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As of June 15, 2010, a total of 518 humans from 38 countries have gone into space according to the FAI guideline, (524 people have qualified when including the Department of Defense classification). Of those totals, 3 people completed only a sub-orbital flight, 515 people reached Earth orbit, 24 traveled beyond low Earth orbit and 12 walked on the Moon.

  • Names in italic are space travelers who have left Low Earth orbit.
  • A * before a name indicates that the person died during spaceflight.
  1. Joseph M. Acaba
  2. Loren Acton
  3. James Adamson
  4. Viktor M. Afanasyev
  5. Thomas Akers
  6. Toyohiro Akiyama, the first business-sponsored space traveler and the first Japanese in space.
  7. Vladimir Aksyonov
  8. Sultan Salman Al Saud, first Saudi Arabian in space, only royal person in space, first middle eastern person in space.
  9. Edwin Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the second person to walk on the Moon.
  10. Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
  11. Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
  12. Andrew M. Allen
  13. Joseph P. Allen
  14. Scott Altman
  15. William Anders, first Asian-born person in space. (Anders was born in Hong Kong, but was an American citizen.)
  16. Clayton Anderson
  17. *Michael P. Anderson, (1959-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  18. Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), fourth spaceflight participant and first female spaceflight participant, first female Muslim in space, and first Iranian in space.
  19. Dominic A. Antonelli
  20. Jerome Apt
  21. Lee Archambault
  22. Neil Armstrong (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 and was the first person to walk on the Moon.
  23. Richard R. Arnold
  24. Anatoly Artsebarsky
  25. Yuri Artyukhin (1930-1998)
  26. Jeffrey Ashby
  27. Oleg Atkov
  28. Toktar Aubakirov, first Kazakh born person in space.
  29. Sergei Avdeyev
  30. James Bagian
  31. Ellen Baker
  32. Michael Baker
  33. Aleksandr Balandin
  34. Michael Barratt
  35. Daniel Barry
  36. John-David F. Bartoe
  37. Yuri Baturin, first Russian politician in space.
  38. Patrick Baudry, first African-born man and second Frenchman in space
  39. Alan Bean, flew on Apollo 12 and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
  40. Robert L. Behnken
  41. Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space.
  42. Pavel Belyayev (1925-1970)
  43. Georgi Beregovoi (1921-1995), earliest-born person to go into space.
  44. Anatoli Berezovoy
  45. Brian Binnie, second commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
  46. John Blaha
  47. Michael J. Bloomfield
  48. Guion Bluford, first African-American in space.
  49. Karol Bobko, first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut.
  50. Eric A. Boe
  51. Charles Bolden
  52. Roberta Bondar, first Canadian woman in space.
  53. Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the Moon.
  54. Stephen G. Bowen
  55. Kenneth Bowersox
  56. Charles Brady (1951-2006)
  57. Vance Brand
  58. Daniel Brandenstein
  59. Randolph Bresnik
  60. Roy Bridges. Became Director of the Kennedy Space Center in March 1997
  61. Curtis Brown
  62. *David M. Brown (1956-2003)
  63. Mark Brown
  64. James Buchli
  65. Jay Buckey
  66. Nikolai Budarin
  67. Daniel Burbank
  68. Daniel Bursch
  69. Valery Bykovsky (born 1934)
  70. Robert Cabana
  71. Tracy Caldwell
  72. Charles Camarda
  73. Kenneth Cameron
  74. Duane Carey
  75. Scott Carpenter, a Project Mercury astronaut.
  76. Gerald Carr
  77. Sonny Carter, (1947-1991)
  78. John Casper
  79. Christopher J. Cassidy, 500th astronaut in space.
  80. Robert Cenker
  81. Gene Cernan, flew on Apollo 17
  82. Gregory Chamitoff
  83. Franklin Chang-Diaz, the only Costa Rican, first Hispanic-American in space, holder of the shared record of seven space flights.
  84. *Kalpana Chawla (1961-2003), first Indian-American woman in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  85. Maurizio Cheli
  86. Leroy Chiao
  87. Kevin Chilton
  88. Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space
  89. *Laurel B. Clark (1961-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  90. Mary Cleave
  91. Jean-François Clervoy
  92. Michael Clifford
  93. Michael Coats
  94. Kenneth Cockrell
  95. Catherine Coleman (born 1960)
  96. Eileen Collins
  97. Michael Collins (born 1930), flew on Apollo 11 crew. Was the first Italian-born person in space. (Collins was born in Rome to American parents.)
