List of space travelers by name
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The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres in altitude – the two grey-shaded regions.
The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight above 100 kilometres (62 mi). In the 1960s, the United States Department of Defense awarded the rating of astronaut to military and civilian pilots who flew aircraft higher than 50 miles (80 km).[1] This list follows the FAI criterion.
From the Department of Defense, eight USAF and NASA pilots qualified for the Astronaut Badge by flying the sub-orbital X-15 rocket spaceplane.[1] One of these, Joseph A. Walker, flew the X-15 above 100 km on two flights, becoming the first person to enter space twice.[2][3][4] The other pilots did not reach the 100 km FAI limit. However, Joe Engle would later go on to fly on the Space Shuttle, thus exceeding this limit.
There are also nine space travellers who surpassed the 50-mi-border on the sub-orbital SpaceShipTwo (including Richard Branson,[5][6] founder of Virgin Galactic spaceflight company), and are thus recognized as (commercial) astronauts by the FAA but not by the FAI since they didn't surpass the 100-km-line while one of them (Frederick W. Sturckow) had flown to space in the Space Shuttle already and thus already has been an FAI-recognized astronaut. The rest, therefore, are not recognized as commercial astronauts using FAI criterion.
All other men and women traveled to outer space in non-winged rockets, the orbital Space Shuttle, or the sub-orbital Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne rocket spaceplane.[1]
People who died training for space travel or died during missions that failed to reach the required altitude, such as Christa McAuliffe, can be found in the article on space disasters.
As of July 20, 2021, a total of 574 people from 41 countries have gone into space according to the FAI criterion (587 people have qualified when including the US Department of Defense classification). Of those 574, three people only reached a sub-orbital flight, 567 people reached Earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low Earth orbit and 12 walked on the Moon.[7] Space travelers have spent over 29,000 person-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.[8] This list does not include name animals in space.
- Names in italic are space travelers who have left low Earth orbit.
- National flags indicate the space traveler's citizenship at the time of flight(s).
- A
before a name denotes that the person died during spaceflight, or during an attempted spaceflight. - A
before a name denotes space travelers who have walked on the Moon. - A
before a name denotes that the person is currently in space.
A[]
Joseph M. Acaba- Loren Acton
- James Adamson
Viktor M. Afanasyev
Aydyn Aimbetov, first cosmonaut by KazCosmos-selection in space- Thomas Akers
Toyohiro Akiyama, the first business-sponsored hi space traveler and the first Japanese person in space- Vladimir Aksyonov
Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space, first Middle Eastern person in space- Buzz Aldrin, flew on Apollo 11; second person to walk on the Moon
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov- Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
- Andrew M. Allen
- Joseph P. Allen
Hazza Al Mansouri, first UAE astronaut- Scott Altman
- William Anders, first Asian-born person in space (born in Hong Kong, but an American citizen)
- Clayton Anderson
- Michael P. Anderson (1959–2003), died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
- (Claudie André-Deshays – see Claudie Haigneré)
Anousheh Ansari, fourth spaceflight participant and first female spaceflight participant, first woman of Muslim descent in space, and first Iranian in space- Dominic A. Antonelli
- Jerome Apt
- Lee Archambault
- Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), flew on Apollo 11; first person to walk on the Moon[10]
- Richard R. Arnold
- Oleg Artemyev
- Anatoly Artsebarsky
- Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)[11]
- Jeffrey Ashby
- Oleg Atkov
- Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space
- Serena Auñón-Chancellor
- Sergei Avdeyev
B[]
-
James Bagian, first Armenian in space - Ellen Baker
- Michael Baker
- Aleksandr Balandin
- Michael Barratt
- 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 (1932–2018), flew on Apollo 12; fourth person to walk on the Moon
