Status: Retired 10/4/1957 – Nationality: American Type: Payload Specialist First Flight: 4/4/1997 Last Flight: 7/1/1997 Gregory Thomas Linteris, Ph.D. (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.
Status: Deceased 3/31/1934 – 2/18/1966 Nationality: Russian Type: Government Grigori Grigoryevich Nelyubov (Russian: Григо́рий Григо́рьевич Нелю́бов; March 31, 1934 – February 18, 1966) was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until […]
Status: Retired 11/22/1942 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/30/1983 Last Flight: 12/2/1992 Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D. is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who was the first African American in space.[1] Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. […]
Status: Lost In Training 4/3/1926 – 1/27/1967 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 7/21/1961 Last Flight: 2/21/1967 Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Project Mercury astronauts, and the first of the Mercury Seven to die. He was also a Project Gemini and an Apollo […]
Status: Retired 1/6/1948 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/2/1988 Last Flight: 12/2/1990 Guy Spence Gardner is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of Colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Gardner was also the 12th president of the Williamson […]
Status: Retired 9/2/1959 – Nationality: Canadian Type: Non-Astronaut Passenger First Flight: 9/30/2009 Last Flight: 9/30/2009 Guy Laliberté. (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian businessman, investor, poker player, and musician. In September 2009, Guy Laliberté became the first Canadian space tourist. His spaceflight was dedicated to raising awareness on water issues facing humankind […]
Status: Retired – Nationality: British Type: Private First Flight: 6/4/2022 Last Flight: 6/4/2022 Hamish is Chairman of Action Aviation, a business jet brokerage company he founded in 2004, and also a business jet pilot. In 2019, he and former International Space Station Commander Col. Terry Virts broke the Round-the-World record in a Gulfstream G650ER for […]
Status: Retired 8/3/1951 – Nationality: German Type: Government First Flight: 4/26/1993 Last Flight: 2/7/2008 Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (Überlingen, 3 August 1951) is a German physicist, an ESA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions. From 1995 to 1997, he trained as the backup crew member for the German-Russian Mir’97 mission, and afterwards […]
Status: Retired 7/3/1935 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/7/1972 Last Flight: 12/7/1972 Harrison Hagan “Jack” Schmitt is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person to have walked on the Moon. As of 2018, he is also the last living crew […]
Status: Active 12/4/1991 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 9/16/2021 Last Flight: 9/16/2021 Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor and private astronaut who is now a physician assistant.
Status: Active 12/13/1983 – Nationality: Emirati Type: Government First Flight: 9/25/2019 Last Flight: 9/25/2019 Hazza Al Mansouri is one of the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates.
Status: Retired 2/7/1963 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/9/2006 Last Flight: 11/15/2008 Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper is an American Naval officer, engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She has achieved the rank of Captain in the United States Navy. She is also a qualified and experienced salvage officer. Her major salvage projects include de-stranding […]
Status: Retired 5/30/1963 – Nationality: British Type: Government First Flight: 5/18/1991 Last Flight: 5/18/1991 Helen Patricia Sharman, CMG, OBE, HonFRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist who became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991.
Status: Active – Nationality: Earthling Type: Non-Human First Flight: 11/16/2022 Last Flight: 11/16/2022 Mannequin used as part of the DLR MARE radiations measurement experiment.
Status: Deceased 11/21/1933 – 7/14/2014 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/27/1982 Last Flight: 10/30/1985 Henry Warren “Hank” Hartsfield Jr. was a United States Air Force officer and a USAF and NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. Hartsfield became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. Hartsfield was the pilot on STS-4, the […]
