List of astronauts by name

This is an alphabetical list of all astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts.

A

• Loren Acton
• James Adamson
• Viktor M. Afanasyev
• Thomas Akers
• Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese in space.
• Vladimir Aksyonov
• Sultan Salman Al-Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space.
• Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
• Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)
• Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Russia)
• 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 of Caucasian parents.)
• Michael P. Anderson, (1959-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
• Anousheh Ansari (b. 1966), fourth space tourist and first woman space tourist, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
• Jerome Apt
• Neil Armstrong (b. 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
• Anatoly Artsebarsky
• Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998)
• Jeffrey Ashby
• Oleg Atkov
• Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh person in space.
• Sergei Avdeyev

B

• James Bagian
• Ellen Baker
• Michael Baker
• Aleksandr Balandin
• 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.
• Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970)
• Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
• Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995)
• Anatoli Berezovoy
• Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
• 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.
• Charles Bolden
• Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
• Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
• Kenneth Bowersox
• Charles Brady (1951-2006)
• Vance Brand
• Daniel Brandenstein
• Roy Bridges
• Curtis Brown
• David M. Brown (1956-2003)
• Mark Brown
• James Buchli
• Jay Buckey
• Nikolai Budarin
• Daniel Burbank
• Daniel Bursch
• Valery Bykovsky (b. 1934)

C

• Robert Cabana
• 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
• Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic-American in space, flew on 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 man in space and first 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 (b. 1960)
• Eileen Collins
• Michael Collins (b. 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 man 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

D

• Nancy Jan Davis
• Lawrence J. DeLucas
• Lev Demin (1926-1998)
• Frank De Winne
• Vladimir N. Dezhurov
• Georgi Dobrovolski (1928-1971)
• Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
• Brian Duffy
• Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
• Bonnie J. Dunbar
• Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
• Samuel T. Durrance
• Vladimir Dzhanibekov

E

• Joe Edwards
• Donn F. Eisele, (1930-1987) - 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, taikonaut
• Konstantin Feoktistov
• Christopher Ferguson
• Martin Fettman
• Anatoli Filipchenko
• Edward Fincke
• Anna Fisher
• Michael Fossum
• 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.
• Patrick Forrester
• Stephen Frick
• Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
• Charles Fullerton
• Reinhard Furrer (1940-1995)

G

• Francis Gaffney
• Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first man in space.
• Guy Gardner
• Dale Gardner
• Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
• Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
• Owen Garriott
• Charles Gemar
• Michael Gernhardt
• Edward Gibson
• Robert L. Gibson
• Yuri Gidzenko
• Yuri Glazkov
• John Glenn (b. 1921), first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest man ever to make a spaceflight.
• Linda Godwin
• Viktor Gorbatko
• Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
• Dominic Gorie
• Ronald Grabe
• Georgi Grechko
• William Gregory
• Frederick Gregory
• Stanley Griggs (1939-1989)
• Virgil Grissom (1926-1967), the first person to go into space twice. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
• John Grunsfeld
• Aleksei Gubarev
• Umberto Guidoni
• Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space.
• Sidney Gutierrez

H

• Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.
• Claudie Haigneré, first French woman in space.
• Jean-Pierre Haigneré
• Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.
• James Halsell
• 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
• David Hilmers
• Kathryn Hire
• Charles Hobaugh
• Jeffrey Hoffman
• Scott Horowitz
• Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.
• Rick D. Husband (1957-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

I

• James Irwin (1930-1991), flew on Apollo 15.
• Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
• Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
• Marsha Ivins

J

• Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
• Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
• Tamara E. Jernigan
• Brent W. Jett, Jr.
• Thomas D. Jones

K

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

L

• 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 Leslie
• Anatoli Levchenko (1941-1988)
• Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
• Don Lind
• Steven Lindsey
• Jerry Linenger
• Richard Linnehan
• Gregory Linteris
• Yang Liwei - see under Y
• Paul Lockhart
• Yuri Lonchakov
• Michael Lopez-Alegria
• John Lounge
• Jack Lousma
• Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8 and on Apollo 13, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon.
• G. David Low
• Edward Lu
• Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
• Vladimir Lyakhov

