Astronaut

This page lists 801 biographies of astronauts, covering lives from 1910 to 2002. Featuring Alan Shepard, Aleksei Yeliseyev and Barry E. Wilmore. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Claudie Haigneré

b. 1957

Jing Haipeng

b. 1966

Paolo Nespoli

b. 1957

Nicole Stott

b. 1962

Ivan Bella

b. 1964

Liu Yang

b. 1978

Song Lingdong

b. 1990

Gerhard Thiele

b. 1953

Mamoru Mohri

b. 1948

Marsha Ivins

b. 1951

Mukhtar Aymakhanov

b. 1967

John Shoffner

b. 1955

Peter Wisoff

b. 1958

Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev

1925 – 1970

Jeffrey Williams

b. 1958

Ellen Ochoa

b. 1958

Joseph Albert Walker

1921 – 1966

Jean-Pierre Haigneré

b. 1948

Ivan Vagner

b. 1985

Siva Vanajah

b. 1971

Barbara Morgan

b. 1951

Steve MacLean

b. 1954

Ronald Evans

1933 – 1990

Aleksandr Serebrov

1944 – 2013

Richard Mastracchio

b. 1960

Bernard A. Harris, Jr.

b. 1956

Alexander Gerst

b. 1976

Bruce E. Melnick

b. 1949

Janet L. Kavandi

b. 1959

Megan McArthur

b. 1971

Robert Satcher

b. 1965

Chris Boshuizen

b. 1977

Douglas G. Hurley

b. 1966

Reinhold Ewald

b. 1956

Chiaki Mukai

b. 1952

Donald Holmquest

b. 1939

Frederick W. Leslie

b. 1951

Fernando Caldeiro

1958 – 2009

Gregory J. Harbaugh

b. 1956

Chen Quan

b. 1963

Loral O'Hara

b. 1983

Linda M. Godwin

b. 1952

Tamara E. Jernigan

b. 1959

Oleg Skripochka

b. 1969

Vitaly Sevastyanov

1935 – 2010

Rebecca Lawler

b. 1987

Jose M. Hernandez

b. 1962

Valery Ryumin

1939 – 2022

Michael McKay

Ellen S. Baker

b. 1953

Oleg Blinov

b. 1978

Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya

b. 1962

Chen Zhongrui

b. 1984

Denis Matveev

b. 1983

Hayley Arceneaux

b. 1991

Valentin Bondarenko

1937 – 1961

Rick Husband

1957 – 2003

Joan Higginbotham

b. 1964

Albert Sacco

b. 1949

Eric Philips

b. 1962

Pyotr Dubrov

b. 1978

Steven Smith

b. 1958

Michael Barratt

b. 1959

Lawrence J. DeLucas

b. 1950

Lai Ka-ying

b. 1982

Faiz Khaleed

b. 1980

Stephen D. Thorne

1953 – 1986

Marcos Berríos

b. 1984

Richard M. Linnehan

b. 1957

Oleg Kotov

b. 1965

Zhang Zhiyuan

b. 1986

Viktor Savinykh

b. 1940

Jean-Loup Chrétien

b. 1938

Chris Hadfield

b. 1959

Jenni Gibbons

b. 1988

Mark T. Vande Hei

b. 1966

Lodewijk van den Berg

1932 – 2022

Renate Brümmer

b. 1955

Anthea Comellini

b. 1992

Mark Serov

b. 1974

Margaret Rhea Seddon

b. 1947

Peggy Whitson

b. 1960

Steven Hawley

b. 1951

Luca Urbani

b. 1957

Franz Viehböck

b. 1960

Dumitru Dediu

1942 – 2013

Joseph M. Acaba

b. 1967

Piers Sellers

1955 – 2016

Kimiya Yui

b. 1970

Ko San

b. 1976

Dmitrij Petelin

b. 1983

Ye Guangfu

b. 1980

Eberhard Köllner

b. 1939

Warren Hoburg

b. 1985

Roberta Bondar

b. 1945

Anatoly Berezovoy

1942 – 2014

Vladislav Volkov

1935 – 1971

Andre Douglas

b. 1985

Timothy Creamer

b. 1959

Andrei Babkin

b. 1969