List of astronauts by selection
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1958
June 25 - Man In Space Soonest - USA
- The first group of American astronaut candidates were selected for Man In Space Soonest, a U.S. Air Force project to beat the Soviets into space. While this group did not wind up going into space when intended, one was eventually the first man to set foot on the moon. Several others became astronauts via the X-15 program. These astronauts included Neil Armstrong, William Bridgeman, Scott Crossfield, Iven Kincheloe, John B. McKay, Robert Rushworth, Joe Walker, Alvin White and Robert White.
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1959
April 9 - 1959 NASA Group - Mercury Seven - USA
- Though commonly considered to be the first group, the second group of American astronauts was selected for Project Mercury by NASA in April 1959. This group, known as the "Mercury Seven", included Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
- All seven of the first group of astronauts eventually flew in space, although one, Deke Slayton, did not fly a Mercury mission due to a medical disqualification. He eventually flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The other six each flew one Mercury mission. For two of these, Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, the Mercury mission was their only flight in the Apollo era (Glenn later flew on the space shuttle). Three of the Mercury astronauts, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper and Wally Schirra, also each flew a mission during the Gemini program. Alan Shepard did not fly a Gemini mission due to a medical disqualification, but later did fly an Apollo mission. He was the only Mercury astronaut to go to the Moon. Wally Schirra also flew on Apollo, as well as Mercury and Gemini, the only astronaut to fly on all three types of spacecraft. (Gus Grissom was scheduled to fly the first Apollo flight, but died in a fire on the launch pad during training.)
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1960
March 7 - Air Force Group 1 - USSR
- The initial group of Soviet cosmonauts was chosen from Air Force jet pilots. The twenty, finalised on March 7 1960 were: Ivan Anikeyev, Pavel Belyayev, Valentin Bondarenko, Valery Bykovsky, Valentin Filatyev, Yuri Gagarin, Viktor Gorbatko, Anatoli Kartashov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Vladimir Komarov, Aleksei Leonov, Grigori Nelyubov, Andrian Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Mars Rafikov, Georgi Shonin, Gherman Titov, Valentin Varlamov, Boris Volynov, and Dmitri Zaikin.
April - Dyna-Soar - USA
- In April, 1960, seven astronauts were secretly chosen for the Dyna-Soar program. Neil Armstrong, Bill Dana, Henry C. Gordon, Pete Knight, Russell L. Rogers, Milt Thompson, and James W. Wood. Neil Armstrong (previously part of MISS) and Bill Dana left the program in the summer of 1962.
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1962
March 12 - Female Group - USSR
- On March 12 1962, a group of five civilian women with parachuting experience was added to the cosmonaut group: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Valentina Ponomaryova, Irina Solovyova, Valentina Tereshkova, and Zhanna Yerkina. Only Tereshkova would fly.
September 17 - 1962 NASA Group - USA
- A second group of nine astronauts was selected by NASA in September 1962. This group included Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Jim McDivitt, Jim Lovell, Elliott See, Tom Stafford, Ed White and John Young. All of this group flew missions in the Gemini program except Elliott See, who died in a flight accident while preparing for his Gemini flight. All of the others also flew on Apollo, except for Ed White, who died in a fire on the launch pad during training for the first Apollo flight. Three of this group, McDivitt, Borman and Armstrong, made single flights in both Gemini and Apollo. Four others, Young, Lovell, Stafford and Conrad, each made two flights in Gemini and at least one flight in Apollo. Young and Lovell both made two Apollo flights. Conrad and Stafford also made second flights in Apollo spacecraft, Conrad in Skylab and Stafford in Apollo-Soyuz. Six of this group, Borman, Lovell, Stafford, Young, Armstrong and Conrad, made flights to the Moon. Lovell and Young went to the Moon twice. Armstrong, Conrad, and Young walked on the Moon. John Young also later flew on the Space Shuttle and would retire from NASA in 2004.
