Complete List of Astronauts | NASA & Global Space Explorers

Deng Qingming

Date of Birth: 03/16/1966
Nationality: China
First Flight: 11/29/2022
Last Flight: 11/29/2022

Deng Qingming is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He was born in the Jiangxi province of China. A fighter pilot in the People...

Denis Matveev

Date of Birth: 04/23/1983
Nationality: Russia
First Flight: 03/18/2022
Last Flight: 03/18/2022

Denis Vladimirovich Matveev is a Russian cosmonaut. He received his degree in computing and networks from the Bauman Moscow State Technical Universit...

Deniz Burnham

Date of Birth: 01/01/1985
Nationality: United States of America

Deniz Burnham is a US Nacy lieutenant from Wasilla, Alaska. A former intern at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, Burnham se...

Dennis Tito

Date of Birth: 08/08/1940
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/28/2001
Last Flight: 04/28/2001

Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own t...

Dick Scobee

Date of Birth: 05/19/1939
Date of Death: 01/28/1986
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/06/1984
Last Flight: 01/28/1986

Francis Richard Scobee was an American pilot and astronaut. He was killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster...

Dirk Frimout

Date of Birth: 03/21/1941
Nationality: Belgium
First Flight: 03/24/1992
Last Flight: 03/24/1992

Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born 21 March 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboa...

Dmitri Kondratyev

Date of Birth: 05/25/1969
Nationality: Russia
First Flight: 12/15/2010
Last Flight: 12/15/2010

Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Кондратьев (born 25 May 1969 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a retired Russian c...

Dmitriy Petelin

Date of Birth: 07/10/1983
Nationality: Russia
First Flight: 09/21/2022
Last Flight: 09/21/2022

Selected as astronaut in 2012. By the decision of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Selection of Cosmonauts, he was approved as Flight Engineer...

Dominic A. Antonelli

Date of Birth: 08/23/1967
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/15/2009
Last Flight: 05/14/2010

Dominic Anthony "Tony" Antonelli is a retired NASA astronaut.

Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie

Date of Birth: 05/02/1957
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 06/02/1998
Last Flight: 03/11/2008

Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie is a retired United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions.

Don L. Lind

Date of Birth: 05/18/1930
Date of Death: 08/30/2022
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/29/1985
Last Flight: 04/29/1985

Don Leslie Lind, Ph.D. is an American scientist and a former naval officer and aviator, and NASA astronaut. He graduated from the University of Utah w...

Donald A. Thomas

Date of Birth: 05/06/1955
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 07/08/1994
Last Flight: 07/01/1997

Donald Alan Thomas, Ph.D. is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.

Donald E. Williams

Date of Birth: 02/13/1942
Date of Death: 02/23/2016
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/12/1985
Last Flight: 10/18/1989

Captain Donald Edward Williams was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. He logged a total of 287...

Donald H. Peterson

Date of Birth: 10/22/1933
Date of Death: 05/27/2018
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/04/1983
Last Flight: 04/04/1983

Donald Herod Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Lab...

Donald Holmquest

Date of Birth: 04/07/1939
Nationality: United States of America

Donald Lee Holmquest (born April 7, 1939) is an American lawyer, as well as a physician, electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut. Holmquest was ...