- Robert L. Behnken
Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space- Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)
- Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), earliest-born person to go into orbit
- Anatoli Berezovoy (1942–2014)
- Jeff Bezos, suborbital flights only, founder of Blue Origin spaceflight company
- Mark Bezos, suborbital flights only
- Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut; suborbital flight only
- 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
- Eric A. Boe
- Charles Bolden
Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space- Andrei Borisenko
- Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon
- Stephen G. Bowen
- Kenneth Bowersox
- Charles Brady (1951–2006)
- Vance Brand
- Daniel Brandenstein
- Randolph Bresnik
- Roy Bridges; became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
- Curtis Brown
- David M. Brown (1956–2003), died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
- Mark Brown
- James Buchli
- Jay Buckey
- Nikolai Budarin
- Daniel Burbank
- Daniel Bursch
- Valery Bykovsky
C[]
- Robert Cabana
- Charles Camarda
- Kenneth Cameron
- Duane Carey
- Scott Carpenter (1925–2013), a Project Mercury astronaut
- Gerald Carr
- Sonny Carter (1947–1991)[12]
- John Casper
- Christopher J. Cassidy, 500th astronaut in space
- Robert Cenker
- Gene Cernan (1934–2017), flew to the Moon on Apollo 10 and moonwalked on Apollo 17[13]
- Gregory Chamitoff
Franklin Chang-Diaz, the only Costa Rican, first Hispanic-American in space, holder of the shared record of seven space flights
Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space; died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
Maurizio Cheli
Chen Dong- Leroy Chiao
- Kevin Chilton
- Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
- Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
- Mary Cleave
- Jean-François Clervoy
- Michael Clifford
- Michael Coats
- Kenneth Cockrell
- Catherine Coleman
- Eileen Collins
- Michael Collins (1930-2021), flew on Apollo 11, first Italian-born person in space (born in Rome to American parents)
- Pete Conrad (1930–1999), commanded Apollo 12 and the first Skylab mission[14]
- Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), first American to fly in space for over 24 hours
- Richard Covey
- Timothy Creamer
- John Creighton
- Robert Crippen, flew on STS-1
- Samantha Cristoforetti, first Italian woman in space
- Roger Crouch
- Frank Culbertson
- Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7
- Robert Curbeam
- Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
D[]
Oliver Daemen, suborbital flights only, youngest person in space[15]- Nancy Jan Davis
- Lawrence J. DeLucas
Frank De Winne- Vladimir N. Dezhurov
- Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971), died during Soyuz 11
- Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space
- B. Alvin Drew
- Pyotr Dubrov
- Brian Duffy
- Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16
- Bonnie J. Dunbar
Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space- Samuel T. Durrance
- James Dutton
- Lev Dyomin (1926–1998)
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov, first Uzbekistan-born man in space
E[]
- Joe Edwards
- Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7
- Anthony W. England
- Joseph H. Engle
- Ronald Evans (1933–1990), flew on Apollo 17[16]
Reinhold Ewald- Léopold Eyharts
F[]
- John Fabian
Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space
Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space- Jean-Jacques Favier
- Fei Junlong, flew on Shenzhou 6
- Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009)
- Christopher Ferguson
- Martin J. Fettman
- Andrew J. Feustel
- Anatoly Filipchenko
- Michael Fincke
- Jack D. Fischer
- Anna Fisher, first mother in space
- 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- Kevin A. Ford
- Michael Foreman
- Patrick Forrester
- Michael Fossum
- Stephen Frick
- Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space
Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space- C. Gordon Fullerton (1936–2013)
- Wally Funk, suborbital flights only, oldest person in space[15]
- Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)[17][18]
- Satoshi Furukawa
G[]
- Francis Gaffney
- Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space,[19][20] first person to orbit the Earth
- Ronald Garan
- Dale Gardner