M

• 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, USSR
• Michael Massimino
• Richard Mastracchio
• Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (b. 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
• William 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
• Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut.
• Ulf Merbold
• Ernst Messerschmid
• Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
• Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
• Mamoru Mohri
• Lee Morin
• Boris Morukov
• Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
• Richard Mullane
• Talgat Musabayev
• Story Musgrave

N

• Steven R. Nagel
• George Nelson
• Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
• Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
• James H. Newman
• Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
• Niè Hǎishèng, taikonaut
• Andrian Nikolayev (1929-2004)
• Soichi Noguchi
• Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian in space.
• Lisa Nowak

O

• Bryan O'Connor
• Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
• Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space.
• Gregory Olsen, third "space tourist".
• Ellison Onizuka (1946-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• Yuri Onufrienko
• Stephen Oswald
• Robert Overmyer (1936-1996)

P

• Gennady Padalka
• William Pailes
• Scott Parazynski
• Ronald A. Parise
• Robert Parker
• 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
• Tuân Pham, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
• John Phillips
• William Pogue
• 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 Ukranian-born person in space.
• Charles Precourt
• Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

R

• Ilan Ramon (1954-2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
• William Readdy
• Kenneth Reightler
• James F. Reilly
• 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 Richards
• Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
• Stephen Robinson
• 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
• Valery Ryumin

S

• Albert Sacco
• Gennadi Sarafanov (1942-2005)
• Viktor Savinykh
• Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
• Wally Schirra
• Hans Schlegel
• Harrison Schmitt
• Rusty Schweickart
• Dick Scobee (1939-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• Winston Scott
• David Scott
• Paul Scully-Power
• Richard Searfoss
• Rhea Seddon
• Ronald Sega
• Piers Sellers
• Aleksandr Serebrov
• Vitali Sevastyanov
• Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
• Salizhan Sharipov
• Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
• Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
• Vladimir Shatalov
• Brewster Shaw
• Alan Shepard (1923-1998), first American in space.
• William Shepherd
• Georgi Shonin (1935-1997)
• Loren Shriver
• Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and first South African in space.
• Donald Slayton (1924-1996), a Mercury astronaut.
• Steven Smith
• Vladimir Soloviyov
• Anatoly Solovyev
• Sherwood Spring
• Robert Springer
• Thomas Stafford
• Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper
• Robert L. Stewart
• Susan Still
• Gennady Strekalov (1940-2004)
• Frederick Sturckow
• Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
• John Swigert (1931-1982), flew on Apollo 13.

T

• Daniel Tani
• Joseph Tanner
• Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
• Norman Thagard
• Gerhard Thiele
• Robert Thirsk
• Andrew Thomas
• Donald A. Thomas
• Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
• William E. Thornton
• Pierre Thuot
• Dennis Tito, first paying space tourist.
• Gherman Titov (1935-2000), the second man to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
• Vladimir Titov
• Michel Tognini
• Valery Tokarev
• Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, first Cuban and first Black person in space
• Sergei Treschev
• Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
• Richard Truly
• Bjarni Tryggvason
• Vasili Tsibliyev
• Mikhail Tyurin

U

• Yury Usachev

V

• Lodewijk van den Berg
• 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
• Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
• Alexander Volkov
• Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.
• James Voss
• Janice Voss

W

• Koichi Wakata
• Rex Walheim
• Charles Walker
• David M. Walker, (1944-2001)
• Joseph A. Walker (1921-1966), first person to enter space twice.
• 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.
• Peggy Whitson
• Terrence Wilcutt
• Dafydd Williams
• Donald Williams
• Jeffrey Williams
• Stephanie Wilson
• Peter Wisoff
• David Wolf
• Alfred Worden

Y

• Yáng Lìwěi, first taikonaut.
• Boris Yegorov (1937-1994)
• Aleksei Yeliseyev
• John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
• Fyodor Yurchikhin

Z

• Sergei Zalyotin
• Vitali Zholobov
• Vyacheslav Zudov

See also

• Timeline of astronauts by nationality
• List of human spaceflights: 1961-1986, 1987-1999, 2000-present.
• Spaceflight records