  98. Pete Conrad, Apollo 12, (1930-1999), the third person to walk on the Moon and the commander of the first Skylab mission.
  99. Gordon Cooper (1927-2004), the first American to fly in space for a day.
  100. Richard Covey
  101. Timothy Creamer
  102. John Creighton
  103. Robert Crippen, Space Shuttle pioneer
  104. Roger Crouch
  105. Frank Culbertson
  106. Walter Cunningham, flew on Apollo 7.
  107. Robert Curbeam
  108. Nancy Currie
  109. Nancy Jan Davis
  110. Lawrence J. DeLucas
  111. Frank De Winne
  112. Vladimir N. Dezhurov
  113. *Georgi Dobrovolski (1928-1971)
  114. Takao Doi, first Japanese to walk in space.
  115. B. Alvin Drew
  116. Brian Duffy
  117. Charles Duke, flew on Apollo 16.
  118. Bonnie J. Dunbar
  119. Pedro Duque, first Spaniard in space.
  120. Samuel T. Durrance
  121. James Dutton
  122. Lev Dyomin (1926-1998)
  123. Vladimir Dzhanibekov, first Uzbekistan-born man in space
  124. Joe Edwards
  125. Donn F. Eisele (1930-1987), flew on Apollo 7.
  126. Anthony W. England
  127. Joseph H. Engle
  128. Ronald Evans (1933-1990)
  129. Reinhold Ewald
  130. Léopold Eyharts
  131. John Fabian
  132. Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space.
  133. Bertalan Farkas, first Hungarian in space.
  134. Jean-Jacques Favier
  135. Fèi Jùnlóng, flew on Shenzhou 6
  136. Konstantin Feoktistov (1926-2009)
  137. Christopher Ferguson
  138. Martin J. Fettman
  139. Andrew J. Feustel
  140. Anatoli Filipchenko
  141. Michael Fincke
  142. Anna Fisher
  143. William Frederick Fisher
  144. Klaus-Dietrich Flade
  145. Michael Foale, holds the American and British Record for time spent in space at 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes.
  146. Kevin A. Ford
  147. Michael Foreman
  148. Patrick Forrester
  149. Michael Fossum
  150. Stephen Frick
  151. Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space.
  152. Christer Fuglesang, first Swede in space.
  153. Charles Fullerton
  154. Reinhard Furrer (1940-1995)
  155. Francis Gaffney
  156. Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), first person in space.
  157. Ronald Garan
  158. Dale Gardner
  159. Guy Gardner
  160. Jake Garn, a United States Senator and first politician in space.
  161. Marc Garneau, first Canadian in space.
  162. Owen Garriott
  163. Richard Garriott, first second generation American in space, son of skylab astronaut, Owen Garriott.
  164. Charles Gemar
  165. Michael Gernhardt
  166. Edward Gibson
  167. Robert L. Gibson
  168. Yuri Gidzenko
  169. Yuri Glazkov (1939-2008)
  170. John Glenn (born 1921), first American to orbit the Earth, and later, the oldest person to make a spaceflight.
  171. Linda Godwin
  172. Michael T. Good
  173. Viktor Gorbatko
  174. Richard Gordon, flew on Apollo 12.
  175. Dominic Gorie
  176. Ronald Grabe
  177. Georgi Grechko
  178. Frederick Gregory
  179. William Gregory
  180. Stanley Griggs (1939-1989)
  181. Virgil Grissom (1926-1967), first NASA astronaut to go into space twice and the first person to go into space twice in a capsule-type spacecraft. Would have been the first person to fly three times. Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
  182. John Grunsfeld
  183. Aleksei Gubarev
  184. Umberto Guidoni
  185. Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa, first Mongolian in space.
