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Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin

People That Have Gone Into Space

The list that follows is a listing of all human beings that have ever left the confines of our Earth, and entered outer space. This list is unique in the fact that I have only included people that have traveled in space, and not included candidate astronauts or astronauts/cosmonauts awaiting their first space flight. All persons listed on this webpage have qualified as an astronaut under one of the two definitions of space.

Outer Space- The Definition

There are two definitions of space. The latter is the universally accepted definition. All pilots that only qualified under the Air Force definition and not the FAI's, did so as test pilots for the X-15 rocket plane in the 1960s. A mere 504 human beings have qualified as Astronauts since Yuri Gagarin's historic flight in 1961.

United States Air Force definition: The U.S. Air Force grants a pilot Astronaut status for making a flight above the space boundary of 50 statute miles (80 km).

Federation Aeronautique Internationale: The FAI grants Astronaut status to a person that has travelled above the altitude of 62 statute miles (100 km).

 

Superscript Symbol Key:

* Denotes one of the original American astronauts (Mercury 7).
* Denotes one of the original Soviet cosmonauts (Vostok 20).
^ Denotes one of the 24 astronauts that have flown to the moon (12 Moonwalkers are boldface).

Alphabetical Listing by Last Name:

 

A

Acaba, Joseph M.
Acton, Loren W.
Adams, Michael J.
Adamson, James C.
Afanasyez, Viktor M.
Akers, Thomas D.
Aksyonov, Vladimir V.
Aldrin, Edwin E. ^
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Panayotov
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Pavlovich
Allen, Andrew M.
Allen, Joseph P.
Altman, Scott D.
Anders, William A. ^

Anderson, Clayton C.
Anderson, Michael P.
Ansari, Anousheh
Antonelli, Dominic A.
Apt, Jerome
Archambault, Lee J.
Arciebarskij, Anatolij P.
Armstrong, Neil A. ^
Arnold, Richard R.
Artjukhin, Yuri P.
Ashby, Jeffrey S.
Atkov, Oleg J.
Aubakirov, Toktar A.
Avdeyev, Sergei V.

B

Bagian, James P.
Baker, Ellen S.
Baker, Michael A.
Balandin, Aleksandr
Barratt, Michael R.
Barry, Daniel T.
Bartoe, John-David F.
Baturin, Yuri M.
Baudry, Patrick
Bean, Alan L. ^
Behnken, Robert L.
Bella, Ivan
Belyayev, Pavel I. *
Beregovoi, Georgi T.
Berezovoy, Anatoly N.
Binnie, W. Brian
Blaha, John E.
Bloomfield, Michael J.
Bluford, Guion S.
Bobko, Karol J.
Boe, Eric A.
Bolden, Charles F.
Bondar, Roberta L.
Borman, Frank ^
Bowen, Stephen G.
Bowersox, Kenneth D.
Brady, Charles E.
Brand, Vance D.
Brandstein, Daniel C.
Bridges, Roy D.
Brown, Curtis L.
Brown, David M.
Buchli, James F.
Buckey, Jay C.
Budarin, Nikolai M.
Burbank, Daniel C.
Bursch, Daniel W.
Bykovsky, Valery F. *

C

Cabana, Robert D.
Caldwell, Tracy E.
Camarda, Charles J.
Cameron, Kenneth D.
Carey, Duane G.
Carpenter, M. Scott *
Carr, Gerald P.
Carter, Manley L.
Casper, John H.
Cenker, Robert J.
Cernan, Eugene A. ^
Chamitoff, Gregory E.
Chang-Diaz, Franklin R.
Chawla, Kalpana
Cheli, Maurizo
Chiao, Leroy N.
Chilton, Kevin P.
Chretien, Jean-Loup
Clark, Laurel B.
Cleave, Mary L.
Clervoy, Jean-Francois A.
Clifford, Michael R.
Coats, Michael L.
Cockrell, Kenneth D.
Coleman, Catherine G.
Collins, Eileen M.
Collins, Michael ^
Conrad, Charles ^
Cooper, L. Gordon *
Covey, Richard O.
Creighton, John O.
Crippen, Robert L.
Crouch, Roger K.
Culbertson, Frank L.
Cunningham, R. Walter
Curbeam, Robert L.
Currie, Nancy J.

