Astronauts

Tony Antonelli

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 487
Time logged    : 24 days 13 hrs 57 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-119 (12 days 19 hrs 29 min)
STS-132 (11 days 18 hrs 28 min)

Trivia:

Joined the Navy so he could pay his university fees
He is terrified of heights

Jay Apt

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 241
Time logged    : 35 days 7 hrs 9 min
EVAs                : 2 (10 hrs 13 min)

Missions:

STS-37 (5 days 23 hrs 32 min)
STS-47 (7 days 22 hrs 30 min)
STS-59 (11 days 5 hrs 49 min)
STS-79 (10 days 3 hrs 18 min)

Trivia:

Before becoming an astronaut, he worked on the Pioneer Venus probe that flew to the planet in 1978
In 2012, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Jeromeapt" for the main-belt asteroid 116903, as suggested by its discoverer, James Young

Mike Baker

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 254
Time logged    : 40 days 4 hrs 58 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-43 (8 days 21 hrs 21 min)
STS-52 (9 days 20 hrs 56 min)
STS-68 (11 days 5 hrs 46 min)
STS-81 (10 days 4 hrs 55 min)

Trivia:

Attended every Soyuz launch to the International Space Station between 1999 and 2017: more than 50.

John-David Bartoe

United States of America

Flier (world) : 178
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-51F (7 days 22 hrs 45 min)

Trivia:

ASE Distinguished Member
On his ‘career list’ growing up he said that number one was to be a cowboy. Number two was to be an astronaut. Number three was a fireman.

Bob Cabana

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 230
Time logged    : 37 days 22 hrs 42 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-41 (4 days 2 hrs 10 min)
STS-53 (7 days 7 hrs 19 min)
STS-65 (14 days 17 hrs 55 min)
STS-88 (11 days 19 hrs 18 min)

Trivia:

Commanded the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station
Was the ninth director of the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi (2007-2008)
Was the 10^th director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center (2008-2021), and the third astronaut in that role after Bob Crippen and Roy Bridges

Chris Cassidy

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 497
Time logged    : 377 days 17 hrs 49 min
EVAs                : 10 (54 hrs 51 min)

Missions:

STS-127 (15 days 16 hrs 45 min)
Soyuz TMA-08M (166 days 6 hrs 15 min)
Soyuz MS-16 (195 days 18 hrs 49 min)

Trivia:

Second (former) US Navy SEAL to fly in space
Joint US record holder for number of EVAs conducted

Cady Coleman

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 333
Time logged    : 180 days 3 hrs 58 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-73 (15 days 21 hrs 52 min)
STS-93 (4 days 22 hrs 49 min)
Soyuz TMA-20 (159 days 7 hrs 17 min)

Trivia:

Was a member of the astronaut band Bandella, where she played the flute
Crewmember on the last shuttle flight to deploy a major satellite (Chandra)

Jan Davis

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 280
Time logged    : 28 days 2 hrs 5 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-47 (7 days 22 hrs 30 min)
STS-60 (8 days 7 hrs 9 min)
STS-85 (11 days 20 hrs 26 min)

Trivia:

First and to date only astronaut to fly in space with her spouse

Pedro Duque

Spain

Flier (world)    : 383
Time logged    : 18 days 18 hrs 46 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-95 (8 days 21 hrs 44 min)
Soyuz TMA-3 (9 days 21 hrs 2 min)

Trivia:

First Spanish citizen in space

Reinhold Ewald

Germany

Flier (world) : 354
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-25 (19 days 16 hrs 34 min)

Trivia:

Last astronaut to fly for the German aerospace agency DLR instead of ESA
Holds a black belt in karate

John Fabian

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 121
Time logged    : 13 days 4 hrs 3 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-7 (6 days 2 hrs 24 min)
STS-51G (7 days 1 hr 39 min)

Trivia:

