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Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72. A member of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and had her stay extended by technical problems aboard the ISS for more than nine months. She is one of the most experienced spacewalkers: her nine spacewalks are second-most by a woman, and her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman.

Scott Carpenter
American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Reid Wiseman
Gregory Reid Wiseman is an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. He served as the 17th chief of the Astronaut Office from 2020 to 2022.

Sylvia A. Earle
American oceanographer
Peggy Whitson
American astronaut

Sandra Magnus
American astronaut

Joseph M. Acaba
Astronaut, Hydrogeologist, science teacher
Sōichi Noguchi
Japanese astronaut
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
Scott Kelly
American astronaut and engineer (born 1964)
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut

Jessica Meir
Swedish-American marine biologist and astronaut

Thomas Pesquet
French astronaut

Robin Cook
American novelist, ophthalmologist, aquanaut
Koichi Wakata
Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut

Pedro Duque
Spanish astronaut and politician

Karen L. Nyberg
American astronaut
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Roger Hansen is a Royal Canadian Air Force colonel and CSA astronaut. As a mission specialist on Artemis II in April 2026, he became the first non‑U.S. citizen to travel beyond low Earth orbit and the first to journey to the vicinity of the Moon. He is also among the humans who have travelled the farthest from Earth, having broken Apollo 13's distance record with the rest of the Artemis II crew.

Nicole Stott
American engineer and NASA astronaut

Shannon Walker
American scientist and NASA astronaut
Timothy Kopra
American astronaut

Robert L. Behnken
American astronaut
Akihiko Hoshide
Japanese astronaut
Clayton Anderson
American astronaut and engineer

Megan McArthur
NASA astronaut

Jeffrey Williams
American astronaut
Michael Barratt
American astronaut

Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor
American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
American naval officer and NASA astronaut
Michael López-Alegría
American astronaut

Garrett Reisman
American astronaut

Luca Parmitano
Italian astronaut
Jeanette J. Epps
American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut born 1970

Andreas Mogensen
Danish astronaut
Kathleen Rubins
NASA astronaut selected in July 2009
Thomas Marshburn
American physician and NASA astronaut

Robert Thirsk
Canadian astronaut

Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger
astronaut
Satoshi Furukawa
Japanese astronaut
Timothy Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Richard R. Arnold
American educator and astronaut
Daniel M. Tani
American astronaut
Ronald J. Garan
American astronaut
Rex J. Walheim
American astronaut
Douglas H. Wheelock
American astronaut
Gregory Chamitoff
American astronaut
Takuya Ōnishi
Japanese astronaut (1975-)
Nicholas Patrick
American astronaut
Andrew J. Feustel
American astronaut (1965-)
Kjell Lindgren
American astronaut
Kimiya Yui
Japanese astronaut
Dafydd Williams
Canadian astronaut and physician
Randolph Bresnik
astronaut, Fighter pilot
Timothy Creamer
American astronaut
John Danny Olivas
American astronaut
Mark T. Vande Hei
American astronaut
Norishige Kanai
Japanese astronaut
Michael L. Gernhardt
NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory
Jose M. Hernandez
American engineer and astronaut