List of astronauts by name
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This is an alphabetical list of all astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts ever launched into space.
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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A
- Loren Acton, (born 1936)
- James Adamson
- Viktor M. Afanasyev
- Thomas Akers
- Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese in space
- Vladimir Aksyonov
- Sultan Salman Al-Saud, first Saudi in space
- Buzz Aldrin, (born 1930)
- Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)
- Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (Russia)
- Andrew M. Allen
- Joseph P. Allen
- Scott Altman
- William Anders, (born 1933)
- Michael P. Anderson, (1959-2003)
- Jerome Apt
- Neil Armstrong, (born 1930), first person on the Moon
- Anatoly Artsebarsky
- Yuri Artyukhin, (1930-1998), USSR
- Jeffrey Ashby
- Oleg Atkov
- Toktar Aubakirov, (born 1946), first Kazak person in space
- Sergei Avdeyev
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B
- James Bagian
- Ellen Baker
- Michael Baker
- Aleksandr Balandin
- Daniel Barry
- John-David F. Bartoe
- Charles Bassett
- Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space
- Patrick Baudry
- Alan Bean, (born 1932), Apollo 12 - 1969
- 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
- Charles Bolden
- Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space
- Frank Borman
- Kenneth Bowersox
- Charles Brady
- 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, (born 1934)
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C
- Robert Cabana
- Charles Camarda
- Kenneth Cameron
- Duane Carey
- Scott Carpenter
- Gerald Carr
- Sonny Carter, (1947-1991)
- John Casper
- Robert Cenker
- Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 - 1972
- Roger Chaffee, (1935-1967)
- Franklin Chang-Diaz, first Hispanic astronaut, seven space flights
- Kalpana Chawla, (1961-2003)
- Maurizio Cheli
- Leroy Chiao
- Kevin Chilton
- Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French man in space
- Laurel Clark, (1961-2003)
- Mary Cleave
- Jean-François Clervoy
- Michael Clifford
- Michael Coats
- Kenneth Cockrell
- Catherine Coleman, (born 1960)
- Eileen Collins
- Michael Collins, (born 1930)
- Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 - 1969
- Gordon Cooper
- Richard Covey
- John Creighton
- Albert H. Crews
- Robert Crippen
- Roger Crouch
- Frank Culbertson
- Walter Cunningham
- Robert Curbeam
- Nancy Currie
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D
- Nancy Jan Davis
- William H. Dana
- Lawrence J. DeLucas
- Lev Demin
- Frank De Winne
- Vladimir N. Dezhurov
- Georgi Dobrovolski, (1928-1971)
- Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space
- Brian Duffy
- Charles Duke, Apollo 16 - 1972
- Bonnie J. Dunbar
- Pedro Duque, first Spanish astronaut
- Samuel T. Durrance
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov
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E
- Joe Edwards
- Donn F. Eisele
- Anthony W. England
- Joseph H. Engle
- Ronald Evans
- Reinhold Ewald
- Léopold Eyharts
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F
- John Fabian
- Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space
- Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space
- Jean-Jacques Favier
- Fèi Jùnlóng
- Konstantin Feoktistov, (born 1926)
- Martin Fettman
- Anatoli Filipchenko
- Edward Fincke
- Anna Fisher
- William Frederick Fisher
- Klaus-Dietrich Flade
- Michael Foale
- Patrick Forrester
- Stephen Frick
- Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space
- Charles Fullerton
- Reinhard Furrer, (1940-1995)
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G
- Francis Gaffney
- Yuri Gagarin, (1934-1968), first person in space
- Guy Gardner
- Dale Gardner
- Jake Garn, first U.S. politician in space
- Marc Garneau, (born 1949), first Canadian in space
- Owen Garriott
- Charles Gemar
- Michael Gernhardt
- Edward Gibson
- Robert L. Gibson
- Yuri Gidzenko
- Yuri Glazkov
- John Glenn, (born 1921), first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth
- Linda Godwin
- Viktor Gorbatko, (born 1934)
- Henry C. Gordon
- Richard Gordon
- Dominic Gorie
- Ronald Grabe
- Georgi Grechko
- William Gregory
- Frederick Gregory
- Stanley Griggs
- Virgil Grissom, (1926-1967)
- John Grunsfeld
- Aleksei Gubarev
- Umberto Guidoni
- Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian cosmonaut
- Sidney Gutierrez
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H
- Chris Hadfield, (born 1959), first Canadian to walk in space
- Claudie Haigneré, first French woman in space
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré
- Fred Haise
- 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
- Thomas Hennen
- Terence Henricks
- Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Polish cosmonaut
- 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)
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I
- James Irwin, (1930-1991), Apollo 15 - 1971
- Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
- Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Marsha Ivins
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J
- Greg Jarvis, (1944-1986)
- Sigmund Jähn, (born 1937), first German in space
- Mae Jemison, (born 1956), first African-American woman in space
- Tamara E. Jernigan, (born 1959)
- Brent W. Jett, Jr.
