List of astronauts by name: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Loren Acton, (born 1936)
• James Adamson
• Viktor M. Afanasyev
• Thomas Akers
• Toyohiro Akiyama
• Vladimir Aksyonov
• Sultan Salman Al-Saud
• Buzz Aldrin, (born 1930), US.
• Aleksandr Panayatov Aleksandrov - Bulgaria
• Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov - Russia
• Andrew M. Allen
• Joseph Allen
• Scott Altman
• William Anders, (born 1933), US.
• Michael P. Anderson, (1959-2003)
• Claudie Andre-Deshay
• Jerome Apt
• Neil Armstrong, (born 1930), US, first person on the Moon
• Anatoly Artsebarsky
• Yuri Artyukhin, (1930-1998), USSR
• Jeffrey Ashby
• Oleg Atkov
• Toktar Aubakirov, (born 1946), USSR
• Sergei Avdeyev - Record time in space - 747-days

• James Bagian
• Ellen Baker
• Michael Baker
• Aleksandr Balandin
• Daniel Barry
• John Bartoe
• Yuri Baturin
• Patrick Baudry
• Alan Bean, (born 1932), Apollo 12 - 1969
• Pavel Belyayev, (1925-1970)
• Ivan Bella
• Georgi Beregovoi, (1921-1995)
• Anatoli Berezovoy
• John Blaha
• Michael J. Bloomfield
• Guion Bluford, U.S., first African American in space
• Karol Bobko
• Charles Bolden
• Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space
• Frank Borman
• Kenneth Bowersox
• Charles Brady
• Vance Brand
• Daniel Brandenstein

• Roy Bridges
• Curtis Brown
• David M. Brown, (1956-2003)
• Mark Brown
• James Buchli
• Jay Buckey
• Nikolai Budarin
• Daniel Burbank
• Daniel Bursch
• Valery Bykovsky, (born 1934)

• Robert Cabana
• Kenneth Cameron
• Duane Carey
• Scott Carpenter
• Gerald Carr
• Sonny Carter, (1947-1991)
• John Casper
• Robert Cenker
• Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 - 1972
• Roger Chaffee, (1935-1967), US
• Franklin Chang-Diaz
• Kalpana Chawla, (1961-2003)
• Maurizio Cheli
• Leroy Chiao
• Kevin Chilton
• Jean-Loup Chretien
• Laurel Clark, (1961-2003)
• Mary Cleave
• Jean-Francois Clervoy
• Michael Clifford
• Michael Coats
• Kenneth Cockrell
• Catherine Coleman, (born 1960)
• Eileen Collins
• Michael Collins, (born 1930)
• Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 - 1969
• Gordon Cooper
• Richard Covey
• John Creighton
• Robert Crippen
• Roger Crouch
• Frank Culbertson
• Walter Cunningham
• Robert Curbeam
• Nancy Currie

• Nancy Jan Davis
• Lawrence DeLucas
• Lev Demin
• Frank DeWinne
• Vladimir Dezhurov
• Georgi Dobrovolski, (1928-1971)
• Takao Doi
• Brian Duffy
• Charles Duke, Apollo 16 - 1972
• Bonnie Dunbar
• Pedro Duque

• Samuel Durrance
• Vladimir Dzhanibekov

• Joe Edwards
• Donn Eisele
• Anthony England
• Joseph Engle
• Ronald Evans
• Reinhold Ewald
• Leopold Eyharts

• John Fabian
• Muhammed Faris
• Bertalan Farkas
• Jean-Jacques Favier
• Konstantin Feoktistov, (born 1926)
• Martin Fettman
• Anatoli Filipchenko
• Edward Fincke
• Anna Fisher
• William Fisher
• Klaus-Dietrich Flade
• Michael Foale
• Patrick Forrester
• Stephen Frick
• Dirk Frimout
• Charles Fullerton
• Reinhard Furrer, (1940-1955)

• Francis Gaffney
• Yuri Gagarin, (1934-1968), USSR, first person in space.
• Guy Gardner
• Dale Gardner
• Jake Garn
• Marc Garneau, (born 1949), first Canadian in space
• Owen Garriott
• Charles Gemar
• Michael Gernhardt
• Edward Gibson, author
• Robert Gibson
• Yuri Gidzenko
• Yuri Glazkov
• John Glenn, (born 1921), US
• Linda Godwin
• Viktor Gorbatko, (born 1934)
• Richard Gordon
• Dominic Gorie
• Ronald Grabe
• Georgi Grechko
• William Gregory
• Frederick Gregory
• Stanley Griggs
• Virgil Grissom, (1926-1967), US
• John Grunsfeld
• Aleksei Gubarev
• Umberto Guidoni
• Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha
• Sidney Gutierrez

