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Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Kalpana Chawla
American astronaut
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.

Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut

John Young
American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)
Julie Payette
29th governor general of Canada, former CSA Astronaut (born 1963)

Christa McAuliffe
American educator and astronaut

Ilan Ramon
Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut

Judith Resnik
American engineer and astronaut (1949–1986)

Eileen Collins
Astronaut and United States Air Force pilot

Laurel Clark
NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist (1961-2003)

Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
Charles Bolden
23rd Administrator of NASA and astronaut

Shannon Lucid
American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut
Peggy Whitson
American astronaut
Roberta Bondar
Canadian astronaut

Anna Lee Fisher
American astronaut (born 1949)

Ronald McNair
American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)

Mark Kelly
Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician and a retired astronaut and naval officer. He is the senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Chiaki Mukai
Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952)

Bruce McCandless II
American astronaut (1937–2017)

Bill Nelson
American politician and attorney (born 1942)

Ken Mattingly
American astronaut

Sandra Magnus
American astronaut
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
American chemist and NASA astronaut

Sergei Krikalev
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut

Joseph M. Acaba
Astronaut, Hydrogeologist, science teacher
Naoko Yamazaki
Japanese astronaut (1970-)

Lisa Nowak
American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
Sōichi Noguchi
Japanese astronaut
Rick Husband
American astronaut (1957-2003)

Michael P. Anderson
astronaut, scientist (1959-2003)

William C. McCool
U.S. Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia which was destroyed during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Saudi Arabian astronaut and politician

Ellen Ochoa
American engineer and former astronaut

Pamela Melroy
American astronaut

Christer Fuglesang
Swedish astronaut
Scott Kelly
American astronaut and engineer (born 1964)

Dick Scobee
American astronaut
David M. Brown
American astronaut (1956–2003)

Michael J. Smith
American astronaut (1945-1986)

Gregory Jarvis
American astronaut (1944-1986)
Fyodor Yurchikhin
Russian cosmonaut
Mary Ellen Weber
American astronaut

Robert Crippen
American astronaut

Barbara Morgan
astronaut
Koichi Wakata
Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut

Karen L. Nyberg
American astronaut
Ellison Onizuka
American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident

Douglas G. Hurley
American astronaut

Pedro Duque
Spanish astronaut and politician

Stephanie Wilson
American engineer and NASA astronaut

Susan J. Helms
Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and NASA astronaut
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
Yelena Kondakova
Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko
Russian cosmonaut

Nicole Stott
American engineer and NASA astronaut

Story Musgrave
American physician and NASA astronaut