ASE Distinguished Member
Member of the first five-person crew in history
Was the first to use the shuttle’s robotic arm to deploy and subsequently retrieve a satellite

Bertalan Farkas

Hungary

Flier (world) : 94
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz-36 (7 days 20 hrs 45 min)

Trivia:

ASE Founding Member
First Hungarian in space

Drew Feustel

United States of America

Flier (world) : 494
Time logged : 225 days 9 hrs 15 min
EVAs : 9 (61 hrs 48 min)

Missions:

STS-125 (12 days 21 hrs 37 min)
STS-134 (15 days 17 hrs 38 min)
Soyuz MS-8 (196 days 18 hrs 0 min)

Trivia:

Was the last (together with John Grunsfeld) to do repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope
Was a member of the astronaut band Max Q, where he played lead guitar

Mike Fincke

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 433
Time logged    : 381 days 15 hrs 7 min
EVAs                : 9 (48 hrs 37 min)

Missions:

Soyuz TMA-4 (187 days 21 hrs 16 min)
Soyuz TMA-13 (178 days 0 hrs 13 min)
STS-134 (15 days 17 hrs 38 min)

Trivia:

Was backup for five missions
Studied Cosmonautics at the Moscow Aviation Institute during a summer exchange program in 1989
Was a guest star on the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Anna Fisher

United States of America

Flier (world) : 155
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-51A (7 days 23 hrs 44 min)

Trivia:

One of the first six women selected in the NASA astronaut corps
Assigned to STS-51A two weeks before giving birth to her daughter. She flew when daughter was 14 months, and as such was the first mother to fly in space. Last of the 1978 NASA astronaut selection group to retire from the Astronaut Office in 2017

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

Germany

Flier (world) : 266
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-14 (7 days 21 hrs 56 min)

Trivia:

First German to fly on Soyuz

Mike Foreman

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 470
Time logged    : 26 days 13 hrs 27 min
EVAs                : 5 (32 hrs 20 min)

Missions:

STS-123 (15 days 18 hrs 11 min)
STS-129 (10 days 19 hrs 16 min)

Trivia:

Mayor of Friendswood, Texas, a town near the NASA Johnson Space Center where several astronauts and NASA management live/lived

Mike Fossum

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 441
Time logged    : 193 days 19 hrs 1 min
EVAs                : 7 (48 hrs 32 min)

Missions:

STS-121 (12 days 18 hrs 36 min)
STS-124 (13 days 18 hrs 13 min)
Soyuz TMA-02M (167 days 6 hrs 12 min)

Trivia:

It took Fossum seven attempts to be selected as a NASA astronaut

Dirk Frimout

Belgium

Flier (world) : 269
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-45 (8 days 22 hrs 9 min)

Trivia:

First Belgian in space
Became Viscount Frimout after his flight

Andrew Gaffney

United States of America

Flier (world) : 252
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-40 (9 days 2 hrs 14 min)

Trivia:

Had a catheter placed in his heart several days prior to the flight, which was removed after inflight measurements were completed. He submitted his experiment proposal 13 years earlier

Richard Garriott de Cayeaux

United States of America

Flier (world) : 483
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TMA-13 (11 days 20 hrs 35 min)

Trivia:

Son of former NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott
First US second generation flier
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Explore/Create’
Traveled to the bottom of the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench
Only private owner of a spacecraft (Luna-21) and rover (Lunokhod-2) on the moon. He bought both at a Sotheby’s auction in 1993.

