Complete List of Astronauts | NASA & Global Space Explorers

Wally Funk

Date of Birth: 02/01/1938
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 07/20/2021
Last Flight: 07/20/2021

Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk is an American aviator and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National ...

Wally Schirra

Date of Birth: 03/12/1923
Date of Death: 05/03/2007
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/03/1962
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 ...

Walter Cunningham

Date of Birth: 03/16/1932
Date of Death: 01/03/2023
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/11/1968
Last Flight: 10/11/1968

Ronnie Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut. In 1968, he was a Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astrona...

Walter Villadei

Date of Birth: 04/29/1974
Nationality: Italy
First Flight: 06/29/2023
Last Flight: 01/18/2024

Italian Air Force mission commander on the Virgin Galactic 01 flight. Backup pilot for the Axiom Space Mission 2, Pilon for the Axiom Space Mission 3,...

Wang Yaping

Date of Birth: 01/27/1980
Nationality: China
First Flight: 06/11/2013
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 wo...

Warren Hoburg

Date of Birth: 09/16/1985
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/02/2023
Last Flight: 03/02/2023

Warren Woodrow "Woody" Hoburg is an American engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2017.

Wendy B. Lawrence

Date of Birth: 07/02/1959
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/02/1995
Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a retired United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first f...

William A. Pailes

Date of Birth: 06/26/1952
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/03/1985
Last Flight: 10/03/1985

William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He se...

William Anders

Date of Birth: 10/17/1933
Date of Death: 06/07/2024
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 12/21/1968
Last Flight: 12/21/1968

William Alison "Bill" Anders was a United States Air Force Major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and busines...

William B. Lenoir

Date of Birth: 03/14/1939
Date of Death: 08/26/2010
Nationality: United States of America
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.

William Brian Binnie

Date of Birth: 01/01/1953
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 05/19/2011
Last Flight: 08/11/2012

William Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo

William C. McCool

Date of Birth: 09/23/1961
Date of Death: 02/01/2003
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 01/16/2003
Last Flight: 01/16/2003

William Cameron "Willie" McCool was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who was th...

William E. Thornton

Date of Birth: 04/14/1929
Date of Death: 01/14/2020
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 08/30/1983
Last Flight: 04/29/1985

William Edgar Thornton is a former NASA astronaut.

William F. Readdy

Date of Birth: 01/24/1952
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 01/22/1992
Last Flight: 09/16/1996

William Francis Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters.

He graduated from McL...

William Frederick Fisher

Date of Birth: 04/01/1946
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 08/27/1985
Last Flight: 08/27/1985

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 f...