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The flags indicate the space traveler's nationality at the time of their flight. In cases of dual citizenship, the space traveler is listed under their primary residence. A secondary list appended to the entry for the Soviet Union shows the birth countries of space travelers not born in Russia. A similar list after the entry for the United ...
Countries represented only by suborbital space flyers are shaded. Note: citizens from the now-defunct East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Soviet Union have also flown in space. Since the first human spaceflight by the Soviet Union, citizens of 48 countries have flown in space. For each nationality, the launch date of the first mission is listed.
Reached an altitude of 86 km (53 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space. 332 Jeff Bezos Mark Bezos Wally Funk Oliver Daemen: 20 July 2021 NS 16. Reached an altitude of 107 km (66 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space. 333 Jared Isaacman (1) Sian Proctor Hayley Arceneaux Christopher Sembroski: 16 September 2021 Inspiration4, Resilience ...
Vanderbilt cardiologist Dr. Eiman Jahangir became the first Nashvillian to go to space on an 11-minute suborbital flight Thursday morning with Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' private space ...
Total flights Major milestones First by nationality 1960s. 41 Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space. Alexei Leonov, first EVA. Neil Armstrong, first human on the Moon. Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard. 1970s. 38 Alfred Worden, first deep space EVA. Vladimír Remek Mirosław Hermaszewski Sigmund Jähn Georgi ...
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
Following the definition that a civilian is someone who is not part of their country's armed forces (not in active duty; former service or reservist status is not considered being part of armed forces), [1] these are suborbital space flights (spaceflight according to US 50 mile space boundary definition) with a fully civilian crew:
The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.