Astronauts

Status: Retired 5/13/1942 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 1/10/1978 Last Flight: 6/6/1985 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Джанибеков, born 13 May 1942) is a former cosmonaut who made five flights. Dzhanibekov made five flights: Soyuz 27, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12 and Soyuz T-13. In all he had spent 145 […]

Status: Retired 1/1/1947 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 4/20/1983 Last Flight: 9/26/1997 Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Титов; born 1 January 1947 in Sretensk, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia) is a retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut. He has participated in four spaceflight missions. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in […]

Status: Lost In Flight 3/16/1927 – 4/24/1967 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/13/1964 Last Flight: 4/23/1967 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Комаро́в, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr mʲɪˈxaɪləvʲɪtɕ kəmɐˈrof]; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to […]

Status: Retired 3/3/1943 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/9/1977 Last Flight: 3/12/1981 Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok (Belarusian: Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Кавалёнак; Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ковалёнок; born March 3, 1942 in Beloye, Minsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR, is a retired Soviet cosmonaut. He entered the Soviet space programme on July 5, 1967 and was commander of […]

Status: Deceased 7/20/1941 – 4/19/2018 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 2/25/1979 Last Flight: 8/29/1988 Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov (Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич Ля́хов; 20 July 1941 – 19 April 2018) was a Russian Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as cosmonaut on 5 May 1967, and retired on 7 September 1994. Lyakhov was the Commander on […]

Status: Retired 9/26/1948 – Nationality: Czech Type: Government First Flight: 3/2/1978 Last Flight: 3/2/1978 Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech politician and diplomat as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first Czechoslovak in space and the only […]

Status: Deceased 12/8/1927 – 6/15/2021 Nationality: Soviet Type: Government First Flight: 1/14/1969 Last Flight: 4/22/1971 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; born December 8, 1927) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Shatalov was born in Petropavlovsk. From 1971 to […]

Status: Retired 11/11/1946 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 2/8/1984 Last Flight: 3/13/1986 Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Соловьёв; born 11 November 1946) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, spending a total […]

Status: Deceased 3/8/1952 – 7/19/2002 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 9/17/1985 Last Flight: 9/17/1985 Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin (Russian:Влaдимиp Bлaдимиpoвич Васютин, born March 8, 1952, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, died July 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978 (TsPK-6). He retired on February 25, […]

Status: Lost In Flight 11/23/1935 – 6/30/1971 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/12/1969 Last Flight: 6/6/1971 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Владисла́в Никола́евич Во́лков; November 23, 1935 – June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov, on his second […]

Status: Retired 1/8/1942 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/14/1976 Last Flight: 10/14/1976 Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov is a retired USSR cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965, flew as Commander on Soyuz 23 on 14–16 October 1976 and retired on 14 May 1987.

Status: Retired 2/1/1938 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 7/20/2021 Last Flight: 7/20/2021 Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk is an American aviator and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation […]

Status: Deceased 3/12/1923 – 5/3/2007 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/3/1962 Last Flight: 10/11/1968 Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States’ first effort to put human beings in space. On […]

Status: Retired 3/16/1932 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/11/1968 Last Flight: 10/11/1968 Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), (Col, USMCR, Ret.) is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA’s third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and […]

Status: Active 1/27/1980 – Nationality: Chinese Type: Government First Flight: 6/11/2013 Last Flight: 10/15/2021 Colonel Wang Yaping is a Chinese military pilot and astronaut. Wang was the second female astronaut to be named by the CNSA, and the second Chinese woman in space. She was a candidate for the space mission Shenzhou 9 in […]

Status: Active 9/16/1985 – Nationality: American Type: Government Warren Woodrow “Woody” Hoburg is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2017.

Status: Retired 7/2/1959 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/2/1995 Last Flight: 7/26/2005 Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a retired United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the United States Naval Academy to fly into space and she has also visited […]

Status: Retired 6/26/1952 – Nationality: American Type: Payload Specialist First Flight: 10/3/1985 Last Flight: 10/3/1985 William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis (October 3–7, 1985).

Status: Retired 10/17/1933 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/21/1968 Last Flight: 12/21/1968 William Alison “Bill” Anders is a retired United States Air Force Major general, former electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He is known for being one of the first three persons to leave low Earth orbit and travel to […]

Status: Deceased 3/14/1939 – 8/26/2010 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/11/1982 Last Flight: 11/11/1982 William Benjamin “Bill” Lenoir, Ph.D. was an American electrical engineer and a NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 1/1/1953 – Nationality: American Type: Unknown First Flight: 5/19/2011 Last Flight: 8/11/2012 William Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo

Status: Lost In Flight 9/23/1961 – 2/1/2003 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/16/2003 Last Flight: 1/16/2003 William Cameron “Willie” McCool was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were […]

Status: Deceased 4/14/1929 – 1/14/2020 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/30/1983 Last Flight: 4/29/1985 William Edgar Thornton is a former NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 1/24/1952 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/22/1992 Last Flight: 9/26/1996 William Francis Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters. He graduated from McLean High School, McLean, Virginia, in 1970 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering (with honors) from […]

Status: Retired 4/1/1946 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/27/1985 Last Flight: 8/27/1985 William Frederick Fisher is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA […]