List of fictional astronauts (Project Apollo era)

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The following is a list of fictional astronauts from the era of the Apollo program and the early history of the Soyuz spacecraft, during the "Golden Age" of space travel.

Project Apollo era

Name(s) !Appeared in !Program / mission / spacecraft !Fictional date
Class="wikitable"
bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"\| Apollo (1967–1975)
rowspan="2"\|John Mason (Pilot) Larry Carter (Co-Pilot) \|First Men to the Moon (1960), novel \|Unknown \|Near future
colspan="3"\|Spaceflight veterans Mason and Carter make first human Moon landing near lunar north pole, using direct ascent mission mode and spaceplane fifth stage. Launch and landing on Pacific atoll.{{cite book \|title=First Men to the Moon \|last=von Braun \|first=Wernher \|author-link=Wernher von Braun \|others=Illustrated by Fred Freeman \|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston \|year=1960 \|lccn=60-5202 \|title-link=First Men to the Moon}}
rowspan="2"\|Abner Evans, Lt. Cmdr. Marco Garcia Johnny Ingraham \|"A Man for the Moon" (1960), short story \|United States Navy Screaming Mimi \|Near future
colspan="3"\|Candidates for first Moon flight.{{cite magazine \|last=Webb \|first=Leland \|title=A Man for the Moon \|magazine=Playboy \|date=August 1960}}{{cite web \|url=https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/06/16/book-review-the-dead-astronaut-ed-uncredited-1971-j-g-ballard-ursula-k-le-guin-arthur-c-clarke-et-al/ \|last=Boaz \|first=Joachim \|title=Book Review: The Dead Astronaut, ed. uncredited (1971) (J. G. Ballard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, et al.) \|date=June 16, 2020 \|website=Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations \|access-date=May 25, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|William Blood Leo Two other astronauts \|Man in the Moon (1960), film \|United Kingdom: National Atomic Research Studies [?] and Technological Development (NARSTI) \|Near future
colspan="3"\|British astronaut Blood makes failed Moon flight.{{cite book \|title=Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties \|last=Warren \|first=Bill \|author-link=Bill Warren (film historian and critic) \|year=2010 \|publisher=McFarland & Company \|isbn=978-1-4766-6618-1 \|pages=539–541 }}{{cite book \|title=The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 \|last=Westfahl \|first=Gary \|author-link=Gary Westfahl \|year=2012 \|publisher=McFarland & Company \|isbn=978-0-7864-4267-6 \|pages=149–151, 342}}
rowspan="2"\|Richmond D. "Rich" Talbot, Capt. (USAF) \|Starfire (1960), novel Moon Pilot (1962), film \|United States Air Force Project Starfire \|May 22–29, 1960 (novel) Contemporary (film)
colspan="3"\|First American human lunar orbit mission.{{cite book \|title=Starfire \|last=Buckner \|first=Robert \|author-link=Robert Buckner \|publisher=Permabooks \|year=1960}}{{cite book \|title=The Disney Films \|edition=Fourth \|last=Maltin \|first=Leonard \|author-link=Leonard Maltin \|publisher=Disney Editions \|year=2000 \|isbn=0-7868-8527-0 \|pages=196–198}}{{harvnb\|Warren\|2010\|pp=602–604}}{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=151–153}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/moon-pilot-1961.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=Moon Pilot (1961) \|date=February 3, 2003 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/23728-MOON-PILOT?sid=e2cc7569-333b-44e3-b843-1bae1ff7e8f8&sr=10.758091&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Moon Pilot \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=April 26, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed female cosmonaut \|"Hate" (a.k.a. "At the End of Orbit") (1961), short story \|Unknown \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|First human to orbit Moon crashes in Pacific Ocean near Thursday Island; dies when Hungarian refugee pearl diver prevents her from being rescued before her air runs out.{{cite book \|first=Arthur C. \|last=Clarke \|author-link=Arthur C. Clarke \|chapter=Hate \|title=The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke \|publisher=Tor Books \|year=2000 \|pages=767–778}}
