the cargo bay.[193][194]
Erhardt (Cmdr) Jensen (Co-pilot) Halverson Garcia (First names not given)	A Cold Wind From Orion (1980), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Astronauts of the United States Space Agency (USSA) on a mission to prevent the uncontrolled re-entry of an orbiting bioweapons laboratory.[lower-alpha 10][195]
Three unnamed cosmonauts	Death Beam (1981), novel	Soviet Space Shuttle Space Station	Near future
	Cosmonauts assigned to assist the assembly of an orbital particle beam weapon aboard the Soviet Union's new permanently manned space station.[196]
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.[197]
Unnamed American Astronauts	The Mahdi (1981), novel	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary/Near Future (Alternate 1980s)
	Astronauts on a mission to place a satellite in geosynchronous orbit over the city of Mecca.[198]
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.[199]
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.[200][201][202][203][204]
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.
Roger Canfield Jennifer Tate David Ackroyd	The Astronauts (1982), TV	NASA: Scilab	Near Future
	Unsold pilot for American remake of British sitcom about astronauts on space station.[205]
Alan Shepley (Pilot) Hinton (Co-Pilot) (no first name given)	Memories of the Space Age (1982), short story	Space Shuttle	Near Future
	Hinton murders former Apollo astronaut Shepley in orbit, causing time to slow to a stop in Florida.[206][207]
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. [lower-alpha 11][208]
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.[159]
Excalibur: White Hess Frisch Carroll (First names not given) Soyuz: Vladimir Sergeevich Danilov Yuriy Ivanovich Zhukov	Kiev Footprint (1983), novel	Space Shuttle Excalibur Soyuz	Alternate 1980s
	After the space shuttle Excalibur loses contact with Earth while on a military mission, the Soviet Union sends a Soyuz to investigate.[209]
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 and Salyut 10.[210]
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.[211]
Florida Arklab Billy Hayes Max Marek Maryland Eva Thompson Gregor Vandenburg	The Noah's Ark Principle (1984), film	Space Station Florida Arklab Space Shuttle Maryland	Near Future 10 November 1997 - 13 November 1997
	Astronauts of the United States/European Space Agency (USESA) who find themselves caught up in a murderous conspiracy.[212][213]
Ellen Vale, Dr. John Fitch Robert Malfi	The Sheriff and the Astronaut (1984), TV	NASA	Contemporary
	Unsold crime drama pilot about Vale's romance with sheriff of Carrow County.[214]
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.[215]
Yurii Ryumin Vladimir Malyshev	Cold Sea Rising (1985), novel	Soyuz? Soyuz P7	1999
	Cosmonauts on an Earth-sciences mission similar to that of Soyuz 22 who observe a volcanic eruption separate the Ross ice shelf from the Antarctic continent.[216]
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.[217][218]
Rick Halman, Maj. (Commander) Jeff Cooper, Capt. (Pilot) Brett Hilton (Mission Specialist) Nat Cramer (Project Specialist) Frank Hardy (passenger) Joe Hardy (passenger) Chet Morton [Chester "Chet" Morton Jr.] (passenger)	The Hardy Boys The Skyfire Puzzle (1985), novel	Space Shuttle Skyfire Spacelab	Contemporary (Summer)
	The Hardys and their friend Chet Morton participate in shuttle mission linked to industrial espionage case.[219]
Alexis Gnutov	Silent Warriors (1985), novel	Soyuz Salyut Salyut 27, "Lenin"	Near Future
	Cosmonaut on a solo mission to a Salyut. Killed when the experimental laser weapon he is testing explodes on the first firing attempt.[220]
Becky Don Gary (no last names given)	The Twilight Zone "Chameleon" (1985), TV	Space Shuttle Discovery	Contemporary
	NASA astronauts performing EVA when alien intelligence hitches ride on shuttle.
Edward Jupp, Maj. Larry Wahlquist, Newman, Col. (First name not given)	The Krone Experiment (1986), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Crew of a space shuttle on a military mission to capture a Soviet military satellite.[221]
Andie Bergstrom	SpaceCamp (1986), film	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary
	Astronaut camp instructor who is accidentally launched into space with a bunch of teenagers.
Jim Hollis, Cdr., USN (Commander) Rachel "Rocky" Garvey, Lt. Col., USAF (Pilot)	The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force (1986), novel	Space Shuttle Constitution (simulator)	Contemporary
	Epilogue features astronauts on simulated space shuttle mission.[222]
Antares Blacky Moran, Cmdr (USN), Cmdr Susan York, Co-Pilot Adrienne Cortez, MS (Brazil) Georgi Mikoyan (USSR) Unnamed Japanese astronaut Unnamed Swedish astronaut Unnamed New Zealander astronaut	Zoboa (1986), novel	Space Shuttle Antares Space Station Olympus	Near Future
	Islamic extremists try to use stolen nuclear weapons to destroy Cape Canaveral.[223]
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.[224]
Gordon McAfee Col, Unnamed astronauts	Cthulhu Now "The Killer Out of Space" (1987), role playing game	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary/Near future [lower-alpha 12]
	While on a two week mission Atlantis encounters something strange in space forcing an emergency landing in Kansas.[226]
Space Shuttle: Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. 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.[227]
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.[228]
Bob Campbell Victory: Lawrence Joshua "Law" Kincaid, Col. (USN) Unnamed astronauts	Long Time Coming (1988), novel	Space Shuttle Victory	Contemporary
	Kincaid, who signed a peace treaty with Russia in space, discovers he has a teenage son.[229]
Roger Houston (Commander) Buzz Airfields (Pilot) Joy Rider (Scientist)	Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers "Out to Launch" (1989), TV	Spaceplane	Contemporary/Near Future
	The Rescue Rangers must save an experimental spaceplane after a meteor strike.
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.[230]
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[lower-alpha 13]	Night Launch (1989), novel	Space Shuttles: 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.[231]
Tucker Wilson, Col. (USAF) (Commander) Fred Hagen (USAF) (Pilot) Conners, Capt. (USAF) (Mission Specialist) Miller (USAF) (Mission Specialist) Holmquist (USAF) (Payload Specialist) (First names not given for last three)	Phases of Gravity (1989), novel	Space Shuttle	November 1988
	Classified shuttle mission carrying Department of Defense payload. Wilson is an Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle veteran.[168]
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.[232][233]
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.[234][235]

1990–1999

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
(1990–1999)
General Yogure	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Space Shuttle USA	1990
	Assists the turtles to prevent Krang and Shredder from heating up the Earth.[236]
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.[237]
(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 shuttle's systems fail on final approach.[238]
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.[239]
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.[240]
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 and 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 world's first commercial space-station.[241]
Youri Souzof, Lt.	Le Cosmonaute oublié (1993), chapter book	Mir 92	Contemporary/Near Future
	After being stranded on space station for a year and a half, cosmonaut receives extraterrestrial visitor.[242]
Freedom: Alex Seerey, Col. John Quanty, Maj. Hugh Lyghtson Scott Dawkins Joseph King Celia Hereson Lee Wynn Judith Cianta Lincoln: Two unnamed astronauts (Commander and 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.[243]
Steve Swain, Capt. (USAF) Perry Housman, Col. (USAF)	The Hardy Boys Casefiles Mission: Mayhem, A Taste for Terror (1994), novels	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Former astronauts instruct Frank and Joe Hardy's team at Space Academy in Huntsville, Alabama. Later, Housman invites the Hardys to explorers' conference in Tunisia.[244][245]
Buzz Aldrin Homer Simpson Race Banyon	The Simpsons 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.[246]
James Monroe	The Monroes (1995), TV	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Former astronaut, member of powerful Kennedy-like family.
Phillips (Commander) O'Brien (Pilot) Lambert, Dr. (Mission Specialist) Meyer (Payload Specialist) (No first names given)	My Life as an Afterthought Astronaut (1995), chapter book	Space Shuttle Encounter Space Station One	Contemporary/Near Future
	13-year-old Wally McDoogle accidentally stows away aboard shuttle on space station assembly mission.[247]
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.[248]
Mark Fortunato Unnamed astronauts	The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space (1995), chapter book	Space Shuttle Spacelab	Contemporary
	Animate plant flies aboard shuttle on Spacelab mission.[249]
Atlantis: Rick Spencer Pierre Renaud (Canada) (Payload Specialist) Three unnamed astronauts Discovery: Tessa "Tess" McClain Yoshiko Sugano (Japan) (Payload Specialist) Four unnamed astronauts Apollo: Rick Spencer (CDR) Yoshiko Sugano (CMP) Tessa McClain (LMP)	Abandon in Place (1996), novella	Space Shuttle Atlantis Discovery Spacelab Apollo The Spirit of Hope (CSM)/Faith (LM)	Near Future (2000s)
	Shortly after Neil Armstrong's death, ghostly Saturn Vs begin launching from Kennedy Space Center. Faith lands at edge of Aitken Basin. Expanded into novel in 2000.[250][251]
Henry J. "Bull" Eckert, Col. (Chief of the Astronaut Office) Ezekiel "Zeke" Beaumont, Capt. Barbara DeSantos, Lt. Cmdr. Jack Riles, Maj. Tamara St. James (Mission Specialist) Reginald Warren, Maj.	The Cape (1996–7), TV	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	NASA career astronauts.[252]
Monte Beaman (Commander) Victor Lutz (Pilot) Shannon Thorpe (Mission Specialist) RoxeAnn Karch (Payload Specialist) Tod Cochran (Payload Specialist) Elliot Andrew Schroeder (Junior Astronaut/Payload Specialist)	Countdown (1996), novel	Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-97)	Contemporary/Near Future
	14-year-old Elliot Schroeder flies aboard Endeavour on Mission to Planet Earth flight as NASA's first Junior Astronaut.[253]
Endeavour: Lori Kirsten (Commander) Henry Janesh (Pilot) Chris Terence, Dr. (Mission Specialist #1) Dirk Rodriguez (Mission Specialist #2) Sharon Goldman (Mission Specialist) Harold Spearman (Mission Specialist) J. T. Murphy (Mission Specialist) Apollo II: Lori Kirsten (Pilot) Chris Terence International Space Station: Tatiana Haldin (Russia) (Commander) Peter Mikhailovich Denisov (Russia) (Engineer) François Raymond (France) (Mission Specialist) Jiro Kawaguchi (Japan) (Mission Specialist)	Encounter with Tiber (1996), novel	Space Shuttle Endeavour Apollo II International Space Station	2002 2006
	Shuttle carrying Habitation Module to the ISS experiences engine failure and crashes in Atlantic Ocean. Four years later, Kirsten and Terence arrive on ISS as Earth receives alien signal from Alpha Centauri.[254]
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.[255][256]
Atkins, Lt. Cmdr. Recovery One: Russell, Maj. (CDR) Mark Lowrey, Lt. Cdr. (PLT) Mission Specialists 1 and 2 (unnamed)	JAG Recovery (1996), TV	Space Shuttle Atlantis (Recovery One)	1996
	Atkins is killed while training as pilot of shuttle mission to be launched from Vandenberg AFB. JAG investigators Harmon Rabb and Meg Austin try to determine who is responsible so that the shuttle can launch to place a spy satellite in its proper orbit.
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.
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.
David (Commander) Barbie [Barbara Millicent Roberts] (Pilot) Dan (Mission Specialist) Robin (Mission Specialist) Kira (Mission Specialist) (No last names given)	Barbie: Shooting for the Stars (1998), chapter book	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Mission to repair Mitchell Telescope (apparently similar to Hubble Space Telescope). Cf. Astronauts in other media below.[257]
Pete Miller, Cmdr. Jeremy Sanchez, Pilot Dave Cameron, Payload Specialist (PS) Dennis Franks, Mission Specialist (MS)	Bright Star (1998), novel	Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary
	Astronauts on a mission to launch a prototype SDI weapon.[258]
Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner, Capt. Oren Monash, Pilot 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.
NASA: Chad Connors Rick Delahunt (USN) (Commander, STS-97) Clint Hurley (Acting Chief Astronaut) Melinda Pruett Jerome "Jerry" Rager, Lt. Col. (US Army) Arnaldo Rivera (CAPCOM) Jinx Seamans (Deputy Chief of Astronaut Office) Sarah Wall STS-76: Jackson Willet (Commander) Joseph "Joe" Buerhle, Col. (USAF) (Pilot) (also Commander, STS-90, Discovery) Kelly Gessner (Mission Specialist) (also MS, STS-93) Christy Nasvik Carlos Rivera STS-95: Ronald "Ron" Kubiak, Capt. (USN) (Commander) Sandra Rhodes, Maj. (USAF) (Pilot) Dolores McCoy (Mission Specialist) Brian Monteleone, Cmdr. (USN) (Mission Specialist) Norman Sakmar, Col. (USAF) (Mission Specialist) STS-96: Joseph (Commander) Mecom (Pilot) Teague (Mission Specialist 1) Holly (Mission Specialist 2) Whitefield (Mission Specialist 3) (no first names given) 1998 NASA Astronaut Group, "The Worms": Jeffrey Betts, Cmdr. (USN) Jason Borders, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) Anton Craig, Maj. (USAF) Karl Dennet, Capt. (USAF) Gunter Diemer John Essington Vardon Hall Diana Herron, Capt. (USAF) Melanie Juin (ESA) Viktor Kondratko, Lt. Col. (Russian Air Force/RSA) Mark Koskinen Thomas Moad, Cmdr. (USN) Ray Murdaugh, Capt. (USMC) Miguel Raquena Daniel Raybourne, Maj. (USAF) Geraldine Reed Donald Schuetz, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) Wayne Shelton Gregory "Greg" Yakubik, Capt. (US Army) (CAPCOM, STS-100) STS-100: Steven "Steve" Goslin, Lt. Col. (USMC) (Commander) (also Pilot, STS-79 and STS-90) Jeffrey "Jeff" Dieckhaus, Cmdr. (USN) (Pilot) (also STS-92) David "Dave" Freeh, Ph.D., Maj. (USAF) (Mission Specialist) Kelly Gessner (Mission Specialist) Donal "Don" O'Riordan (ESA) (Mission Specialist) Mark Koskinen (Mission Specialist 4) Viktor Kondratko (Mission Specialist 5) Russian Space Agency: Mir-29: Nikolai Dolgov (Commander) Nikolai Kazantsev (Flight Engineer) Gary McMinn (NASA) (returns on STS-95) Soyuz TM-28/Mir-30: Alexander Alexeyevich "Sasha-1" Shabarov, Lt. Col. (Russian Air Force) (Commander) Alexander V. "Sasha-2" Dergunov (Flight Engineer) Calvin "Cal" Stipe, Ph.D. (NASA) Mir-31: Yuri Petrenko (Commander) Vladimir "Volodya" Belokonev (Flight Engineer) Cal Stipe	Missing Man (1998), novel	NASA Space Shuttle: STS-95 (Atlantis) STS-96 (Columbia) STS-100 (Atlantis) Russian Space Agency Mir: Mir-29 Soyuz TM-28/Mir-30 Mir-31	October 14, 1998 – October 1999
	After surviving T-38 crash that kills Chief Astronaut Buerhle, a four-time Shuttle veteran, ASCAN Koskinen must fight to save his career. Stipe is only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Shuttles.[259]
Gus Malone (CAPCOM) Unnamed Astronauts	Nemesis (1998), novel	Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	Astronauts on mission to deflect an oncoming asteroid.[260]
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
	International Aeronautics and Space Administration (IASA) astronaut lost in space. His father was former astronaut Jack Crichton.
Tesla: Yuri Puskin (Russia) (Commander) Rene (France) (Co-Captain) (no last name given) Shuttle: Konrad (USA) (Astrophysicist/Pilot) Max "Mad Max" (USA) (Guest Cosmonaut) (no last names given)	In the Dead of Space (aka Space Fury) (1999), film	Russian Space Agency: Space Station Tesla Reserve shuttle	Near Future
	American astrophysicist Konrad and pro golfer Max join crew of space station, but one of the four people aboard is a murderer.
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	Near Future 15 April 2001 - 30 April 2001
	Crew of Space Shuttle Orion. Col. Rowland is killed when sabotage causes the shuttle to catch fire on the launch pad.[261]

