Complete List of Astronauts | NASA & Global Space Explorers

Ronald J. Grabe

Date of Birth: 06/13/1945
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/03/1985
Last Flight: 06/21/1993

Ronald John Grabe is a former NASA astronaut.

He has earned the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 7 Oak Leaf C...

Ronald M. Sega

Date of Birth: 12/04/1952
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 02/03/1994
Last Flight: 03/22/1996

Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at the Colorado State Univer...

Ronald McNair

Date of Birth: 10/21/1950
Date of Death: 01/28/1986
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 02/03/1984
Last Flight: 01/28/1986

Ronald Erwin McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in wh...

Rosemary Coogan

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rosemary holds two master’s degrees from the University of Durham, UK. She completed her undergraduate master’s degree of Physics in 2013 which f...

Rosie the Astronaut

Nationality: Unknown
First Flight: 12/20/2019
Last Flight: 05/19/2022

Rosie the Astronaut is an Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD), named after the iconic WWII character, Rosie the Riveter.
It will launch aboard t...

Roy D. Bridges Jr.

Date of Birth: 07/19/1943
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 07/29/1985
Last Flight: 07/29/1985

Roy Dubard Bridges Jr. is an American pilot, engineer, retired United States Air Force officer, test pilot, former NASA astronaut and the former Direc...

Russel Wilson

Nationality: Australia
First Flight: 02/25/2025
Last Flight: 02/25/2025

Cryptocurrencies entrepreneur

Rusty Schweickart

Date of Birth: 10/25/1935
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/03/1969
Last Flight: 03/03/1969

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force figh...

S. David Griggs

Date of Birth: 09/07/1939
Date of Death: 06/17/1989
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 04/12/1985
Last Flight: 04/12/1985

Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activ...

Salizhan Sharipov

Date of Birth: 08/24/1964
Nationality: Kyrgyzstan
First Flight: 01/23/1998
Last Flight: 10/14/2004

Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov (Russian: Салижан Шакирович Шарипов) (born 24 August 1964) is a Kyrgyzstani cosmonaut. Sharipov i...

Sally Ride

Date of Birth: 05/26/1951
Date of Death: 07/23/2012
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 06/18/1983
Last Flight: 10/05/1984

Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut, physicist, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woma...

Samantha Cristoforetti

Date of Birth: 04/26/1977
Nationality: Italy
First Flight: 11/23/2014
Last Flight: 04/27/2022

Samantha Cristoforetti (born 26 April 1977 in Milan) is an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She holds th...

Samuel T. Durrance

Date of Birth: 09/17/1943
Date of Death: 05/05/2023
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 12/02/1990
Last Flight: 03/02/1995

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) was an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Sandra Magnus

Date of Birth: 10/30/1964
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/07/2002
Last Flight: 07/08/2011

Sandra Hall Magnus is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, af...

Sara Sabry

Nationality: Egypt
First Flight: 08/04/2022
Last Flight: 08/04/2022

Sara is an Egyptian mechanical and biomedical engineer, and founder of Deep Space Initiative (DSI), a nonprofit aiming to increase accessibility for...