rowspan="2"\|Paul Davenport, Capt. (United States) \|"Control Somnambule" (1962), short story \|Apollo \|Near future
colspan="3"\|Astronaut sent on a solo round-the-Moon mission who is subjected to a mysterious temporal discontinuity, subsequently revealed to have been caused by aliens.{{efn\|Written by William Sambrot, the story was first published in the May 1962 issue of Playboy Magazine.}}{{cite book\|author=\|last=Sambrot\|first=William\|title=From the "S" File\|chapter=Control Somnambule\|pages= 97–113\|year=1971\|publisher=Playboy Press}}{{cite web \|url=http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/abducted-in-space.html \|last=Peebles \|first=Chris \|title=Abducted in Space: The Saturday Evening Post, Playboy and the Vanishing X-15 Pilot's Return \|publisher=Magonia \|year=2006 \|access-date=2017-09-22}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo: Joseph Faulk, Lt. Col. (USMC) (CDR) Lester "Les" Mallon, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (CMP) Max Kovac, Maj. (USAF) (LMP) CAPCOMs: Whitey Burke Gary "Dad" Myers Johnny Waco \|Apollo at Go (1963), novel \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|July 1969
colspan="3"\|Crew of first Apollo Moon mission, launched on July 5, 1969; landing in Ocean of Storms. Faulk is a veteran of five previous Apollo missions, including an aborted solo suborbital flight.{{cite book \|last=Sutton \|first=Jeff \|author-link=Jeff Sutton \|title=Apollo at Go \|url=https://archive.org/details/apolloatgo00sutt \|url-access=registration \|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons \|year=1963 \|lccn=63-15577}}
rowspan="2"\|Martin X-20: Mel Lockhart, Capt. \|The Crawling Hand (a.k.a. Tomorrow You Die) (1963), film \|United States: X-20 \|November 1963
colspan="3"\|While returning from second human Moon mission, astronaut Lockhart asks for his spacecraft to be destroyed, but returns to Earth as animate severed arm.{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=197–198}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/20531-THE-CRAWLINGHAND?sid=a85b06ca-8df5-4872-9b5e-7775c3c1d4d2&sr=9.49454&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=The Crawling Hand \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Danton "Dan" Coye, Col. (USAF) (CDR/CMP) Giovanni "Gino" Lombardi, Maj. (USAF) Eddie Glazer \|"Down to Earth" (1963), short story \|First American Earth-Moon Expedition: Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|September 1971
colspan="3"\|Crew of first Moon landing mission shifts into alternate reality while in lunar orbit.{{cite book \|first=Harry \|last=Harrison \|author-link=Harry Harrison (writer) \|title=50 in 50 \|chapter=Down to Earth \|year=2001 \|publisher=Tor Books \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/50in50collection00harr/page/167 167–183] \|isbn=0-312-87789-7\|title-link=50 in 50 }}
rowspan="2"\|Ivan Kragoff (USSR) \|Marvel Comics (1963– ) \|Unnamed spacecraft \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Kragoff makes first human flight to Moon, deliberately exposing himself to cosmic rays in order to gain superpowers and becoming the Red Ghost.{{cite journal \|last=Lee \|first=Stan \|author-link=Stan Lee \|others=Pencils by Jack Kirby; inks by Steve Ditko \|title=The Red Ghost \|journal=The Fantastic Four \|issue=13 \|date=April 1963 \|publisher=Marvel Comics}}{{cite book \|last=Lee \|first=Stan \|others=Pencils by Jack Kirby \|title=Essential Fantastic Four \|volume=1 \|publisher=Marvel Comics \|year=2005 \|isbn=0-7851-1828-4\|title-link=Essential Marvel}}
rowspan="2"\|Grand Fenwick: Alfred Kokintz, Prof. Vincent Mountjoy United States: Two unnamed astronauts Soviet Union: Two unnamed cosmonauts \|The Mouse on the Moon (1963), film \|Grand Fenwick United States Soviet Union \|Contemporary (Summer)