2000–2009

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
(2000–2009)
Mir: Vladimir Kinotskin (Commander) Tsimion Borisovich Vladovka[lower-alpha 14] Tufts (USA) (no first name given) Rodya Baklunov (relieves Tufts) Relief crew: Misha Sorokin Ivan Pkhalaze Bobchek (no first/last name given)	Fall of a Cosmonaut (2000), novel	Mir Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	One year after Vladovka returns from Mir, Chief Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov investigates his disappearance.[262]
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.[263]
Gordon Brunswick (Commander) Sarah Drummond-Fournier, Ph.D. (Payload Specialist) Four unnamed astronauts	All Families are Psychotic (2001), novel	Space Shuttle	2001
	Grown-up thalidomide baby Sarah plans to have sex in orbit with Commander Brunswick.[264]
Grace Street, Dr.	Gloria Rising (2002), chapter book	Space Shuttle International Space Station	Contemporary
	Fourth-grader Gloria Jones meets Dr. Street in a supermarket checkout line.[265]
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 five years by a being called the Seeker to attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth.[lower-alpha 15]
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.
NASA: Michelle Robeson, Dr. STS-118: John Cost, Capt. (Commander/Pilot) Muswell (no first name given) Five unnamed astronauts	Orbiter (2003), graphic novel	Space Shuttle Venture (STS-118)	Near Future
	Venture disappears from Earth orbit, causing NASA to abandon human spaceflight. Ten years later Venture mysteriously reappears, technologically altered and with only Cost aboard. Robeson flew on final flight of shuttle Endeavor (sic); Cost previously flew on STS-109.[266]
Jeff Hale, Cmdr. (USAF) Scotty (no last name given)	Riverworld (2003), TV	Space Shuttle Frontier	2009
	When meteors strike Frontier during reentry, Hale finds himself in the bizarre afterlife known as Riverworld.
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.[267]
Rick Monroe Brian Poole	Falling Star (2004), short story	International Space Station	2050s (July)
	Decades after computer virus devastates human civilization, Monroe reminisces about being one of the last astronauts aboard ISS.[268]
Musa Khiromanovich Ivanov, Cmdr. (FKA) Anatole Konstantinovich Krivalapov, Flight Engineer (FKA) Sable Jones (NASA)	Time's Eye (2004), novel	Soyuz-TMA	2037
	Personnel returning from the International Space Station pass through a temporal discontinuity shortly after undocking.[269]
Jonas Venture, Dr. Thaddeus S. "Rusty" Venture, Dr. Dean Venture Henry Allen "Hank" Venture Brock Samson Anna Baldavich, Lt. Bud Manstrong, Col.	The Venture Bros. Careers in Science (2004), TV	Gargantua-1 (Space station) Shuttle 2	1971 / Contemporary
	Decades after Jonas Venture builds space station, his son and teenage grandsons are called in when a malfunction occurs.
Ron Scott (Flight Commander) Kathleen[lower-alpha 16] "Kate" Daniels, Ph.D. (Copilot) Al Murphy Robert "Bob" Paxton (Mission Specialist) Terri Schmidt (Mission Specialist) Leo Smith	The Korean Intercept (2005), novel	Space Shuttle Liberty (Shuttle Flight 72-L)	Near Future (November)
	Shuttle crash-lands near North Korean/Chinese border.[270]
Lei Dongjin, Lt. Col. Lin Xi, Maj.	Shenzhou (spacecraft) (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.[271][272]
Unnamed pilot	Toy Planes (2005), short story	Unknown (Caribbean island nation): Spaceplane	Near Future
	Caribbean island nation launches spaceplane using balloon platform.[273]
George Andrews (ASA chief astronaut) Intrepid: Bill Campbell (Pilot/Astronaut) Kip Dawson (Passenger)	Orbit (2006), novel	American Space Adventures (ASA): Intrepid (Air-launched spacecraft)	May 16 – 21, 2009
	Contest winner Dawson is stranded in low Earth orbit after micrometeor impact kills Campbell. Andrews is a former NASA astronaut.[274]
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.
Cal Howard, Col. James Adams, Cmdr.	Bones Spaceman in a Crater (2007), TV	NASA Space Transit Coalition (STC)	Contemporary
	Howard's dead body is found in crater in the desert.[275]
Luke Nelson, Cmdr. Jessica "Jess" Hart, Lt. (Pilot) Sandra "Sandy" Delgado, Lt. Craig Hurley, Maj. (USAF)	Law & Order: Criminal Intent Rocket Man (2007), TV	National Space Agency (NSA): Space Shuttle	Contemporary
	One month before she is scheduled to become youngest astronaut in space, shuttle pilot Hart is murdered in hotel room. Nelson and Delgado previously flew two missions together. Story partly inspired by Lisa Nowak case.[276]
Shenzhou 6: Xue Zhinuan Tong Shun Sun Bai Jiang Chin Unnamed mission: Zhang Tong	Onion News Network China Launches First Willing Manned Mission Into Space (2007), web video	China National Space Administration: Shenzhou 6 Unnamed mission	2005 Contemporary
	Zhang becomes first voluntary taikonaut in Chinese space program previously used to get rid of political prisoners.[277]
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 Earth's surface uninhabitable.[278]
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.
Atlantis: Benjamin "Tuck" Tucker, Jr., Cmdr. (USN) (Commander) Jessica "Jess" Ault (Pilot) Jared Finn (Canadian Space Agency) (Mission Specialist) Jodie Law (Mission Specialist) Russ Deaver (Senior Payload Specialist) Vincent "Vinny" Pistacchia, Jr. Rick "Raygun" Van Duren (USN) (CAPCOM) Legacy: Benjamin Tucker, Jr. (Commander) Lance Campbell (Pilot) Passengers: Daki Abe Theodore "Theo" Burke, Ph.D. (United States Secretary of State) James Donnelly (Journalist) Ginny Lin	Zero-G (2007), novel	NASA: Space Shuttle Atlantis SpaceVentures, Inc.: Legacy (Air-launched spaceplane)	Contemporary
	Tucker is sole survivor of Atlantis mission when his crewmates are poisoned by adulterated SAS patches. Eighteen months later, Tucker commands first commercial suborbital spaceflight with passengers. Campbell is a former NASA astronaut.[279]
Kanemoto Akira Takahara Kohei	The Clone Returns Home (2008), film	Space Development Society (ASDA) (Japan): Space Station	Near Future
	After Kanemoto dies in a space station EVA accident, Takahara agrees to take part in a human cloning experiment, allowing him to be regenerated after he also dies during an EVA.
Richard "Dick" Finley, Col. (USMC) ISS/Atlantis: Marga Jannsen (ESA) Lance Corliss (Payload Specialist)	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Lunacy (2008), TV	NASA: International Space Station Space Shuttle Atlantis	Contemporary
	Murdered Belgian astronaut Jannsen is found floating in river. Finley is an Apollo, Skylab and Shuttle veteran.[280]
Emerson (Commander) Pritchard, Lt. (no first names given)	Onion News Network Astronauts Suffer Agonizing, High-Pitched Death After Helium Leak (2008), web video	NASA: International Space Station	Contemporary
	Astronauts killed by bizarre malfunction aboard ISS.[281]
Robert Barrett (Mission Specialist/Protective Protocol Engineer) Cheryl Dan (no last names given for last two)	Onion News Network Astronaut Suspects NASA Using Him To Test Space's Effects On Fat People (2008), web video	NASA: International Space Station	Contemporary
	Conversation between Barrett and ground control.[282]
Travis O'Brien	Onion News Network NASA Simulator Prepares Astronauts For Rigors Of An Interview With Larry King (2008), web video	NASA	Contemporary
	ONN reporter tries out NASA's Larry King interview simulator. Astronaut O'Brien recently returned from 18-month space mission.[283]
Rick "Killer Whale" Robertson (Commander) Bill "Wolverine" White (Pilot) Laurel "Condor" Freeman (Payload Commander) Kenai "Nanook" Munro, Ph.D. (Payload Specialist) Mike "Alligator" Williams, Ph.D. (Mission Specialist) Sheik Jilal al-Hussein (Spaceflight participant)	Prepared for Rage (2008), novel	Space Shuttle Endeavour	November 2006 – July 2008
	Islamic terrorists attempt to shoot down shuttle Endeavour and its "Carnivore Crew".[284]
Dustin "Dusty" Chambers, Lt. Vince "Winger" Patrecchio Randy "Screwball" (No last name given) Mitch "Brooklyn" (No last name given) Guardian Rescue Mission: Lincoln "Lightning" Ripley, Lt. Col. (USAF) (Commander) Shelly London (Co-Pilot) Paul "Gunner" (Mission Specialist) (No last name given)	Cosmic Rendezvous (2009), novel	NASA Guardian Rescue Mission (GRM): Draco (air launch to orbit spacecraft)	Contemporary
	Space Shuttle veteran Ripley romances spacecraft designer London while training for secret military mission.[285]
Madison (Commander) (no first name given) Miranda Bach, Capt. (Payload Commander) Unnamed astronauts	Lost Tapes Alien (2009), TV	Space Shuttle Mission T-258	Spring 2008
	Bach is infected by alien spores from comet dust during EVA, causing alien creature to grow inside her.
Astronaut Mike Dexter	30 Rock Dealbreakers Talk Show#0001, Don Geiss, America and Hope, Emanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land (2009-2010), TV	N/A	Contemporary
	Imaginary boyfriend of Liz Lemon.

