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The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight. The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-speaking country of birth or ancestry.
Pablo Álvarez Fernández (born 1988) is a Spanish aeronautical engineer and astronaut. [1] [2] In November 2022, he was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a full astronaut in the class of 2022 [3] [4] and it was in April 2024 when he graduated as such. [2]
Pages in category "Spanish astronauts" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Pedro Duque; G.
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 ...
Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as minister of Science from 2018 to 2021 and member of the Congress of Deputies, representing Alicante, from May 2019 until February 2020.
Spanish start-up PLD Space, which carried out Europe's first fully private rocket launch last year, aims to one day be able to carry any type of cargo and ultimately humans into space, rivalling ...
Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; [2] a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.
Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. [1] He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.