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astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

s or space travellers, may refer to:

By name

* List of astronauts by name * List of space travelers by name

By nationality

* List of space travelers by nationality *

Timeline of space travel by nationality Since the first human spaceflight by the Soviet Union, citizens of 44 countries have flown in space. For each nationality, the launch date of the first mission is listed. The list is based on the nationality of the person at the time of the laun ...

* American astronauts **

List of Apollo astronauts As part of the Apollo program by NASA, 24 astronauts flew 9 missions to the Moon between December 1968 and December 1972. During six successful two-man landing missions, 12 men walked on the lunar surface, six of whom drove Lunar Roving Vehic ...

** Astronaut birthplaces by US state ** List of Gemini astronauts **

Mercury Seven The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1. Their names were publicly announced by NASA on April 9, 1959; these seve ...

NASA Astronaut Corps The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions. It is based at Johnson Space Ce ...

NASA Astronaut Group 2 NASA Astronaut Group 2, also known as the Next Nine and the New Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Their selection was announced on September 17, 1962. The group augmen ...

NASA Astronaut Group 3 NASA Astronaut Group 3—'The Fourteen'—was a group of fourteen astronauts selected by NASA for the Gemini and Apollo program. Their selection was announced in October 1963. Seven were from the United States Air Force, four from the United ...

NASA Astronaut Group 4 NASA Astronaut Group 4 ("The Scientists") was a group of six astronauts selected by NASA in June 1965. While the astronauts of the first two groups were required to have an undergraduate degree or the professional equivalent in engineering or ...

NASA Astronaut Group 5 NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the six Lunar Module Pilots that walked on the Moon, three came from Group 5. The group as a whole is roughly split between the half who flew to the ...

NASA Astronaut Group 6 NASA Astronaut Group 6 (the "XS-11", "Excess Eleven") was a group of eleven astronauts announced by NASA on August 11, 1967, the second group of scientist-astronauts. Although Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton planned to hire 20 t ...

** NASA Astronaut Group 7 **

NASA Astronaut Group 8 NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest group to that date. The class was the first to include female and minority astronau ...

** NASA Astronaut Group 9 ** NASA Astronaut Group 10 **

NASA Astronaut Group 11 NASA Astronaut Group 11 was a group of 13 NASA astronauts announced on 4 June 1985. Group members Pilots * Michael A. Baker (born 1953), U.S. Navy (4 flights) : STS-43 ''Atlantis'' — August 1991 — Pilot — Tracking and Data Relay Satel ...

NASA Astronaut Group 12 NASA Astronaut Group 12 (the GAFFers) was a group of 15 astronauts announced by NASA on June 5, 1987. Group members Pilots * Andrew M. Allen (born 1955), U.S. Marine Corps (3 flights) :STS-46 — July 1992 — Pilot — Deployment of EURECA ...

** NASA Astronaut Group 13 ** NASA Astronaut Group 14 ** NASA Astronaut Group 15 **

NASA Astronaut Group 16 NASA Astronaut Group 16 ("The Sardines") was a group of 44 astronauts announced by NASA on May 1, 1996. The class was nicknamed "The Sardines" for being such a large class, humorously implying that their training sessions would be as tightly pa ...

** NASA Astronaut Group 17 ** NASA Astronaut Group 18 **

NASA Astronaut Group 19 NASA Astronaut Group 19 was a NASA spaceflight team that saw the training of two pilots, six mission specialists, three educator mission specialists to become NASA astronauts. These 11 astronauts began training in 2004. This was the last group ...

NASA Astronaut Group 20 NASA Astronaut Group 20 (The Chumps) saw the training of nine mission specialists, and five international mission specialists to become NASA astronauts. These 14 astronauts began training in August 2009 and officially graduated as astronauts on ...

NASA Astronaut Group 21 In 2011 NASA opened applications for Astronaut Group 21. The team was announced in June 2013 after a year and a half long search. With four men and four women, the class of 2013 had the highest percentage of female finalists. According to NASA ...