2010–2019

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
(2010–2019)
ISS: Krashinsky Space Eagle: Oleg Olesky (Captain) Tyler Kirkpatrick (Co-Pilot) Vladimir Fedorov Delia Chase (Passenger)	Endgame Huxley, We Have a Problem (2011), TV	International Space Station Chase Galactic: Space Eagle	Contemporary
	ISS veteran Olesky, slated to captain first commercial space carrier, is accused of murder. Kirkpatrick is a former NASA astronaut.[286]
Shenzhou 10: Chaoyang Xie, Lt. Col. Wu Changfeng, Maj. Xue Yimeng, Lt. Shenzhou 11: Zhang Tiancong, Col. Wang Guan San, Lt. Col. Zhou Xiaosu, Lt.	《飞天》 (2011), English title "Flying" Chinese film	Shenzhou program	2008–2014
	Chinese dramatization of a series of the manned spaceflights, following the "real" Shenzhou 7, to China's space station. Col. Zhang is a veteran taikonaut, passed over for the earlier manned missions, while Lieutenants Xue and Zhou are female fighter pilots, competing for the honor of being the first Chinese woman to be launched into space.
Intrepid: Tony Drake (ISA) (Commander) Malory Archer (ISIS) Sterling Malory Archer (ISIS) Cyril Figgis (ISIS) Raymond Q. "Ray" Gillette (ISIS) Lana Anthony Kane (ISIS) Pamela "Pam" Poovey (ISIS) Cheryl Tunt (ISIS) Horizon: Kellogg, Capt. (Commander) Dave Trish Unnamed astronauts	Archer Space Race: Part I, Space Race: Part II (2012), TV	International Space Agency (ISA): Space Station Horizon Space Shuttle Intrepid	Contemporary
	Agents of International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) are hired to take back Horizon from mutineers, but are actually required for a different purpose.
Nicholas Rice, Cmdr.	The Astro Outlaw (2012), chapter book	N/A	Contemporary
	Moon rock is stolen from astronaut during appearance at Houston Astros game.[287]
International Space Station: Bill Eriksson (Mission commander) Keith "Chip" Corcoran, Capt. (Ph.D.) (USAF) Tim Fisher Petra Gutierrez Mort Stevens (MS-2) International Space Station: Yoshida Eichhorn Jones Collins (no first names given) Unnamed astronaut	The Infinite Tides (2012), novel	Space Shuttle International Space Station	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut Corcoran tries to adjust to suburban life after his daughter dies while he is on the ISS.[288]
Fiona MacLeod Starr	Once Upon a Toad (2012), novel	Soyuz International Space Station	Contemporary
	NASA astronaut's daughter has weird experiences while her mother is in space.[289]
STS-157: Matthew "Matt" Kowalsky, Lt. (Commander) Ryan Stone, Dr. (Mission Specialist) Shariff Dasari (Mission Specialist) Evans Thomas	Gravity (2013), film	Space Shuttle Explorer (STS-157) International Space Station Soyuz TMA-14M Tiangong Shenzhou	Near Future
	Astronauts stranded in orbit after Kessler syndrome-inspired collision during spacewalk.[290]
Garrison Sterling	Space in the Heart (2013), novel	Space Shuttle	1999, 2010
	STS-107 shuttle mission specialist whose wife is murdered prior to his flight.
NASA: Andy Hawkins Roy Manley, Capt. (USN) International Space Station: Yuri Koslov, Cmdr. Michael Molly (no last names given) 3 unnamed astronauts Soyuz rescue vehicle: Unnamed cosmonaut	Space Warriors (2013), film	International Space Station Soyuz Soyuz rescue vehicle	Contemporary
	United States Space Camp participants, including former astronaut Hawkins' son, compete for ride to space aboard Orion II, but must intervene when crisis strikes the ISS.
Kev Paciorek (USN)	Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014), novel	NASA	Contemporary
	Astronaut kidnapped and questioned by college acquaintance.[291]

