How Many People Travelled to the Space up to now?

What do you think about the development of the technology? Do you have any information about the process especially after the industrial revolution? What are you thoughts about the future of the world and the developments in the fields of the space in the future? Today we are going to make a short analysis about the development of the space technologies and more specifically we will give some specific information about the number of the people who has travelled to the world up to now. When we look at the history of the world we can see that the people are always the curious about the space and the places that they don’t know and they haven’t get the enough information and as a result of this situation the people want to discover the places that they don’t know. With the industrial revolution there are lots of the innovations that are available in the world and one of the most important revolutions of those innovations is the slight technology.

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By planes people can fly wherever they want in a short time and again as a result of those technology the space technology also developed too much extent and the people start to travel to the space and it seems that if the rapid development of the technology will be continued the people will do the better things and maybe it can be impossible to believe to those developments in the future. Today when we look at the whole world, we can see that NASA is one of the most popular and one of the most important instituon for the development of the space sciences. From the different countries of the world, there are lots of the different people who are working in the NASA in order to discover the new things and also in order to make it possible to develop the space sciences. It can be easily said that reaching to the space is not only very dangerous on the other hand it is very difficult but with the perfect structure of the brain of the people and the hard studying of the people it is almost becoming very easy to do this and when we look at the history of the world we can see that there are lots of the people who have reach the space. In accordance with the researches and statistics, there are 533 people who reach the space up to now and it seems that in the future with the rapid development of the technology there will be lots of the people who will reach to the space. When we look at the names of the people who reach the space we can see that list:

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Joseph M. Acaba

United States Loren Acton

United States James Adamson

Soviet Union / Russia Viktor M. Afanasyev

United States Thomas Akers

Japan Toyohiro Akiyama, the first business-sponsored space traveler and the first Japanese person in space.

Soviet Union Vladimir Aksyonov

Saudi Arabia Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space, first middle eastern person in space.

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Edwin Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.

Bulgaria Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov

Soviet Union Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov

United States Andrew M. Allen

United States Joseph P. Allen

United States Scott Altman

United States William Anders, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)

United States Clayton Anderson

United States Injury icon 2.svg Michael P. Anderson, (1959–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

(Claudie André-Deshays – see Claudie Haigneré)

Iran Symbol venus.svg Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth spaceflight participant and first female spaceflight participant, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.

United States Dominic A. Antonelli

United States Jerome Apt

United States Lee Archambault

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.

United States Richard R. Arnold

Russia Star*.svgOleg Artemyev

Soviet Union Anatoly Artsebarsky

Soviet Union Yuri Artyukhin (1930–1998)

United States Jeffrey Ashby

Soviet Union Oleg Atkov

Soviet Union Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.

Russia Sergei Avdeyev

 

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United States James Bagian

United States Symbol venus.svg Ellen Baker

United States Michael Baker

Soviet Union Aleksandr Balandin

United States Michael Barratt

United States Daniel Barry

United States John-David F. Bartoe

Russia Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.

France Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.

United States Robert L. Behnken

Slovakia Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.

Soviet Union Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970)

Soviet Union Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), earliest-born person to go into space.

Soviet Union Anatoli Berezovoy (1942-2014)

United States Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.

United States John Blaha

United States Michael J. Bloomfield

United States Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.

United States Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.

United States Eric A. Boe

United States Charles Bolden

Canada Symbol venus.svg Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.

Russia Andrei Borisenko

United States Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.

United States Stephen G. Bowen

United States Kenneth Bowersox

United States Charles Brady (1951–2006)

United States Vance Brand

United States Daniel Brandenstein

United States Randolph Bresnik

United States Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997

United States Curtis Brown

United States Injury icon 2.svg David M. Brown (1956–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

United States Mark Brown

United States James Buchli

United States Jay Buckey

Russia Nikolai Budarin

United States Daniel Burbank

United States Daniel Bursch

Soviet Union Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)

 

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United States Robert Cabana

United States Charles Camarda

United States Kenneth Cameron

United States Duane Carey

United States Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.

United States Gerald Carr

United States Sonny Carter, (1947–1991)

United States John Casper

United States Christopher J. Cassidy, 500th astronaut in space.

