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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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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)
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.
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 previous director ...
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.
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
As of August 2012, Sunita Williams had made seven spacewalks totaling 50 hours and 40 minutes, [39] at the time putting Williams fifth on the list of most experienced spacewalkers. [40] On August 30, 2012, Williams and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide ventured outside the ISS to conduct US EVA-18. They removed and replaced the failing Main Bus ...