Alper Gezeravci

Turkey

Flier (world) : 610
EVAs : none

Missions:

Axiom Ax-3 (21 days 15 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

First Turkish astronaut
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Walter Villadei and Marcus Wandt)

Sarah Gillis

United States of America

Flier (world): 619
EVAs : 1 (1 hr 46 min)

Missions:
Mission: Polaris Dawn (4 days 22 hrs 13 min)

Trivia:

First private astronaut to conduct an EVA (together with Jared Isaacman)
Has been further away from Earth (together with Anna Menon) than any other female astronaut in history
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Jared Isaacman, Anna Menon and Scott Poteet)

Victor Glover

United States of America

Flier (world) : 565
EVAs : 4 (26 hrs 7 min)

Missions:

SpaceX Crew-1 (167 days 6 hrs 29 min)

Trivia:

His nickname is ‘Ike’, which was given to him by a former commanding officer. ‘Ike’ reportedly stands for “I Know Everything”
Assigned to Artemis-2, the first mission to the moon in over 55 years

Linda Godwin

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 242
Time logged    : 38 days 6 hrs 12 min
EVAs                : 2 (10 hrs 14 min)

Missions:

STS-37 (5 days 23 hrs 32 min)
STS-59 (11 days 5 hrs 49 min)
STS-76 (9 days 5 hrs 16 min)
STS-108 (11 days 19 hrs 35 min)

Trivia:

After her first spaceflight, she married the mission’s commander, Steve Nagel

Claudie Haigneré

France

Flier (world)    : 352
Time logged    : 25 days 14 hrs 22 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-24 (15 days 18 hrs 23 min)
Soyuz TM-33 (9 days 19 hrs 59 min)

Trivia:

First French woman to fly in space
First female ESA astronaut to fly in space
Was her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré’s backup for Soyuz TM-17

Jean-Pierre Haigneré

France

Flier (world)    : 297
Time logged    : 209 days 12 hrs 24 min
EVAs                : 1 (6 hrs 19 min)

Missions:

Soyuz TM-17 (20 days 16 hrs 8 min)
Soyuz TM-29 (188 days 20 hrs 16 min)

Trivia:

First French astronaut to fly a long-duration mission

Bernard Harris

United States of America

Flier (world): 290
Time logged: 18 days 6 hrs 8 min
EVAs: 1 (4 hrs 39 min)

Missions:

STS-55 (9 days 23 hrs 40 min)
STS-63 (8 days 6 hrs 28 min)

Trivia:

Flew on the first Space Shuttle mission to the Russian Mir space station (the only one that didn’t dock)

Susan Helms

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 285
Time logged    : 210 days 23 hrs 3 min
EVAs                : 1 (8 hrs 55 min)

Missions:

STS-54 (5 days 23 hrs 38 min)
STS-64 (10 days 22 hrs 49 min)
STS-78 (16 days 21 hrs 47 min)
STS-101 (9 days 20 hrs 9 min)
STS-102 (167 days 6 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

First female astronaut to reach the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force
Conducted the longest EVA in history, on STS-102 (together with James Voss): 8 hrs 55 min
Was a member of the astronaut band Max Q (keyboards)

Richard Hieb

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 247
Time logged    : 31 days 22 hrs 34 min
EVAs                : 3 (17 hrs 42 min)

Missions:

STS-39 (8 days 7 hrs 22 min)
STS-49 (8 days 21 hrs 17 min)
STS-65 (14 days 17 hrs 55 min)

Trivia:

Took part in the first three-person EVA (STS-49, with Tom Akers and Pierre Thuot)
At the STS-49 launch he stood 1.87 m. Measured for an experiment three days later, he was 1.90 m. He announced from orbit he was now officially too tall to fly in space!

Joan Higginbotham

United States of America

Flier (world) : 450
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-116 (12 days 20 hrs 44 min)

Trivia:

Started her career at NASA in Florida, only two weeks after graduating from Southern Illinois University Carbondale [SIUC] in 1987
Had applied unsuccessfully for NASA’s 1994 selection, but was selected in 1996

Kay Hire

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 375
Time logged    : 29 days 15 hrs 56 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-90 (15 days 21 hrs 50 min)
STS-130 (13 days 18 hrs 6 min)

Trivia:

First employee from the NASA Kennedy Space Center to be selected as an astronaut candidate (1994)
Recalled to active duty by the US Navy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom & Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Jeffrey Hoffman