- Guy Gardner
- Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space
- Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space
- Owen Garriott
- Richard Garriott, first second generation American in space; son of Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott
- Charles Gemar
- Michael Gernhardt
- Alexander Gerst
- Edward Gibson
- Robert L. Gibson
- Yuri Gidzenko
- Yuri Glazkov (1939–2008)
- John Glenn (1921–2016), first American to orbit the Earth, the oldest person to make a spaceflight, and U.S. Senator
- Victor Glover
- Linda Godwin
- Michael T. Good
- Viktor Gorbatko
- Richard Gordon (1929–2017), flew on Apollo 12
- Dominic Gorie
- Ronald Grabe
- Georgi Grechko
- Frederick Gregory
- William Gregory
- Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)
- Virgil "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice; first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft; would have been the first person to fly three times; died in the Apollo 1 disaster[21]
- John Grunsfeld
- Aleksei Gubarev
- Umberto Guidoni
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space- Sidney Gutierrez
H[]
- Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space
- Nick Hague
- Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré
- Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13
- James Halsell
- Kenneth Ham
- Lloyd Hammond
- Gregory Harbaugh
- Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space
- Terry Hart
- Henry Hartsfield (1933–2014)[22][23]
- Frederick Hauck
- Steven Hawley
- Susan Helms
- Karl Henize (1926–1993)[24][25][26]
- Thomas Hennen
- Terence Henricks
Mirosław Hermaszewski, first Pole in space- José M. Hernández
- John Herrington, first Native American in space
- Richard Hieb
- Joan Higginbotham
- David Hilmers
- Kathryn Hire
- Charles Hobaugh
- Jeffrey Hoffman
- Michael Hopkins
- Scott Horowitz
- Akihiko Hoshide
- Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female payload specialist
- Douglas G. Hurley
- Rick Husband (1957–2003), died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
I[]
- James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15[27]
- Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
- Anatoli Ivanishin
- Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space
- Marsha Ivins
J[]
Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), first German in space- Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
- Tamara E. Jernigan
- Brent W. Jett, Jr.
- Jing Haipeng
- Gregory C. Johnson
- Gregory H. Johnson
- Thomas D. Jones
K[]
Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence- Alexandr Kaleri, first Russian in space since the fall of Communism
- Norishige Kanai
- Janet L. Kavandi
- James M. Kelly
- Mark Kelly
- Scott Kelly
- Joseph Kerwin
- Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)
- Susan Kilrain
- Robert S. Kimbrough
- Leonid Kizim (1941–2010)
- Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space
- Christina Koch, member of the first all-female EVA team
- Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), died during Soyuz 1
- Yelena Kondakova
- Dmitri Kondratyev
- Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space
- Timothy L. Kopra
- Mikhail Korniyenko
- Valery Korzun
- Oleg Kotov
- Vladimir Kovalyonok
- Konstantin Kozeyev
- Kevin Kregel
- Sergei Krikalev, six space flights; until 2015, held the record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes
- Valeri Kubasov (1935–2014)
- Sergey Kud-Sverchkov
- André Kuipers
L[]
- Aleksandr Laveykin
- Guy Laliberté, first Canadian Billionaire [28]space tourist.
- Wendy Lawrence
- Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin
- Valentin Lebedev
- Mark C. Lee
- David Leestma
- William B. Lenoir
- Alexei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA) (1934-2019)
- Frederick W. Leslie
- Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)
- Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA payload specialist
- Don Lind
- Kjell N. Lindgren
- Steven Lindsey
- Jerry Linenger
- Richard Linnehan
- Gregory Linteris
- Liu Boming
- Liu Wang
- Liu Yang, first Chinese woman in space
- Paul Lockhart
- Yuri Lonchakov
- Michael Lopez-Alegria
- John Lounge
- Jack Lousma
- Stanley G. Love
- Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13
- G. David Low (1956–2008)
- 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 was always an American citizen, born of American parents.)