• Chris Hadfield, (born 1959), first Canadian to walk in space
• Jean-Pierre Haignere
• Fred Haise
• James Halsell
• Lloyd Hammond
• Gregory Harbaugh
• Bernard Harris
• Terry Hart
• Henry Hartsfield
• Frederick Hauck
• Steven Hawley
• Susan Helms
• Karl Henize
• Thomas Hennen
• Terence Henricks
• Miroslaw Hermaszewski
• Claudie Heigneré
• John Herrington
• Richard Hieb
• David Hilmers
• Kathryn Hire
• Charles Hobaugh
• Jeffrey Hoffman
• Scott Horowitz
• Millie Hughes-Fulford
• Rick D. Husband, (1957-2003)

• James Irwin, (died 1991), Apollo 15 - 1971
• Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
• Georgi Ivanov
• Marsha Ivins

• Greg Jarvis, (1944-1986)
• Sigmund Jähn, Germany
• Mae Jemison, (born 1956), first African-American woman in space
• Tamara Jernigan, (born 1959)
• Brent Jett
• Thomas Jones

• Leonid Kadenyuk
• Alexander Kaleri
• Janet Kavandi
• James M. Kelly
• Mark Kelly
• Scott Kelly
• Joseph Kerwin
• Yevgeny Khrunov, (1933-2000)
• Leonid Kizim
• Petr Klimuk
• Vladimir Komarov, (1927-1967), USSR
• Elena V. Kondakova, (1957- ), Russia
• Valery Korzun
• Vladimir Kovalyonok
• Konstantin Kozeyev
• Kevin Kregel
• Sergei Krikalev
• Valeri Kubasov, (born 1935)
• André Kuipers

• Judith Lapierre
• Aleksandr Laveykin
• Wendy Lawrence
• Vasili Lazarev
• Aleksandr Lazutkin
• Valentin Lebedev
• Mark Lee
• David Leestma
• William Lenoir
• Aleksei Leonov, (born 1934)
• Frederick Leslie
• Anatoli Levchenko
• Byron Lichtenberg
• Don Lind
• Steven Lindsey
• Jerry Linenger
• Richard Linnehan
• Gregory Linteris
• Yang Liwei - see under Y
• Paul Lockhart
• Yuri Lonchakov
• Michael Lopez-Alegria
• John Lounge
• Jack Lousma
• Jim Lovell, (born 1928)
• George Low
• Edward Lu
• Shannon Lucid
• Vladimir Lyakhov

• Steven MacLean
• Sandra Magnus
• Oleg Makarov, (1933-2003)
• Yuri Malenchenko
• Franco Malerba
• Yuri Malyshev
• Gennadi Manakov
• Musa Manarov
• Michael Massimino
• Richard Mastracchio
• Thomas Mattingly
• William McArthur
• Christa McAuliffe, (1948-1986)
• Jon McBride
• Bruce McCandless
• William C. McCool, (1961-2003)
• Michael McCulley
• James McDivitt
• Donald McMonagle
• Ronald McNair, (1950-1986)
• Carl Meade
• Bruce Melnick
• Pamela Melroy
• Mike Melvill
• Ulf Merbold, (born 1941), Germany
• Ernst Messerschmid, (born 1945)
• Edgar Mitchell, (born 1930), Apollo 14 - 1971
• Abdul Ahad Mohmand, (born 1959)
• Mamoru Mohri, (born 1948)
• Lee Morin
• Boris Morukov
• Chiaki Mukai
• Richard Mullane
• Talgat Musabayev
• Story Musgrave

• Steven Nagel
• George Nelson
• William Nelson
• Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.