Futuristic

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

Moon

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
United States: Edward "Ed"[lower-alpha 17] McCauley, Col. Joseph "Joe" Hale, Maj. (Communications Officer) Renza Hale Billy Williams, Maj. (Navigational Officer) Patrick Donon, Maj. Mason Trett, Maj. Russ Russell, Dr. (Scientist) George Gould, Col. Jeffrey Tuttle, Capt. Kenneth Moresby, Capt. Rick Gordon, Lt. Frank Werner, Lt. Hal Roberts, Capt. Hargaves, Lt. Tom Farrow, Capt. (Radioman) Robbins, Capt. Brugle Peter Riber, Dr. Fadden Dan Freer, Capt. (Spacecraft commander) Charles Cooper, Dr. (Biologist) Neil Templeton, Lt. (Navigator) Dobbs, Lt. Pat Warren, Lt. Johnny Baker, Lt. Hardy Stockman, Maj. Markey, Maj. Oliver Farrar, Prof. (Astronomer) Jim Nichols (Astronomer)[lower-alpha 18] Warnecke, Maj. (Dr.) (Physician) Teal, Lt. Adams, Col. Bob Kelly, Lt. Prescott, Dr. (Scientist) David Orrin, Dr. (Scientist) Denny, Lt. Rowland Kennedy, Dr. (Scientist) Doug Bowers, Capt. John Arnold, Maj. Jimmy Manx (Reporter) Paul Carlson (Reporter) Gorman, Lt. Harold Carter, Dr. (Scientist) Perry Holcomb, Dr. (Scientist) Van Fleet, Capt. Narry, Dr. (Mineralogist) Bromfield, Dr. (Scientist) Rice, Dr. (Scientist) Orr, Dr. (Scientist) Stubblefield, Maj. Jim Blythe, Maj. Bernard Bush, Dr. (Scientist) George Coldwell, Dr. (Scientist) Guthrie Durlock, Dr. (Scientist) Walker, Lt. Kyle Rennish, Capt. (Photographer) Rudy Manton, Lt. McIntyre, Maj. Charles "Charlie" Randolph, Maj. John Leonard, Lt. Ingram, Maj. Tom Jackson, Maj. (Spacecraft commander) Henry, Capt. Parker, Dr. (Geologist) Richard "Dick" Jackson, Capt. Rumbough, Capt. Marlowe, Capt. Webb, Capt. (Radio Operator) Don Miller, Capt. Tim O'Leary, Maj. Frank Bartlett, Col. Tucker, Sgt. Vic Enright, Maj. Others Russia: Tolchek, Col. (Moon base commander) Gulyt, Maj. Kralenko, Maj. (NK-1 commander) Alexandrov, Col. Others	Men into Space (1959–60), TV	United States Air Force: Various missions Russia: Moon base NK-1	c. 1970–1980
	Future astronauts on Moon missions and Moon base crews.[292][293]
Aerobee: Ed McCauley, 1st Lt. Randy (alternate) X-21: Ed McCauley, Maj. (Pilot) Furness, Maj. (Observer) Space Platform: Ed McCauley, Maj. (Commander) Randy Hall, Capt. Sammy Breen, 2nd Lt. Grimaldi Base: Ed McCauley, Col. (Base Commander) Holmes Kent Unnamed communications officer 2 other crewmembers Venus ship: Ed McCauley, Col. (Commander) Randy Hall, Maj. (Second-in-Command) Bramwell, Dr. (civilian scientist) First Martian Expedition: Ed McCauley, Col. (Commander) Randy Hall, Maj. (Second-in-Command) Brett Joe Fallon (impersonating Andrew Fallon) (Mechanic) Hathaway (Meteorologist) Soames	Men into Space (1960), novel	Space Service (United States): Aerobee (suborbital rocket) X-21 (spaceplane) Space Platform Grimaldi Base (moonbase) Venus ship First Martian Expedition	c. 1960–1980[lower-alpha 19]
	Tie-in novel based on TV series of same name but featuring original stories. McCauley makes first manned spaceflight aboard Aerobee and first orbital spaceplane flight in X-21. First Martian Expedition lands on Eros to refuel en route to Mars.[294]
John Anderson, Capt. (US) Sigrid Bomark, Dr. (Sweden) Selim Hamid, Dr. (Turkey) Erich Heinrich, Dr. (Germany) Hideko Murata, Dr. (Physician) (Japan) Asmara Markonen, Dr. (Nigeria) Etienne Martel, Dr. (France) Robert "Roddy" Murdock Feodor Orloff, Dr. (Russia) Sir William Rochester, Dr. (UK) David Ruskin, Dr. (Israel) Luis Vargas, Dr. (Brazil)	12 to the Moon (1960), film	International Space Order	Future
	First manned Moon mission is international project.[295]
Perry Rhodan, Maj. Reginald Bell, Capt. Clark G. Fletcher, Capt. Eric Manoli, Lt. Mike Bull (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 landing on the moon – where they find a marooned alien space ship and its crew.[296]
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.[297]
Lee Stocker, Gen. (Commander) Clint Anderson, Maj. Diana Brice, Prof. Phillip Mendl, Dr. Ernie Travers, Lt.	The Outer Limits Moonstone (1964), TV	Lunar Expedition One	Near Future
	Moonbase crew make contact with alien fugitives.[298]
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.[299]
Schmidlap (US) Hoffman (US) Peter "Pete" Mattemore (US) Eileen Forbes (US) Igor Valkleinokov (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".[300]
Project Settlement: Perkins, Cmdr. Unnamed crew Project Rescue: Steve (no last name given) Unnamed crew	Night Gallery The Nature of the Enemy (1970), TV	U.S. Department of Space: Project Settlement Project Rescue	Near Future
	Astronaut on rescue mission discovers giant mousetrap on the Moon.[301]
Clarence "Clancy" Ballou Jack Roger (no last names given for last two)	Now I'm Watching Roger (1972), short story	Unknown	Future
	Interpersonal tensions among astronauts on moonbase.[302]
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.[303]
NASA: Douglas Cummings Don Wayne Wehrmacht: Franz Bethwig	Vengeance 10 (1980), novel	Unknown, V-10	May 6, 2009, flashback to 1938–45
	Two American astronauts stumble across the final remnants of Nazi Germany's Moon Program.[304]
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.[305]
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 and 10.[306]
Moonshadow: Patricia Jay "Trish" Mulligan Sanjiv Theresa (no last names given) Rescuer: Stanley (Mission Commander) (no first name given) Tanya Nakora	A Walk in the Sun (1991), short story	Moonshadow Rescuer	Future
	After Moonshadow crash-lands during Moon orbit mission, sole survivor Mulligan walks all the way around the Moon to remain in sunlight while awaiting rescue. Crash site near edge of Mare Smythii.[307][308]
Dmitri (no last name given)	Dmitri the Astronaut (1996), picture book	Unknown (United States)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut returns to Earth after two and a half years on the Moon to find that no one remembers him.[309]
Chris Terence, Dr. (USA) (Commander) Xiao Be (China) (Pilot) Peter Mikhailovich Denisov (Russia) (Engineer) Jiang Wu (China)	Encounter with Tiber (1996), novel	Tiber Two Tiber Prize (modified Apollo IIs)	2010
	Mission to retrieve alien technology from lunar south pole ends in tragedy.[254]
Constitution: Edward A. Graham, Jr., Cmdr. (Co-Pilot) Casey Hamilton, Lt. (Flight Engineer) Kenneth A. Moore, Lt. (Flight Mechanic) Richard Dunning, Sgt. (Mission Specialist) Walter Kahn, Dr. (Flight Surgeon) Space Station One: Chet Aldridge, Gen. (USSF) (Commander) Tom "Tommy" Sidwell Luna Two: Eugene M. "Gene" Parnell (Commander) Joseph K. "Joe" Laughlin Eight unnamed astronauts Sanger XS-1: Karl Schiller, Col. (West Germany) Constellation: P. A. Kingsolver, Capt. (Pilot) H. M. Trombly, Lt. Cmdr. (Co-Pilot) Conestoga: Gene Parnell, Cmdr. (Commander) Cristine September "Cris" Ryer, Capt. (USAF) (Pilot) Jay Lewitt, Lt. (Flight Engineer) Cecil Orvitz (impersonating Paul Aaron Dooley) (Computer programmer) Berkley Rhodes (Reporter) Alex Bromleigh (Cameraman/Producer) Koenig Selenen GmbH: James Patrick "Pat" Leamore (Executive Vice-President) Uwe Aachener (Astronaut-Candidate) Markus Talsbach (Astronaut-Candidate) Harpers Ferry: Curtis "Dr. Z" Zimm (Pilot) Space Station One: Joseph K. "Old Joe" Laughlin, Cdre. (USN) (Commander) Frierson, Lt. j.g. (NASA) Hollis, Lt. (NASA) Unnamed personnel Fido's Pride: Edmund "Poppa Dog" McGraw (Pilot) Billy Zenith-Two: Unnamed astronauts	The Tranquility Alternative (1996), novel	United States Air Force: U.S.S. Constitution (space ferry) United States Space Force (USSF): Space Station One ("the Wheel") Luna Two (Eagle Four lander) ESA: Sanger XS-1 (spaceplane) NASA: Constellation (Atlas-C space ferry) Space Station One U.S.S. Conestoga (Moonship) Harpers Ferry (space taxi) Fido's Pride (Mars Retriever 13) Tranquillity Base/Teal Falcon bunker ESA: Walter Dornberger (Sanger booster/Horus-class orbiter) North Korea: Zenith-Two (Ghost Rider)	April 10, 1956 (Alternate History) 1963-1966 (Alternate History) September 1969 (Alternate History) 1977 (Alternate History) February 16–22, 1995 (Alternate History)
	In alternate history, NASA launches final Moon mission in 1995 to turn over Tranquillity Base to German company. First manned space ferry flight in 1956 commanded by Chuck Yeager. Joint US-Soviet Ares One mission lands on Mars in July 1976 with Neil Armstrong and Alexei Leonov.[lower-alpha 20] Set in same alternate history as Steele's short stories "Goddard's People" and "John Harper Wilson" (q.v.).[310]
HayesCorp Moonship: Ishmael Hayes Elisabeth (no last name given) Bennett (Security) (no first name given) Subtropolis: Sam Houston (Subtropolis Systems) Jimmy Stevie G. (Foreman) Gene Tobol Aggie Bob Hennessey Betsy Warren MacPherson Unnamed personnel Channel Seven: Dave Archer (Reporter) Annie "Sparky" Franklin (Segment producer) Heck Allen (Cameraman)	Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon (1999), Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer (2000), graphic novels	HayesCorp: Moonship Cargo One Cargo Two Cargo Three Subtropolis (moonbase) Channel Seven: Newsvan	2019
	Channel Seven reporters report on HayesCorp returning humans to the moon, only to discover that billionaire Hayes has had a secret moonbase in the Sea of Showers for five years. Hayes' moonship lands north of Cassini Crater; Newsvan lands south of Autolycus.[96]
NASA: John Lakey (Chief of Astronaut Office) Deborah Kimbrough Jay Guidon (CAPCOM) Molly Peterson (CAPCOM) Nazarbeyev (Kazakhstan) (no first name given) Original STS-128 crew/ Endeavour crew: Olivia "Ollie" Grant, Col. (Ph.D.) (Commander) Tanya Brown (Pilot) Betsy Newell (Mission Specialist 1) Janet Barnes (Mission Specialist 2) Penny High Eagle (born Penelope Ingle), Ph.D. (Payload Specialist) (joins hijack crew) Hijack crew (MEC): Jack Medaris Craig "Hopalong" Cassidy, Capt. (Pilot) Virgil "Virg" Judd (Shuttle Main Engine Technician) Soyuz-Y: Olivia Grant Yuri Dubrinski, Col. (RSA) (pilot)	Back to the Moon (1999), novel	NASA: Space Shuttles Columbia (STS-128) Endeavour Russian Space Agency: Soyuz-Y Medaris Engineering Company (MEC): Elsie Elsie-2 (Landing Craft)	c. 2002 (July)
	On its last scheduled mission, shuttle Columbia is hijacked and flown to the Moon by former NASA engineer Medaris. Cassidy is an ex-NASA astronaut who flew on all the shuttles and Mir, helped repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and commanded Spacelab XXI. Nazarbeyev was a guest cosmonaut on Mir. Moon landing near Apollo 17 landing site in Taurus-Littrow.[311]
Collins (FS-6) Po Tseng, Col. Jerry Cochagne Joe DeSosa Dick Lebby Arminta Horo Paul Manch Iona Greer Aldrin/Farside Base (FS-5) Mike Mobley, Col. Louise Washington Ann Biso Bob Faden Frank Dryzmkowski Shinobu Takizawa	Blood Moon (1999), novel	Lunar Landing Modules Aldrin Collins Moonbase Farside	Near Future
	When contact is unexpectedly lost with the first astronauts to spend a full lunar day/cycle a rescue mission is hastily launched.[312]
Deke Gordon, Capt. PASE: Rachel Salerno, Cmdr. Hatcher (no first name given)	Poptropica Lunar Colony (2007-2013), online game and chapter book	Poptropica Academy of Space Exploration (PASE): Lunar colony Flight capsule Lunar lander	Future
	Alien artifacts are found near lunar colony. Gordon built first lunar facility decades earlier.[313]
Lloyd Nadolski, Capt. (Commander) Caitlin Hall, Lt. (LMP) Aldrich Coleman, Capt. (Habitat Commander) Samuel Wilson (Space Engineer) Peter D. Stanton (Space Engineer) Mia Nomeland (Norway) Midori Yoshida (Japan) Antoine Devereux (France)	Darlah – 172 timer på månen (aka 172 Hours on the Moon) (2008), novel	NASA Ceres (Command Module), Demeter (Lunar Module) Moonbase DARLAH 2	April 2018 – July 2019
	Teenagers Mia, Midori and Antoine win lottery to visit top-secret lunar base built in the 1970s in the Sea of Tranquility.[314]
Sam Bell	Moon (2009), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut tending an automated mining facility on the Moon's far side.
China National Space Agency: Gong Zheng Harmony: Hui Tian (Commander) Ming Feng (Pilot) Xu Guan, Dr. (Physician) Zhi Feng (Engineer/Political Officer) NASA: Charles Leonard (Pilot) Helen Menendez (Mission Specialist) Jim England Mercy I: Bill Stetson (Commander/Pilot) Anthony "Tony" Chow, M.D., Ph.D. (Mission Specialist) Dreamscape: Paul Gesling, Capt. (Commander/Pilot) Passengers: Matt Thibodeau Maquita Singer Sharik Mbanta Bridget Wells John Graves, Dr.	Back to the Moon (2010), novel	China National Space Agency: Harmony Space Excursions: Dreamscape (spaceplane) NASA (Constellation Program): Mercy I (Orion/Altair)	2020s (August)
	On commercial circumlunar flight, Dreamscape picks up distress call from crashed Chinese lander Harmony on lunar service. NASA reconfigures planned Moon landing as rescue mission. Leonard and Menendez are assigned to moon landing before crew is cut back to allow taikonauts to be rescued.[315]
Marcia Beckett, US (Commander) Yuri Petrov, Russia Three unnamed NASA astronauts One unnamed Russian cosmonaut	The Cassandra Project (2010), short story	Minerva	2026
	Joint US-Russian mission, first manned Moon landing since Apollo 17. Landing in Mare Maskelyne. Mission omitted in 2012 novel adaptation. Sid Myshko named as commander of earlier orbital mission.[183]
Morgan "Bucky" Blackstone Ben Gaines (Pilot) Marcia Neimark Phil Bassinger	The Cassandra Project (2012), novel	Blackstone Enterprises Sidney Myshko	2019
	First private manned mission to Moon. Neimark and Bassinger make landing in Cassegrain Crater.[316]
George Gompers (Commander) Tom Conrad, Lt. Cmdr. (USAF) (Pilot) Fred Phillips, Lt. (Engineer) Maxon Mann, Dr. (Roboticist)	Shine Shine Shine (2012), novel	NASA: Aeneid rocket	Contemporary/Near Future
	NASA astronauts on mission to colonize the Moon with robots.[317]
Mike Rodriguez, Cmdr. (USN) (Pilot) Davis O'Neil (no first names given) Dale (Backup/CAPCOM) (no last name given)	The Irish Astronaut (2013), short story	NASA: Aquarius	Near Future
	After Aquarius disintegrates on return to Earth from the Moon, Dale brings Rodriguez' remains to County Clare in Ireland. Rodriguez was a member of NASA Astronaut Group 19.[318][319]
Unnamed (Narrator) Anna (no last name given) MDash Steve Wong	Alan Bean Plus Four (2014), short story	Alan Bean (Command Module)	July–September 2014
	Four friends fly around Moon in privately built spacecraft purchased from widow of pool-supply businessman.[320]
Lundvik (Captain) Duke Henry	Doctor Who Kill the Moon (2014), TV	Space Shuttle	2049
	Space shuttle crew travels to Moon, which is mysteriously gaining mass, endangering life on Earth. Landing near Mare Fecunditatis.[321]

"Counter-Earth"

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
John Kane (UK) (Scientist) 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
	European Space Exploration Complex (EUROSEC) mission to a newly discovered unknown planet orbiting on exactly the opposite side of the Sun from Earth.[322]
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.