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 162
Time logged    : 50 days 11 hrs 53 min
EVAs                : 4 (25 hrs 8 min)

Missions:

STS-51D (6 days 23 hrs 55 min)
STS-35 (8 days 23 hrs 5 min)
STS-46 (7 days 23 hrs 15 min)
STS-61 (10 days 19 hrs 58 min)
STS-75 (15 days 17 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

One of two crewmembers who performed the first unscheduled EVA in history, during STS-51D, to attempt repairing a satellite
Took part in the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, during which a serious flaw in the telescope was repaired

Jared Isaacman

United States of America

Flier (world)        : 568
Time logged        : 7 days 21 hrs 16 min
EVAs           : 1 (1 hr 46 min)

Missions:

Inspiration4 (2 days 23 hrs 3 min)
Polaris Dawn (4 days 22 hrs 13 min)

Trivia:

Commanded the first two all-private spaceflights
First private astronaut to conduct an EVA (together with Sarah Gillis)
First to test SpaceX’s EVA suit in open space
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Sarah Gillis, Anna Menon and Scott Poteet)

Tammy Jernigan

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 251
Time logged    : 63 days 1 hr 24 min
EVAs                : 1 (7 hrs 55 min)

Missions:

STS-40 (9 days 2 hrs 14 min)
STS-52 (9 days 20 hrs 56 min)
STS-67 (16 days 15 hrs 8 min)
STS-80 (17 days 15 hrs 53 min)
STS-96 (9 days 19 hrs 13 min)

Trivia:

Crewmember on the longest Space Shuttle flight (STS-80)
Two EVAs she was to perform on STS-80 were canceled due to a problem with the airlock hatch.

Scott Kelly

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 390
Time logged    : 520 days 10 hrs 30 min
EVAs                : 3 (18 hrs 20 min)

Missions:

STS-103 (7 days 23 hrs 10 min)
STS-118 (12 days 17 hrs 55 min)
Soyuz TMA-01M (159 days 8 hrs 43 min)
Soyuz TMA-16M (340 days 8 hrs 42 min)

Trivia:

First twin to fly in space
Wrote an autobiography titled Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

Kevin Kregel

United States of America

Flier (world)        : 327
Time logged        : 52 days 18 hrs 19 min
EVAs           : none

Missions:

STS-70 (8 days 22 hrs 20 min)
STS-78 (16 days 21 hrs 47 min)
STS-87 (15 days 16 hrs 34 min)
STS-99 (11 days 5 hrs 38 min)

Trivia:

After his astronaut career he became a civilian airline pilot for Southwest Airlines, flying Boeing-737’s

André Kuipers

Nederland

Flier (world)    : 432
Time logged    : 203 days 15 hrs 50 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

Soyuz TMA-4 (10 days 20 hrs 52 min)
Soyuz TMA-3M (192 days 18 hrs 58 min)

Trivia:

First Dutch astronaut to fly in space twice
Celebrates his birthday during the congress

Michael Lopez-Alegria

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 334
Time logged    : 296 days 16 hrs 12 min
EVAs                : 10 (67 hrs 40 min)

Missions:

STS-73 (15 days 21 hrs 52 min)
STS-92 (12 days 21 hrs 42 min)
STS-113 (13 days 18 hrs 47 min)
Soyuz TMA-9 (215 days 8 hrs 22 min)
Axiom Ax-1 (17 days 1 hr 49 min)
Axiom Ax-3 (21 days 15 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

Flew in orbit with a record 54 different crewmates, from ten nations (Canada, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Turkey and US)
Most experienced US spacewalker (duration)
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Alper Gezeravci, Mike Lopez-Alegria and Walter Villadei)

Tom Marshburn

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 498
Time logged    : 337 days 9 hrs 42 min
EVAs                : 5 (31 hrs 1 min)

Missions:

STS-127 (15 days 16 hrs 45 min)
Soyuz TMA-07 (145 days 14 hrs 18 min)
SpaceX Crew-3 (176 days 2 hrs 39 min)

Trivia:

To date he is oldest person to have conducted an EVA

Matthias Maurer

Germany

Flier (world) : 576
EVAs : 1 (6 hrs 54 min)

Missions:

SpaceX Crew-3 (176 days 2 hrs 39 min)

Trivia:

Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Cosmic Kiss, Sechs Monate auf der ISS’
One of the first two non-Chinese astronauts to undergo spaceflight training in China

Bill McArthur

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 302
Time logged    : 224 days 22 hrs 16 min
EVAs                : 4 (24 hrs 21 min)

Missions:

STS-58 (14 days 0 hrs 12 min)
STS-74 (8 days 4 hrs 30 min)
STS-92 (12 days 21 hrs 42 min)
Soyuz TMA-7 (189 days 19 hrs 52 min)

Trivia:

For his fourth spaceflight, he was scheduled to fly together with André Kuipers on Soyuz TMA-4, but was medically disqualified and replaced in the crew. He flew on a later mission.

Anna Menon

United States of America

Country      : USA
Flier (world)        : 620
EVAs           : none

Missions:

Polaris Dawn (4 days 22 hrs 13 min)

Trivia:

Has been further away from Earth (together with Sarah Gillis) than any other female astronaut in history
Although she didn’t conduct an EVA herself, she was in vacuum during the EVA by Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, but didn’t exit the spacecraft
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Sarah Gillis, Jared Isaacman, and Scott Poteet)

Ulf Merbold

Germany

Flier (world)    : 131
Time logged    : 49 days 21 hrs 36 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-9 (10 days 7 hrs 47 min)
STS-42 (8 days 1 hr 14 min)
Soyuz TM-20 (31 days 12 hrs 35 min)

Trivia:

First West German to fly in space
First ESA astronaut to fly in space
First non-American to fly on the Space Shuttle
First ESA astronaut to fly on Soyuz
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Flug ins All’

Ernst Messerschmid

Germany

Flier (world) : 189
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-61A (7 days 0 hrs 44 min)

Trivia:

Was a candidate for ESA’s first astronaut selection (1977-1978) but not selected
Member of the first (and so far only) mission with an eight-person crew

Paolo Nespoli

Italy

Flier (world)    : 464
Time logged    : 313 days 2 hrs 36 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-120 (15 days 2 hrs 23 min)
Soyuz TMA-20 (159 days 7 hrs 17 min)
Soyuz MS-05 (138 days 16 hrs 56 min)

Trivia:

First Italian astronaut to spend more than 300 days in orbit
Wrote a autobiography titled ‘Farsi Spazio’

Danny Olivas

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 456
Time logged    : 27 days 17 hrs 4 min
EVAs                : 5 (34 hrs 28 min)

Missions:

STS-117 (13 days 20 hrs 11 min)
STS-128 (13 days 20 hrs 53 min)

Trivia:

Was a contestant on Nickelodeon's revival of “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” in June 2019

Mark Pathy

Canada

Flier (world) : 584
EVAs : none

Missions:

Axiom Ax-1 (17 days 1 hr 49 min)

Trivia:

Member of the first all-private astronaut crew to the ISS

Julie Payette

Canada

Flier (world)    : 387
Time logged    : 25 days 11 hrs 58 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-96 (9 days 19 hrs 13 min)
STS-127 (15 days 16 hrs 45 min)

Trivia:

First Canadian woman to fly in space twice
Youngest Canadian to fly in space
Served as Governor-General of Canada (2017-2021)

John Phillips

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 401
Time logged    : 203 days 17 hrs 22 min
EVAs                : 1 (4 hrs 58 min)

Missions:

STS-100 (11 days 21 hrs 30 min)
Soyuz TMA-6 (179 days 0 hrs 23 min)
STS-119 (12 days 19 hrs 29 min)