colspan="3"\|Tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick reaches Moon with American financial assistance and leftover Russian Vostok rocket. Launch from Grand Fenwick on August 11; American and Russian launches in late August; Moon landings by all three countries on September 1.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/mouse-on-the-moon-1963.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=Mouse on the Moon (1963) \|date=February 17, 2003 \|access-date=May 6, 2021}}{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=155–158}}
rowspan="2"\|Francis Spender, Col. \|"A Question of Re-Entry" (1963), short story \|United Nations Space Department Goliath 7 \|Early 1970s
colspan="3"\|First man to land on the Moon is eaten by cannibals after crash landing in Brazilian jungle.{{cite magazine \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|author-link=J. G. Ballard \|title=A Question of Re-Entry \|magazine=Fantastic Stories \|year=1963}}{{cite book \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|chapter=A Question of Re-Entry \|title=The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard \|year=2009 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/completestorieso00ball/page/435 435–458] \|isbn=978-0-393-07262-4 \|title-link=The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard}}{{cite journal \|url=https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/107/rossi107.htm \|last=Rossi \|first=Umberto \|title=A Little Something About Dead Astronauts \|journal=Science Fiction Studies \|issue=107 \|date=March 2009 \|access-date=June 3, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Kanashima, Dr. (no personal name given) \|Le jardin de Kanashima (a.k.a. Garden on the Moon) (1964), novel \|Japan \|October 3, 1942 – October 1970
colspan="3"\|Physicist Kanashima makes one-way flight to become first man on Moon. Landing at west edge of Sea of Serenity.{{cite book \|title=Garden on the Moon \|url=https://archive.org/details/gardenonmoon00boul \|url-access=registration \|last=Boulle \|first=Pierre \|author-link=Pierre Boulle \|others=Trans. Xan Fielding \|publisher=The Vanguard Press \|year=1965 \|lccn=65-10229}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 3: Charles "Chiz" Stewart Jr., Col. (USAF) (CDR) (unnamed in novel) Rick Lincoln, Lt. (USN) (Navigator) Lee Stegler (Co-Pilot) (named Steven James Lawrence in novel) Pilgrim One: Lee Stegler/Steve Lawrence Vostok/Voskhod: Alexis Plekhanov Vostok/Voskhod: 3 unnamed cosmonauts (1 unnamed cosmonaut in novel) \|The Pilgrim Project (1964), novel Countdown (a.k.a. Moonshot) (1968), film \|NASA: Apollo 3 (simulation in film) Gemini (Pilgrim One) (Mercury in novel) Soviet Union: 2 Voskhods (2 Vostoks in novel) \|Near future
colspan="3"\|NASA astronaut using modified Gemini craft (Mercury in novel) to beat the Russians to the Moon. Landing near Surveyor 6 in Oceanus Procellarum.{{cite book \|first=Hank \|last=Searls \|author-link=Hank Searls \|title=The Pilgrim Project \|url=https://archive.org/details/pilgrimprojectno00sear \|url-access=registration \|year=1964 \|publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company \|lccn=64-17909}}{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=291–294}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/countdown-1968.htm \|title=Countdown (1968) \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|date=June 6, 2002 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/23679-COUNTDOWN?sid=f3378066-0415-4f00-983a-abd880b0576a&sr=9.767829&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Countdown \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Roberts, Col. Simms, Maj. \|Doctor Who "Moon Landing" (1965), comic strip \|Unknown (rocket marked "MS") \|July 1970
colspan="3"\|First men on the Moon. Country of origin not specified. Mission launches on July 20, 1970.
