Manned spaceflight Space Traveller Log Part 1: A - G Part 2: H - O Part 3: P - Z Stats and trivia Space stations Starship Orion Starliner Crew Dragon Soyuz MS Shenzhou Soyuz T/TM/TMA Space Shuttle Columbia acci-
dent investigation
Mercury, Gemini & Apollo Vostok, Voskhod & Soyuz Suborbital astronaut
wings flights

Space Traveller Log, Part 1 (A-G)

All astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts in space

Last update: 24 March 2024

 Abbreviations ASTP = Apollo-Soyuz Test Program | STS = Shuttle Transporter System | ISS = International Space Station | Pi = Pilot | MiSp = Mission Specialist (e.g. engineer, physician)
 Note Suborbital spacecraft flights (MR-3 and MR-4, kicking off the orbital Mercury programme) and inflight aborts (Soyuz 18A, Soyuz-T 10) of missions are counted.
First time crew members in the Challenger catastrophe (C. McAuliffe, M. Smith) are listed as well, while Apollo 1 victim R. Chaffee is included for completeness, though not counted.
Also not counted as space flights are purely suborbital tourist flights. All X-15 and SpaceShipOne test flights are recorded as suborbital astronaut wings flights, though.

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No. Name Year Country Total Active service Programme / Space station(s) Assignment / profession;
  [first name (nickname) surname] of birth (nation) flights (from - to) Spacecraft visited Remarks / mission events
 
  A  
Joseph Acaba 1967 USA 3 2009 - STS; Soyuz-TMA/-MS ISS MiSp
Loren Acton 1936 USA 1 1985 STS MiSp
James Adamson 1946 USA 2 1989 - 1991 STS MiSp
Viktor Afanasyev 1948 Russia 4 1990 - 2001 Soyuz-TM Mir; ISS Pi
Aidyn Aimbetov 1972 KAZ 1 2016 - Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Hazza Al Mansouri 1983 UAE 1 2019 Soyuz-MS ISS visiting astronaut
Thomas Akers 1951 USA 4 1990 - 1996 STS Mir MiSp
Tohiro Akiyama 1942 Japan 1 1990 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp; first Japanese cosmonaut in space
Valdimir Aksyonov 1935 Russia 2 1976 - 1980 Soyuz; Soyuz-T Salyut 6 MiSp
Edwin Buzz Aldrin 1930 USA 2 1966 - 1969 Gemini; Apollo Pi; second man to put his foot on the moon
Aleksandr Pan. Aleksandrov 1951 Bulgaria 1 1988 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp; first Bulgarian cosmonaut in space
Aleksandr Pav. Aleksandrov 1943 Russia 2 1983 - 1987 Soyuz-T/-TM Salyut 7; Mir MiSp
Andrew Allen 1955 USA 3 1992 - 1996 STS Pi
Joseph Allen 1937 USA 2 1982 - 1984 STS MiSp
Sultan Al-Neyadi 1981 UAE 1 2023 Dragon ISS MiSp
Ali Al-Qarni 1992 Saudi Arabia 1 2023 Dragon ISS tourist payed by Saudi Arabian government
Sultan Abdel-aziz Al-Saud 1956 Saudi Arabia 1 1985 STS MiSp
Scott Altman 1959 USA 4 1998 - 2009 STS ISS Pi
William Anders 1933 USA 1 1968 Apollo Pi
Clayton Anderson 1959 USA 2 2007 - STS ISS MiSp
Michael Anderson † 1959 USA 2 1998 - 2003 STS Mir MiSp; died in shuttle Columbia re-entry accident (STS-107)
Anousheh Ansari 1966 USA 1 2006 STS ISS MiSp; first female paying space tourist
Dominic (Tony) Antonelli 1967 USA 2 2009 - STS ISS Pi
Jerome Apt 1949 USA 4 1991 - 1996 STS Mir MiSp
Hayley Arceneaux 1991 USA 1 2021 Dragon MiSp
Lee Archambault 1960 USA 2 2007 - STS ISS Pi
Neil Armstrong † 1930 USA 2 1966 - 1969 Gemini; Apollo Pi; Apollo 11 commander and first man on the moon!