Trivia:

Attended the same high school as former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
On 14 June 2005, he became the first person ever to testify before congress from Earth orbit, via a live video feed

Marcos Pontes

Brasil

Flier (world) : 440
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-8 (9 days 21 hrs 17 min)

Trivia:

First Brazilian in space
First South American in space
Trained and graduated as Mission Specialist in NASA’s 1998 selection group
Brazilian Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (2019-2022)
Senator of the state São Paulo

Dorin Prunariu

Romania

Flier (world) : 103
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz-40 (7 days 20 hrs 41 min)

Trivia:

ASE Founding Member
ASE Distinguished Member
First Romanian in space

Thomas Reiter

Germany

Flier (world)    : 330
Time logged    : 350 days 5 hrs 35 min
EVAs                : 3 (14 hrs 16 min)

Missions:

Soyuz TM-22 (179 days 1 hr 41 min)
STS-121 (171 days 3 hrs 54 min)

Trivia:

First German astronaut to spend over 350 days in orbit
First German to conduct an EVA

Jerry Ross

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 194
Time logged    : 58 days 0 hrs 51 min
EVAs                : 9 (57 hrs 55 min)

Missions:

STS-61B (6 days 21 hrs 4 min)
STS-27 (4 days 9 hrs 5 min)
STS-37 (5 days 23 hrs 32 min)
STS-55 (9 days 23 hrs 40 min)
STS-74 (8 days 4 hrs 30 min)
STS-88 (11 days 19 hrs 18 min)
STS-110 (10 days 19 hrs 42 min)

Trivia:

First astronaut to fly seven missions
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Spacewalker’

Mario Runco Jr.

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 259
Time logged    : 22 days 23 hrs 7 min
EVAs                : 1 (4 hrs 28 min)

Missions:

STS-44 (6 days 22 hrs 50 min)
STS-54 (5 days 23 hrs 38 min)
STS-77 (10 days 0 hrs 39 min)

Trivia:

First (former) police officer to fly in space

Rusty Schweickart

United States of America

Flier (world) : 38
EVAs : 1 (0 hrs 46 min)

Missions:

Apollo-9 (10 days 1 hr 0 min)

Trivia:

ASE Founding Member
ASE Distinguished Members
Only pre-shuttle flier at this congress
First flier to orbit Earth in a spaceship that had no capability to return to Earth (together with Jim McDivitt)

Helen Sharman

United Kingdom

Flier (world) : 249
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-12 (7 days 21 hrs 13 min)

Trivia:

First British astronaut
First European woman in space
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Seize the Moment’

Eytan Stibbe

Israel

Flier (world) : 583
EVAs : none

Missions:

Axiom Ax-1 (17 days 1 hr 49 min)

Trivia:

Since Stibbe also holds Dutch citizenship, he is the third Dutch astronaut, after Wubbo Ockels and André Kuipers
Crew member of the first all-private spaceflight to the International Space Station

Tang HongBo

China

Flier (world)        : 567
Time logged        : 279 days 10 hrs 43 min
EVAs           : 3 (22 hrs 8 min)

Missions:

Shenzhou-12 (92 days 4 hrs 11 min)
Shenzhou-17 (187 days 6 hrs 32 min)

Trivia:

Member of the first crew to fly on the Chinese Tiangong Space Station
First to fly a second mission to the Tiangong Space Station

Norman Thagard

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 122
Time logged    : 140 days 13 hrs 25 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-7 (6 days 2 hrs 24 min)
STS-51B (7 days 0 hrs 8 min)
STS-30 (4 days 0 hrs 56 min)
STS-42 (8 days 1 hr 14 min)
Soyuz TM-21 (115 days 8 hrs 43 min)

Trivia:

First US astronaut to be launched by a non-US spacecraft
First US astronaut to fly on a Russian space station
First flier to land in another country than the country from which he was launched (with Gennadiy Strekalov and Vladimir Dezhurov)