- Thomas D. Jones
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K
- Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian cosmonaut
- Alexander Kaleri
- Janet Kavandi
- James Kelly
- Mark Kelly
- Scott Kelly
- Joseph Kerwin
- Yevgeny Khrunov, (1933-2000)
- Leonid Kizim
- Petr Klimuk
- William J. "Pete" Knight
- Vladimir Komarov, (1927-1967)
- Elena V. Kondakova, (born 1957)
- 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 and 9 hours and 39 minutes
- Valeri Kubasov, (born 1935)
- André Kuipers
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L
- Judith Lapierre
- Aleksandr Laveykin
- Wendy Lawrence
- Vasili Lazarev
- Aleksandr Lazutkin
- Valentin Lebedev
- Mark C. Lee
- David Leestma
- William B. Lenoir
- Aleksei Leonov, (born 1934), first person to walk in space
- Frederick Leslie
- Anatoli Levchenko
- Byron Lichtenberg, first 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, (born 1928)
- George Low
- Edward Lu
- Shannon Lucid
- Vladimir Lyakhov
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M
- Steven MacLean
- Sandra Magnus
- Oleg Makarov, (1933-2003)
- Yuri Malenchenko
- Franco Malerba, first Italian astronaut
- Yuri Malyshev
- Gennadi Manakov
- Musa Manarov, USSR
- Michael Massimino
- Richard Mastracchio
- Thomas Mattingly
- William McArthur
- Christa McAuliffe, (1948-1986)
- Jon McBride
- Bruce McCandless II
- William C. McCool, (1961-2003)
- Michael McCulley
- James McDivitt
- Donald McMonagle
- Ronald McNair, (1950-1986)
- Carl Meade
- Bruce Melnick
- Pamela Melroy
- Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut
- Ulf Merbold, (born 1941)
- Ernst Messerschmid, (born 1945)
- Edgar Mitchell, (born 1930), Apollo 14 - 1971
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand, (born 1959), first Afghan cosmonaut
- Mamoru Mohri, (born 1948)
- Lee Morin
- Boris Morukov
- Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space
- Richard Mullane
- Talgat Musabayev
- Story Musgrave
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N
- Steven R. Nagel
- George Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
- James H. Newman
- Claude Nicollier, (born 1944), first Swiss Astronaut
- Niè Hǎishèng
- Andrian Nikolayev, (1929-2004)
- Soichi Noguchi
- Carlos I. Noriega
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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)
- Yuri Onufrienko
- Stephen Oswald
- Robert Overmyer
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P
- Gennady Padalka
- William Pailes
- Scott Parazynski
- Ronald A. Parise
- Robert Parker
- Viktor Patsayev, (1933-1971)
- James Pawelczyk
- Julie Payette, (born 1963)
- Gary Payton, first U.S. military astronaut
- Philippe Perrin
- Donald Peterson
- Donald Pettit
- Tuân Pham, first Vietnamese cosmonaut, first Asian in space
- John Phillips, (born 1951)
- William Pogue
- Mark Polansky
- Alexander Poleshchuk
- Valeri Polyakov, Holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days
- Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian astronaut
- Leonid Popov
- Pavel Popovich, (born 1930)
- Charles Precourt
- Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian cosmonaut
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R
- Ilan Ramon, (1954-2003), first Israeli Astronaut
- William Readdy
- Kenneth Reightler
- James Reilly
- Thomas Reiter
- Vladimír Remek, first Czech cosmonaut, First European in space
- Judith Resnik, (1949-1986)
- Paul W. Richards
- Richard Richards
- Sally Ride, (born 1951), first U.S. woman in space
- Stephen Robinson