Richard (Ricky) Arnold 1963 USA 2 2009 - STS; Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Oleg Artemyev 1970 Russia 3 2014 - Soyuz-TMA/-MS ISS Pi/MiSp
Anatoli Artsebarsky 1956 Russia 1 1990 - 1991 Soyuz-TM Mir Pi
Yuri Artyukhin † 1930 Russia 1 1974 Soyuz Salyut 3 MiSp
Jeffrey Ashby 1954 USA 2 1999 - 2002 STS ISS Pi
Oleg Atkov 1949 Russia 1 1984 Soyuz-T Salyut 7 MiSp
Toktar Aubakirov 1946 Kazakhstan 1 1991 Soyuz-TM Mir Pi
Serena Auńón-Chancellor 1976 USA 1 2018 - Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Sergei Avdeyev 1956 Russia 3 1992 - 1999 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp; has spent more time in space than anyone else (more than 747 days)
  B  
James Bagian 1952 USA 2 1989 - 1991 STS MiSp
Ellen Baker 1953 USA 3 1989 - 1995 STS Mir MiSp
Michael Baker 1953 USA 4 1991 - 1997 STS Mir Pi
Aleksandr Balandin 1953 Russia 1 1990 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp
Rayyanah Barnawi 1988 Saudi Arabia 1 2023 Dragon ISS tourist payed by Saudi Arabian government
Michael Barratt 1959 USA 3 2009 - Soyuz-TMA; STS; Dragon ISS MiSp
Kayla Barron 1987 USA 1 2021 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Daniel Barry 1953 USA 3 1996 - 2001 STS ISS MiSp
John Bartoe 1944 USA 1 1985 STS MiSp
Yuri Baturin 1949 Russia 1 1998 - 2001 Soyuz-TM Mir; ISS MiSp
Patrick Baudry 1946 France 1 1985 STS MiSp
Alan Bean † 1932 USA 2 1969 - 1973 Apollo; Apollo/Skylab 3 Skylab-1 Pi
Robert Behnken 1970 USA 3 2008 - STS; Dragon ISS MiSp
Ivan Bella 1964 Slovakia 1 1999 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp
Pavel Belyayev † 1925 Russia 1 1965 Voskhod Pi
Georgi Beregovoi † 1921 Ukraine 1 1968 Soyuz Pi
Anatoli Berezovoi 1942 Russia 1 1982 Soyuz-T Salyut 7 Pi
John Blaha 1942 USA 5 1989 - 1996 STS Mir Pi
Michael Bloomfield 1959 USA 3 1997 - 2002 STS Mir; ISS Pi
Guion (Guy) Bluford 1942 USA 4 1983 - 1992 STS MiSp
Karol (Bo) Bobko 1937 USA 3 1983 - 1985 STS Pi
Eric Boe 1964 USA 2 2008 - STS ISS Pi
Charles Bolden 1946 USA 4 1986 - 1994 STS Pi
Roberta Bondar 1945 Canada 1 1992 STS MiSp
Andrei Borisenko 1964 Russia 2 2011 - Soyuz-TMA/-MS ISS MiSp
Konstantin Borisov 1984 Russia 1 2023 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Frank Bormann 1928 USA 2 1965 - 1968 Gemini Pi
Stephen Bowen 1964 USA 4 2008 - STS; Dragon ISS MiSp
Kenneth Bowersox 1956 USA 5 1992 - 2003 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS Pi/MiSp
Charles Brady † 1951 USA 1 1996 STS MiSp
Roy Bridges 1943 USA 1 1985 STS Pi
Vance Brand 1931 USA 4 1975 - 1990 Apollo-ASTP; STS Pi
Daniel Brandenstein 1943 USA 4 1983 - 1992 STS Pi
Randolph (Randy) Bresnik 1967 USA 2 2009 - STS; Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Curtis Brown 1956 USA 6 1992 - 1999 STS Pi
David Brown † 1956 USA 1 2003 STS MiSp; died in shuttle Columbia re-entry accident (STS-107)
Mark Brown 1951 USA 2 1989 - 1991 STS MiSp
James Buchli 1945 USA 4 1985 - 1991 STS MiSp
Jay Buckey 1956 USA 1 1998 STS MiSp