D

Dana, William H.
Davis, N. Jan
DeLucas, Lawrence J.
Dyomin, Lev
De Winne, Frank
Dezhurov, Vladimir N.
Dobrovolskiy, Georgiy T.
Doi, Takao
Drew, Benjamin A.
Duffy, Brian
Duke, Charles M. ^
Dunbar, Bonnie J.
Duque, Pedro F.
Durrance, Samuel T.
Dzhanibekov, Vladimir A.

E

Edwards, Joe F.
Eisele, Donn F.
England, Anthony W.
Engle, Joseph H.
Evans, Ronald E. ^
Ewald, Reinhold
Eyharts, Leopold

F

Fabian, John M.
Faris, Muhammed A.
Farkas, Bertalan
Favier, Jean-Jaques
Fei, Junlong
Feoktistov, Konstantin P.
Ferguson, Christopher J.
Fettman, Martin J.
Feustel, Andrew J.
Filipchenko, Anatoli V.
Fincke, E. Michael
Fisher, Anna L.
Fisher, William F.
Flade, Klaus-Dietrich
Foale, C. Michael
Foreman, Michael J.
Forrester, Patrick G.
Fossum, Michael E.
Frick, Stephen N.
Frimout, Dirk D.
Fuglesang, A. Christer
Fullerton, C. Gordon
Furrer, Reinhard A.

G

Gaffney, Francis A.
Gagarin, Yuri A. *
Garan, Ronald J.
Gardner, Dale A.
Gardner, Guy S.
Garn, Jake
Garneau, Joseph J.M.
Garriott, Owen K.
Garriott, Richard A.
Gemar, Charles D.
Gernhardt, Michael L.
Gibson, Edward G.
Gibson, Robert L.
Gidzenko, Yuri P.
Glazkov, Yuri N.
Glenn, John H. *
Godwin, Linda M.
Good, Michael T.
Gorbatko, Viktor V. *
Gordon, Richard F. ^
Gorie, Dominic L.P.
Grabe, Ronald J.
Grechko, Georgi M.
Gregory, Frederick D.
Gregory, William G.
Griggs, S. David
Grissom, Virgil I. *
Grunsfield, John M.
Gubarev, Aleksei A.
Guidoni, Umberto
Gurragcha, Zhugderdemidiyn
Gutierrez, Sidney M.

H

Hadfield, Chris A.
Haignere, Claudie
Haignere, Jean-Pierre
Haise, Fred W. ^
Halsell, James D.
Ham, Kenneth T,
Hammond, L. Blaine
Harbaugh, Gregory J.
Harris, Bernard A.
Hart, Terry J.
Hartsfield, Henry W.
Hauck, Frederick H.
Hawley, Steven A.
Helms, Susan J.
Heinze, Karl G.
Hennen, Thomas J.
Henricks, Terrence T.
Hermaszewski, Miroslaw
Herrington, John B.
Hieb, Richard J.
Higginbotham, Joan E.
Hilmers, David C.
Hire, Kathryn P.
Hobaugh, Charles O.
Hoffman, Jefffrey A.
Horowitz, Scott J.
Hoshide, Akihiko
Hughes-Fulford, Millie E.
Husband, Rick D.

I

Irwin, James B. ^
Ivanchenkov, Aleksandr S.
Ivanov, Georgi
Ivins, Marsha S.

J

Jahn, Sigmund W.P.
Jemison, Mae C.
Jernigan, Tamara E.
Jett, Brent W.
Jing, Haipeng
Johnson, Gregory C.
Johnson, Gregory H.
Jones, Thomas D.

K

Kadenyuk, Leonid K.
Kaleri, Alexandr Y.
Kavandi, Janet L.
Kelly, James M.
Kelly, Mark E.
Kelly, Scott J.
Kerwin, Joseph P.
Khrunov, Yevgeni V. *
Kimbrough, Robert S.
Kizim, Leonid D.
Klimuk, Pyotr I.
Knight, William J.
Komarov, Vladimir M. *

Kondakova, Yelena V.
Kononenko,
Oleg D.
Korzun, Valery G.
Kotov, Oleg V.

