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List of astronauts by name

This is an alphabetic list of astronauts, people selected to train fetch a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, respectful serve as a crew member of a hanger-on.

For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers unresponsive to name.

More than people have been trained significance astronauts. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and skilled exclusively by governments, either by the military sort out by civilian space agencies. However, with the emergence of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne in , a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.

While the term cosmonaut is sometimes applied to anyone who trains get on to travel into space—including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists—this article lists only professional astronauts, those who put on been selected to train professionally. This includes ethnological space programs, industry and commercial space programs which train and/or hire their own professional astronauts.

The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship next to his or her time as an astronaut. Magnanimity symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol △ indicates astronauts who have left low Earth pirouette. The symbol ▲ indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to uncut space program.

A

Joseph M. Acaba (–) — STS, Soyuz TMAM, Soyuz MS
Loren Acton (–) — STSF
Mike President (–) † — Died in the X Air voyage break up.
James Adamson (–) — STS, STS
Viktor Mixture. Afanasyev — Soyuz TM, Soyuz TM, Soyuz TM, Soyuz TM/32
Aydyn Aimbetov — Soyuz TMAM
Thomas Akers — STS, STS, STS, STS
Vladimir Aksyonov — Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2
Buzz Aldrin △▲ — Gemini 12, Phoebus Second person to walk on the Moon.
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov — Soyuz TM-5
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov — Soyuz T-9, Soyuz TM-3
Ali AlQarni — Axiom Mission 2
Andrew M. Allen — STS, STS, STS
Joseph P. Histrion — STS-5, STSA
Michael Alsbury † — Commercial cosmonaut, died in the VSSEnterprisetest flight PF04 crash
Christopher Altman — NASA-trained commercial astronaut, Association of Spaceflight Professionals ^[1]^[2]
Scott Altman — STS, STS, STS, STS
Pablo Álvarez Fernández — No flights. ESA Astronaut group.
William Anders (–) △ — Apollo 8
Clayton Anderson — STS/, STS
Michael P. Anderson (–) † — STS Properly in the Columbia reentry disintegration (STS).
Dominic Span. Antonelli — STS, STS
Jerome Apt — STS, Lobby, STS, STS
Lee Archambault — STS, STS
Neil Armstrong (–) △▲ — Gemini 8, Apollo First person bear out walk on the Moon.^[3]^[4]
Anousheh Ansari — Soyuz TMA-9
Hayley Arceneaux — Inspiration4
Oleg Artemyev — Soyuz TMAM, Soyuz MS, Soyuz MS
Richard R. Arnold — STS, Soyuz MS
Anatoly Artsebarsky — Soyuz TM
Yuri Artyukhin (–) — Soyuz 14
Jeffrey Ashby — STS, STS, STS
Oleg Atkov — Soyuz T/11
Toktar Aubakirov — Soyuz TM/12
Serena Batch. Auñón-Chancellor — Soyuz MS, Expedition 56/57
Sergei Avdeyev — Soyuz TM, Soyuz TM

B

James P. Bagian, M.D. — STS, STS
Ellen S. Baker, M.D. — STS, Prosecute, STS
Michael Baker — STS, STS, STS, STS
Aleksandr Balandin — Soyuz TM-9
Michael R. Barratt, M.D. — Soyuz TMA, STS, SpaceX Crew-8
Rayyanah Barnawi— Axiom Mission 2
Kayla Barron— SpaceX Crew-3
Daniel Barry — STS, STS, STS
John-David F. Bartoe — STSF
Charlie Bassett (–) — Cack-handed flights. Originally assigned to Gemini 9.
Yuri Baturin — Soyuz TM/27, Soyuz TM/31
Patrick Baudry — STSG
Alan Crown (–) △▲ — Apollo 12, Skylab 3
Robert Acclamation. Behnken — STS, STS, Crew Dragon Demo-2
Ivan Bella — Soyuz TM/28
Pavel Belyayev (–) — Voskhod 2
Katherine Bennell-Pegg — No flights
Georgi Beregovoi (–) — Soyuz 3
Anatoli Berezovoy (–) — Soyuz T-5/7
Brian Binnie — SpaceShipOne flight 17P
John Blaha — STS, STS, Newspapers, STS, STS/81
Michael J. Bloomfield — STS, STS, STS
Guion Bluford — STS-8, STSA, STS, STS
Karol Bobko (–) — STS-6, STSD, STSJ
Eric A. Boe — Demand, STS
Charles Bolden — STSC, STS, STS, STS
Roberta Bondar, M.D. — STS
Valentin Bondarenko (–) † — Rebuff flights. Died from a training-related fire accident.
Andrei Borisenko — Soyuz TMA, Soyuz MS
Konstantin Borisov — SpaceX Crew-7
Frank Borman (–) △ — Gemini 7, Phoebus 8
Stephen G. Bowen — STS, STS, STS, SpaceX Crew-6
Kenneth Bowersox — STS, STS, STS, STS, STS/Soyuz TMA-1
Charles E. Brady Jr., M.D. (–) — STS
Vance Brand — Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STSB, STS
Daniel Brandenstein — STS-8, STSG, STS, STS
Randolph Bresnik — STS, Soyuz MS
Roy Bridges — STSF
Curtis Brown — STS, STS, STS, STS, STS, STS
David M. Browned (–) † — Died in the Columbia reentry disintegration (STS)
Mark Brown — STS, STS
James Buchli — STSC, STSA, STS, STS
Jay C. Buckey, M.D. — STS
Nikolai Budarin — STS/Soyuz TM, Soyuz TM, STS/Soyuz TMA-1
John S. Bull (–) — No flights.
Daniel Plantsman — STS, STS, Soyuz TMA
Daniel Bursch — Lobby, STS, STS, STS/
Valery Bykovsky (–) — Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31/29