United States Robert Cenker

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17

United States Gregory Chamitoff

Costa Rica / United States Franklin Chang-Diaz, the only Costa Rican, first Hispanic-American in space, holder of the shared record of seven space flights.

India / United States Symbol venus.svg Injury icon 2.svg Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Italy Maurizio Cheli

United States Leroy Chiao

United States Kevin Chilton

France Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space

United States Symbol venus.svg Injury icon 2.svg Laurel B. Clark (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

United States Symbol venus.svg Mary Cleave

France Jean-François Clervoy

United States Michael Clifford

United States Michael Coats

United States Kenneth Cockrell

United States Symbol venus.svg Catherine Coleman (born 1960)

United States Symbol venus.svg Eileen Collins

United States Michael Collins (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930–1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.

United States Gordon Cooper (1927–2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.

United States Richard Covey

United States Timothy Creamer

United States John Creighton

United States Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer

United States Roger Crouch

United States Frank Culbertson

United States Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.

United States Robert Curbeam

United States Symbol venus.svg Nancy Currie

 

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United States Symbol venus.svg Nancy Jan Davis

United States Lawrence J. DeLucas

Belgium Frank De Winne

Russia Vladimir N. Dezhurov

Soviet Union Injury icon 2.svg Georgi Dobrovolski (1928–1971) died during Soyuz 11.

Japan Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.

United States B. Alvin Drew

United States Brian Duffy

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.

United States Symbol venus.svg Bonnie J. Dunbar

Spain Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.

United States Samuel T. Durrance

United States James Dutton

Soviet Union Lev Dyomin (1926–1998)

United States Symbol venus.svg Tracy Caldwell Dyson

Soviet Union Vladimir Dzhanibekov, first Uzbekistan-born man in space

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United States Joe Edwards

United States Donn F. Eisele (1930–1987), flew on Apollo 7.

United States Anthony W. England

United States Joseph H. Engle

United States Ronald Evans (1933–1990)

Germany Reinhold Ewald

France Léopold Eyharts

 

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United States John Fabian

Syria Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.

Hungary Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.

France Jean-Jacques Favier

China Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6

Soviet Union Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009)

United States Christopher Ferguson

United States Martin J. Fettman

United States Andrew J. Feustel

Soviet Union Anatoly Filipchenko

United States Michael Fincke

United States Symbol venus.svg Anna Fisher

United States William Frederick Fisher

Germany Klaus-Dietrich Flade

United Kingdom / United States Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.

United States Kevin A. Ford

United States Michael Foreman

United States Patrick Forrester

United States Michael Fossum

United States Stephen Frick

Belgium Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.

Sweden Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.

United States C. Gordon Fullerton (1936–2013)

Germany Reinhard Furrer (1940–1995)

Japan Satoshi Furukawa

 

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United States Francis Gaffney

Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968), first person in space.

United States Ronald Garan

United States Dale Gardner

United States Guy Gardner

United States Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.

Canada Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.

United States Owen Garriott

United States Richard Garriott, first second generation American in space, son of skylab astronaut, Owen Garriott.

United States Charles Gemar

United States Michael Gernhardt

Germany Star*.svg Alexander Gerst

United States Edward Gibson

United States Robert L. Gibson

Russia Yuri Gidzenko

Soviet Union Yuri Glazkov (1939—2008)

United States John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.

United States Symbol venus.svg Linda Godwin

United States Michael T. Good

Soviet Union Viktor Gorbatko

United States Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.

United States Dominic Gorie

United States Ronald Grabe

Soviet Union Georgi Grechko

United States Frederick Gregory

United States William Gregory

United States Stanley Griggs (1939–1989)

United States Virgil Grissom (1926–1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.

United States John Grunsfeld

Soviet Union Aleksei Gubarev

Italy Umberto Guidoni

Mongolia Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.

United States Sidney Gutierrez

 

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Canada Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.

France Symbol venus.svg Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.

France Jean-Pierre Haigneré

United States Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.

United States James Halsell

United States Kenneth Ham

United States Lloyd Hammond

United States Gregory Harbaugh

United States Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space.