Kovalyonok, Vladimir V.
Kozeyev, Konstantin M.
Kregel, Kevin R.
Krikalev, Sergei K.
Kubasov, Valeri N.
Kuipers, Andre

L

Laveykin, Aleksandr I.
Lawrence, Wendy B.
Lazarev, Vasili G.
Lazutkin, Alexandr I.
Lebedev, Valentin V.
Lee, Mark C.
Leestma, David C.
Lenoir, William B.
Leonov, Alexei A. *
Leslie, Frederick W.
Levchenko, Anatoli S.
Lichtenberg, Byron K.
Lind, Don L.
Lindsey, Steven W.
Linenger, Jerry M.
Linnehan, Richard M.
Linteris, Gregory T.
Liu, Boming
Lockhart, Paul S.
Lonchakov, Yuri V.
Lopez-Alegria, Michael E,
Lounge, John M.
Lousma, Jack R.
Love, Stanley G.
Lovell, James A. ^
Low, George D.
Lu, Edward T.
Lucid, Shannon W.
Lyakhov, Vladimir A.

M

MacLean, Steven G.
Magnus, Sandra H.
Makarov, Oleg G.
Malenchenko, Yuri I.
Malerba, Franco E.
Malyshev, Yuri V.
Manakov, Gennadi M.
Manarov, Musa K.
Massimino , Michael J.
Mastracchio, Richard A.
Mattingly, Thomas K. ^
McArthur, K. Megan
McArthur, William S.
McBride, Jon A.
McCandless, Bruce
McCool, William C.
McCulley, Michael J.
McDivitt, James A.
McKay, John B.
McMonagle, Donald A.
McNair, Ronald E.
Meade, Carl J.
Melnick, Bruce E.
Melroy, Pamela A.
Melvill, Michael W.
Melvin, Leland D.
Merbold, Ulf D.
Messerschmid, Ernst W.
Mitchell, Edgar D. ^
Mohmand, Abdul A.
Mohri, Mamoru
Morgan, Barbara R.
Morin, Lee M.E.
Morukov, Boris V.
Mukai, Chiaki
Mullane, Richard M.
Musabayev, Talgat A.
Musgrave, F. Story

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N

Nagel, Steven R.
Nelson, Bill
Nelson, George D.
Neri Vela, Rodolfo
Nespoli, Paolo A.
Nicollier, Claude
Niè, Haishèng
Nikolayev, Andrian G. *
Noguchi, Soichi
Noriega, Carlos I.
Nowak, Lisa M.
Nyberg, Karen L.

O

O'Connor, Bryan D.
Ochoa, Ellen L.
Ockels, Wubbo J.
Oefelein, William A.
Olivas, John D.
Olsen, Gregory H.
Onizuka, Ellison S.
Onufriyenko, Yuri I.
Oswald, Stephen S.
Overmyer, Robert F.

P

Padalka, Gennady I.
Pailes, William A.
Parazynski, Scott E.
Parise, Ronald A.
Parker, Robert A.
Patrick, Nicholas J.
Patsayev, Viktor I.
Pawelczyk, James A.
Payette, Julie
Payton, Gary E.
Perrin, Philippe
Peterson, Donald H.
Pettit, Donald R.
Pham, Tuan
Phillips, John L.
Pogue, William R.
Poindexter, Alan G.
Polansky, Mark L.
Poleschuk, Alexander F.
Polyakov, Valeri V.
Pontes, Marcos C.
Popov, Leonid
Popovich, Pavel R. *
Precourt, Charles J.
Prunariu, Dumitru D.

R

Ramon, Ilan
Readdy, William F.
Reightler, Kenneth S.
Reilly, James F.
Reisman, Garrett E.
Reiter, Thomas A.
Remek, Vladimir
Resnik, Judith A.
Richards, Paul W.
Richards, Richard N.
Ride, Sally K.
Robinson, Stephen K.
Romanenko, Yuri V.
Rominger, Kent V.
Roosa, Stuart A. ^
Ross, Jerry L.
Rozhdestvensky, Valeri I.
Rukavishnikov, Nikolai N.
Runco, Mario
Rushworth, Robert A.
Ryumin, Valeri