Gerhard Thiele

Germany

Flier (world) : 391
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-99 (11 days 5 hrs 38 min)

Trivia:

Was André Kuipers’ backup for Soyuz TMA-4
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Astronauten, eine Familiengeschichte’ (together with his daughter Insa, who was selected for the private ‘Die Astronautin’ project that aimed to fly the first German woman in space)

Michel Tognini

France

Flier (world)    : 275
Time logged    : 18 days 17 hrs 45 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-15 (13 days 18 hrs 56 min)
STS-93 (4 days 22 hrs 49 min)

Trivia:

First French astronaut to undergo NASA mission specialist training (together with Jean-Loup Chrétien)
Celebrates his birthday during the congress

Franz Viehböck

Austria

Flier (world) : 256
EVAs : none

Missions:

Soyuz TM-13 (7 days 22 hrs 12 min)

Trivia:

ASE Distinguished Member
First Austrian in space
Wrote an autobiography titled ‘Austromir 91’

Walter Villadei

Italy

Flier (world) : 609
EVAs : none

Missions:

Axiom Ax-3 (21 days 15 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

Was the first astronaut from an ESA member state who didn’t fly as ESA astronaut since the various national teams were merged into the ESA astronaut corps in 1998
Villadei’s flight was not sponsored by Italy’s national space agency ASI, but by the Italian Air Force
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Alper Gezeravci and Marcus Wandt)

Jim Voss

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 285
Time logged    : 210 days 23 hrs 3 min
EVAs                : 1 (8 hrs 55 min)

Missions:

STS-54 (5 days 23 hrs 38 min)
STS-64 (10 days 22 hrs 49 min)
STS-78 (16 days 21 hrs 47 min)
STS-101 (9 days 20 hrs 9 min)
STS-102 (167 days 6 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

Conducted the longest EVA in history, on STS-102 (together with Susan Helms): 8 hrs 55 min

Koichi Wakata

Japan

Flier (world)    : 340
Time logged    : 504 days 18 hrs 32 min
EVAs                : 2 (14 hrs, 2 minuten)

Missions:

STS-72 (8 days 22 hrs 0 min)
STS-92 (12 days 21 hrs 42 min)
STS-119 (137 days 15 hrs 4 min)
Soyuz TMA-11M (187 days 21 hrs 44 min)
SpaceX Crew-5 (157 days 10 hrs 1 min)

Trivia:

Only Japanese astronaut to have spent more than 500 days in orbit
Joined the Axiom astronaut team in April 2024

Ulrich Walter

Germany

Flier (world) : 291
EVAs : none

Missions:

STS-55 (9 days 23 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

Has written several books explaining spaceflight related subjects

Carl Walz

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 300
Time logged    : 230 days 13 hrs 2 min
EVAs                : 3 (18 hrs 55 min)

Missions:

STS-51 (9 days 20 hrs 11 min)
STS-65 (14 days 17 hrs 55 min)
STS-79 (10 days 3 hrs 18 min)
STS-108 (195 days 19 hrs 38 min)

Trivia:

Was a member (lead vocals) of the astronaut band Max Q

Marcus Wandt

Sweden

Flier (world) : 611
EVAs : none

Missions:

Axiom Ax-3 (21 days 15 hrs 40 min)

Trivia:

First of ESA’s 2022 ‘reserve astronaut’ corps to fly in space
One of the first two Scandinavians to fly in space together
Most recently flown flier at this congress (together with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Alper Gezeravci and Walter Villadei)

Mary Ellen Weber

United States of America

Flier (world)    : 328
Time logged    : 18 days 18 hrs 29 min
EVAs                : none

Missions:

STS-70 (8 days 22 hrs 20 min)
STS-101 (9 days 20 hrs 9 min)

Trivia:

STS-70 was unique in that four of the five crewmembers assigned to the flight were from Ohio. After the governor of Ohio issued a proclamation making the fifth crewmember [Commander Kevin Kregel] an 'Honorary Ohioan' this flight became known as 'The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission.'