Nikolai Budarin 1953 Russia 3 1995 - 2003 STS; Soyuz-TM/-TMA Mir; ISS MiSp
Daniel Burbank 1961 USA 3 2000 - 2012 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Daniel Bursch 1957 USA 4 1993 - 2002 STS ISS MiSp
Valeri Bykovsky † 1934 Russia 3 1963 - 1978 Vostok; Soyuz Salyut 6 Pi
  C  
Robert Cabana 1949 USA 4 1990 - 1998 STS ISS Pi
Cai Xuzhe 1976 China 1 2022 - Shenzou TSS Pi
Tracy Caldwell-Dyson 1969 USA 3 2007 - STS; Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Charles Camarda 1952 USA 1 2005 STS ISS MiSp
Kenneth Cameron 1949 USA 3 1991 - 1995 STS Mir Pi
Duane Carey 1957 USA 1 2002 STS MiSp
Scott Carpenter † 1925 USA 1 1962 Mercury Pi
Gerald Carr 1932 USA 1 1973 - 1974 Apollo/Skylab 4 Skylab-1 Pi; final long endurance Skylab-1 visit
Manley (Sonny) Carter † 1947 USA 1 1989 STS MiSp
John Casper 1943 USA 4 1990 - 1996 STS Pi
Josh Cassada 1973 USA 1 2022 - Dragon ISS Pi
Christopher Cassidy 1970 USA 3 2009 - STS; Soyuz-TMA/-MS ISS MiSp
Robert Cenker 1948 USA 1 1986 STS MiSp
Eugene Cernan † 1934 USA 3 1966 - 1972 Gemini; Apollo Pi; last man on the moon, to date
Roger Chaffee † 1935 USA 1967 (Apollo) Pi; died in Apollo 1 (AS-204) flash fire on launch pad
Gregory Chamitoff 1962 USA 2 2008 - STS ISS MiSp
Franklin Chang-Díaz 1950 USA 7 1986 - 2002 STS Mir; ISS MiSp
Raja Chari 1977 USA 1 2021 - Dragon ISS Pi
Kalpana Chawla † 1961 USA 2 1997 - 2003 STS Indian born MiSp; died in shuttle Columbia re-entry accident (STS-107)
Maurizio Cheli 1959 Italy 1 1996 STS MiSp
Chen Dong 1978 China 2 2016 - Shenzhou Tiangong 2, TSS MiSp
Leroy Chiao 1960 USA 4 1994 - 2005 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Kevin Chilton 1954 USA 3 1992 - 1996 STS Mir Pi
Jean-Loup Chrétien 1938 France 3 1982 - 1997 Soyuz-T/-TM; STS Salyut 7; Mir MiSp; first French cosmonaut in space
Nikolai Chub 1984 Russia 1 2023 - Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Laurel Clark † 1961 USA 1 2003 STS MiSp; died in shuttle Columbia re-entry accident (STS-107)
Mary Cleave 1947 USA 2 1985 - 1989 STS MiSp
Jean-Francois Clervoy 1958 France 3 1994 - 1999 STS Mir MiSp
Michael Clifford 1952 USA 3 1992 - 1996 STS Mir MiSp
Michael Coats 1946 USA 3 1984 - 1991 STS Pi
Kenneth Cockrell 1950 USA 5 1993 - 2002 STS ISS Pi
Catherine Coleman 1960 USA 3 1995 - 2011 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Eileen Collins 1956 USA 4 1995 - 2005 STS ISS Pi; first female Space Shuttle commander
Michael Collins † 1930 USA 2 1966 - 1969 Gemini; Apollo Pi
Larry Connor 1950 USA 1 2022 Dragon ISS MiSp; tourist
Charles (Pete) Conrad † 1930 USA 2 1965 - 1973 Gemini; Apollo/Skylab 2 Skylab-1 Pi
Gordon Cooper † 1927 USA 2 1963 - 1965 Mercury; Gemini Pi; first astronaut to fly twice
Richard Covey 1946 USA 4 1985 - 1993 STS Pi
Timothy (TJ) Creamer 1959 USA 1 2009 - Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
John Creighton 1943 USA 3 1985 - 1991 STS Pi
Robert Crippen 1937 USA 4 1981 - 1984 STS Pi; pilot on maiden shuttle flight (Columbia)
Samantha Cristoforetti 1977 Italy 2 2014 - Soyuz-TMA; Dragon ISS MiSp
