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As of February 2024, people from 47 countries have traveled in space. [1] As of February 2024 644 have reached the altitude of space according to the FAI definition of the boundary of space, [2] and as of February 2024 681 people have reached the altitude of space according to the USAF definition and 610 people have reached Earth orbit.
7: Anatoly Solovyev, during Expedition 24 on the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.) 7: Andrew Morgan, during his first spaceflight on board the ISS for Expedition 60 / 61 / 62 in 2019–2020, he spent 45 hours and 48 minutes outside the 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.
Reached an altitude of 86 km (53 mi), crossing the U.S. definition of space. 332. Jeff Bezos. Mark Bezos. Wally Funk. Oliver Daemen. 20 July 2021. NS 16. Reached an altitude of 107 km (66 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space.
The above list uses the nationality at the time of launch. Lists with differing criteria might include the following people: Pavel Popovich, first launched 12 August 1962, was the first Ukrainian-born man in space.
Apollo 7 heads into orbit with its crew of three, 1968. This is a list of all crewed spaceflights throughout history. Beginning in 1961 with the flight of Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, crewed spaceflight occurs when a human crew flies a spacecraft into outer space.
More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial ...
As of 30 May 2023, 269 people from 21 countries had visited the space station, many of them multiple times. The United States sent 163 people, Russia sent 57, 11 were Japanese, nine were Canadian, five were Italian, four were French, four were German, two from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and one each from Belgium, Brazil, Denmark ...