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Soviet and Russian cosmonauts born outside Russia are marked with an asterisk and their place of birth is shown in an additional list. For the full plain lists of Russian and Soviet cosmonauts in Wikipedia, see Category:Russian cosmonauts. Five female cosmonauts have flown on the Soviet/Russian program: Valentina Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya ...
The Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA) cosmonauts born outside of Russia are marked with an asterisk (*). For cosmonauts who flew for the Soviet Union see the dedicated header. The Soviet space program had no unified space agency, the parts of the program which were claimed by today's Russian Federation became part of its Russian Federal Space ...
The initial group of Soviet cosmonauts was chosen from Soviet Air Force jet pilots. As of 2024, the only surviving member is Boris Volynov. April – Dyna–Soar Group 1 (USA) Neil Armstrong, William H. Dana, Henry C. Gordon, Pete Knight, Russell L. Rogers, Milt Thompson, and James W. Wood.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on her Vostok 6 flight of 48 orbits, and is the only woman to fly solo in space. The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space.
Note that cosmonauts who first flew after the Soviet Union's breakup in 1991 should be placed under Category:Russian cosmonauts or other nationalities as appropriate. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Astronauts from the Soviet Union .
The cosmonaut corps was formed on January 11, 1960, by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of the USSR, dated March 7, 1960, the first 12 pilots who passed the initial selection were appointed to the post of listener-cosmonauts of the Air Force; The first cosmonaut corps, which included the future first ...
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova [a] [b] (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut.She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.