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Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
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Nicole Victoria " Duke " [ 1 ]Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School. [ 2 ][ 3 ] She has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 ...
Ellen Ochoa. Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is a Hispanic engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the ...
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.
List of space travelers by nationality; Timeline of space travel by nationality; American astronauts List of Apollo astronauts; Astronaut birthplaces by US state
Pages in category "Lists of astronauts by nationality". The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of space travelers by nationality.
S. Saudi Arabian astronauts (5 P) Slovak cosmonauts (2 P) South African astronauts (2 P) South Korean astronauts (2 P) Soviet cosmonauts (6 C, 97 P) Spanish astronauts (4 P) Swedish astronauts (3 P) Swiss astronauts (2 P)