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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins in 2021, he is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member. Following Jim Lovell's death in 2025, Aldrin became the oldest living astronaut.
Michael Collins
American astronaut (1930–2021)
Alexey Leonov
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)
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.
Svetlana Savitskaya
Soviet cosmonaut
Christina Koch
Christina Hammock Koch is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her mission to the International Space Station in 2019–20 she was part of the first all‑female spacewalk and set the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. On the Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April 2026, which set the record for human distance from Earth, Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon.
Eugene Cernan
NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)
Alan Bean
American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)
Pete Conrad
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
Liu Yang
Chinese astronaut
Ed White
American astronaut (1930-1967)
Samantha Cristoforetti
Italian European Space Agency astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer (1977)
James Irwin
American astronaut (1930-1991)
Kathryn D. Sullivan
American astronaut (born 1951)
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
Charles Duke
American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1935)
Victor Glover
Victor Jerome Glover Jr. is an American naval officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut of the 2013 class. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in 2020, he piloted the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. Glover served as a flight engineer on Expedition 64 and became the first Black American astronaut to live aboard the ISS. In April 2026, Glover piloted the Artemis II mission, during which he became the first person of color to travel to the vicinity of the Moon, and one of the four humans who have travelled the farthest from Earth.
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.
Peggy Whitson
American astronaut
Wang Yaping
Chinese military pilot and astronaut
Ken Mattingly
American astronaut
Bruce McCandless II
American astronaut (1937–2017)
Sergei Krikalev
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
Joseph M. Acaba
Astronaut, Hydrogeologist, science teacher
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
American chemist and NASA astronaut
Richard F. Gordon
American astronaut (1929–2017)
Georgy Grechko
Soviet cosmonaut (1931–2017)
Sōichi Noguchi
Japanese astronaut
Scott Kelly
American astronaut and engineer (born 1964)
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut
Christer Fuglesang
Swedish astronaut
Ronald Evans
NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
Fyodor Yurchikhin
Russian cosmonaut
Jessica Meir
Swedish-American marine biologist and astronaut
Alexander Gerst
German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
Thomas Pesquet
French astronaut
Gennady Padalka
Russian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonaut
Koichi Wakata
Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut
Alfred Worden
American astronaut (1932–2020)
Yuri Malenchenko
Russian cosmonaut
Oleg Kononenko
Russian cosmonaut
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
Susan J. Helms
Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and NASA astronaut
Talgat Musabayev
Kazakh cosmonaut
Zhai Zhigang
Chinese astronaut
Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov
Soviet cosmonaut (1933–2000)
Rusty Schweickart
American astronaut
Jared Isaacman
Jared Taylor Isaacman is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025. He is the founder of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor, and the founder of Draken International, which provides adversary training to the U.S., British, and other NATO air forces. As of May 2025, his estimated net worth is US$1.4 billion.
Anatoly Berezovoy
Soviet cosmonaut (1942–2014)
Salizhan Sharipov
Russian cosmonaut
Nicole Stott
American engineer and NASA astronaut
Story Musgrave
American physician and NASA astronaut
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Soviet cosmonaut
Valery Ryumin
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1939–2022)
Jack R. Lousma
American astronaut and politician
Oleg Kotov
Russian cosmonaut
Yury Romanenko
Soviet cosmonaut (born 1944)
Robert L. Behnken
American astronaut
Akihiko Hoshide
Japanese astronaut
Timothy Kopra
American astronaut