Roger Crouch 1940 USA 2 1997 STS MiSp
Frank Culbertson 1949 USA 3 1990 - 2001 STS ISS Pi
Walter Cunningham 1932 USA 1 1968 Apollo Pi; first US three men spacecraft flight
Robert Curbeam 1962 USA 2 1997 - 2006 STS ISS MiSp
Nancy Currie (Sherlock) 1958 USA 4 1993 - 2002 STS ISS MiSp
  D  
Nancy Davis 1953 USA 3 1992 - 1997 STS MiSp
Lawrence DeLucas 1950 USA 1 1992 STS MiSp
Lev Demin † 1926 Russia 1 1974 Soyuz MiSp
Deng Qingming 1966 China 1 2022 - Shenzhou TSS Pi
Frank De Winne 1961 Belgium 2 2002 - 2009 Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Vladimir Dezhurov 1962 Russia 2 1995 - 2001 Soyuz-TM; STS Mir; ISS Pi/MiSp
Georgi Dobrovolsky † 1928 Russia 1 1971 Soyuz Salyut 1 Pi; first ever flight to a space station; Soyuz 11 crew died at landing due to loss of cabin atmosphere
Takao Doi 1954 Japan 2 1997 - 2008 STS ISS MiSp
Matthew Dominick 1981 USA 1 2024 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Benjamin (Alvin) Drew 1962 USA 2 2007 - 2011 STS ISS MiSp
Brian Duffy 1953 USA 4 1992 - 2000 STS ISS Pi
Charles Duke 1935 USA 1 1972 Apollo Pi
Bonnie Dunbar 1949 USA 5 1985 - 1998 STS Mir MiSp
Pedro Duque 1963 Spain 2 1998 - 2003 STS ISS MiSp
Samuel Durrance 1943 USA 2 1990 - 1995 STS MiSp
James Dutton 1968 USA 1 2010 - STS ISS Pi
Vladimir Dzhanibekov 1942 Russia 5 1978 - 1985 Soyuz; Soyuz-T Salyut 6 & 7 Pi
  E  
Joe Edwards 1958 USA 1 1998 STS Mir Pi
Donn Eisele † 1930 USA 1 1968 Apollo Pi; first US three men spacecraft flight
Anthony England 1942 USA 1 1985 STS MiSp
Joseph Engle 1932 USA 2 1981 - 1985 STS Pi; performed test glide flights with shuttle Enterprise (OV-101)
Jeanette Epps 1970 USA 1 2024 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Ronald Evans † 1933 USA 1 1972 Apollo Pi
Reinhold Ewald 1956 Germany 1 1997 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp
Leopold Eyharts 1957 France 2 1998 - 2008 Soyuz-TM; STS Mir; ISS MiSp
  F  
John Fabian 1939 USA 2 1983 - 1985 STS MiSp
Mohammed Faris 1951 Syria 1 1987 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp; first Syrian cosmonaut in space
Bertalan Farkas 1949 Hungaria 1 1980 Soyuz Salyut 6 MiSp; fifth Interkosmos
Jean-Jacques Favier 1949 France 1 1996 STS MiSp
Andrey Fedyaev 1981 Russia 1 2023 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Fei Junlong 1966 China 2 2005 - Shenzhou TSS Pi
Konstantin Feoktisov † 1926 Russia 1 1964 Voskhod Pi; member of first Voskhod crew
Christopher Ferguson 1961 USA 3 2006 - STS ISS Pi
Martin Fettman 1956 USA 1 1993 STS MiSp
Andrew Feustel 1965 USA 3 2009 - STS; Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
Anatoli Filipchenko 1928 Russia 2 1969 - 1974 Soyuz Pi
Michael (Mike) Fincke 1967 USA 3 2004 - Soyuz-TMA; STS ISS MiSp
Anna Fisher 1949 USA 1 1984 STS MiSp
Jack Fisher 1974 USA 1 2017 - Soyuz-MS ISS MiSp
William Fisher 1946 USA 1 1985 STS MiSp
Klaus-Dietrich Flade 1952 Germany 1 1992 Soyuz-TM Mir MiSp
Michael Foale 1957 USA 6 1992 - 2004 STS Mir; ISS MiSp