Mercury

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Clifford Greenberg, Col.	2061: Odyssey Three (1987), novel	Unknown	2030s
	First man on Mercury, who landed at the south pole, joins the complement of the luxury spaceliner Universe thirty years later for the first landing on Halley's Comet.[323]

Venus

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Harringway Hawling, Prof. (Commander/Physicist) (US) Raimund Brinkman/Robert Brinkman (Pilot) (Germany) (American in US version) Durand, Prof. (Chief Engineer) (USSR) (French in US version) Lao Tsu/Chen Yu, Dr. (Linguist/Biologist) (China) Sumiko Omigura, M.D. (Physician) (Japan) Orloff, Prof. (Engineer/Nuclear Physicist) (Poland) Sikarna, Prof. (Mathematician) (India) Talua (Communications)	First Spaceship on Venus (1960), film	World Federation for Space Research: Luna 3 (Moonbase) Kosmostrator One	1985
	First mission to Venus discovers remnants of extinct civilization. Some names and nationalities different in original German version; in US version, Brinkman was first American on Moon.[324]
Jerry Garfield (Engineer-Navigator) Graham "Hutch" Hutchins, Dr (Biologist) George "Cole" Coleman (Scientist)	Before Eden (1961), short story	Morning Star	Future (before 2010)
	Discoverers of life near the south pole of Venus.[325]
Barbara Clinton (Captain) (USCG Aux) Dana Perry (Navigator/Medical Technician) Joanna Sue Toliver (Engineer)	Sea Hunt The Aquanettes (1961), TV	Operation Astronette	Contemporary
	Woman astronauts training for mission to Venus.
Vega: Kern/Alfred Kerns, Capt. Scherba/Allan Sherman/Howard Sherman Masha/Marsha Evans[lower-alpha 21] Sirius: Ilya Vershinin/Brandon Lockhart/William "Billy" Lockhart, Cmdr. Alyosha/André Ferneau Bobrov/Hans Walters	Planeta Bur (aka Planet of Storms, Cosmonauts on Venus) (1962), film Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), film Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967), film	Soviet Union: Sirius Vega Capella (ships unnamed in Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women)[lower-alpha 22] United States: Space Station Texas (Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women only)	Near Future (Planeta Bur) 2020 (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet) 1998–2000 (Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women)
	Three-spacecraft expedition to Venus loses spacecraft Capella to meteor; other two crews discover reptilian creatures and evidence of intelligent life. Film was twice re-edited for American release with character names changed.[326]
Jefferson "Jeff" Barton, Brig. Gen.	The Outer Limits Cold Hands, Warm Heart (1964), TV	Project Vulcan	Near Future
	Astronaut afflicted by a mysterious disease after a mission to Venus.[327]
Arcturus III: Two unnamed astronauts Arcturus IV: Unnamed astronaut	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea The Silent Saboteurs (1965), TV	United States: Arcturus III Arcturus IV	1976
	When foreign power uses force field to destroy Arcturus III on re-entry, Seaview personnel must save Arcturus IV from same fate.[328]
Arthur "Artie" Cory (last names not given)	I Am the Doorway (1971), short story	Project Zeus	Near Future (after 1979)
	Presumed NASA crew on flight to Venus similar to cancelled Manned Venus Flyby. Arthur infected with alien organism, possibly during Cory's EVA; left paraplegic when parachutes malfunction. Cory dies in landing. Other astronauts mentioned: Markhan and Jacks made first Mars landing in 1979; Pedersen and Lederer lost in solar orbit on Apollo mission; John Davis killed by meteoroid strike on orbital observatory.[329][330]
Kennedy II: X Y Z (Commander) (names not given) Venus mission: Joseph "Joe" Jackson/Jack Josephson, Capt. (Commander) Harry M. Evans, Col. (USAF) (Co-Pilot)	Beyond Apollo (1972), novel	Kennedy II (Mars spacecraft) Unknown (Venus spacecraft)	May 1976 1981
	After disastrous manned Mars mission in 1976, two-man Venus mission ends in madness and death.[331]