rowspan="2"\|O. K. Deadhead, Sgt. \|Sergeant Dead Head (a.k.a. Sergeant Deadhead, Sergeant Deadhead the Astronut!) (1965), film \|United States Air Force (964th Aero-Space Division) Project Moon Monkey: Hercules 3 \|c. 1968
colspan="3"\|Deadhead accidentally stows away aboard spacecraft carrying chimpanzee around the Moon. A planned sequel, Sergeant Deadhead Goes to Mars, was never made.{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=162–164}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/19572-SERGEANT-DEADHEAD?sid=fc6cde70-0ab7-4d63-8202-ec1eec53bbb6&sr=13.535803&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Sergeant Deadhead \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=April 26, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Gavin Lewis, Sgt. Clifford Banks, Maj. Howell, Lt. Col. (no first name given) Apollo: Tony LaCava, Lt. Col. (CDR) Martin Daniels, Lt. Col. (USMC) (CMP) Hardy Smith, Cmdr. (USN) (LMP) \|The Invaders Moonshot (1967), TV \|F.S.A.: Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|After Banks and Howell are killed by mysterious red fog, they are replaced on Moon landing mission by their backups, one of whom is an alien imposter. Lewis was one of the first astronauts, but washed out of Moon program due to fluctuating blood pressure.{{cite web \|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=soap&p=16&item=B:34753 \|title=INVADERS, THE: MOONSHOT (TV) \|publisher=The Paley Center for Media \|access-date=April 16, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|NASA: Frank Lewis, Dr. (Physiologist) (UK) Stern (Pilot-Astronaut) (no first name given) Roy Villiers, Capt. (Pilot-Astronaut) Apollo: Bill Sanders (CDR) Thomas (Co-Pilot) (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut Apollo?: Karl Simmonds (Command Pilot) Bob Mitchell (Co-Pilot) Mike Gransome, Maj. (USAF) (Third Pilot) Zenno Fillipini, Dr. (Italy) (Scientific Observer) Ulysses: Don Hart (Command Pilot) Roger Cope (Co-Pilot) Joseph (Pilot) (no first name given) Jean Romain, Prof. (France) (Scientific Observer) \|Kings of Infinite Space (1967), novel \|NASA: Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM Unnamed CSM/LM Project Ulysses \|Autumn 1969 – c. 1970
colspan="3"\|New group of NASA astronauts selected in 1969 combines pilots and scientists and includes international component. Sanders commands lunar mission aborted when Thomas falls ill in flight. Spaceflight veterans Simmonds and Hart join new astronauts on missions using "Saturn VI" rocket (Saturn V with booster rockets added): four-man lunar mission with expanded spacecraft and Project Ulysses deep-space mission.{{cite book \|last=Balchin \|first=Nigel \|author-link=Nigel Balchin \|title=Kings of Infinite Space \|publisher=Doubleday & Company \|year=1968 \|lccn=68-11792}}
rowspan="2"\|KM III: CAP (Expedition Leader) DOC (Documenter/Photographer) MEC (Mechanic/Navigator) PHY (Physician) RNT (Radio/TV Engineer) GEO (Geologist) AST (Astrophysicist) SEL (Selenologist) (no names given) \|Die Mondexpedition (Log of a Moon Expedition) (1967 (German), 1969 (English)), novel \|Project Alpha: KM I KM II KM III \|Near Future
colspan="3"\|After crewed lunar orbital missions KM I and KM II, the first crewed landing, KM III, is beset with problems. KM III lands in Sinus Medii (near Réaumur and Flammarion), preceded by three cargo landers.{{cite book \|first=Luděk \|last=Pešek \|author-link=Luděk Pešek \|title=Log of a Moon Expedition \|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf Publishers \|year=1969}}, cited in {{cite web \|first=David S. F. \|last=Portree \|title=Log of a Moon Expedition (1969) \|website=No Shortage of Dreams \|url=https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2018/04/log-of-moon-expedition-1969.html \|date=April 10, 2018 \|access-date=March 9, 2025}}
rowspan="2"\|Mikhail Andreievich Karkhov \|"Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism" (1967), short story \|Soviet Union \|Contemporary (Winter)
