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Alan Shepard
American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)
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.
Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, became one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure en route, looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth.
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)
John Young
American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer (1930–2018)
Edgar Mitchell
American astronaut (1930-2016)
Laurel Clark
NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist (1961-2003)
Scott Carpenter
American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Roger Bruce Chaffee
United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut (1935–1967)
Wally Schirra
American astronaut (1923–2007)
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.
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.
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.
Bruce McCandless II
American astronaut (1937–2017)
Ken Mattingly
American astronaut
Richard F. Gordon
American astronaut (1929–2017)
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
Lisa Nowak
American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut
Scott Kelly
American astronaut and engineer (born 1964)
Ronald Evans
NASA astronaut (1933-1990)
David M. Brown
American astronaut (1956–2003)
Robert Crippen
American astronaut
Paul J. Weitz
American astronaut (1932–2017)
William Shepherd
American astronaut
Wendy B. Lawrence
US astronaut and Navy Captain
Kayla Barron
American astronaut
Scott Altman
American astronaut, aviator and test pilot
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
American naval officer and NASA astronaut
Richard H. Truly
American astronaut and NASA administrator (1937–2024)
Michael López-Alegría
American astronaut
Kathryn P. Hire
NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve
Barry E. Wilmore
American astronaut
Alan G. Poindexter
American test pilot and astronaut (1961-2012)
Susan Kilrain
American engineer, US Navy officer, and astronaut
Stephen Bowen
American astronaut
Dominic A. Antonelli
astronaut, Test Pilot
Christopher Ferguson
American astronaut
Kenneth Ham
American astronaut and Captain in the United States Navy
Joseph P. Kerwin
American astronaut
Robert L. Gibson
American astronaut
Dale Gardner
American astronaut (1948–2014)
Frank L. Culbertson
Astronaut, United States Navy captain
Christopher Cassidy
American astronaut (born 1970)
Jonny Kim
American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut
Stephen Frick
American astronaut
Robert Curbeam
American astronaut
Jon McBride
American astronaut (1943–2024)
Donald E. Williams
American astronaut (1942–2016)
William Oefelein
American astronaut
Gregory C. Johnson
American astronaut
Ken Bowersox
American astronaut
Sonny Carter
American physician, soccer player, Navy officer, and astronaut (1947-1991)
Michael Coats
American astronaut
John Herrington
American astronaut
Frederick Hauck
American astronaut
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
American astronaut
Michael Foreman
American astronaut
Daniel Brandenstein
Retired American astronaut and test pilot