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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 ...
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.
1993 (age 30–31) Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. Status. Active. Space career. Selection. 2021 [1] Nora AlMatrooshi (Arabic: نورا المطروشي; born 1993) is an Emirati engineer and astronaut. In April 2021, she was selected to train with the NASA Astronaut Group 23 of astronauts to work as an international mission specialist.
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil ...
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 ...
21h 24m. Missions. Soyuz MS-22 / Soyuz MS-23 (Expedition 67 / 68 / 69) [1] Mission insignia. Francisco Carlos " Frank " [2] Rubio (born December 11, 1975) is an American flight surgeon, US Army colonel and helicopter pilot, and NASA astronaut. He holds the American record for the longest spaceflight at 371 days.
Birth date Note Sources Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. October 2, 1935 †December 8, 1967 First African-American astronaut; selected for astronaut training in 1967 for the MOL program; died in an aircraft accident [9] Livingston L. Holder Jr. September 29, 1956 USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program [10] Michael E. Belt September ...
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 ...