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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.
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.
All of these astronauts flew on Gemini, and except for White, each commanded one Gemini and one Apollo mission: Edward H. White II – Second-seat veteran of Gemini 4 who made the United States' first walk in space, selected as Senior Pilot (second seat) on Apollo 1. White was killed in the Apollo 1 fire along with Grissom and Chaffee.
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.
John Young, 19th person in space, first to fly solo around the Moon and first to command a Space Shuttle. Vladimir Komarov, joint 14th person and first to die during spaceflight (during Soyuz 1). Neil Armstrong, joint 26th person in space and first to set foot on the Moon. Harrison Schmitt, joint 59th person in space.
v. t. e. The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions. It is based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Contents. List of Apollo missions. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [ 1 ] The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles to lift the Command/Service Module (CSM ...
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 class of 2010.