September 19 - Dyna-Soar - USA
- On September 19, 1962, Albert Crews was added to the Dyna-Soar program and the names of the six remaining Dyna-Soar astronauts were announced to the public:
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1963
January 10 - Air Force Group 2 - USSR
- Yuri Artyukhin, Eduard Buinovski, Lev Demin, Georgi Dobrovolski, Anatoli Filipchenko, Aleksei Gubarev, Vladislav Gulyayev, Pyotr Kolodin, Eduard Kugno, Anatoli Kuklin, Aleksandr Matinchenko, Vladimir Shatalov, Lev Vorobyov, Anatoli Voronov, Vitali Zholobov
October 17 - 1963 NASA Group - USA
- Buzz Aldrin, William Anders, Charles Bassett, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Roger Chaffee, Michael Collins, Walter Cunningham, Donn Eisele, Theodore Freeman, Richard Gordon, Russell Schweickart, David Scott, Clifton Williams
- All of the third group (except those who died) flew on the Apollo program - Aldrin, Bean, Cernan and Scott walked on the Moon. Five of them (Aldrin, Cernan, Collins, Gordon and Scott) also flew missions during the Gemini program.
- Bassett, Chaffee, Freeman and Williams all died before they could fly in space - Chaffee in the Apollo 1 fire, the others in plane crashes.
- During the Apollo program, (1961-1975), the United States launched a total of 31 missions carrying astronauts into space: 6 in the Mercury program, 10 in the Gemini program, 11 in the Apollo program, 3 in the Skylab program, and 1 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test program. These 31 missions provided 71 individual flight opportunities: 6 in Mercury, 20 in Gemini, 33 in Apollo, 9 in Skylab, and 3 in Apollo-Soyuz. These 71 positions were filled by 43 individuals. Of these 43, 4 flew a total of 4 flights, 3 flew a total of 3 flights, 10 flew twice, and the remaining 26 flew only once. Thus only 17 flew more than once, and only seven flew more than twice. (Several later made additional flights on the Space Shuttle.)
- Of the 31 Apollo-era flights, 2 were suborbital and 9 were lunar missions. The remaining 20 were earth orbital flights. The 9 lunar flights provided 27 individual lunar flight opportunities. These were filled by 24 individuals. Only 3 people flew to the Moon twice. The 6 successful lunar landing flights provided 12 individual lunar landing opportunities. These were filled by 12 individuals. No one landed on the Moon twice. Of those who landed on the Moon, 2 had already flown to the Moon once, 5 had made previous non-lunar flights, and 5 had no previous spaceflight experience.
- All 6 Mercury flights and 3 of 10 Gemini flights had all-rookie crews, as did 1 of the 3 Skylab flights. All the Apollo missions included at least 1 veteran astronaut. Only 2 flights, the lunar landing mission and its dress-rehearsal, had all-veteran crews.
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1964
January 25 - Air Force Group 2 Supplemental - USSR
May 26 - Voskhod Group (Medical Group 1) - USSR
- Vladimir Benderov, Georgi Katys, Vasili Lazarev, Boris Polyakov, Aleksei Sorokin, Boris Yegorov
June 11 - Civilian Specialist Group 1 - USSR
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1965
June 1 - Journalist Group 1 - USSR
- In 1965, three civilian journalists were selected for cosmonaut training in preparation for flight on a Voskhod mission. When the Voskhod programme was cancelled, Golovanov and Letunov were dismissed. Rebrov, on the other hand, stayed with the space programme as a journalist until 1974.
- Yaroslav Golovanov, Yuri Letunov, Mikhail Rebrov
June 1 - Medical Group 2 - USSR
- These physicians were selected for the long-duration Voskhod flights, all of which were subsequently cancelled to make way for the Moon programme. All three were dismissed at the beginning of the following year.
- Yevgeni Illyin, Aleksandr Kiselyov, Yuri Senkevich
June 28 - Scientist group - USA
- Graveline and Michel left NASA without flying in space. Schmitt walked on the Moon on Apollo 17. Garriott, Gibson and Kerwin all flew to Skylab. Garriott also flew on the Space Shuttle.