Yang LiWei

China

Flier (world) : 431
EVAs : none

Missions:

Shenzhou-5 (21 hrs 23 min)

Trivia:

First Chinese citizen in space
First person to be launched by and from another country than Russia or the US
Last person (to date) to fly a solo mission

Zhai Zhigang

China

Flier (world)        : 480
Time logged        : 185 days 5 hrs 59 min
EVAs           : 3 (12 hrs 58 min)

Missions:

Shenzhou-7 (2 days 20 hrs 27 min)
Shenzhou-13 (182 days 9 hrs 32 min)

Trivia:

Was backup to Yang Liwei on China’s first manned spaceflight
First Chinese to conduct an EVA

Special guests

Meet the astronauts

Tony Antonelli United States of America Missions: STS-119 - STS-132

Tony Antonelli

Tony Antonelli

Jay Apt United States of America Missions: STS-37 - STS-47 - STS-59 - STS-79

Jay Apt

Jay Apt

Mike Baker United States of America Missions: STS-43 - STS-52 - STS-68 - STS-81

Mike Baker

Mike Baker

John-David Bartoe United States of America Missions: STS-51F

John-David Bartoe

John-David Bartoe

Bob Cabana United States of America Missions: STS-41 - STS-53 - STS-65 - STS-88

Bob Cabana

Bob Cabana

Chris Cassidy United States of America Missions: STS-127 - Soyuz TMA-08M - Soyuz MS-16

Chris Cassidy

Chris Cassidy

Cady Coleman United States of America Missions: STS-73 - STS-93 - Soyuz TMA-20

Cady Coleman

Cady Coleman

Jan Davis United States of America Missions: STS-47 - STS-60 - STS-85

Jan Davis

Jan Davis

Pedro Duque Spain Missions: STS-95 - Soyuz-TMA-3

Pedro Duque

Pedro Duque

Reinhold Ewald Germany Missions: Soyuz TM-25

Reinhold Ewald

Reinhold Ewald

John Fabian United States of America Missions: STS-7 - STS-51G

John Fabian

John Fabian

Bertalan Farkas Hungary Missions: Soyuz-36

Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas

Drew Feustel United States of America Missions: STS-125 - STS-134 - Soyuz MS-8

Drew Feustel

Drew Feustel

Mike Fincke United States of America Missions: Soyuz TMA-4 - Soyuz TMA-13 - STS-134

Mike Fincke

Mike Fincke

Anna Fisher United States of America Missions: STS-51A

Anna Fisher

Anna Fisher

Klaus-Dietrich Flade Germany Missions: Soyuz TM-14

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

Mike Foreman United States of America Missions: STS-123 - STS-129

Mike Foreman

Mike Foreman

Mike Fossum United States of America Missions: STS-121 - STS-124 - Soyuz TMA-02M

Mike Fossum

Mike Fossum

Dirk Frimout Belgium Missions: STS-45

Dirk Frimout

Dirk Frimout

Andrew Gaffney United States of America Missions: STS-40

Andrew Gaffney

Andrew Gaffney

Richard Garriott de Cayeaux United States of America Missions: Soyuz TMA-13

Richard Garriott de Cayeaux

Richard Garriott de Cayeaux

Alper Gezeravci Turkey Missions: Axiom Ax-3

Alper Gezeravci

Alper Gezeravci

Sarah Gillis United States of America Missions: Polaris Dawn

Sarah Gillis

Sarah Gillis

Victor Glover United States of America Missions: SpaceX Crew-1

Victor Glover

Victor Glover

Linda Godwin United States of America Missions: STS-37 - STS-59 - STS-76 - STS-108

Linda Godwin

Linda Godwin

Claudie Haigneré France Missions: Soyuz TM-24 - Soyuz TM-33

Claudie Haigneré