United States Terry Hart

United States Henry Hartsfield

United States Frederick Hauck

United States Steven Hawley

United States Symbol venus.svg Susan Helms

United States Karl Henize (1926–1993)

United States Thomas Hennen

United States Terence Henricks

Poland Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.

United States José Hernández

United States John Herrington, first Native American in space.

United States Richard Hieb

United States Symbol venus.svg Joan Higginbotham

United States David Hilmers

United States Symbol venus.svg Kathryn Hire

United States Charles Hobaugh

United States Jeffrey Hoffman

United States Michael S. Hopkins

United States Scott Horowitz

Japan Akihiko Hoshide

United States Symbol venus.svg Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.

United States Douglas G. Hurley

United States Injury icon 2.svg Rick Husband (1957–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

 

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United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg James Irwin (1930–1991), flew on Apollo 15.

Soviet Union Aleksandr Ivanchenkov

Russia Anatoli Ivanishin

Bulgaria Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.

United States Symbol venus.svg Marsha Ivins

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East Germany Sigmund Jähn, first German in space

United States Symbol venus.svg Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space

United States Symbol venus.svg Tamara E. Jernigan

United States Brent W. Jett, Jr.

China Jing Haipeng

United States Gregory C. Johnson

United States Gregory H. Johnson

United States Thomas D. Jones

 

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Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.

Russia Alexandr Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.

United States Symbol venus.svg Janet L. Kavandi

United States James M. Kelly

United States Mark Kelly

United States Scott Kelly

United States Joseph Kerwin

Soviet Union Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000)

United States Robert S. Kimbrough

Soviet Union Leonid Kizim (1941-2010)

Soviet Union Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.

Soviet Union Injury icon 2.svg Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967), died during Soyuz 1.

Russia Symbol venus.svg Yelena Kondakova

Russia Dmitri Kondratyev

Russia Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space

United States Timothy L. Kopra

Russia Mikhail Korniyenko

Russia Valery Korzun

Russia Oleg Kotov

Soviet Union Vladimir Kovalyonok

Russia Konstantin Kozeyev

United States Kevin Kregel

Soviet Union / Russia Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2008, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.

Soviet Union Valeri Kubasov

Netherlands André Kuipers

 

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Soviet Union Aleksandr Laveykin

Canada Guy Laliberté

United States Symbol venus.svg Wendy Lawrence

Soviet Union Vasili Lazarev (1928–1990)

Russia Aleksandr Lazutkin

Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev

United States Mark C. Lee

United States David Leestma

United States William B. Lenoir

Soviet Union Aleksei Leonov, first person to “walk in space” (to make an EVA).

United States Frederick W. Leslie

Soviet Union Anatoli Levchenko (1941–1988)

United States Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.

United States Don Lind

United States Steven Lindsey

United States Jerry Linenger

United States Richard Linnehan

United States Gregory Linteris

China Liu Boming

China Liu Wang

China Symbol venus.svg Liu Yang, first Chinese woman in space.

Yang Liwei – see under Y

United States Paul Lockhart

Russia Yuri Lonchakov

United States/Spain Michael Lopez-Alegria

United States John Lounge

United States Jack Lousma

United States Stanley G. Love

United States Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.

United States G. David Low (1956—2008)

United States Edward Lu

United States Symbol venus.svg Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman’s spaceflight-duration record.

Soviet Union Vladimir Lyakhov

 

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Canada Steven MacLean

United States Symbol venus.svg Sandra Magnus

Soviet Union Oleg Makarov (1933–2003)

Russia Yuri Malenchenko

Italy Franco Malerba, first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)

Soviet Union Yuri Malyshev (1941–1999)

Soviet Union / Russia Gennadi Manakov

Soviet Union Musa Manarov, first Azerbaijan-born man in space

United States Thomas H. Marshburn

United States Michael Massimino

United States Star*.svgRichard Mastracchio

United States Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.

United States K. Megan McArthur

United States William S. McArthur

United States Jon McBride

United States Bruce McCandless II

United States Injury icon 2.svg William C. McCool (1961–2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

United States Michael J. McCulley

United States James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.

United States Donald McMonagle

United States Injury icon 2.svg Ronald McNair (1950–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

United States Carl Meade

United States Bruce Melnick

United States Symbol venus.svg Pamela Melroy

United States Leland D. Melvin

United States Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.