October 28 - Air Force Group 3 - USSR
- This group of cosmonauts was selected for participation in five separate Soyuz programmes that the USSR was running. These included military programmes (with and without the Almaz/Salyut space stations) and two lunar programmes (only one of which aimed at an actual lunar landing). In the end, only the orbital programme and the space station programme went ahead, and few of the cosmonauts from this group ever were given the chance to fly.
- Boris Belousov, Vladimir Degtyarov, Anatoli Fyodorov, Yuri Glazkov, Vitali Grishchenko, Veygeni Khludeyev, Leonid Kizim, Pyotr Klimuk, Gennadi Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Kramarenko, Mikhail Lisun, Aleksandr Petrushenko, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Valeri Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Sarafanov, Ansar Sharafutdinov, Vasili Shcheglov, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Eduard Stepanov, Valeri Voloshin, Oleg Yakovlev, Vyacheslav Zudov
November - USAF MOL Group 1 - USA
- Michael J. Adams, Albert H. Crews Jr., John L. Finley, Richard E. Lawyer, Lachlan Macleay, Francis G. Neubeck, James M. Taylor, Richard H. Truly. This group was selected for training for the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. Of this group, only Richard Truly transferred to NASA after the cancellation of the MOL program and later flew on the Space Shuttle. Truly would later become the first astronaut to become NASA Administrator in 1989.
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1966
April 4 - 1966 NASA Group - USA
- Vance Brand, John S. Bull, Gerald Carr, Charles Duke, Joseph Engle, Ronald Evans, Edward Givens, Fred Haise, James Irwin, Don Lind, Jack Lousma, Thomas Mattingly, Bruce McCandless II, Edgar Mitchell, William Pogue, Stuart Roosa, John Swigert, Paul Weitz, Alfred Worden. This group, except John Bull and Edward Givens, who left NASA, Joseph Engle, who was bumped from Apollo 17 for Harrison Schmidt, and Bruce McCandless and Don Lind, who were candidates for one of three cancelled Apollo flights, flew on all Apollo flights after Apollo 12. Fred Haise and John Swigert flew on Apollo 13, the latter replacing Thomas Mattingly after he was scrubbed due to rubella exposure--he later flew on Apollo 16. Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa both flew on Apollo 14 with Alan Shepherd, while Alfred Worden and James Irwin flew with David Scott on Apollo 15. Charles Duke, who was CAPCOM for Apollo 11, flew on Apollo 16 with John Young and Mattingly, while Ron Evans served as Command Module Pilot with Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt on Apollo 17. Paul Weitz, Jack Lousma, and William Pogue flew aboard Skylab on separate missions, while Vance Brand, a backup Skylab astronaut, flew aboard ASTP with Thomas Stafford and Deke Slayton in 1975. Joseph Engle and Fred Haise, in 1977, commanded crews on the Space Shuttle Enterprise landing tests, with Engle, Mattingly, Bruce McCandless, and Don Lind later flying actual Space Shuttle flights. Engle, with MOL transferee Richard H. Truly, would command the last all-rookie U.S. spaceflight crew (STS-3) in November, 1982, as current NASA policy requires that the Shuttle commander be an expierenced astronaut.
May 23 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 - USSR
- Sergei Anokhin, Vladimir Bugrov, Gennadi Dolgopolov, Georgi Grechko, Valeri Kubasov, Oleg Makarov, Vladislav Volkov, Aleksei Yeliseyev
June 30 - USAF MOL Group 2 - USA
- Karol Bobko, Robert Crippen, Gordon Fullerton, Henry Hartsfield, Robert Overmyer. This group was selected for training for the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. All transferred to NASA after the MOL program was cancelled and all five flew on the Space Shuttle as pilot astronauts.
