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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 ...
John Herrington, an American citizen first launched 24 November 2002, is the first tribal registered Native American in space . See also Bill Pogue above. Fyodor Yurchikhin, first launched 7 October 2002, was born in Georgia (then the Georgian SSR). He was a Russian citizen at the time he went into space and is of Pontian Greek descent.
Both of these are the record for the largest total number of spacewalks by a male and a female, and the most cumulative time spent on spacewalks by a male and a female. Man – Anatoly Solovyev, 16 spacewalks for a total time of 82 hours, 21 minutes. [44] Woman (number) – Peggy Whitson, 10 spacewalks for a total time of 60 hours, 21 minutes.
Jun. 17—Fewer than 100 women have flown to space, out of the around 700 astronauts that have made the trip. That's about 13% of space travelers. Female pioneers are attempting to change that ...
List of human spaceflights, 1961–1970; List of human spaceflights, 1971–1980; List of human spaceflights, 1981–1990; List of human spaceflights, 1991–2000
When pediatric cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and a trio of crewmates spent three days in space in 2021 as part of SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission, they made history not only as the first all ...
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. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
There's a new space race in the world, but this one isn't being driven by competing governments, but rather by billionaires. Some of the biggest names in business, from Richard Branson to Jeff ...