Complete List of Astronauts | NASA & Global Space Explorers

Brewster H. Shaw

Date of Birth: 05/16/1945
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 11/28/1983
Last Flight: 08/08/1989

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....

Brian Duffy

Date of Birth: 06/20/1953
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/24/1992
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.

Brian O'Leary

Date of Birth: 01/27/1940
Date of Death: 07/28/2011
Nationality: United States of America

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-astronaut...

Bruce E. Melnick

Date of Birth: 12/05/1949
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 10/06/1990
Last Flight: 05/07/1992

Bruce Edward Melnick is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard,...

Bruce McCandless II

Date of Birth: 06/08/1937
Date of Death: 12/21/2017
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 02/03/1984
Last Flight: 04/24/1990

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 ...

Bryan D. O'Connor

Date of Birth: 09/06/1946
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 11/27/1985
Last Flight: 06/05/1991

Bryan Daniel O'Connor is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.

Buzz Aldrin

Date of Birth: 01/20/1930
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 11/11/1966
Last Flight: 07/21/1969

Buzz Aldrin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; is an American engineer, former astronaut, and fighter pilot.
As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 1...

Byron K. Lichtenberg

Date of Birth: 02/19/1948
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 11/28/1983
Last Flight: 03/24/1992

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...

C. Gordon Fullerton

Date of Birth: 10/11/1936
Date of Death: 08/21/2013
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 03/22/1982
Last Flight: 07/29/1985

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 Facil...

Cai Xuzhe

Date of Birth: 05/01/1976
Nationality: China
First Flight: 06/05/2022
Last Flight: 10/29/2024

Chinese astronaut from the CNSA Group-2 selection (2010).

Cameron Bess

Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 12/11/2021
Last Flight: 12/11/2021

Cameron is a content creator who studied Computer Science and Game Design at DigiPen Institute for Technology in Washington.

Cameron Jones

Nationality: United States of America

American astronaut candidate and Air Force major.

Carl E. Walz

Date of Birth: 09/06/1955
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 09/12/1993
Last Flight: 12/05/2001

Carl Erwin Walz is a former NASA astronaut currently working for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Advanced Programs Group as Vice President for Human Sp...

Carl J. Meade

Date of Birth: 11/16/1950
Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 11/15/1990
Last Flight: 09/09/1994

Carl Joseph Meade is a former NASA astronaut.

Carl Kuehner

Nationality: United States of America
First Flight: 06/29/2025
Last Flight: 06/29/2025

Chairman of Building and Land Technology (BLT), a real estate development, investment, and property management firm