  186. Sidney Gutierrez
  187. Chris Hadfield, first Canadian to walk in space.
  188. Claudie Haigneré, first Frenchwoman in space.
  189. Jean-Pierre Haigneré
  190. Fred Haise, flew on Apollo 13.
  191. James Halsell
  192. Kenneth Ham
  193. Lloyd Hammond
  194. Gregory Harbaugh
  195. Bernard Harris, first African-American to walk in space.
  196. Terry Hart
  197. Henry Hartsfield
  198. Frederick Hauck
  199. Steven Hawley
  200. Susan Helms
  201. Karl Henize (1926-1993)
  202. Thomas Hennen
  203. Terence Henricks
  204. Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Pole in space.
  205. Jose Hernández
  206. John Herrington, first Native American in space.
  207. Richard Hieb
  208. Joan Higginbotham
  209. David Hilmers
  210. Kathryn Hire
  211. Charles Hobaugh
  212. Jeffrey Hoffman
  213. Scott Horowitz
  214. Akihiko Hoshide
  215. Millie Hughes-Fulford, first female Payload Specialist.
  216. Douglas G. Hurley
  217. *Rick D. Husband (1957-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  218. James Irwin (1930-1991), flew on Apollo 15.
  219. Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
  220. Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
  221. Marsha Ivins
  222. Sigmund Jähn, first German in space
  223. Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space
  224. Tamara E. Jernigan
  225. Brent W. Jett, Jr.
  226. Jing Haipeng
  227. Gregory C. Johnson
  228. Gregory H. Johnson
  229. Thomas D. Jones
  230. Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space since independence.
  231. Alexander Kaleri, first Russian in space since independence.
  232. Janet Kavandi
  233. James Kelly
  234. Mark E. Kelly
  235. Scott Kelly
  236. Joseph Kerwin
  237. Yevgeny Khrunov (1933-2000)
  238. Robert S. Kimbrough
  239. Leonid Kizim (1941-2010)
  240. Pyotr Klimuk, first Belarusian in space.
  241. *Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967), killed during a USSR space flight.
  242. Yelena V. Kondakova
  243. Oleg Kononenko, first Turkmenistan-born man in space
  244. Timothy L. Kopra
  245. Mikhail Korniyenko
  246. Valery Korzun
  247. Oleg Kotov
  248. Vladimir Kovalyonok
  249. Konstantin Kozeyev
  250. Kevin Kregel
  251. / Sergei Krikalev, six space flights and, as of 2008, holds record for longest total time in space: 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes.
  252. Valeri Kubasov
  253. André Kuipers
  254. Aleksandr Laveykin
  255. Guy Laliberté
  256. Wendy Lawrence
  257. Vasili Lazarev (1928-1990)
  258. Aleksandr Lazutkin
  259. Valentin Lebedev
  260. Mark C. Lee
  261. David Leestma
  262. William B. Lenoir
  263. Aleksei Leonov, first person to "walk in space" (to make an EVA).
  264. Frederick W. Leslie
  265. Anatoli Levchenko (1941-1988)
  266. Byron Lichtenberg, first NASA Payload Specialist.
  267. Don Lind
  268. Steven Lindsey
  269. Jerry Linenger
  270. Richard Linnehan
  271. Gregory Linteris
  272. Liu Boming
  273. Paul Lockhart
  274. Yuri Lonchakov
  275. / Michael Lopez-Alegria
  276. John Lounge
  277. Jack Lousma
  278. Stanley G. Love
  279. Jim Lovell, flew on Apollo 8, the first spaceship to orbit the Moon, and on Apollo 13.
  280. G. David Low (1956-2008)
  281. Edward Lu
  282. Shannon Lucid, first Asian-born woman in space. As of 2006, holder of the woman's spaceflight-duration record.
  283. Vladimir Lyakhov
  284. Steven MacLean
  285. Sandra Magnus
  286. Oleg Makarov (1933-2003)
  287. Yuri Malenchenko
  288. Franco Malerba, first Italian in space. (Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy in 1930, he has always been an American citizen, born of American parents.)
  289. Yuri Malyshev (1941-1999)
  290. Gennadi Manakov
  291. Musa Manarov, first Azerbaidjan-born man in space
  292. Thomas H. Marshburn
  293. Michael Massimino
  294. Richard Mastracchio
  295. Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II (born 1936), flew on Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C.
