List of space travelers by name

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

The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 miles). a definition recognized by every country. In the 1960's, the United States Department of Defense awarded the rating of astronaut to military and civilian pilots who flew aircraft higher than 50 miles (80 kilometers). From the Department of Defense, seven USAF and NASA pilots qualified for the Astronaut Badge by flying the sub-orbital X-15 rocket spaceplane. All other men and women traveled to outer space in non-winged rockets or the orbital space shuttle, except for American test pilot Michael Melvill, who entered space in the sub-orbital Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne rocket spaceplane. People who died training for space travel or died during missions that failed to reach the required altitude such as Christa McAuliffe can be found in the article on space disasters. This list follows the FAI criterion.

As of May 27, 2009 (2009 -05-27), a total of 498 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, (504 people have qualified when including the Department of Defense classification). Of those totals, 3 people completed only a sub-orbital flight, 495 people reached Earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low Earth orbit and 12 walked on the Moon. Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.

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

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Joseph M. Acaba
Loren Acton
James Adamson
/ Viktor M. Afanasyev
Thomas Akers
Toyohiro Akiyama, the first business-sponsored space traveler and the first Japanese in space.
Vladimir Aksyonov
Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space, first middle eastern person in space.
Edwin Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
Andrew M. Allen
Joseph P. Allen
Scott Altman
William Anders, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)
Clayton Anderson
*Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
- (Claudie André-Deshays - see Claudie Haigneré)
/ Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth spaceflight participant and first female spaceflight participant, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
Dominic A. Antonelli
Jerome Apt
Lee Archambault
Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Richard R. Arnold
Anatoly Artsebarsky
Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)
Jeffrey Ashby
Oleg Atkov
Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
Sergei Avdeyev
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James Bagian
Ellen Baker
Michael Baker
Aleksandr Balandin
Michael Barratt
Daniel Barry
John-David F. Bartoe
Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.
Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
Robert L. Behnken
Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)
Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995)
Anatoli Berezovoy
Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
John Blaha
Michael J. Bloomfield
Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.
Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
Eric A. Boe
Charles Bolden
Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
Stephen G. Bowen
Kenneth Bowersox
Charles Brady (1951–2006)
Vance Brand
Daniel Brandenstein
Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
Curtis Brown
*David M. Brown (1956–2003)
Mark Brown
James Buchli
Jay Buckey
Nikolai Budarin
Daniel Burbank
Daniel Bursch
Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)
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Robert Cabana
Tracy Caldwell
Charles Camarda
Kenneth Cameron
Duane Carey
Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
Gerald Carr
Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)
John Casper
Robert Cenker
Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
Gregory Chamitoff
/ Franklin Chang-Diaz, the only Costa Rican, first Hispanic-American in space, holder of the shared record of seven space flights.
/ *Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Maurizio Cheli
Leroy Chiao
Kevin Chilton
Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
*Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Mary Cleave
Jean-François Clervoy
Michael Clifford
Michael Coats
Kenneth Cockrell
Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
Eileen Collins
Michael Collins (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)
Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
Richard Covey
John Creighton
Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
Roger Crouch
Frank Culbertson
Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
Robert Curbeam
Nancy Currie
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Nancy Jan Davis
Lawrence J. DeLucas
Frank De Winne
Vladimir N. Dezhurov
*Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971)
Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
B. Alvin Drew
Brian Duffy
Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
Bonnie J. Dunbar
Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
Samuel T. Durrance
Lev Dyomin (1926–1998)
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, first Uzbekistan-born man in space
E
Joe Edwards
Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.
Anthony W. England
Joseph H. Engle
Ronald Evans (1933–1990)
Reinhold Ewald
Léopold Eyharts
F
John Fabian
Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
Jean-Jacques Favier
Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6
Konstantin Feoktistov
Christopher Ferguson
Martin J. Fettman
Andrew J. Feustel
Anatoli Filipchenko
Edward Fincke
Anna Fisher
William Frederick Fisher
Klaus-Dietrich Flade
/ Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
Michael Foreman
Patrick Forrester
Michael Fossum
Stephen Frick
Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
Charles Fullerton
Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)
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Francis Gaffney
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.
Ronald Garan
Dale Gardner
Guy Gardner
Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
Owen Garriott
Richard Garriott, first second generation American in space, son of skylab astronaut, Owen Garriott.
Charles Gemar
Michael Gernhardt
Edward Gibson
Robert L. Gibson
Yuri Gidzenko
Yuri Glazkov
John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
Linda Godwin
Michael T. Good
Viktor Gorbatko
Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
Dominic Gorie
Ronald Grabe
Georgi Grechko
Frederick Gregory
William Gregory
Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
Virgil Grissom (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
John Grunsfeld
Aleksei Gubarev
Umberto Guidoni
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.
Sidney Gutierrez
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Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.
Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.
Jean-Pierre Haigneré
Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.
James Halsell
Kenneth Ham
Lloyd Hammond
Gregory Harbaugh
Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space.
Terry Hart
Henry Hartsfield
Frederick Hauck
Steven Hawley
Susan Helms
Karl Henize (1926–1993)
Thomas Hennen
Terence Henricks
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.
John Herrington, first Native American in space.
Richard Hieb
Joan Higginbotham
David Hilmers
Kathryn Hire
Charles Hobaugh
Jeffrey Hoffman
Scott Horowitz
Akihiko Hoshide
Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.
*Rick D. Husband (1957–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
Marsha Ivins
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Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
Tamara E. Jernigan
Brent W. Jett, Jr.
Jing Haipeng
Gregory C. Johnson
Gregory H. Johnson
Thomas D. Jones
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Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
Janet Kavandi
James Kelly
Mark E. Kelly
Scott Kelly
Joseph Kerwin
Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
Robert S. Kimbrough
Leonid Kizim
Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
*Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
Yelena V. Kondakova
Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space
Valery Korzun
Oleg Kotov
Vladimir Kovalyonok
Konstantin Kozeyev
Kevin Kregel
/ Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2008, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
Valeri Kubasov
André Kuipers
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Aleksandr Laveykin
Wendy Lawrence
Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
Aleksandr Lazutkin
Valentin Lebedev
Mark C. Lee
David Leestma
William B. Lenoir
Aleksei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
Frederick W. Leslie
Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
Don Lind
Steven Lindsey
Jerry Linenger
Richard Linnehan
Gregory Linteris
Liu Boming
- Yang Liwei - see under Y
Paul Lockhart
Yuri Lonchakov
/ Michael Lopez-Alegria
John Lounge
Jack Lousma
Stanley G. Love
Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
G. David Low (1956—2008)
Edward Lu
Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
Vladimir Lyakhov
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Steven MacLean
Sandra Magnus
Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)
Yuri Malenchenko
Franco Malerba, first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)
Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)
/ Gennadi Manakov
Musa Manarov, first Azerbaidjan-born man in space
Michael Massimino
Richard Mastracchio
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
K. Megan McArthur
William S. McArthur
Jon McBride
Bruce McCandless II
*William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Michael McCulley
James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
Donald McMonagle
*Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Carl Meade
Bruce Melnick
Pamela Melroy
Leland D. Melvin
/ Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
Ulf Merbold
Ernst Messerschmid
Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
Mamoru Mohri
Barbara Morgan
Lee Morin
Boris Morukov
Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
Richard Mullane
Talgat Musabayev
Story Musgrave
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Steven R. Nagel
Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
George Nelson
Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
Paolo A. Nespoli
James H. Newman
Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
Soichi Noguchi
Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
Lisa Nowak
Karen Nyberg
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Bryan O'Connor
Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.
William Oefelein
John D. Olivas
Gregory Olsen, third spaceflight participant.
*Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Yuri Onufrienko
Stephen Oswald
Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)
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Gennady Padalka
William Pailes
Scott Parazynski
Ronald A. Parise (1951—2008)
Robert Parker
Nicholas Patrick
*Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971)
James Pawelczyk
Julie Payette
Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
Donald Peterson
Donald Pettit
Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
John Phillips
William Pogue
Alan G. Poindexter
Mark Polansky
Alexander Poleshchuk
/ Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
Leonid Popov
Pavel Popovich, first Ukrainian-born person in space.
Charles Precourt
Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.
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*Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
William Readdy
Kenneth Reightler
James F. Reilly
Garrett Reisman
Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
*Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Paul W. Richards
Richard N. Richards
Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
Stephen Robinson
Roman Romanenko
Yuri Romanenko
Kent Rominger
Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.
Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
Valeri Rozhdestvensky
Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
Mario Runco, Jr.
/ Valery Ryumin
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Albert Sacco
Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
Viktor Savinykh
Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
Wally Schirra (1923—2007)
Hans Schlegel
Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
Rusty Schweickart
*Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
David Scott
Winston Scott
/ Paul Scully-Power
Richard Searfoss
Rhea Seddon
Ronald Sega
/ Piers Sellers
/ Aleksandr Serebrov
Vitali Sevastyanov
Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
Salizhan Sharipov , first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
Brewster Shaw
Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.
William Shepherd
- (Nancy Sherlock - see Nancy Currie)
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
Georgi Shonin (1935–1997)
Loren Shriver
Mark Shuttleworth, second spaceflight participant and first South African in space.
/ Charles Simonyi, fifth spaceflight participant.
Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.
Steven Smith
> Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space
Vladimir Solovyov
Sherwood Spring
Robert Springer
Thomas Patten Stafford
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
Robert Stewart
Susan Still
/ Gennady Strekalov (1940–2004)
Frederick Sturckow
Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
Steven Swanson
John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.
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Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space. He was also the first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space.
Daniel Tani
Joseph Tanner
Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
Norman Thagard
Gerhard Thiele
Robert Thirsk
/ Andrew Thomas
Donald Thomas
Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
William Thornton
Pierre Thuot
Dennis Tito, first self-funded spaceflight participant.
Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
Vladimir Titov
Michel Tognini
Valery Tokarev
Sergei Treschev
Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
Richard Truly
Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space
Vasili Tsibliyev
Mikhail Tyurin
U
Yury Usachev
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/ Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut.
James "Ox" van Hoften
Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
Charles Veach (1944–1995)
Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
/ Alexander Viktorenko
Pavel Vinogradov
Roberto Vittori
Igor Volk
Sergey Volkov, first second generation astronaut or cosmonaut in space, son of Alexander Volkov.
*Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
Alexander Volkov
Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.
James Voss
Janice Voss
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Koichi Wakata
Rex Walheim
Charles Walker
David M. Walker, (1944–2001)
Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.
Ulrich Walter
Carl Walz
Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.
Mary Weber
Paul Weitz
James Wetherbee
Edward White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
Douglas H. Wheelock
Peggy Whitson
Terrence Wilcutt
Dafydd Williams
Donald Williams
Jeffrey Williams
Sunita "Suni" Williams
Stephanie Wilson
Peter Wisoff
David Wolf
Alfred Worden
Y
Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese national in space.
Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.
John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
/ Fyodor Yurchikhin, First Greek in space, first Georgia-born man in space
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Sergei Zalyotin
George D. Zamka
Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese to walk in space.
Vitaliy Zholobov
Vyacheslav Zudov

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