- Russell L. Rogers
- Yuri Romanenko
- Kent Rominger
- Stuart Roosa
- Jerry L. Ross, seven space flights
- Valeri Rozhdestvensky
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov
- Mario Runco
- Valery Ryumin
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S
- Albert Sacco
- Gennadi Sarafanov
- Viktor Savinykh
- Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space
- Wally Schirra, (born 1923)
- Hans Schlegel
- Harrison Schmitt, (born 1935)
- Rusty Schweickart
- Dick Scobee, (1939-1986)
- Winston Scott
- David Scott, Apollo 15 - 1971
- Paul Scully-Power
- Richard Searfoss
- Rhea Seddon
- Elliott See
- Ronald Sega
- Piers Sellers
- Aleksandr Serebrov
- Vitali Sevastyanov, (born 1935)
- Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
- Salizhan Sharipov
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian cosmonaut
- Helen Sharman, first British astronaut, first European woman in space
- Vladimir Shatalov, (born 1927)
- Brewster Shaw
- Alan Shepard, (1923-1998), Apollo 14 - 1971
- William Shepherd
- Georgi Shonin, (1935-1997)
- Loren Shriver
- Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist", first South African in space
- Donald Slayton
- Michael J. Smith, (1945-1986)
- Steven Smith
- Vladimir Soloviyov
- Anatoly Solovyev
- Sherwood Spring
- Robert Springer
- Thomas Stafford
- Robert Stewart
- Susan Still
- Gennady Strekalov
- Frederick Sturckow
- Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
- John Swigert
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T
- Daniel Tani
- Joseph Tanner
- Valentina Tereshkova, (born 1937), USSR, first woman in space.
- Norman Thagard
- Gerhard Thiele
- Robert Thirsk
- Andrew Thomas
- Donald A. Thomas
- Milton O. Thompson
- Kathryn Thornton
- William E. Thornton
- Pierre Thuot
- Dennis Tito, first paying space tourist
- Gherman Titov, (1935-2000)
- Vladimir Titov
- Michel Tognini
- Valery Tokarev
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, first Cuban cosmonaut
- Sergei Treschev
- Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space
- Richard Truly
- Bjarni Tryggvason
- Vasili Tsibliyev
- Mikhail Tyurin
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U
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V
- Lodewijk van den Berg
- James van Hoften
- Vladimir Vasyutin
- Charles Veach
- Franz Viehböck, first Austrian cosmonaut
- Alexander Viktorenko
- Pavel Vinogradov
- Roberto Vittori
- Igor Volk
- Vladislav Volkov, (1935-1971)
- Alexander Volkov
- Boris Volynov, (born 1934)
- James Voss
- Janice Voss
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W
- Koichi Wakata
- Rex Walheim
- Charles Walker
- David M. Walker
- Joseph A. Walker
- Ulrich Walter, (born 1954)
- Carl Walz
- Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese in space
- Mary Weber
- Paul Weitz
- James Wetherbee
- Edward White, (1930-1967)
- Peggy Whitson
- Terrence Wilcutt
- Dafydd Williams
- Donald Williams
- Jeffrey Williams
- Peter Wisoff
- David Wolf
- James W. Wood
- Alfred Worden
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Y
- Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese taikonaut
- Boris Yegorov, (1937-1994)
- Aleksei Yeliseyev, (born 1934)
- John Young
- Fyodor Yurchikhin
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Z
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See also
- Timeline of astronauts by nationality
- List of human spaceflights: 1961-1986, 1987-1999, 2000-present.
- Top 50 Space Travelers
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