• James Newman
• Claude Nicollier, (born 1944), pilot.
• Andrian Nikolayev, (1929-2004)
• Carlos Noriega

• Bryan O'Connor
• Ellen Ochoa
• Wubbo Ockels
• Ellison Onizuka, (1946-1986)
• Yuri Onufrienko
• Stephen Oswald
• Robert Overmyer

• Gennady Padalka
• William Pailes
• Scott Parazynski
• Ronald A. Parise
• Robert Parker
• Viktor Patsayev, (1933-1971)
• James Pawelczyk
• Julie Payette, (born 1963)
• Gary Payton
• Philippe Perrin
• Donald Peterson
• Donald Pettit
• Tuân Pham
• John Phillips, (1935-2001)
• William Pogue
• Mark Polansky
• Alexander Poleshchuk
• Valeri Polyakov - Single longest spaceflight - 437-days
• Leonid Popov
• Pavel Popovich, (born 1930)
• Charles Precourt
• Dumitru Prunariu

• Ilan Ramon, (1954-2003)
• William Readdy
• Kenneth Reightler
• James Reilly
• Thomas Reiter
• Vladimir Remek
• Judith Resnik, (1949-1986)
• Paul Richards
• Richard Richards
• Sally Ride, (born 1951)
• Stephen Robinson
• Yuri Romanenko
• Kent Rominger
• Stuart Roosa
• Jerry Ross
• Valeri Rozhdestvensky
• Nikolay Rukavishnikov
• Mario Runco
• Valery Ryumin

• Albert Sacco
• Gennadi Sarafanov
• Viktor Savinykh
• Svetlana Savitskaya
• Wally Schirra, (born 1923)
• Hans Schlegel
• Harrison Schmitt, (born 1935)
• Rusty Schweickart
• Dick Scobee, (1939-1986)
• Winston Scott
• David Scott, Apollo 15 - 1971
• Paul Scully-Power
• Richard Searfoss
• Rhea Seddon
• Ronald Sega
• Piers Sellers
• Aleksandr Serebrov
• Vitali Sevastyanov, (born 1935)
• Salizhan Sharipov
• Rakesh Sharma
• Helen Sharman
• Vladimir Shatalov, (born 1927)
• Brewster Shaw
• Alan Shepard, (1923-1998), Apollo 14 - 1971
• William Shepherd
• Georgi Shonin, (1935-1997)
• Loren Shriver
• Mark Shuttleworth, Web entrepreneur, founder of Thawte
• Donald Slayton
• Michael J. Smith, (1945-1986)
• Steven Smith
• Vladimir Soloviyov
• Anatoly Solovyev
• Sherwood Spring
• Robert Springer
• Thomas Stafford
• Robert Stewart
• Susan Still
• Gennady Strekalov
• Frederick Sturckow
• Kathryn D. Sullivan
• John Swigert

• Daniel Tani
• Joseph Tanner
• Valentina Tereshkova, (born 1937), USSR, first woman in space.
• Norman Thagard
• Gerhard Thiele
• Robert Thirsk
• Donald Thomas
• Andrew Thomas
• Kathryn Thornton
• William E. Thornton
• Pierre Thuot
• Dennis Tito, first paying space tourist
• Gherman Titov, (1935-2000)
• Vladimir Titov
• Michel Tognini
• Valery Tokarev
• Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
• Sergei Treschev
• Eugene Trinh
• Richard Truly
• Bjarni Tryggvason
• Vasili Tsibliyev
• Mikhail Tyurin

• Yury Usachev

• Lodewijk van den Berg
• James van Hoften
• Vladimir Vasyutin
• Charles Veach
• Franz Viehböck
• Alexander Viktorenko
• Pavel Vinogradov
• Roberto Vittori
• Igor Volk
• Vladislav Volkov, (1935–1971)
• Alexander A. Volkov
• Boris Volynov, (born 1934)
• James Voss
• Janice Voss

• Koichi Wakata
• Rex Walheim
• Charles Walker
• David Walker
• Joseph A. Walker
• Ulrich Walter, (born 1954), Germany.
• Carl Walz
• Taylor Wang
• Mary Weber
• Paul Weitz
• James Wetherbee
• Edward White, (1930-1967), US
• Peggy Whitson
• Terrence Wilcutt
• Dafydd Williams
• Donald Williams
• Jeffrey Williams
• Peter Wisoff
• David Wolf
• Alfred Worden

• Yang Liwei, first Chinese-launched astronaut
• Boris Yegorov, (1937-1994)
• Aleksei Yeliseyev, (born 1934)
• John Young
• Fyodor Yurchikhin

• Sergei Zalyotin
• Vitali Zholobov
• Vyacheslav Zudov