Mars

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Samuel A. "Sam" Conrad Warren Marcusson	Brothers Beyond the Void (1952), short story The Twilight Zone People Are Alike All Over (1960), TV	Unknown	Near Future
	Travellers to Mars; Marcusson is killed on landing, Conrad imprisoned by Martians. (In short story Marcusson travels to Mars alone, and his first name is Charles.)[332][333][334]
Mars 1: Edward "Ed" McCauley, Col. (Commander) Jim Nichols, Capt.[lower-alpha 23] Ralph Devers, Maj. Mars 2: Edward McCauley, Col. (Commander) Vic Devery, Maj. James Nichols, Capt.[lower-alpha 24] Morrow, Dr. (Scientist) Russia: Tolchek, Col. (Commander) Gulyt, Maj.	Men into Space Mission To Mars, Flight To the Red Planet (1960), TV	United States Air Force: Mars 1 Mars 2 Russia: Unnamed spacecraft	c. 1970–1980
	Initial efforts to reach Mars. Mars 1 aborts flight to rescue Russian crew; Mars 2 lands on Phobos.[292][293]
M-1: Fred Thomas, Capt. (Commander) Paul Lazzari, Capt. M-2: Charles "Lucky" Merritt, Maj. (Commander) James "Jim" Bowman, Lt. Jack Buckley, Capt. Frank Johnson, Capt.	The Outer Limits The Invisible Enemy (1964), TV	M-1 M-2	2021 2024
	Investigating the deaths of the two-man crew of the M-1 mission, the M-2 crew discovers carnivorous creatures living under the Martian sands.[335][336]
Dan McReady, Col. (Commander) 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.[337]
Walt Dangerfield Lydia Dangerfield	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965), novel	Dutchman IV	c. 1980s
	Mars-bound astronauts trapped in Earth orbit by the outbreak of World War III.[338]
Alec Barham, Col.	The Outer Limits The Brain of Colonel Barham (1965), TV	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut dying of leukemia volunteers for project to install his brain in Mars probe.[339]
Kane, Col. (Commander) Beard "Doc" Harlow, Maj. Nazarro (Radioman) (No first names given)	The Time Tunnel One Way To The Moon (1966), TV	Mars Excursion Module (M.E.M.) 4	1978
	American astronauts on first manned Mars flight make emergency landing on Moon in Mare Nectaris.[340][341]
American (unnamed) Russian (unnamed) Chinese (unnamed)	I tre cosmonauti (aka The Three Astronauts) (1966), picture book	Unknown	Future
	Three astronauts who land simultaneously on Mars.[342]
Swenson, Col. (Command Pilot) Witthoft Reilly, Dr. (First names not given)	Pioneer Trip (1967), short story	Unknown	c. 1976
	Crew of the first manned US mission to Mars, faced with a critical medical emergency five weeks out from Earth.[343]
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.[344]
Shioda, Dr. Mars mission: Sano (Captain) Lisa (Biologist) (US) Miyamoto (Communications Officer) Stein, Dr. (Physician) Rescue rocket: Michiko	The X from Outer Space (1967), film	AAB Gamma Lunar Base Rescue rocket	Future
	Seventh attempted Mars mission after previous missions disappeared. Shioda is replaced by Stein due to illness.[345]
Mike Blaiswick (Pilot) Duncan Nick Grant (Geologist) Soviet Union: Three unnamed cosmonauts	Mission Mars (1968), film	Unknown	Future
	American astronauts encounter deadly sphere on Mars.[346]
Mars Probe 6 Carrington, Maj. Jim Daniels Mars Probe 7 Joe Lefee Frank Michaels Recovery 7 Charles "Charlie" Van Lyden	Doctor Who The Ambassadors of Death (1970), TV	Mars Probe Project (UK)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Daniels was killed on Mars by non-Martian aliens during Mars Probe 6 mission, driving Carrington insane. Van Lyden attempts recovery of Lefee and Michaels.
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.[347]
NASA: Henry C. "Hank" Barstow, Col. (Chief of Astronaut Office) Bertrand L. "Bert" Richmond, Col. (Director of Flight Crew Operations) Tom Andretti Bill Desey Rick Johnson Dave McWharter Dick Ohlman Allan "Al" Samson Bill Wheatley Planetary Fleet One: Conrad H.[lower-alpha 25] "Connie" Trasker, Jr., Col. (USAF) (Mission Commander/MLV Commander) Alvin S. "Jazz" Weickert III, Cmdr. (USN) (CSV Commander) J. V. "Jayvee" Halleck, Dr. (MSV Commander) Petros S. "Pete" Balkis, M.D. (MSV Co-Commander) Stuart "Stu" Yule, Lt. Col. (CAPCOM) Roger Webb, Col. (USAF) (Backup CSV Commander) Planetary Fleet Two: Conrad H. Trasker, Jr. (Mission Commander/MLV Commander) Hugo S. "Gaudy" Gaudet, Cmdr. (USN) (CSV Commander) Emerson "Em" Wacker, Dr. (MSV Commander) Robert "Bob" Curtis, Dr. (MSV Co-Commander) Soyuz 19: Two unnamed cosmonauts	The Throne of Saturn (1971), novel	NASA Space Station Mayflower Project Argosy: Planetary Fleet One ("Piffy One"): Mars Landing Vehicle (MLV) (Santa Maria) Command-Service Vehicle (CSV) (Nina [sic]) Medico-Scientific Vehicle (MSV) (Pinta) Mars Landing Module (MLM) (Adventurer) Planetary Fleet Two ("Piffy Two"): MLV (Santa Maria) CSV (Nina) MSV (Pinta II) MLM (Adventurer) Soviet Union: Space Station Stalin Soyuz 19 ("Man in the Moon")	Late 1970s (April – January)
	First planned Mars mission encounters Soviet interference during test phase at Tranquillity Base on Moon. Trasker is Gemini and Apollo veteran; Weickert flew Gemini mission with Trasker. MLV, CSV and MSV are modified Apollo CSMs with NERVA engines, launched by three Saturn Vs.[348]
Olympus Richmond (Commander) Nine unnamed astronauts Pegasus Evans Brennan Sam (no last name given) Two unnamed astronauts	Transit of Earth (1971), short story	Space Administration (NASA?) Olympus, Pegasus	May 1984
	Crew of lander Pegasus stranded on Mars prior to a transit of Earth across the Sun.[349]
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.[350][351][352][353]
Albert Michaelson Thorsen, Professor	Marsman meets the Almighty (1975), novelette	Unknown Ares	Near Future (Viking landings are referred to in the past tense.)
	NASA Exobiologist selected as crew for the first American manned mission to Mars after a remarkable discovery by the first Mars rover in Solis Lacus.[354]
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.[355]
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.[lower-alpha 26][356]
Galactic II Randolph Stuart, Capt. Rigby Deems, Lt. Frank Perlman, Lt. Phoebe Swedlow, Cmdr[lower-alpha 27]	Sunstrike (1978), novel	Operation Mars Galactic I Galactic II	1988
	Flight crew of the first manned US mission to Mars, assigned to a desperate mission to prevent a madman from destroying humanity.[358]
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.[359]
Shiraz Mitradati Petra Greenfield Elke Sergi Shai-Lung Taro Leidu, Dr.	Voices From The Dust (1980), short story	Unknown	2001
	Astronauts exploring the Valles Marineris who discover something remarkable.[360]
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.[361]
First International Mars Expedition: Leon Odinga[lower-alpha 28] (Nova Africa) (Chief Engineer) Unnamed cosmonauts Second International Mars Expedition: Unnamed cosmonauts	Fire on the Mountain (1988), novel	Pan African Space Administration (P.A.S.A.): First International Mars Expedition Second International Mars Expedition: Lion	1954 (Alternate History) October 1959 (Alternate History)
	In alternate history in which John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 was successful, cosmonaut Leon is killed in EVA accident on Mars flyby mission. Five years later, Lion makes first manned Mars landing.[362]
Nixon Orbital Park: Leroy Johnson (National Park Service) (Station Chief) Mary Poppins: Natasha Alyosha Katerina Ivanovna Kirov (Captain) Bass (no first name given) (Second Officer) Sundiata Cinque Jeffries, M.D. (Third Officer/Chief Medical Officer) Louis "Lou" Glamour, ASC (Cinematographer) Cary "FF" Fonda-Fox IV (Movie Star) Beverly "BG" Glenn (Movie Star) Greetings Brother Buffalo Gentry (Stowaway)	Voyage to the Red Planet (1990), novel	Old Moulmein Pagoda (Columbia-class space shuttle) National Park Service (owned by Disney-Gerber): Nixon Orbital Park Voyager Pictures: Mary Poppins Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (lander)	c. 2020
	First manned Mars mission films motion picture. Landing near Candor Chasm in Valles Marineris canyon system. Bass and Johnson are former NASA astronauts.[363]
Martin Gold, Dr. (Geologist) Mary Elizabeth Allen, Dr. (Physician) Lawrence Thompson, Dr. (Physicist) Young Astronauts: Genshiro "Gen" Akamasu (Japan) Sergei Mikhailovich Chuvakin (Russia) Nathan Long (USA) Karl Muller (Germany) Lanie Rizzo (real name Lanie Johnson) (USA) Noemi Tejas y Velasquez (Venezuela) Alice Frances Thorne (New Zealand) Oh Suk "Suki" Long (Japan) Vikram Singh Kovi Oldjai Dale David Leon	The Young Astronauts (1990), novel	Space Shuttle United Nations To Mars Together program: Nina Pinta Santa Maria	Future
	Teenagers compete for opportunity to help colonize Mars.[364]
Dean Irwin, Col. (USAF) (Commander) Clifford Horner, Capt. (US Army) John Merritt, Cmdr. (USN) Valentina Tsarev, Col. (Russia) (Doctor) Hiroshi Kawahito (Japan) (Computer specialist)	The Message from Mars (1992), short story	Zeus IV	November 2007 – April 29, 2008
	The crew of the first manned Mars mission mysteriously fail to leave their spacecraft after returning to Earth.[365][366]
Scott Keller (USA) (Commander) Sakata (Japan) Petrovich Unnamed astronaut	seaQuest DSV Better Than Martians (1994), TV	Space Command Wayfarer	2018
	When the Wayfarer sinks upon splashdown, seaQuest mounts a rescue mission. Astronauts took Martian core samples from Tharsis Bulge/Olympus Mons.
James (Commander) Henry Pierre Don Geoff (no last names given) Unnamed astronaut	Homecoming (1995), short story	NASA Mars 1	Near Future
	When nuclear engine fails on approach to Mars, unnamed astronaut kills his crewmates in order to stay alive.[367]
Al Wells (Commander) Ed Barkley Pete Claridge, Dr.	The Outer Limits The Voyage Home (1995), TV	American Space Agency (ASA): Mars III	Contemporary/Near Future[lower-alpha 29]
	First manned Mars mission is infiltrated by ancient alien species. Barkley was first man on Mars.
First Aerospace Squadron (NASA): Bill Amundsen (Squadron commander) Phobos One: Walter Gander (USA) (Commander) Dmitri Tomasovich (Russia) (No surname given) Three unnamed astronauts (ESA, Japan, China) Mars Five: Walter Gander, Capt. (USA) (Commander) Olga Trigorin (Russia) (Engineer/First Officer) Jason Terence (USA) (Pilot/Second Officer) Narihara "Nari" Nigawa, Ph.D. (Japan) (Mission Specialist) Ilsa Bierlein (ESA) (Mission Specialist) Vassily Chebutykin, Ph.D. (Russia) (Mission Specialist) Dong Te-Hua (China) (Mission Specialist) Paul Fleurant (France) (Mission Specialist) Kireiko Masachi (Japan) (Mission Specialist) Tsen Chou-zung, Dr. (China) (Mission Specialist) Mark Bene (Yankee Clipper return pilot) Dean (No surname given), CAPCOM Mars Five Alpha: Scotty Johnston (USA) (Pilot) Robert Prang (USA) (Sedimentologist) Eight unnamed astronauts (USA, Russia) Korolev Base: Yvana Borges (Base manager) Das "Doc C." Chalashajerian, Dr. Pete Johnson (USA) (Biophysicist) Akira Yamada (Japan) (Meteorologist) Jim Flynn (USA)	Encounter with Tiber (1996), novel	Phobos One: Mars-Earth Return Cycler (MERC) Aldrin Lander (modified Apollo II) Mars Five: Yankee Clipper (SSTO) MarsHab Mars Five Alpha: MERC Aldrin Korolev Base	2018 2033
	On Phobos One mission, Gander and Dmitri make first manned landing on Phobos on December 25, 2018. In 2033, Mars Five and Mars Five Alpha travel to Mars to help excavate alien artifacts near established base in Crater Korolev.[254]
D-prime mission: Adam Bleeker (CDR) Ralph Gershon (Mars Excursion Module Pilot [MMP]) Ares: Philip "Phil" Stone (CDR) Natalie B. York, Ph.D. (Mission Specialist [MSP]) Ralph Gershon (MMP)	Voyage (1996), novel	NASA: D-prime mission: Apollo CSM (New Jersey) Mars Excursion Module (MEM) 009 (Iowa) Ares: Apollo CSM (Discovery) Mission Module (Endeavor [sic]) MEM (Challenger)	August 1984 (Alternate History) March 21, 1985 – November 6, 1986 (Alternate History)
	In alternate history, D-prime mission is test flight of Mars lander (MEM) in Earth orbit. Ares flies first manned Mars mission (with Venus flyby for gravity assist); landing at Mangala Vallis in March 1986.[95]
Mars Probe: Grosvenor Guest (no first names given) Mars Probe 13: Alexander "Lex" Christian (Space Defence Division) (Commander) Albert Fitzwilliam Madeline Goodfellow Mars 97: Richard Michaels, Capt. (Commander) Andi McCray Bob Haigh Claudia (no last name given) Campbell Singh McGowan Lewis (no first names given for last four)	Doctor Who The Dying Days (1997), novel	Mars Probe Project (UK) Mars 97 (Mars Orbiter/Mars Lander) (UK)	1970s/1980s May 1997
	Christian, accused of murdering Fitzwilliam and Goodfellow after Mars Probe 13's departure from Mars, escapes in May 1997 after 20 years' imprisonment. At the same time, Mars 97 mission to Mare Sirenum runs into trouble. Grosvenor and Guest made first manned Mars landing at bottom of Olympus Mons during earlier Mars Probe Project.[368]
Mars Voyager: Boris Brodsky (Russia) (Commander) Martin A. Chadwick (USA) (Geologist) Chou Lin (China) (Physicist) Georgi Maladev (Russia) (Pilot/Navigator) Adam J. Thompson (USA) Jeffery Walker, Dr. (Great Britain) (Microbiologist/Physician) Kishi Yamoto (Japan) (Electronics specialist) Celeste: Adam Thompson (USA) (Commander) Louis Alvarez (Spain) (Pilot) Matthew C. "Matt" Duncan, Prof. (Canada) (Linguist) Erica Williams Duncan (USA) (Registered Nurse) Brian T. Hawkins (Great Britain) (Physicist) Sanjay Kanti (India) (Electrical engineer) Valeri Karamov (Russia) (Pilot) Frank Manzoni (Italy) (Physicist) Carlos Niemeyer (Brazil) (Communications/computer specialist) Marina Selveg (Russia)(Microbiologist/Physician) Henri Talon (France) (Computer specialist) Sato Tanaka (USA) (Communications) Copernicus: Frank Morgan (Pilot) Samantha Jackson (Copilot) Lunar Colony: Donald T. Hartman (Director) Irene Hartman 26 unnamed personnel	The Face on Mars (1997), novel	Space Station Prometheus Mars Voyager Explorer (lander) Celeste (refitted Mars Voyager) Questor (lander) Lunar shuttle Copernicus Lunar Colony	2040 2044
	The first two manned missions to Mars investigate the mysterious "Cydonia Face", but the second expedition must combat violence from within. First landing near southeast corner of Acidalia Planitia; second landing closer to Face.[369]
Gary Hackman (Computer specialist) Gordon A. Peacock (Computer specialist) Aries: William "Wild Bill" Overbeck (Commander) Julie Ford (Mission Specialist/Geologist) Fred Z. Randall (Computer specialist)	RocketMan (1997), film	NASA: MTS-1 Aries Pilgrim One (lander)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Geeky computer genius Randall is last-minute replacement for Hackman on first manned Mars mission; Peacock is potential alternate replacement. Landing at Planitia Base near Valles Marineris.
NASA: Robbie "Robbs" Barth Mars Consortium: Katherine Molina (Pilot) Venture: Viktor Nelyubov (Commander) Marc Bryant (Pilot/Geologist) Julia "Jules" Barth (Biologist/Medical Officer) Raoul Molina (Mechanic) Valkyrie: Claudine Jesum (France) (Commander/Medic) Gerda Braun (Germany) (Engineer) Lee Chen, Dr. (Exobiologist)	The Martian Race (1999), novel	Mars Consortium: Venture (Mars Landing-Habitat Module [Hab]) Airbus Group: Valkyrie NASA: Earth Return Vehicle (ERV)	February 20, 2016 – March 14, 2018
	NASA and ESA astronauts transfer to private companies competing for $30 billion Mars Prize. Consortium crew makes first manned landing on August 9, 2016, in Gusev Crater.[370]
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.
NASA: Susan Dillard (Scientist) Ares 7/10: Kennedy "Hampster" Hampton (USN) (CDR) Alexis "Lex" Ohta, Ph.D. (USAF) (PLT) Valerie "Valkerie" Jansen, M.D., Ph.D. (MS1) Bob "Kaggo" Kaganovski, Ph.D. (MS2) Joshua "Josh" Bennett, CAPCOM/Flight Director	Oxygen (2001), The Fifth Man (2002), novels	NASA Ares 7/10: Mars Habitation Module (Hab) Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Earth Return Vehicle (ERV) / Earth Landing Capsule (ELC)	January 25, 2014 – 2016
	When first manned mission to Mars sustains explosion en route, suspicion runs rampant among the crew that one of them is a saboteur. Landing on July 3, 2014 at 30°S 95°E / 30°S 95°E / -30; 95. Eight months later, crew confronts possibility of infection by Martian pathogen.[371][372]
McCarthy (USAF) (Commander) Jeffries Sally "Sal" Spirek (USAF) (Medic/Scientist) Ed Enright, Ph.D. (Geologist)	Ulla, Ulla (2002), short story	NASA Fortitude	2019 – 2022
	First manned mission to Mars discovers strangely familiar technology from extinct civilization. McCarthy and Jeffries took part in return Moon mission in 2015. Mars landing on September 2, 2020, in Amazonis Planitia.[373]
Asaph Hall: Don Lawson Sasim Remtulla Percival Lowell: Chuck Zakarian (Commander) Unnamed astronauts	Mikeys (2004), short story	NASA: Asaph Hall/Mike Collins Station Percival Lowell	c. 2039
	Arriving on Deimos ahead of planned Mars landing by Percival Lowell, Lawson and Remtulla make major discovery.[374]
Ares I: Ritter (Captain) (No first name given) Boris Ivanov (Pilot) Jeanne Monier (Engineering Physicist) Roel van Dijk (Planetary Physicist) Mars Trailblazer I: Poul Eriksen, Col. (AFSPC) (Captain) Jacques "Jack" Boutillier, Maj. (USMC Space Division) (Pilot) Linde Hoerter (Planetary atmosphere specialist) Nobuo Okita (Japan) (Nuclear Physicist/Engineer)	Orbital Base Fear (2004), short story	Consortium (NASA, ESA, Russian Federation, Japan): Mars Expedition I Consortium (ESA, Russian Federation): Ares I NASA/Air Force Space Command/Japan: Mars Trailblazer I/Orbital Base Phobos Valkyrie (landing shuttle)	Future
	Seven years after failure of Mars Expedition I, Consortium and US crews race to be first on Mars. Trailblazer lands on Phobos near Stickney Crater.[375]
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	Apollo 34 Bowie Base One	November 21, 2059
	First humans on Mars (contradicting earlier Doctor Who stories), menaced by a water-based Martian life-form and destined by history to die. Base located in Gusev Crater.[376]
Annie Norris, Col. (Commander) 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.
NASA: Mitchell Dodd (Scientist) Ares: Christopher Eugene "Chris" Burke, Capt. (USAF) (Commander) Trisha "Trish" Merriday (USMC) (First Officer) Terry Kessler (Command Module Pilot) Owen "Beech" Beechum (Mission Specialist)	Offworld (2009), novel	Ares	2031 – 2033
	NASA astronauts return from first manned Mars mission to find Earth deserted.[377]
NASA: Norman Backus (Pilot) Roseanne Kim (Scientist) Denny (no last name given) Excelsior: James "Jim" Rose, Capt. (Commander/Pilot) Jed Richards, Col. (First Officer) José Rodrigues (Science Officer) Geronimo: Steve Watanabe, Lt. (Pilot) Abu Jmil (First Officer) Deborah "Debbie" Quartz (Science Officer) Pequod: Brandon Lepper, Capt. (Pilot/Science Officer) Laurie Corelli, Capt. (First Officer) Arnold "Arnie" Gilmore, Dr. (Chief Medical Officer)	The Four Fingers of Death (2010), novel	NASA Excelsior Geronimo Pequod Earth Return Vehicle (ERV)	September 30, 2025 – October 2026
	Small-time writer Montese Crandall novelizes remake of 1963 film The Crawling Hand (q.v.), adding back-story of first manned Mars mission finding flesh-eating bacteria on Mars. Landing near Valles Marineris.[378]
Tom (Captain) Chandra (Medical Officer) Archie Paolo Rajuk (No last names given) Zoë Morrison, Dr. (Astrobotanist)	Goodnight Moons (2011), short story	NASA: Conestoga Sacagawea (return vehicle)	Near Future
	Forty days into first manned Mars mission, Morrison learns that she is pregnant.[379]
Fire Star: Wen Xiang (China) (Commander) Cooper Jackson (USA) (Flight Surgeon) Julie Davis (USA) (Biologist) Victoria Orlova, Prof. (Russia) (Astrophysicist) Junior Astronauts: Nicolas "Nico" Moreau (France) Aneesa Malik (India) Unnamed junior astronaut Mars Base I: Oscar Schweiger (Chief Mars Settlement Officer) Ivan (Scientist) Helena (Scientist) Gene (Staff engineer) Unnamed staff	Mars: You Decide How to Survive! (2011), gamebook	Fire Star Mars Base I	Near Future
	Junior astronauts join mission to prepare Mars Base I for permanent colonists. Mars Base I located near Valles Marineris and Arsia Mons.[380]
Bradley Emerson Elliott, Maj.	The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself (2013), novella	Repurposed Skylab as transfer vehicle, with LM for the surface landing	1979 (Alternate History)
	Mission to Mars based on RR Titus's Flyby-Landing Excursion Module proposal of 1966.
Tantalus base: Charles Brunel (Canada) (Commander) Kim Aldrich (UK) (Geologist) Vincent "Vince" Campbell (USA) (Chief Systems Officer) Lauren Dalby (UK) (Medic) Richard "Harry" Harrington (UK) (Communications) Robert Irwin (UK) Rebecca Lane (UK) (Biochemist) Marko Petrovic (Serbia) Aurora relief team: Unnamed astronauts	The Last Days on Mars (2013), film	International Space Commission (ISC): Aurora Mars Mission 2: Aurora Tantalus base Aurora lander	Future
	Martian explorers discover life, with disastrous results.
Kirk "Andy" Anderson (Pilot) Orbital Seven: Drew Bantry (Commander) Kristen Zhang Unnamed personnel	The Promise of Space (2013), short story	Spaceways: Unknown (Mars missions) Orbital Seven	c. 2030s – June 2051
	Anderson, the first man on Phobos and veteran of two Mars missions, develops Alzheimer's-like symptoms after flying rescue mission to Orbital Seven during solar flare.[381][382]
Gloria "Glory Hallelujah" Hazeltine (Mission Commander) Ernie Roebuck (Chief Communications Engineer) Unnamed lead biologist Unnamed astronauts Excursion 3 (E-3): Patrick "Pat" O'Connor (Team Leader) Jacob "Jake" Bernstein (Geologist) Rashid Faiyum (Geologist)	Mars Farts (2014), short story	Unknown	Late 21st century (after 2076)
	After meteor shower, Excursion 3 team is stranded near Viking 2 landing site in Utopia Planitia. Mission base at Tithonium Chasma; Excursion 1 site near Olympus Mons.[383]
Melissa Lewis (Commander/Geologist) Rick Martinez, Maj. (Pilot) Chris Beck, Dr. (Physician/Biologist/EVA Specialist) Beth Johanssen (Sysop/Reactor Tech) Alex Vogel (European Union) (Chemist/Navigator) Mark Watney (Botanist/Mechanical Engineer)	The Martian (2014), novel; The Martian (2015), film	NASA Ares 3: Hermes Mars Descent Vehicle (MDV) Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV)	Near Future
	Sandstorm forces crew to evacuate landing site in Acidalia Planitia, leaving Watney, who is erroneously believed dead, stranded on Mars.[384]
Bart Saxby (NASA chief administrator) Nathan "Nate" Brice (Flight Director) Arrow: Benson "Bee" Benson (Canada) (Command Pilot) Ted Connover, Ph.D. (USAF) (Pilot) Catherine Clermont, Dr. (France) (Geologist) Virginia "Jinny" Gonzalez (Communications Specialist) Amanda "Mandy" Lynn (USA) (Biologist) Hiram "Hi" McPherson (Geologist) Taki Nomura, Dr. (Japan) (Physician/Psychologist) Mikhail "Mike" Prokhorov (Russia) (Meteorologist)	Rescue Mode (2014), novel	NASA Arrow Hercules (Mars lander) Fermi (unmanned lander/surface habitation module)	August 2032 – December 2035
	First manned Mars mission is imperiled by meteoroid impact. Saxby and Brice are former astronauts; Connover is an ISS and International Moon Base veteran. Launch from Earth orbit on April 5, 2035; landing on November 5, 2035, in Elysium Planitia.[385]
Ned Crater (Commander) Flo Comet (Engineer) Alex Nova (Lander Pilot) Izzy Stardust (Science Officer) Lem Cosmos (Engineer)	Space Quest: Mission to Mars (2014), picture book	Space Quest: Unnamed rocket Ramesses Memphis (Mars lander)	2050
	Astronauts land on Mars as first stage of mission to explore Solar System. Landing near Valles Marineris.[386]
Unnamed commander Tom Richwood, Sgt. Maj. (Pilot/Systems Engineering Specialist) Rusham Haroun, Dr. (Bioscience Officer) Angela Olvera Mikhail Dankov	Castle The Wrong Stuff (2015), TV	Mars 2018 Project: Tenzing Norgay (simulator)	Contemporary
	Navy and NASA veteran Richwood is murdered during simulation of privately funded mission to Martian northern lowlands.[387]