NASA Astronaut Group 22 NASA Astronaut Group 22 (nicknamed "The Turtles") is a group of twelve NASA astronauts selected in June 2017. They were joined by two Canadian Space Agency astronauts for training. History NASA announced the creation of this astronaut group in N ...

** NASA Astronaut Group 23 **

List of United States Marine Corps astronauts This is a list of United States Marine Corps members who have served as NASA astronauts. Project Mercury ''Project Mercury'' (1959–1963) was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the g ...

** List of United States Space Force astronauts *

Canadian Astronaut Corps The Canadian Astronaut Corps is a unit of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and Russian space missions. The corps has four active members, able to serve on the International Spac ...

List of Chinese astronauts This is a list of Chinese astronauts, sometimes called taikonauts. The list includes people trained by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. As the Chinese space program dev ...

List of cosmonauts This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia are m ...

Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps The Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps (in Russian: ''Отряд космонавтов'', simply The Cosmonauts Corps) is a unit of the Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for the Russian Fed ...

* List of European astronauts **

European Astronaut Corps The European Astronaut Corps is a unit of the European Space Agency (ESA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members on U.S. and Russian space missions. The corps has 13 active members, able to serve on the International Space St ...

** List of Dutch astronauts ** List of German astronauts

By demographic group

List of African-American astronauts African-American astronauts are Americans of African descent who have either traveled into space or been part of an astronaut program. African-American astronauts Traveled into space Never traveled into space Often cited as the first ...

* List of Arab astronauts * List of Asian astronauts *

List of female astronauts The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space travelers. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space ...

List of Hispanic astronauts The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight. The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-s ...

* List of Ibero-American spacefarers *

List of Muslim astronauts This is a list of Muslim astronauts who have traveled to space. As of August 4, 2022, 12 Muslims (10 men and 2 women) have been in space, all of whom remain alive. List of Muslim astronauts Praying towards Mecca in space Malaysia's space age ...

* List of billionaire spacetravellers

By achievement

List of cumulative spacewalk records This is a list of cumulative spacewalk records for the 30 astronauts who have the most extra-vehicular activity (EVA) time. The record is currently held by Anatoly Solovyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency, with 82:22 hours from 16 EVAs, fo ...

List of inductees in the International Space Hall of Fame This is a list of the inductees to the International Space Hall of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, in the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. The inaugural class consisted of 35 inductees. An initial list of candidates ...

List of visitors to the International Space Station This is a list of all of the visitors to the International Space Station (ISS), including long-term crew, short-term visitors, and space tourists, in alphabetical order. ISS crew names are in bold. The suffix ''(twice, three times, ...)'' refers ...

* List of Mir visitors *

List of Space Shuttle crews This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. Abbreviations: * PC = Payload Commander * MSE = USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer * Mir = Launched to be part of the crew ...

* List of spacewalkers * List of Salyut visitors

Other

List of astronauts by year of selection This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by gove ...

List of space travellers by first flight This is a list of space travellers by first flight. The table is listed in chronological order from the date of first flight. The table adheres to the international definition of a space traveller; the Fédération Aéronautique Internationa ...

* List of space travelers by company * Lists of fictional astronauts

Space flights

* List of human spaceflights, 1961–1970 * List of human spaceflights, 1971–1980 * List of human spaceflights, 1981–1990 * List of human spaceflights, 1991–2000 * List of human spaceflights, 2001–2010 * List of human spaceflights, 2011–2020 *

List of human spaceflights, 2021–present This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 2021 to present. * indicates a suborbital flight (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit). See also * List of human spaceflight programs *List of human spaceflights * List of ...

List of Russian human spaceflight missions This is a list of the human spaceflight missions conducted by the Russian Federal Space Agency since 1992. All Russian human spaceflight missions thus far have been carried out using the Soyuz vehicle, and all visited either Mir or the Internatio ...

List of Soviet human spaceflight missions This is a list of the human spaceflight missions conducted by the Soviet space programme. These missions belong to the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz space programs. The first patch from the Soviet Space Program was worn by Valentina Tereshkova, t ...