Astronauts

Status: Retired 1/29/1942 – Nationality: Cuban Type: Government First Flight: 9/18/1980 Last Flight: 9/18/1980 Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen and […]

Status: Retired 11/28/1951 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/8/2007 Last Flight: 8/8/2007 Barbara Radding Morgan is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She then trained as a […]

Status: Active 12/29/1962 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/16/2009 Last Flight: 9/25/2014 Barry Eugene “Butch” Wilmore is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy test pilot. He has had two spaceflights, the first of which was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission in November 2009, to the International Space Station. Wilmore was designated as […]

Status: Retired 6/26/1956 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/26/1993 Last Flight: 2/3/1995 Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk), during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.

Status: Retired 8/2/1949 – Nationality: Hungarian Type: Government First Flight: 5/26/1980 Last Flight: 5/26/1980 Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi’s space travel, Farkas is no longer the only Hungarian who has […]

Status: Retired 9/29/1942 – Nationality: American Type: Non-Astronaut Passenger First Flight: 1/12/1986 Last Flight: 1/12/1986 Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Florida, first elected to that seat in 2000. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Florida […]

Status: Retired 9/21/1945 – Nationality: Canadian Type: Government First Flight: 8/7/1997 Last Flight: 8/7/1997 Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Status: Retired 3/3/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/30/1985 Last Flight: 1/23/1998 Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. From January 2013 – December 2015, Dr. Dunbar lead the University of […]

Status: Deceased 10/1/1950 – 1/1/2015 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 9/8/2000 Last Flight: 9/8/2000 Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Моруков; 1 October 1950 – 1 January 2015) was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and […]

Status: Retired 12/18/1934 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 1/15/1969 Last Flight: 7/6/1976 Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов; born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish cosmonaut to enter space, preceding Judith Resnik […]

Status: Deceased 11/26/1937 – 9/12/1994 Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 10/13/1964 Last Flight: 10/13/1964 Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. Yegorov was selected as a member of the multi-disciplinary team that flew on Voskhod 1.

Status: Retired 10/5/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/11/1996 Last Flight: 9/9/2006 Brent Ward Jett Jr. is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 5/16/1945 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/28/1983 Last Flight: 8/8/1989 Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.[1] Shaw is a veteran of three […]

Status: Retired 6/20/1953 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/24/1992 Last Flight: 10/11/2000 Brian Duffy is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.

Status: Deceased 1/27/1940 – 7/28/2011 Nationality: American Type: Government Brian Todd O’Leary was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was part of NASA Astronaut Group 6, a group of scientist-astronauts chosen with the intention of training for the Apollo Applications Program.

Status: Retired 12/5/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/6/1990 Last Flight: 5/7/1992 Bruce Edward Melnick is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard, he entered the aerospace industry. He served as a Vice President with the Boeing Co.’s Integrated Defense Systems […]

Status: Deceased 6/8/1937 – 12/21/2017 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 2/3/1984 Last Flight: 4/24/1990 Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

Status: Retired 9/6/1946 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/27/1985 Last Flight: 6/5/1991 Bryan Daniel O’Connor is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 1/20/1930 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/11/1966 Last Flight: 7/16/1969 Buzz Aldrin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; is an American engineer, former astronaut, and fighter pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.

Status: Retired 2/19/1948 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/28/1983 Last Flight: 3/24/1992 Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (born February 19, 1948) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. In 1983, he and Ulf Merbold became the first Payload Specialists to fly […]

Status: Deceased 10/11/1936 – 8/21/2013 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/22/1982 Last Flight: 7/29/1985 Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.[1] His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA’s […]

Status: Retired 9/6/1955 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/22/1993 Last Flight: 12/5/2001 Carl Erwin Walz is a former NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Advanced Programs Group as Vice President for Human Space Flight Operations. Walz was formerly assigned to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. […]

Status: Retired 11/16/1950 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/15/1990 Last Flight: 9/9/1994 Carl Joseph Meade is a former NASA astronaut.

Status: Retired 10/8/1959 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/15/1997 Last Flight: 12/1/2000 Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian and U.S. citizen, NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.