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1967
January 31 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 Supplemental - USSR
May 7 - Air Force Group 4 - USSR
- Vladimir Alekseyev, Vladimir Beloborodov, Mikhail Burdayev, Sergei Gaidukov, Vladimir Isakov, Vladimir Kovalyanok, Vladimir Kozelsky, Vladimir Lyakhov, Yuri Malyshev, Viktor Pisarev, Nikolai Porvatkin, Mikhail Sologub
May 22 - Academy of Sciences Group - USSR
- Mars Fathulin, Rudolf Gulyayev, Ordinard Kolomitsev, Vsevolod Yegorov, Valentin Yershov
June - USAF MOL Group 3 - USA
- James A. Abrahamson, Robert T. Herres, Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., Donald H. Peterson. This group was selected for training for the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
October 4 - Scientist group - USA
- Joseph Allen, Philip Chapman, Anthony England, Karl Henize, Donald Holmquest, William B. Lenoir, John Llewellyn, Story Musgrave, Brian O'Leary, Robert B. Parker, William Thornton. This second group of Scientist-Astronauts were chosen to fly as backup crew members for the last three Apollo missions, or as backup crew members for Skylab. Except for Holmquest, Llewellyn, and O'Leary, the rest of this group flew aboard as mission specialist during the Space Shuttle program, with Story Musgrave being the last one to retire in 1998.
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1968
May 27 - Civilian Specialist Group 3 - USSR
- Vladimir Fartushny, Viktor Patsayev, Valeri Yazdovsky
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1969
September 10 - Civilian Engineer Group - USSR
- Anatoli Demyanenko, Valeri Makrushin, Dmitri Yuyukov
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1970
April 27 - Air Force Group 5 - USSR
- Anatoli Berezovoi, Aleksandr Dedkov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Nikolai Fefelov, Valeri Illarianov, Yuri Isaulov, Vladimir Kozlov, Leonid Popov, Yuri Romanenko
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1971
February 25 - 1971 Scientific Group - USSR
- Gurgen Ivanyan
May - Shuguang Group 1970 - China
- Chai Hongliang, Dong Xiaohai, Du Jincheng, Fang Guojun, Hu Zhanzi, Li Shichang, Liu Chongfu, Liu Zhongyi, Lu Xiangxiao, Ma Zizhong, Meng Senlin, Shao Zhijian, Wang Fuhe, Wang Fuquan, Wang Quanbo, Wang Rongsen, Wang Zhiyue, Yu Guilin, Zhang Ruxiang
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1972
March 22 - Civilian Specialist Group 4 - USSR
- Boris Andreyev, Valentin Lebedev, Yuri Ponomaryov
March 22 - Medical Group 3 - USSR
- Georgi Machinski, Valeri Polyakov, Lev Smirenny
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1973
March 27 - Civilian Specialist Group 5 - USSR
- Vladimir Aksyonov, Vladimir Gevorkyan, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Valeri Romanov, Valery Ryumin, Gennady Strekalov
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1974
January 1 - Physician Group - USSR
- Zyyadin Abuzyarov
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1976
August 23 - Air Force Group 6 - USSR
- Leonid Ivanov, Leonid Kadenyuk, Nikolai Moskalenko, Sergei Protchenko, Yevgeni Saley, Anatoly Solovyev, Vladimir Titov, Vladimir Vasyutin, Alexander Volkov
November 25 - 1976 Intercosmos Group - USSR
- Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Zenon Jankowski, Sigmund Jähn, Eberhard Köllner, Oldrich Pelcak, Vladimír Remek
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1978
January 16 - 1978 NASA Group - USA
- Due to the long delay between the last Apollo mission and the first flight of the Space Shuttle in 1981, only few astronauts from the older groups stayed with NASA. Thus in 1978 a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first female astronauts, and also the first black astronaut Guion Bluford. Roughly every two years a new group was selected since then. Two different astronaut groups were formed, pilots and mission specialists. Additionally it has payload specialists which are selected for a single mission and are not part of the astronaut corps - among them were mostly scientists, also a few politicians and many international astronauts.
- Pilots: Daniel Brandenstein, Michael Coats, Richard Covey, John Creighton, Robert Gibson, Frederick Gregory, Frederick Hauck, Jon McBride, Francis "Dick" Scobee, Brewster Shaw, Loren Shriver, David Walker, Donald Williams
- Mission specialists: Guion Bluford, James Buchli, John Fabian, Anna Fisher, Dale Gardner, David Griggs, Terry Hart, Steven Hawley, Jeffrey Hoffman, Shannon Lucid, Ronald McNair, Richard Mullane, Steven Nagel, George Nelson, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon, Robert Stewart, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Norman Thagard, James van Hoften
- Of the first of the post-Apollo group, Sally Ride would become the first American woman in space (STS-7). Later, she would fly with Kathryn Sullivan on a later Shuttle flight, in which Sullivan would become the first American woman to perform an EVA. Dr. Thagard, who flew with Ride on STS-7, would later become the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket (Soyuz TM-18 or "Mir-18") to the Mir space station, while Shannon Lucid would serve on the Mir for slightly over 6 months, breaking all American space duration records (the Skylab 4 record and Thagard's) in 1996-97. Of this group, Scobee, Resnik, Onizuka, and McNair would perish in the Challenger Disaster.
March 1 - 1978 Intercosmos Group - USSR
- Aleksandr P. Aleksandrov, Dumitru Dediu, Jose Lopez Falcon, Bertalan Farkas, Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig, Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, Georgi Ivanov, Bela Magyari, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Dumitru Prunariu
May 1 - Payload Specialists - ESA
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1979
April 1 - 1979 Intercosmos Group - USSR
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1980
May 29 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: John Blaha, Charles Bolden, Roy Bridges, Guy Gardner, Ronald Grabe, Bryan O'Connor, Richard Richards, Michael Smith
- Mission specialists: James Bagian, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Mary Cleave, Bonnie Dunbar, William Fisher, David Hilmers, David Leestma, John Lounge, Jerry Ross, Sherwood Spring, Robert Springer
- International mission specialists: Claude Nicollier, Wubbo Ockels
- Of this group, Michael Smith would perish in the Challenger Disaster while John Blaha would fly aboard the Mir space station. Jerry Ross currently holds the record of number of manned spaceflights flown and is a candidate for another International Space Station flight in the future – he flew on a pre-Columbia ISS mission in 2000.
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1982
December 1 - Payload Specialists - Germany
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1984
May 23 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Kenneth Cameron, John Casper, Frank Culbertson, Sidney Gutierrez, Blaine Hammond, Michael McCulley, James Wetherbee
- Mission specialists: James Adamson, Ellen Baker, Mark Brown, Sonny Carter, Marsha Ivins, Mark Lee, David Low, William Shepherd, Kathryn Thornton, Charles Veach
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1985
June 4 - NASA Group - USA
- Mission specialists: Jerome Apt, Charles Gemar, Linda Godwin, Richard Hieb, Tamara Jernigan, Carl Meade, Pierre Thuot
August 1 - 1985 NASDA Group - Japan
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1987
June 12 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Andrew M. Allen, Kenneth Bowersox, Curtis Brown, Kevin Chilton, Donald McMonagle, William Readdy, Kenneth Reightler
- Mission specialists: Thomas Akers, Jan Davis, Michael Foale, Gregory Harbaugh, Mae Jemison, Bruce Melnick, Mario Runco, James Voss
August 3 - 1998 Payload Specialists - Germany
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1990
January 17 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Kenneth Cockrell, Eileen Collins, William G. Gregory, James Halsell, Charles Precourt, Richard Searfoss, Terrence Wilcutt
- Mission specialists: Daniel Bursch, Leroy Chiao, Michael Clifford, Bernard Harris, Susan Helms, Thomas Jones, William McArthur, James Newman, Ellen Ochoa, Ronald Sega, Nancy Currie, Donald Thomas, Janice Voss