Kevin Ford 1960 USA 2 2009 - 2013 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS Pi & MiSp
Michael Foreman 1957 USA 2 2008 - 2009 STS ISS MiSp
Patrick Forrester 1957 USA 3 2001 - 2009 STS ISS MiSp
Michael Fossum 1957 USA 3 2006 - 2011 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Stephen Frick 1964 USA 2 2002 - 2008 STS ISS Pi
Dirk Frimout 1941 Belgium 1 1992 STS MiSp
Christer Fuglesang 1957 Sweden 2 2006 - 2009 STS ISS MiSp
Gordon Fullerton 1936 USA 2 1982 - 1985 STS Pi
Reinhard Furrer † 1940 Germany 1 1985 STS MiSp
Satoshi Furukawa 1964 Japan 2 2011 - Soyuz-TMA; Dragon ISS MiSp
  G  
Francis (Drew) Gaffney 1946 USA 1 1991 STS MiSp
Yuri Gagarin † 1934 Russia 1 1961 Vostok Pi; first man in space on 12-Apr-1961
Ronald Garan 1961 USA 2 2008 - 2011 STS; Soyuz-TMA ISS MiSp
Dale Gardner 1948 USA 2 1983 - 1984 STS MiSp
Guy Gardner 1948 USA 2 1988 - 1990 STS Pi
Edwin (Jake) Garn 1932 USA 1 1985 STS MiSp; then US Senator
Joseph Garneau 1949 Canada 3 1984 - 2000 STS ISS MiSp
Owen Garriott 1930 USA 2 1973 - 1983 Apollo/Skylab 3; STS Skylab-1 Pi
Richard Garriott 1961 UK / USA 1 2008 Soyuz-TMA ISS Space tourist
Charles Gemar 1955 USA 3 1990 - 1994 STS MiSp
Michael Gernhardt 1956 USA 4 1995 - 2001 STS ISS MiSp
Alexander Gerst 1976 Germany 2 2014 - Soyuz-TMA/MS ISS MiSp
Alper Gezeravci 1979 Turkey 1 2024 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Edward Gibson 1936 USA 1 1973 - 1974 Apollo/Skylab 4 Skylab-1 Pi; final long endurance Skylab-1 visit
Robert (Hoot) Gibson 1946 USA 5 1984 - 1995 STS Mir Pi
Yuri Gidzenko 1962 Russia 3 1995 - 2002 Soyuz-TM Mir; ISS Pi; first ISS Expedition Crew
Yuri Glazkov † 1939 Russia 1 1977 Soyuz Salyut 5 MiSp
John Glenn † 1921 USA 2 1962 / 1998 Mercury; STS Pi; first American in Earth orbit; oldest astronaut to date
Victor Glover 1976 USA 1 2020 - Dragon ISS Pi
Linda Godwin 1952 USA 4 1991 - 2001 STS Mir; ISS MiSp
Michael Good 1962 USA 2 2009 - 2010 STS ISS MiSp
Viktor Gorbatko 1934 Russia 3 1969 - 1980 Soyuz Salyut 5 & 6 Pi
Richard Gordon 1929 USA 2 1966 - 1969 Gemini; Apollo Pi
Dominic Gorie 1957 USA 4 1998 - 2008 STS Mir; ISS Pi; member of final Shuttle/Mir mission
Ronald Grabe 1945 USA 4 1985 - 1993 STS Pi
Alexander Grebenkin 1982 Russia 1 2024 - Dragon ISS MiSp
Georgi Grechko 1931 Russia 3 1975 - 1985 Soyuz; Soyuz-T Salyut 4, 6 & 7 MiSp
Frederick Gregory 1941 USA 3 1985 - 1991 STS Pi
William Gregory 1957 USA 1 1995 STS Pi
Stanley Griggs † 1939 USA 1 1985 STS Pi
Virgil (Gus) Grissom † 1926 USA 2 1961 - 1967 Mercury; Gemini; (Apollo) Pi; died in Apollo 1 (AS-204) flash fire on launch pad
John Grunsfeld 1958 USA 5 1995 - 2009 STS Mir; ISS MiSp
Aleksey Gubarev 1931 Russia 2 1975 - 1978 Soyuz Salyut 4 & 6 Pi
Umberto Guidoni 1954 Italy 2 1996 - 2001 STS ISS MiSp
Gui Haichao 1986 China 1 2023 Shenzhou TSS MiSp
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa 1947 Mongolia 1 1981 Soyuz Salyut 6 MiSp; eighth Interkosmos mission
Sidney McNeil Gutierrez 1951 USA 2 1991 - 1994 STS Pi