  296. K. Megan McArthur
  297. William S. McArthur
  298. Jon McBride
  299. Bruce McCandless II
  300. *William C. McCool (1961-2003), died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  301. Michael McCulley
  302. James McDivitt, flew on Apollo 9.
  303. Donald McMonagle
  304. *Ronald McNair (1950-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  305. Carl Meade
  306. Bruce Melnick
  307. Pamela Melroy
  308. Leland D. Melvin
  309. Mike Melvill, first commercial (launched by a private company) astronaut. Suborbital flight only.
  310. Ulf Merbold
  311. Ernst Messerschmid
  312. Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
  313. Edgar Mitchell, flew on Apollo 14.
  314. Abdul Ahad Mohmand, first Afghan in space.
  315. Mamoru Mohri
  316. Barbara Morgan
  317. Lee Morin
  318. Boris Morukov
  319. Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space.
  320. Richard Mullane
  321. Talgat Musabayev
  322. Story Musgrave
  323. Steven R. Nagel
  324. Bill Nelson, second politician in space.
  325. George Nelson
  326. Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
  327. Paolo A. Nespoli
  328. James H. Newman
  329. Claude Nicollier, first Swiss in space.
  330. Niè Hǎishèng, flew on Shenzhou 6
  331. Andriyan Nikolayev (1929-2004)
  332. Soichi Noguchi
  333. Carlos I. Noriega, first Peruvian-born person in space.
  334. Lisa Nowak
  335. Karen Nyberg
  336. Bryan O'Connor
  337. Ellen Ochoa, first Hispanic woman in space.
  338. Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch citizen in space.
  339. William Oefelein
  340. John D. Olivas
  341. Gregory Olsen, third spaceflight participant.
  342. *Ellison Onizuka (1946-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  343. Yuri Onufrienko
  344. Stephen Oswald
  345. Robert Overmyer (1936-1996)
  346. Gennady Padalka
  347. William Pailes
  348. Scott Parazynski
  349. Ronald A. Parise (1951-2008)
  350. Robert Parker
  351. Nicholas Patrick
  352. *Viktor Patsayev (1933-1971)
  353. James Pawelczyk
  354. Julie Payette
  355. Gary Payton, first military astronaut.
  356. Philippe Perrin, first Morocco-born man in space
  357. Donald Peterson
  358. Donald Pettit
  359. Pham Tuân, first Vietnamese and first Asian in space.
  360. John Phillips
  361. William Pogue
  362. Alan G. Poindexter
  363. Mark Polansky
  364. Alexander Poleshchuk
  365. Valeri Polyakov, holds record for single longest spaceflight, 437 days.
  366. Marcos Pontes, first Brazilian in space.
  367. Leonid Popov
  368. Pavel Popovich (1930-2009), first Ukrainian-born person in space.
  369. Charles Precourt
  370. Dumitru Prunariu, first Romanian in space.
  371. *Ilan Ramon (1954-2003), first Israeli in space, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
  372. William Readdy
  373. Kenneth Reightler
  374. James F. Reilly
  375. Garrett Reisman
  376. Thomas Reiter, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS.
  377. Vladimír Remek, first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space.
  378. *Judith Resnik (1949-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  379. Paul W. Richards
  380. Richard N. Richards
  381. Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
  382. Stephen Robinson
  383. Roman Romanenko
  384. Yuri Romanenko
  385. Kent Rominger
  386. Stuart Roosa (1933-1994), flew on Apollo 14.
  387. Jerry L. Ross, flew on seven space flights.
  388. Valeri Rozhdestvensky
  389. Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932-2002)
  390. Mario Runco, Jr.
  391. Valery Ryumin
  392. Albert Sacco
  393. Gennadi Sarafanov (1942-2005)
  394. Robert Satcher
  395. Viktor Savinykh
  396. Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space.
  397. Wally Schirra (1923-2007)
  398. Hans Schlegel
  399. Harrison Schmitt, flew on Apollo 17.
  400. Rusty Schweickart
  401. *Dick Scobee (1939-1986), died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  402. David Scott
  403. Winston Scott
  404. Paul Scully-Power
  405. Richard Searfoss
  406. Rhea Seddon
  407. Ronald Sega
  408. Piers Sellers
  409. Aleksandr Serebrov
  410. Vitali Sevastyanov
  411. Yuri Shargin, first Russian military cosmonaut
  412. Salizhan Sharipov [3], first Kyrgyzstan-born man in space
  413. Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space.
