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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.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...
This is a complete list of astronauts in the United States Space Force.There have currently been two NASA astronauts who have been members of the U.S. Space Force. The first U.S. Space Force astronaut, Colonel Mike Hopkins, commemorated the service's first birthday by having his transfer ceremony on 19 December 2020 on the International Space Station.
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Pages in category "American astronauts" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
San Francisco: John Young (1930–2018), first NASA astronaut to fly five and six times, first man to orbit the Moon on two missions — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9; Pomona: Victor J. Glover, first African American astronaut to go to the ISS on a long-duration flight — SpaceX Crew-1
This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. Abbreviations: PC = Payload Commander; MSE = USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer; Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station; ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station.
This list is drawn from graduates of the Naval Academy who became astronauts. The Academy was founded in 1845 and graduated its first class in 1846. The first alumnus to fly as an astronaut was Alan Shepard, of the class of 1945. As of 2023, the most recent alumnus to be selected as an astronaut was Kayla Barron, of the