S

Sacco, Albert
Sarafanov, Gennadi V.
Savinykh, Viktor P.
Savitskaya, Svetlana Y.
Schirra, Walter M. *
Schlegel, Hans W.
Schmitt, Harrison H. ^
Schweickart, Russell L.
Scobee, Francis R.
Scott, David R. ^
Scott, Winston E.
Scully-Power, Paul D.
Searfoss, Richard A.
Seddon, Margaret R.
Sega, Ronald M.
Sellers, Piers J.
Serebrov, Aleksandr A.
Sevastyanov, Vitali I.
Shargin, Yuri G.
Sharipov, Salizhan S.
Sharma, Rakesh
Shatalov, Vladimir A.
Shaw, Brewster H.
Shepard, Alan B. * ^
Shepherd, William M.
Shonin, Georgi S. *
Shriver, Loren J.
Shukor, Sheikh Muszaphar
Shuttleworth, Mark R.
Simonyi, Charles
Slayton, Donald K. *
Smith, Steven
Solovyev, Anatoly Y.
Solovyov, Vladimir A.
Spring, Sherwood C.
Springer, Robert C.
Stafford, Thomas P. ^
Stefanyshyn-Piper, Heidemarie M.
Stewart, Robert L.
Still Kilrain, Susan L.
Strekalov, Gennady M.
Sturckow, Frederick W.
Sullivan, Kathryn D.
Swanson, Steven R.
Swigert, John L. ^

T

Tani, Daniel M.
Tanner, Joseph R.
Tereshkova, Valentina V.
Thagard, Norman E.
Thiele, Gerhard P.J.
Thirsk, Robert B.
Thomas, Andrew S.W.
Thomas, Donald A.
Thornton, Kathryn C.
Thornton, William E.
Thout, Pierre J.
Tito, Dennis A.
Titov, Gherman S. *
Titov, Vladimir D.
Tognini, Michel A.
Tokarev, Valeri I.
Tamayo Méndez, Arnaldo
Treschev, Sergei Y.
Trinh, Eugene H.
Truly, Richard H.
Tryggvason, Bjarni
Tsibliyev, Vasili V.
Tyurin, Mikhail V.

U

Usachev, Yuri V.

V

van den Berg, Lodewijk
van Hoften, James D.
Vasyutin, Vladimir V.
Veach, Charles L.
Viehböck, Franz A.
Viktorenko, Alexander S.
Vinogradov, Pavel V.
Vittori, Roberto
Volk, Igor P.
Volkov, Vladislav N.
Volkov, Alexander A.
Volkov, Sergei A.
Volynov, Boris V. *
Voss, James S.
Voss, Janice E.

W

Wakata, Koichi
Walheim, Rex J.
Walker, Charles D.
Walker, David M.
Walker, Joseph A.
Walter, Ulrich H.
Waltz, Carl E.
Wang, Taylor G.
Weber, Mary E.
Weitz, Paul J.
Wetherbee, James D.
Wheelock, Douglas H.
White, Edward H.
White, Robert M.
Whitson, Peggy A.
Wilcutt, Terrence W.
Williams, Dafydd R.
Williams, Donald E.
Williams, Jeffrey N.
Williams, Sunita L.
Wilson, Stephanie D.
Wisoff, Peter J.K.
Wolf, David A.
Worden, Alfred M. ^

Y

Yang, Liwei
Yegorov, Boris B.
Yeliseyev, Aleksei S.
Yi, So-yeon
Young, John W. ^
Yurchikhin, Fyodor N.

Z

Zalyotin, Sergei V.
Zamka, George D.
Zhai, Zhigang
Zholobov, Vitali M.
Zudov, Vyacheslav D.

 

 

America's First Astronaut! Admiral Alan B. Shepard

Alan Shepard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

China's First Taikonaut! Yang Liwei

Taikonaut Yang Liwei

 

 

 

The Towering Gagarin Monument in Moscow. Commemorating Russia's greatest hero, the first man in space. Yuri Gagarin.

Yuri A. Gagarin

* Denotes one of the original American astronauts (Mercury 7).
* Denotes one of the original Soviet cosmonauts (Vostok 20).
^ Denotes one of the 24 astronauts that have flown to the moon (12 Moonwalkers are boldface).

Note: Alan Shepard is the only original astronaut to make a flight to the moon.
Note: Names of Asian astronauts appear under the English format of (Family Name, First name).


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