  414. Helen Sharman, first Briton in space.
  415. Vladimir Shatalov, first Kazakhstan-born man in space
  416. Brewster Shaw
  417. Alan Shepard (1923-1998), first American in space.
  418. William Shepherd
  419. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
  420. Georgi Shonin (1935-1997)
  421. Loren Shriver
  422. Mark Shuttleworth, second spaceflight participant and first South African in space.
  423. Charles Simonyi, fifth spaceflight participant.
  424. Aleksandr Skvortsov
  425. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924-1996), a Mercury astronaut.
  426. Steven Smith
  427. Anatoly Solovyev, first Latvia-born man in space
  428. Vladimir Solovyov
  429. Sherwood Spring
  430. Robert Springer
  431. Thomas Patten Stafford
  432. Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
  433. Robert Stewart
  434. Susan Still
  435. Nicole Stott
  436. Gennady Strekalov (1940-2004)
  437. Frederick Sturckow
  438. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space.
  439. Maksim Surayev
  440. Steven Swanson
  441. John "Jack" Swigert (1931-1982), flew on Apollo 13.
  442. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first Cuban and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space. He was also the first Hispanophone and first person of African ancestry in space.
  443. Daniel Tani
  444. Joseph Tanner
  445. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
  446. Norman Thagard
  447. Gerhard Thiele
  448. Robert Thirsk
  449. Andrew Thomas
  450. Donald Thomas
  451. Kathryn Thornton, first woman to make multiple EVAs.
  452. William Thornton
  453. Pierre Thuot
  454. Dennis Tito, first self-funded spaceflight participant.
  455. Gherman Titov (1935-2000), the second person to make a space flght and the first to stay up for a day.
  456. Vladimir Titov
  457. Michel Tognini
  458. Valery Tokarev
  459. Sergei Treschev
  460. Eugene Trinh, first Vietnamese-American in space.
  461. Richard Truly
  462. Bjarni Tryggvason, first Iceland-born man in space
  463. Vasili Tsibliyev
  464. Mikhail Tyurin
  465. Yury Usachev
  466. Lodewijk van den Berg, first Dutch-born astronaut.
  467. James "Ox" van Hoften
  468. Vladimir Vasyutin (1952-2002)
  469. Charles Veach (1944-1995)
  470. Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space.
  471. Alexander Viktorenko
  472. Terry Virts
  473. Pavel Vinogradov
  474. Roberto Vittori
  475. Igor Volk
  476. Sergey Volkov, first second generation astronaut or cosmonaut in space, son of Alexander Volkov.
  477. *Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971), killed on Soyuz 11.
  478. Alexander Volkov
  479. Boris Volynov, first Jewish person in space.
  480. James Voss
  481. Janice Voss
  482. Koichi Wakata
  483. Rex Walheim
  484. Charles Walker
  485. David M. Walker, (1944-2001)
  486. Joseph A. Walker (1921-1966), first person to enter space twice. Suborbital flights only.
  487. Shannon Walker - Soyuz TMA-19
  488. Ulrich Walter
  489. Carl Walz
  490. Taylor Wang, first ethnic Chinese person in space.
  491. Mary Weber
  492. Paul Weitz
  493. James Wetherbee
  494. Edward White (1930-1967), first American to "walk in space" (make an EVA). Died in the Apollo 1 disaster.
  495. Douglas H. Wheelock
  496. Peggy Whitson
  497. Terrence Wilcutt
  498. Dafydd Williams
  499. Donald Williams
  500. Jeffrey Williams
  501. Sunita "Suni" Williams
  502. Barry Wilmore
  503. Stephanie Wilson
  504. Peter Wisoff
  505. David Wolf
  506. Alfred Worden
  507. Naoko Yamazaki
  508. Yáng Lìwěi, first Chinese national in space.
  509. Boris Yegorov (1937-1994)
  510. Aleksei Yeliseyev
  511. Yi So-yeon, first South Korean in space.
  512. John Young, flew on two Gemini, two Apollo (Apollo 10 and Apollo 16), and two Space Shuttle missions.
  513. Fyodor Yurchikhin, First Greek in space, first Georgia-born man in space
  514. Sergei Zalyotin
  515. George D. Zamka
  516. Zhai Zhigang, first Chinese to walk in space.
  517. Vitaliy Zholobov
  518. Vyacheslav Zudov
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