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Alan Bean
American astronaut
Alan Shepard
First American To Travel Into Outer Space
Alexei Leonov
Soviet cosmonaut, first person to perform spacewalk
Andriyan Nikolayev
Soviet cosmonaut
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Cuban cosmonaut (born 1942)
Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut; second person to walk on the Moon Last Surviving Crew Member of Apollo 11
Charles Duke
American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former astronaut for NASA
Chris Hadfield
Retired Canadian astronaut
Christa McAuliffe
American teacher and astronaut killed in the Challenger disaster
David Scott
American astronaut
Deke Slayton
American astronaut (1924–1993)
Dennis Tito
American engineer and entrepreneur
Ed White (astronaut)
American astronaut
Edgar Mitchell
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2016)
Frank Borman
NASA astronaut
Franklin Chang-Díaz
NASA astronaut and entrepreneur
Fred Haise
American astronaut
Gene Cernan
Last Apollo astronaut to walk on the Moon
Gherman Titov
Soviet cosmonaut
Gordon Cooper
American astronaut (1927–2004)
Gregory Olsen
American astronaut and businessman
Guion Bluford
First African-American astronaut in space
Gus Grissom
American astronaut (1926–1967)
Harrison Schmitt
United States astronaut, 12th man to set foot on the Moon
Hazza Al Mansouri
Emirati astronaut
Jack Swigert
American astronaut and politician
James Irwin
American astronaut
Jerry L. Ross
American astronaut
Jim Lovell
American astronaut
John Glenn
American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)
John Young (astronaut)
American Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut (1930–2018)
Judith Resnik
American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
Ken Mattingly
American astronaut
Lisa Nowak
American NASA astronaut (b. 1963)
Michael Collins (astronaut)
American astronaut (1930–2021)
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
Peggy Whitson
American astronaut and biochemistry researcher (born 1960)
Pete Conrad
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
Richard F. Gordon Jr.
American astronaut
Roberta Bondar
Canadian astronaut
Ronald Evans (astronaut)
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–1990)
Sally Ride
American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)
Samantha Cristoforetti
Italian ESA astronaut
Scott Carpenter
American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Scott Kelly (astronaut)
American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain
Sigmund Jähn
East German cosmonaut, 1st German in space (1937–2019)
Story Musgrave
American physician and retired NASA astronaut
Stuart Roosa
American lunar astronaut (1933–1994)
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Saudi Arabian royal, astronaut, and government official
Svetlana Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut (born 1948)
Thomas P. Stafford
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)
Valentina Tereshkova
Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space
Valeri Polyakov
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1942)
Wally Schirra
American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut
William Anders
Astronaut
Yang Liwei
Chinese astronaut
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space
Yuri Romanenko
Soviet cosmonaut