Germany Ulf Merbold

Germany Ernst Messerschmid

United States Symbol venus.svg Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

Russia Alexander Misurkin

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.

Afghanistan Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.

Japan Mamoru Mohri

United States Symbol venus.svg Barbara Morgan

United States Lee Morin

Russia Boris Morukov

Japan Symbol venus.svg Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.

United States Richard Mullane

Russia Talgat Musabayev

United States Story Musgrave

 

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United States Steven R. Nagel

United States Bill Nelson, second politician in space.

United States George Nelson

Mexico Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.

Italy Paolo A. Nespoli

United States James H. Newman

Switzerland Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.

China Nie Haisheng, flew on Shenzhou 6

Soviet Union Andriyan Nikolayev (1929–2004)

Japan Soichi Noguchi

United States Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.

Russia Oleg Novitskiy

United States Symbol venus.svg Lisa Nowak

United States Symbol venus.svg Karen Nyberg

 

O

United States Bryan O’Connor

United States Symbol venus.svg Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.

Netherlands Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.

United States William Oefelein

United States John D. Olivas

United States Gregory Olsen, third spaceflight participant.

United States Injury icon 2.svg Ellison Onizuka (1946–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Russia Yuri Onufrienko

United States Stephen Oswald

United States Robert Overmyer (1936–1996)

 

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Russia Gennady Padalka

United States William Pailes

United States Scott Parazynski

United States Ronald A. Parise (1951—2008)

United States Robert Parker

Italy Luca Parmitano

United States Nicholas Patrick

Soviet Union Injury icon 2.svg Viktor Patsayev (1933–1971) died during Soyuz 11.

United States James Pawelczyk

Canada Symbol venus.svg Julie Payette

United States Gary Payton, first military astronaut.

France Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space

United States Donald Peterson

United States Donald Pettit

Vietnam Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.

United States John Phillips

United States William Pogue

United States Alan G. Poindexter (1961-2012)

United States Mark Polansky

Russia Alexander Poleshchuk

Soviet Union / Russia Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.

Brazil Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.

Soviet Union Leonid Popov

Soviet Union Pavel Popovich (1930—2009), first Ukrainian-born person in space.

United States Charles Precourt

Romania Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.

 

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Israel Injury icon 2.svg Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

United States William Readdy

United States Kenneth Reightler

United States James F. Reilly

United States Garrett Reisman

Germany Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.

Czechoslovakia Vladimír Remek, first Czechoslovak and first non-Soviet European in space.

United States Symbol venus.svg Injury icon 2.svg Judith Resnik (1949–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Russia Sergei Revin

United States Paul W. Richards

United States Richard N. Richards

United States Symbol venus.svg Sally Ride (1951-2012), first American woman in space.

United States Stephen Robinson

Russia Roman Romanenko

Soviet Union Yury Romanenko

United States Kent Rominger

United States Stuart Roosa (1933–1994), flew on Apollo 14.

United States Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.

Soviet Union Valery Rozhdestvensky

Soviet Union Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932–2002)

United States Mario Runco, Jr.

Russia Sergey Ryazansky

Soviet Union / Russia Valery Ryumin

 

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United States Albert Sacco

Russia Aleksandr Samokutyayev

Soviet Union Gennadi Sarafanov (1942–2005)

United States Robert Satcher

Soviet Union Viktor Savinykh

Soviet Union Symbol venus.svg Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.

United States Wally Schirra (1923—2007)

Germany Hans Schlegel

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.

United States Rusty Schweickart

United States Injury icon 2.svg Dick Scobee (1939–1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg David Scott

United States Winston Scott

Australia / United States Paul Scully-Power

United States Richard A. Searfoss

United States Symbol venus.svg Margaret Rhea Seddon

United States Ronald M. Sega

United Kingdom / United States Piers Sellers

Soviet Union / Russia Aleksandr Serebrov

Soviet Union Vitaly Sevastyanov

Russia Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut

Russia Salizhan Sharipov ,[3] first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space

India Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.

United Kingdom Symbol venus.svg Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.

Soviet Union Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space

United States Brewster Shaw

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg Alan Shepard (1923–1998), first American in space.