Jupiter

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
K. "Fuj" Fuji (Japan) F. Glenn (USA)	Invasion of Astro-Monster (aka Monster Zero) (1965), film	World Space Agency[lower-alpha 30] (WSA) Spaceship P-1	196X [sic]
	Astronauts on mission to "Planet X", newly discovered satellite of Jupiter.[388][389]
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.[390]
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).[391][392]
Guy Crayford	Doctor Who The Android Invasion (1975), TV	XK-5 Space Raider	Contemporary/Near Future
	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.
Alexei Leonov Tanya Kirbuk Vladimir Rudenko Vasili Orlov, Dr. Maxim "Max" Brailovsky Irina Yakunina Heywood R. Floyd, Dr. R. Chandra, Dr. Walter Curnow Tsien Chang, Professor (First name not given) Lee, Dr. (First name not given) Three unnamed astronauts	2010: Odyssey Two (1982), novel 2010 (1984), film	Alexei Leonov Tsien (China)	2010
	Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One. Tsien makes disastrous first manned landing on Europa.[393]
Jacob Hols Juliet "Julie" Burton Martha Kivelsen	The Very Pulse of The Machine (1998), short story	First Galilean Satellites Exploratory Mission	Future (Late 21st century?)
	First manned landing on Io leads to major discoveries and tragedy. Landing site near Daedalus.[394][395]
Hachirota Hoshino Werner Locksmith Hakim Ashmead Kho Cheng-Shin Goro Hoshino	Planetes (2003), anime	Von Braun	2075
	First manned space mission to Jupiter.
Matthew David "Matt" (Commander) (no last name given) Kara Elizabeth (Exobiologist) (no last name given) Jeff "Wink" Winkermann	The Constellation of Sylvie (2005), novel	NASA: Heartland (CSM/LEM)	Near Future (2032 – 2040?)[lower-alpha 31]
	First manned mission to Jupiter gathers ice containing biomorphing microbes from Jovian moon, causing crew to revert to childhood. Landing near Mount Pwyll.[396]
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.
Dun "William" Xu (Commander) Rosa Dasque (Pilot/Archivist) Daniel "Dan" Luxembourg, Dr. (Chief Science Officer) Katya Petrovna, Dr. (Science Officer) Andrei Blok (Chief Engineer) James Corrigan (Engineer)	Europa Report (2013), film	Europa Ventures Europa One	Near Future
	First manned mission to Europa discovers life under the ice. Landing in Conamara Chaos, near Thera Macula and Thrace Macula.

Saturn

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Renaissance: Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (aka Sean Geoffrey, Sean Jeffrey, Sean Jeoffrey), Col. (Commander) Shirin Ludden, Cmdr. (Pilot) Lewis & Clark: Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (Commander) Alice Fontana, Capt. (Canada) (Co-Pilot) Marcus O'Herlihy, Dr.	Star Trek Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967), TV Star Trek The Rings of Time (2012), novel	Space Shuttle Renaissance U.S.S. Lewis & Clark	June 2020-January 2021
	The first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn.[397][398][399][400]
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.[401][402]
Cirocco "Rocky" Jones, Capt. (Mission Commander) Bill (Chief Engineer) (no last name given) Calvin Greene, Dr. (Surgeon/Biologist/Ecologist) Gaby Plauget (Astronomer) April 15/02 Polo (Physicist) August 3/02 Polo (Physicist) Eugene "Gene" Springfield (Satellite Excursion Module Pilot)	Titan (1979), novel	NASA DSV Ringmaster	2025
	NASA astronauts who discover alien artifact in orbit around Saturn. The Polo sisters are clones.[403]
Jean Broberg (Physicist) Mark Danzig (Chemist) Luis Garcilaso (Pilot) Colin Scobie (Geologist)	The Saturn Game (1981), novella	Moon lander	c. 2057
	Expedition from colony-size ship Chronos makes first manned landing on Iapetus, but is endangered by expedition members' absorption in fantasy role-playing game.[404][405]