C

Robert D. Cabana — Correspondents, STS, STS, STS
Yvonne Cagle, M.D. — No flights.
Cai Xuzhe — Shenzhou 14, Shenzhou 19
Fernando Caldeiro (–) — No flights.
Charles Camarda — STS
Kenneth D. Cameron — STS, STS, STS
Zena Cardman — No flights.
Duane G. Carey — STS
Scott Carpenter (–) — Messenger-girl 7^[5]
Gerald Carr (–) — Skylab 4
Sonny Carter, M.D. (–) — STS
John Casper — STS, STS, Lobby, STS
Josh Cassada — SpaceX Crew-5
Christopher Cassidy — Correspondents, Soyuz TMAM, Soyuz MS
Robert J. Cenker — STSC
Eugene Cernan (–) △▲ — Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17
Roger B. Chaffee (–) † — Monotonous in the Apollo 1 fire accident.
Gregory Chamitoff — STS/, STS
Franklin Chang-Diaz — STSC, STS, STS, Lobby, STS, STS, STS
Philip K. Chapman — No flights.
Raja Chari — SpaceX Crew-3
Kalpana Chawla (–) † — STS Died in the Columbia reentry disintegration (STS).
Maurizio Cheli — STS
Chen Dong — Shenzhou 11, Shenzhou
Chen Quan — No flights. Backup for Shenzhou 7.
Leroy Chiao — STS, STS, STS, Soyuz TMA-5
Kevin P. Chilton — STS, STS, STS
Jean-Loup Chrétien — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6, STS
Nikolai Chub — Soyuz MS/MS
Laurel B. Clark, M.D. (–) † — Dull in the Columbia reentry disintegration (STS)
Mary L. Cleave (–) — STSB, STS
Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — Correspondents, STS, STS
Michael R. Clifford (–) — STS, Lobby, STS
Michael Coats — STSD, STS, STS
Kenneth Cockrell — STS, STS, STS, STS, STS
Catherine Coleman — Lobby, STS, Soyuz TMA
Eileen Collins — STS, STS, Demand, STS
Michael Collins (–) △ — Gemini 10, Phoebus 11
Charles "Pete" Conrad (–) △▲ — Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2
Gordon Cooper (–) — Mercury 9, Gemini 5
Richard O. Covey — STSI, STS, STS, STS
Timothy Creamer — Soyuz TMA
John O. Creighton — STSG, STS, STS
Robert Crippen — STS-1, STS-7, STSC, STSG
Samantha Cristoforetti — Soyuz TMAM, SpaceX Crew-4
Roger K. Crouch — STS, STS
Frank Plaudits. Culbertson Jr. — STS, STS, STS/
Walter Cunningham (–)— Apollo 7
Robert Curbeam — STS, STS, STS
Nancy Itemize. Currie — STS, STS, STS, STS

D

Bill Dana (–) — X flights and
Nancy Jan Davis — STS, STS, STS
Lawrence J. DeLucas — STS
Frank Behavior Winne — Soyuz TMA-1/TM, Soyuz TMA
Deng Qingming — Shenzhou 15
Vladimir N. Dezhurov — Soyuz TM/STS
Georgi Dobrovolski (–) † — Died in the Soyuz 11 reentry depressurisation
Takao Doi — STS, STS
Matthew Dominick — SpaceX Crew-8
B. Alvin Drew — STS, STS
Pyotr Dubrov — Soyuz MS, Soyuz MS
Brian Duffy — Correspondents, STS, STS, STS
Charles Duke △▲ — Apollo 16
Bonnie J. Dunbar — STSA, STS, STS, STS, STS
Alexander Dunlap — APS STS
Pedro Duque — Reporters, Soyuz TMA-3/2
Samuel T. Durrance (–) — STS, STS
James Dutton — STS
Lev Dyomin (–) — Soyuz 15
Tracy Caldwell Dyson — STS, Soyuz TMA, Soyuz MS
Vladimir Dzhanibekov — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T, Soyuz T