- Yury Malyshev (1941–1999)
- Gennadi Manakov
- Musa Manarov, first Azerbaijan-born man in space
- Thomas H. Marshburn
- Michael Massimino
- Richard Mastracchio
- Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C
- K. Megan McArthur
- William S. McArthur
- Jon McBride
- Bruce McCandless II (1937–2017)
- William C. McCool (1961–2003), died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9]
- Michael J. McCulley
- James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9
- Anne McClain
- Donald McMonagle
- Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- Carl Meade
- Jessica Meir, member of the first all-female EVA team, first Swedish woman in space, second Swede in space
- Bruce Melnick
- Pamela Melroy
- Leland D. Melvin
- Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut; suborbital flight only
- Ulf Merbold
- Ernst Messerschmid
- Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
- Alexander Misurkin
- Edgar Mitchell (1930–2016), flew on Apollo 14[29][30]
Andreas Mogensen, first Dane in space
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space- Mamoru Mohri
- Andrew Morgan
- Barbara Morgan
- Lee Morin
- Boris Morukov
- Beth Moses, first passenger of a commercial spaceflight; sub-orbital, has not met the FAI criterion of crossing the Kármán line (100km)
- Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space
- Richard Mullane
- Talgat Musabayev, first Kazakh citizen in space
- Story Musgrave
N[]
- Steven R. Nagel (1946–2014)[31]
- Bill Nelson, second politician in space
- George Nelson
Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space- Paolo A. Nespoli
- James H. Newman
Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space- Nie Haisheng, flew on Shenzhou 6
- Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)
- Soichi Noguchi
- Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space
- Oleg Novitskiy
- Lisa Nowak
- Karen Nyberg
O[]
- Bryan O'Connor
- Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space
- Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014),[32] first Dutch citizen in space
- William Oefelein
- John D. Olivas
- Gregory Olsen, third spaceflight participant
- Takuya Onishi
- Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- Yuri Onufrienko
- Stephen Oswald
- Aleksey Ovchinin
- Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)
P[]
- Gennady Padalka, as of 2015, has spent longer in space than any other person, at 879.48 days over five flights
- William Pailes
- Scott Parazynski
- Ronald A. Parise (1951–2008)
- Robert Parker
- Luca Parmitano
- Nicholas Patrick
- Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971), died during Soyuz 11
- James Pawelczyk
- Julie Payette
- Gary Payton, first military astronaut
- Tim Peake
- Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
- Thomas Pesquet
- Donald Peterson
- Donald Pettit
Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space- John Phillips
- William Pogue (1930–2014)
- Alan G. Poindexter (1961–2012)[33]
- Mark Polansky
- Alexander Poleshchuk
- Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days
Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space- Leonid Popov
- Pavel Popovich (1930–2009), first Ukrainian-born person in space
- Charles Precourt
- Sergey Prokopyev
Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space
R[]
Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space; died on February 1, 2003, in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of STS-107[9][34]- William Readdy
- Kenneth Reightler
- James F. Reilly
- Garrett Reisman
- Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS
Vladimír Remek, first Czechoslovak and first non-Soviet European in space- Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- Sergei Revin
- Paul W. Richards
- Richard N. Richards
- Sally Ride (1951–2012), first American woman in space
- Stephen Robinson
- Roman Romanenko
- Yury Romanenko
- Kent Rominger
- Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14[35]
- Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights
- Valery Rozhdestvensky
- Kathleen Rubins
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)
- Mario Runco, Jr.
