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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. 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.
Thus, in 1978, a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first American female astronauts, with one of them, Judith Resnik, also being the first Jewish American astronaut, as well as the first African-American astronauts to fly, Guion Bluford and Frederick D. Gregory (the first black astronaut ...
This is a complete list of astronauts in the United States Space Force.There have currently been two NASA astronauts who have been members of the U.S. Space Force. The first U.S. Space Force astronaut, Colonel Mike Hopkins, commemorated the service's first birthday by having his transfer ceremony on 19 December 2020 on the International Space Station.
List of Chinese astronauts; List of Indian astronauts; List of Japanese astronauts. JAXA Astronaut Corps; List of cosmonauts. Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps; List of European astronauts. European Astronaut Corps. 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group; List of Dutch astronauts; List of French spationauts; List of German astronauts; List of ...
Pages in category "American astronauts" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
As of October 2024, the corps has 47 "active" astronauts consisting of 20 women and 27 men [8] The highest number of active astronauts at one time was in 2000 when there were 149. [9] All of the current astronaut corps are from the classes of 1996 (Group 16) or later. Missions in italics are scheduled and subject to change.
Before astronaut school, there was college. astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon.
He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...