Other

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Sky Masters, Maj.	Sky Masters of the Space Force (1958–61), comic	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut in the United States Space Force (USSF).
United States: Edward "Ed" McCauley, Col. William "Bill" Smith, Lt. Lester Forsythe, Capt. Donald Michaels, Capt. Warnecke, Maj. (Dr.) (Physician) William Thyssen, Dr. (Scientist) Barrett, Capt. Stacy Croydon, Dr. (Scientist) Emory, Maj. Draper, Capt. Briggs, Maj. Gibbie Gibson, Maj. Bob Stark, Capt. Horton, Dr. (Physicist) Randolph, Dr. (Biologist) Murphy, Lt. (Space Station Astra Executive Officer) Hamilton, Dr. (Astronomer) Stoner, Col. Nick Alborg, Maj. Bill Alborg, Lt. Col. Art Frey, Lt. Jerry Rutledge, Lt. Franklin, Maj. Williams, Capt. Eden, Lt. (Navigator) Paul Ellis, Maj. (Dr.) (Physician) Muriel Catherine Gallagher, Dr. (Astronomer) Caleb Fisk, Dr. (Astronomer) Torrance Alexander, Dr. (Astronomer) Arnold Rawdin, Dr. (Scientist) Vern Driscoll, Lt. Col. Summers, Maj. (Spacecraft commander) Lewsham, Capt. Johnny Farrow, Capt. Swanson, Capt. Bowyers, Maj. Steven Hawkes, Maj. (Psychologist) Thomas Ward, Capt. (Dr.) (Physician) Canell, Maj. (Space Station Astra Executive Officer) Fred Jones, Cpl. Grinder, Sgt. Saunders, Amn. Luraski, Dr. (Geophysicist) Ron Benson, Capt. (Communications Officer) Hodges, Maj. Bob King "Tex" Nolan, Maj. Others UK: Tom Hetherford, Grp Cpt (Vega commander) Sopwith, Flt Lt (Vega co-pilot) Neil Bedford-Jones, Lt (MR co-pilot)	Men into Space (1959–60), TV	United States Air Force: Space Station Astra LX-318 0915 Skyra mission Reentry tests Tanker Able R-101 S-107 Eclipse M-13 L78-1 missions MR-28 X-1000 TR-1 British National Space Agency (UK): Project Vega MR (rescue mission)	c. 1970–1980
	Future astronauts build and crew space station and fly near-Earth missions, including landings on asteroids Skyra and L78-1.[292][293]
Frank Chapman Ray Makonnen	The Phantom Planet (1961), film	Unknown	1980
	Astronauts who investigate mysteriously appearing planet Rheton.[406]
Dead astronauts: Merril (1998) Pokrovski (1999) Connolly Tkachev Maiakovski Brodisnek (no first names given) Roger Woodward Travis (no first/last name given)	The Cage of Sand (1962), short story	Unknown	1998 1999 21st century
	Seven dead astronauts orbiting Earth in their slowly reentering space capsules. Merril and Pokrovski failed to reach launching platforms in Earth orbit; Woodward died testing new launching platform. Travis was rookie astronaut for civilian company whose courage failed during launch countdown.[407][408]
Clark Benedict, Maj. (Station Commander) Mike Doweling, Capt. Kenneth Gavin, Lt. Gordon Halper, Lt. (Physician) Rupert Lawrence Howard, Lt.	The Outer Limits Specimen: Unknown (1964), TV	United States Air Force/Department of Space Travel Project Adonis: Space station Shuttlecraft 1010 (Space Shuttle Flight 572-3XA)	Near Future
	Space station crew imperiled by deadly alien plants.[409][410]
Zeus IV Glyn Williams Dan "Bluey" Schultz Zeus V Terry Cutler	Doctor Who The Tenth Planet (1966), TV	International Space Command (ISC): Zeus IV Zeus V	1986 (2000 in some sources)
	Astronauts in Earth-orbital spacecraft similar to Gemini. Zeus IV explodes, killing Williams and Schultz; Zeus V had already been launched for rescue attempt.
Valentina Prokrovna (Russia) Robert Hamilton (USA)	The Dead Astronaut (1968), short story	Unknown	Near Future
	Two of twelve dead astronauts left orbiting Earth in their respective spacecraft. Hamilton was carrying atomic weapon on military mission.[411][412]
P One Morrison, Col. Drew, Maj. Hollis, Capt. (First names not given) P Two McCullough, Lt Col. Walters, Maj. Berryman, Capt. (First names not given)	All Judgement Fled (1969), novel	Prometheus Project P One P Two	Near Future
	Astronauts dispatched to make first contact with an alien spacecraft.[413]
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.[414]
Bunny Fred Hoffa Other unnamed astronauts and technicians	The Long Twilight (1969), novel	Unknown	Near Future (c. 1996)
	Astronauts aboard the United States Weather Satellite, who spot the abrupt beginnings of a hurricane-like storm.[415]
Norman Paul "Dave" Davis, Maj. (Commander) Bernhard "Bud" Gierr, Capt. Orren "Doc" Lorimer, Dr. (Scientist)	Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976), novella	NASA Sunbird One	Near Future (before 2000)
	Crew of first circumsolar mission travels forward to time when male humans no longer exist.[416]
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.
Unnamed Mission Specialist/Commander Vollmer (Engineering/Communications/Weapons) (no first name given)	Human Moments in World War III (1983), short story	Colorado Command: Tomahawk II (Recon-Interceptor)	Near Future
	Astronauts in Earth orbit come under control of Colorado Command rather than Houston after outbreak of World War III.[417][418]
Evans (Captain) Floyd (Engineer) Grundy (Navigator) (no first names given)	Doctor Who Search for the Doctor (1986), gamebook	Enterprise 21 space freighter	August 2056
	Three-man crew returning from satellite servicing mission disappears into Bermuda Triangle.[419]
Frances Reese Jan DuToit Bill Noyes Mary Xu Valentina Romanova Mikhail Savchenko Chuck Wenzel Anna Cherneva Yuri Finnegan John Jackson Gerry Wolf Maria Blixen Bertorelli Perez Saha (First names not given for the last three characters) Hipparchus Base: Roger Bryant Jim Russell Hyashi Higuchi Ben Templeton Greg Able	Double Planet (1988), novel	Space Shuttles Ares I Ares II Discovery Sir Fred Hoyle Predpriyatie Tsiolkovski Moonbase Hipparchus Base	Near Future
	New Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts and scientists on a mission to investigate the possibility of mining the Comet Osaki-Mori for resources the ReUnited Nations (RN) needs to rebuild Earth.[420]
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 contact is lost with an expedition to a mysterious cluster of objects passing outside the orbit of Pluto a second expedition is sent to investigate.[421]
Channing Blythe Knowlton	Eater (2000), novel	NASA	c. 2022 (February–July)
	Former NASA astronaut dying of cancer volunteers to confront sentient black hole.[422]
Carpathia: Richard Jacob Johansenn Susan Kirmatsu (Pilot) Robbie Hamilton (Co-pilot) Patricia Mattos (Chief archeologist) Heidi Vogt (archeologist) Unnamed astronauts and observers Deep Space Dart: Richard J. Johansenn Mac McFerson Greg Yovel Rachel Saunders (Forensic anthropologist) Helen Dail (Reporter) Unnamed astronauts	Recovering Apollo 8 (2007), short story	Johansenn Interplanetary: Carpathia (Hawk-class) Deep Space Dart	2007 (Alternate History) 2018 (Alternate History) 2020 (Alternate History)
	In an alternate history in which Apollo 8 never returned to Earth, billionaire Johansenn makes it his life's mission to recover the lost spacecraft and its crew. Apollo 20 is mentioned as having crashed into the Moon (no details given).[423][424]
Halcyon: Arthur Rob (no last names given)	Capsule (2011), short film	NASA: Orion Halcyon (lander)	Unknown
	Two astronauts in Halcyon have landed (possibly on Venus or Mars) and are running out of oxygen. The ending leaves ambiguous whether or not the story is a daydream.[425]
Windermere: David Brock Craig Swanson, Sqn Ldr (RAF) Joanna "Jo" Slade Jules Verne: Philippe Lefevre, Commandant Svenni Nilson	Doctor Who The Feast of Axos (2011), audio play	Ironclad Industries: Windermere Eurozone Space Agency: Jules Verne (shuttle) Johann Kepler (shuttle)	c. 2020s[lower-alpha 32]
	Ironclad Industries attempts to solve Earth's energy problems by accessing energy from the alien parasite Axos.[426]
Galenka Makarova (Pilot) Dimitri Ivanov (Data acquisition and transmission) Yakov Demin (Flight systems specialist)	Troika (2011), novella	Tereshkova Soyuz re-entry vehicle	2039
	Cosmonauts from revived Soviet Union investigate mysterious artifact in space. Tereshkova has VASIMIR drive.[427]
Phoebe base (2020): Lyman Hsu (Station Chief) Tina "Tiny" Lundgren (Deputy Station Chief) Gabriel "Gabe" Campbell (Geologist) Thaddeus "Thad" Stankiewicz (Engineer) Bryce Lewis Alan Childs Unnamed personnel Phoebe base (2023): Irv Weingart (Station Chief) Thaddeus Stankiewicz (Deputy Station Chief) Dino Agnelli (Electrical engineer) Jarred Finnegan (Base mechanic) Chuck (no last name given) 11 unnamed personnel PS-1 Independent Inspection Team: Marcus Judson (NASA contractor) Olivia Finch, Prof. (Quality assurance engineer) Savannah "Savvy" Morgan (USAF, civilian) (Computer security engineer) Reuben Swenson (Department of Energy) (Power systems engineer)	Energized (2012), novel	NASA: Phoebe base Powersat One (PS-1)	February 22, 2020 April 10 – November 4, 2023
	When asteroid Phoebe approaches Earth, NASA captures it and places it in Earth orbit to investigate its resources. Stankiewicz is blackmailed into secret project, leading to his murdering Campbell during EVA on Phoebe to avoid discovery. Three years later, inspection team investigates newly constructed powersat.[428]
Katie Sparks Blair Taylor Marcus Dawkins Seraphim: Harmon Kryger Seraphim: Molly Woods	Extant (2014), TV	International Space Exploration Agency (ISEA): Space Station Seraphim	Near Future (2030s/2040s)
	Woods returns from 13-month solo mission to find herself pregnant. Sparks, Taylor and Dawkins are deceased; Kryger was believed to have committed suicide after mysterious solar flare incident.[429]

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 / Spacecraft	Fictional date
Gresham (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut	The Twilight Zone The Invaders (1961), TV	United States Air Force Space Probe No. 1	Future
	USAF astronauts discover life on alien planet.[430][431][432]
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.
Capt. Larry Dart Slim, Husky	Space Patrol (1963), TV	Space Patrol	2100
	Commander of Galasphere 347 of the Space Patrol.
Paul Ross, Capt. Ted Mason, Lt. Mike Carter, Lt.	Death Ship (1953), short story Twilight Zone Death Ship (1963), TV	E-89	1997
	Spacecraft crew crashes on distant planet; they have difficulty accepting their own deaths. (In short story Carter is named "Mickey".)[433][434][435]
Douglas Stansfield, Cmdr.	Twilight Zone The Long Morrow (1964), TV	Unknown	Future
	Astronaut placed in suspended animation for forty-year mission.[436][437]
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 Other unnamed astronauts	As On A Darkling Plain (1972), novel	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on missions to Jupiter and Sirius.[438]
Ed Westin, Col./Gen. O'Keefe, Capt. (no first name given) Solo 1/Solo 2: Mark Devore, Capt.	Time Warp (1981), film	NASA: Solo 1 Solo 2	1984 – July 13, 1985 / July 13, 1986
	While returning from a one-year mission to "the farthest reach of the galaxy", Solo 1 passes through a time warp, sending Devore one year into the future.
NASA: Donald Hotchkiss, Capt. (Prof.) Mary Washburn Moon mission: "Hoop" Hooper Mars mission: Amanda Jaworski (USAF) (Commander) Sue Ann O'Riley (Copilot) Soviet Union: Solipsovich Zayatin Zamayt	The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer (1985), novel	NASA: Moon mission Mars mission	1986
	Mars-bound astronaut Jaworski is caught up in a series of bizarre events, leading her to travel to Epsilon Erdani (sic) in search of her lost cat.[439]
Bartholomew Mann (Physicist) Terry Waters, Maj. Paul St John, Dr Philip Quincy-Jones Luciano Cragnolini Unnamed Commander	The Quiet Place (1987), novel	Unknown	Near Future
	Crew of the first manned interstellar spacecraft who return to find the Earth changed beyond recognition.[440]
Stephen G. Richey (Col.), Commander	Star Trek: The Next Generation The Royale (1989), TV	NASA Charybdis	July 23, 2037 – 2044
	Third manned expedition outside Solar System results in Richey dying in captivity on alien planet.[441][442]
Commander Scientist/First Mate Space Twin 1 Space Twin 2	The Voyage (1992), opera	Space station Spacecraft	2092 "Several years later"
	Archeologists discover "directional crystals" brought to Earth by ancient astronauts, causing instruments on a space station crewed by Space Twins 1 and 2 to pinpoint the aliens' origin. Several years later, Space Twins 1 and 2 join crew of generational voyage to aliens' planet.[443]
Olshavsky (Captain) (no first name given) Clio Trigorin (Historian) Sanetomo Kawamura (Astronomer) 27 unnamed crewmembers	Encounter with Tiber (1996), novel	Tenacity	July 20, 2069 – 2081
	Humanity's first starship, built with alien technology, on a voyage to Alpha Centauri.[254]
Henry Forbes Unnamed co-pilot of Congreve (UK) Unnamed Discovery crew members	The Wire Continuum (1998), short story	Mustard (Multi-Unit Space Transport and Recovery Device) Congreve Endeavour Discovery	1947-2017 (Alternate History)
	RAF World War II veteran and rocket pioneer in alternate history in which teleportation was developed in the 1950s. Forbes makes first manned landing on Moon in Oceanus Procellarum with Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov in 1977, leaves solar system aboard first starship Discovery in 1997.[444][445]
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.[446]
Lazarus missions: Mann, Dr. Wolf Edmunds Laura Miller Nine unnamed astronauts Endurance: "Coop" Cooper (Pilot) Amelia Brand, Dr. Doyle Nikolai "Rom" Romilly (Astrophysicist)	Interstellar (2014), film/novel	NASA: Lazarus missions (12 Ranger spaceplanes) Endurance (incorporates 2 Rangers)	Future (21st century)
	Astronauts travel through wormhole near Saturn to distant galaxy in search of new home for humanity, which is in danger of extinction.[447]

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.
• John Blackstar, Earth astronaut who crashes on planet Sagar.^[448]

References

External links

• Altner, Patricia (March 2009). "The Moon in Science Fiction". Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved June 2013. 

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