- Sergey Ryazansky
- Valery Ryumin
- Sergey Nikolayevich Ryzhikov
S[]
- Albert Sacco
- David Saint-Jacques
- Aleksandr Samokutyayev
- Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)
- Robert Satcher
- Viktor Savinykh
- Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space, visit a space station, and travel to space twice
- Wally Schirra (1923–2007), Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo 7
- Hans Schlegel
- Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17 and walked on the Moon
- Rusty Schweickart
- Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- David Scott, walked on the Moon during Apollo 15
- Winston Scott
Paul Scully-Power- Richard A. Searfoss (1956-2018)
- Margaret Rhea Seddon
- Ronald M. Sega
- Piers Sellers (1955–2016)
- Aleksandr Serebrov
- Yelena Serova
- Vitaly Sevastyanov
- Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
- Salizhan Sharipov,[36] first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
- Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space
- Helen Sharman, first Briton in space
- Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
- Brewster Shaw
- Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space, walked on the Moon during Apollo 14[37]
- William Shepherd
- Anton Shkaplerov
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space- Georgy Shonin (1935–1997)
- Loren Shriver
Mark Shuttleworth, second spaceflight participant and first South African in space- Charles Simonyi, fifth spaceflight participant; second Hungarian in space after Bertalan Farkas
- Oleg Skripochka
- Aleksandr Skvortsov
- Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993), Mercury astronaut and docking module pilot on Apollo–Soyuz
- Steven Smith
- Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvian-born man in space
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Sherwood Spring
- Robert Springer
- Thomas P. Stafford
- Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
- Robert Stewart
- Nicole Stott
- Gennadi Strekalov (1940–2004)
- Mark Stucky, suborbital flights only
- Frederick Sturckow
- Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
- Maksim Surayev
- Steven Swanson
- John "Jack" Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13[38][39]
T[]
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space; first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space- Tang Hongbo
- Daniel Tani
- Joseph Tanner
- Evgeny Tarelkin
- Valentina Tereshkova, first and youngest woman in space, only woman to travel solo
- Norman Thagard
- Gerhard Thiele
- Robert Thirsk
- Andrew Thomas, first Australian-born astronaut
- Donald Thomas
- Kathryn C. Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs
- William Thornton
- Pierre Thuot
- Scott Tingle
- Dennis Tito, first self-funded spaceflight participant
- Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to orbit the Earth and first to stay up for a day
- Vladimir Titov
- Michel Tognini
- Valeri Tokarev
- Sergei Treshchov
- Eugene H. Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space
- Richard H. Truly
-
Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space - Vasily Tsibliyev
- Mikhail Tyurin
U[]
- Yury Usachov
V[]
- Ivan Vagner
- Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut
- James "Ox" van Hoften
- Mark T. Vande Hei
- Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)
- Charles L. Veach (1944–1995)
Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space- Aleksandr Viktorenko
- Pavel Vinogradov
- Terry W. Virts
- Roberto Vittori
- Igor Volk
- Alexander Volkov
- Sergey Volkov, first second-generation astronaut or cosmonaut in space; son of Alexander Volkov
- Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), died on Soyuz 11
- Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space
- James S. Voss
- Janice E. Voss
W[]
- Koichi Wakata
- Rex Walheim
- Charles Walker
- David M. Walker (1944–2001)[40]
- Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), earliest born person in space, and first person to enter space twice; suborbital flights only
- Shannon Walker – Soyuz TMA-19
- Ulrich Walter
- Carl E. Walz
- Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space
- Wang Yaping
- Mary Weber
- Paul Weitz (1932–2017)
- James Wetherbee
- Ed White (1930–1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA); died in the Apollo 1 disaster [41]
- Douglas H. Wheelock
- Peggy Whitson, longest single space flight by a woman, greatest total time in space by a woman, most EVAs and most time spent on EVA by a woman
- Terrence Wilcutt
- Dafydd Williams
- Donald Williams (1942–2016)
- Jeffrey Williams
- Sunita "Suni" Williams
- Barry Wilmore
- Stephanie Wilson
- Gregory R. Wiseman
- Peter Wisoff
- David Wolf
- Alfred Worden (1932-2020), command module pilot on Apollo 15
Y[]
- Naoko Yamazaki
- Yang Liwei, first Chinese national in space
- Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)
- Aleksei Yeliseyev
Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space- John Young (1930–2018), flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions
- Kimiya Yui
- Fyodor Yurchikhin, first Georgian-born man in space
Z[]
- Sergei Zalyotin
- George D. Zamka
- Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese person to walk in space
- Zhang Xiaoguang
- Vitaly Zholobov
- Vyacheslav Zudov
See also[]
- Apollo 1
- List of astronauts by year of selection
- Lists of astronauts
- List of space travelers by nationality
- List of astronauts by name (excludes spaceflight participants, and includes those that have been certified but not actually been in space)
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