United States William Shepherd

(Nancy Sherlock – see Nancy Currie)

Russia Anton Shkaplerov

Malaysia Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space

Soviet Union Georgy Shonin (1935–1997)

United States Loren Shriver

South Africa Mark Shuttleworth, second spaceflight participant and first South African in space.

Hungary / United States Charles Simonyi, fifth spaceflight participant.

Russia Oleg Skripochka

Russia Star*.svgAleksandr Skvortsov

United States Donald “Deke” Slayton (1924–1996), a Mercury astronaut.

United States Steven Smith

Soviet Union > Russia Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space

Soviet Union Vladimir Solovyov

United States Sherwood Spring

United States Robert Springer

United States Thomas P. Stafford

United States Symbol venus.svg Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper

United States Robert Stewart

United States Symbol venus.svg Susan Kilrain

United States Symbol venus.svg Nicole Stott

Soviet Union / Russia Gennadi Strekalov (1940–2004)

United States Frederick Sturckow

United States Symbol venus.svg Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.

Russia Maksim Surayev

United States Star*.svgSteven Swanson

United States John “Jack” Swigert (1931–1982), flew on Apollo 13.

 

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Cuba Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space. He was also the first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space.

United States Daniel Tani

United States Joseph Tanner

Russia Evgeny Tarelkin

Soviet Union Symbol venus.svg Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.

United States Norman Thagard

Germany Gerhard Thiele

Canada Robert Thirsk

Australia / United States Andrew Thomas

United States Donald Thomas

United States Symbol venus.svg Kathryn C. Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.

United States William Thornton

United States Pierre Thuot

United States Dennis Tito, first self-funded spaceflight participant.

Soviet Union Gherman Titov (1935–2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.

Russia Vladimir Titov

France Michel Tognini

Russia Valeri Tokarev

Russia Sergei Treshchov

United States Eugene H. Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.

United States Richard H. Truly

Canada Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space

Russia Vasily Tsibliyev

Russia Star*.svgMikhail Tyurin

 

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Russia Yury Usachov

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Netherlands / United States Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut.

United States James “Ox” van Hoften

Soviet Union Vladimir Vasyutin (1952–2002)

United States Charles L. Veach (1944–1995)

Austria Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.

Soviet Union / Russia Aleksandr Viktorenko

United States Terry W. Virts

Russia Pavel Vinogradov

Italy Roberto Vittori

Soviet Union Igor Volk

Soviet Union / Russia Alexander Volkov

Russia Sergey Volkov, first second generation astronaut or cosmonaut in space, son of Alexander Volkov.

Soviet Union Injury icon 2.svg Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971), died on Soyuz 11.

Soviet Union Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.

United States James S. Voss

United States Symbol venus.svg Janice E. Voss

 

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Japan Star*.svgKoichi Wakata

United States Rex Walheim

United States Charles Walker

United States David M. Walker, (1944–2001)

United States Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.

United States Symbol venus.svg Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19

Germany Ulrich Walter

United States Carl E. Walz

United States Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.

China Symbol venus.svg Wang Yaping

United States Symbol venus.svg Mary Weber

United States Paul Weitz

United States James Wetherbee

United States Edward White (1930–1967), first American to “walk in space” (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.

United States Douglas H. Wheelock

United States Symbol venus.svg Peggy Whitson

United States Terrence Wilcutt

Canada Dafydd Williams

United States Donald Williams

United States Jeffrey Williams

United States Symbol venus.svg Sunita “Suni” Williams

United States Barry Wilmore

United States Symbol venus.svg Stephanie Wilson

United States Peter Wisoff

United States David Wolf

United States Alfred Worden

 

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Japan Symbol venus.svg Naoko Yamazaki

China Yang Liwei, first Chinese national in space.

Soviet Union Boris Yegorov (1937–1994)

Soviet Union Aleksei Yelise

South Korea Symbol venus.svg Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.

United States Moon symbol decrescent.svg John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.

Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin, first Georgian-born man in space

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Russia Sergei Zalyotin

United States George D. Zamka

China Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese person to walk in space.

China Zhang Xiaoguang

Soviet Union Vitaly Zholobov

Soviet Union Vyacheslav Zudov


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