October 8 - 1990 Germany
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1992
March 31 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Scott Horowitz, Brent Jett, Kevin Kregel, Kent Rominger
- Mission specialists: Daniel Barry, Charles Brady, Catherine Coleman, Michael Gernhardt, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Jerry Linenger, Richard Linnehan, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Scott Parazynski, Winston Scott, Steven Smith, Joseph Tanner, Andrew Thomas, Mary Weber
- International mission specialists: Marc Garneau, Chris Hadfield, Maurizio Cheli, Jean-François Clervoy, Koichi Wakata
April - 1992 NASDA Group - Japan
May 15 - ESA
- Maurizio Cheli (Italy), Jean-François Clervoy (France), Pedro Duque (Spain), Christer Fuglesang (Sweden), Marianne Merchez (Belgium), Thomas Reiter (Germany)
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1994
December 12 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Scott Altman, Jeffrey Ashby, Michael Bloomfield, Joe Edwards, Dominic Gorie, Rick Husband, Steven Lindsey, Pamela Melroy, Frederick Sturckow
- Mission specialists: Michael Anderson, Robert Curbeam, Kalpana Chawla, Kathryn Hire, Janet Kavandi, Susan Kilrain, Edward Lu, Carlos Noriega, James Reilly, Stephen Robinson
- International mission specialists: Jean-Loup Chrétien, Takao Doi, Michel Tognini, Dafydd Williams
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1995
1995 NASDA Group - Japan
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1996
May 1 - NASA Group - USA
- David Brown, Daniel Burbank, Yvonne Cagle, Fernando Caldeiro, Charles Camarda, Duane Carey, Laurel Clark, Michael Fincke, Patrick Forrester, Stephen Frick, John Herrington, Joan Higginbotham, Charles Hobaugh, James M. Kelly, Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly, Paul Lockhart, Christopher Loria, Sandra Magnus, Michael Massimino, Richard Mastracchio, William McCool, Lee Morin, Lisa Nowak, Donald Pettit, John Phillips, Mark Polansky, Paul Richards, Piers Sellers, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Daniel Tani, Rex Walheim, Peggy Whitson, Jeffrey Williams, Stephanie Wilson
- International mission specialists: Pedro Duque, Christer Fuglesang, Umberto Guidoni, Steven MacLean, Mamoru Mohri, Soichi Noguchi, Julie Payette, Philippe Perrin, Gerhard Thiele
October - China Group 1996 - China
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1998
January - Chinese Group 1 - China
- Chen Quan, Deng Qingming, Fèi Jùnlóng, Jing Haipeng, Liu Boming, Liu Wang, Niè Hǎishèng, Pan Zhanchun, Yang Liwei, Zhai Zhigang, Zhang Xiaoguan, Zhao Chuandong
June 4 - NASA Group - USA
- Clayton Anderson, Lee Archambault, Tracy Caldwell, Gregory Chamitoff, Timothy Creamer, Léopold Eyharts, Christopher Ferguson, Michael Foreman, Michael Fossum, Kenneth Ham, Gregory C Johnson, Gregory H Johnson, Stanley Love, Leland Melvin, Barbara Morgan, Paolo Nespoli, William Oefelein, John Olivas, Nicholas Patrick, Alan Poindexter, Marcos Pontes, Garrett Reisman, Patricia Robertson, Hans Schlegel, Steven Swanson, Robert Thirsk, Bjarni Tryggvason, Roberto Vittori, Douglas Wheelock, Sunita Williams, Neil Woodward, George Zamka
- This group includes Mrs. Barbara Morgan, the first Educator-Astronaut to be selected by NASA. She was the backup "Teacher-In-Space" payload specialist to Christa McAuliffe on the ill-fated Challenger Disaster in 1986.
October 7 - 1998 ESA Group - ESA
December 14 - 1999 NASDA Group - Japan
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2000
July 26 - NASA Group - USA
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2003
- The first group of commercial astronauts: Brian Binnie, Mike Melvill, Doug Shane, Peter Siebold
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2004
May 6 - NASA Group - USA
- Pilots: Randolph Bresnick, James Dutton
- Mission specialists: Thomas Marshburn, Christopher Cassidy, R. Shane Kimbrough, Jose Hernandez, Robert Satcher, Shannon Walker
- Educator mission specialists: Joseph M. Acaba, Richard Arnold, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
- International mission specialists: Satoshi Furukawa, Akihiko Hoshide, Naoko Yamazakipl:Grupy i oddziały astronautów