colspan="3"\|First cosmonaut on Moon awaits death after malfunction. Landing in Ptolemaeus crater.{{cite book \|first=Thomas M. \|last=Disch \|author-link=Thomas M. Disch \|chapter=Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism \|title=First Flights to the Moon \|editor-last=Clement \|editor-first=Hal \|editor-link=Hal Clement \|pages=187–193 \|publisher=Doubleday & Company \|year=1970 \|lccn=74-103738}}
rowspan="2"\|Daddy (unnamed) \|My Daddy the Astronaut (1967), short film \|United States \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|Former jet pilot lands on Moon, then breaks both legs falling off carousel horse.{{cite AV media \|people=Shamus Culhane (Co-Writer/Director) \|year=1967 \|title=My Daddy the Astronaut \|medium=Motion picture \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--p5QtguFQA \|access-date=March 11, 2020 }}
rowspan="2"\|Tsiolkovskii A: Lev Alexandrovich Barkagan, Col. (Commandant) Pyotr Sachuk (Subcommandant) Sergei Vinogradov (Commandant's aide) Georgi Zolotarev, Capt. Igor K. Yefremov, Capt. Nikolai "Niki" Urazova, Lt. (Quartermaster) 22 unnamed cosmonauts Tsiolkovskii B: Nikolai Dorodnitsyn, Lt. Col. Dmitri Alexandrov, Maj. Up to six technicians (rotating) Sedov Base: Mikhail Grek, Lt. Col. (Commander) Three unnamed cosmonauts Lenin Base: Pavel K. Shtapova, Lt. Col. (Commandant) Yuri S. Kalganova, Capt. (Subcommandant) Leonid Protsenko, Capt. (Specialist) Alexis Tvardovskii, Capt. (Specialist) NASA: Norm Cramer Vic Agronte Syd Franklin Clint Goodman Apollo Earth orbital flight: Rance Allenby, Col. (USAF) (CDR) Gene Stanley (USN) Joe Kawolski (US Army) (Engineer) Earth orbital flight: Bill Robinson John England Chris Wheatley (Geophysical scientist) Aborted circumlunar flight: Neil Carter William R. Quartermain Kevin Wilson Earth orbital flight: Unnamed astronauts Circumlunar flight: Three unnamed astronauts Moon landing: Rance Allenby (CDR) Gene Stanley, Cmdr. (USN) (CMP) Leigh "The Brain" Raymond (LMP/Scientist) Bart Rogers (CapCom){{efn\|Not explicitly stated to be an astronaut.}} United Nations Apollo 026: John England (CDR) Bill Quartermain (CMP) Stephen E. Johnson (LMP/Scientist) Air Force-NASA Moon landing: Rance Allenby (CDR) Joe Kawolski (CMP) Gene Stanley, Capt. (USAF){{efn\|Seconded from Navy to Air Force during novel.}} (LMP) Circumlunar flight: Two unnamed astronauts Lunar farside landing: Three unnamed astronauts Moon landing: Richard Fuller Gary Garret Unnamed CMP Showboat I: Chuck Hewitt (CDR) Bill Quartermain Showboat II: Matt Jorgensen (CDR) Harold Monroe Kevin Wilson Brian Joslyn (CMP) Lance/Goddard Lunar Base: Rance Allenby (CDR) Gene Stanley Joe Kawolski Dick Spencer (US Army) (Engineer) Chris Wheatley Ed Meyers (Systems) Gordon Baxter (Logistics) Jim "Paradox" Blessing (Medical technician/Armaments specialist) Circumlunar flight: Two unnamed astronauts China: Approx. 48 unnamed astronauts \|No Man's World (1967), novel \|USSR Space Command: Tsiolkovskii A Base Tsiolkovskii B Base Sedov Base Lenin Base NASA Apollo: Two Earth orbital flights Aborted circumlunar flight Earth orbital flight Circumlunar flight Moon landing (CSM/LM) United Nations: Apollo 026 (CSM/LM) United States Air Force-NASA: Moon landing (CSM/LM) Circumlunar flight (CSM) Lunar farside landing (CSM/LM) Moon landing (CSM/LM) Operation Showboat: Showboat I (Modified Apollo CSM) Showboat II (CSM/Three-man LM) Lance Goddard Lunar Base Circumlunar flight (CSM/cargo lander) People's Republic of China: Unnamed spacecraft \|c. 1968 – November 1972
colspan="3"\|Three years after Soviets reach Moon, American astronauts attempt to follow them. Barkagan was the first man on the Moon, landing on August 22, 1968. Tsiolkovskii A Base located near southwest edge of Ptolemaeus crater, near {{coord
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4\|globe:Moon}}; Tsiolkovskii B south of Tsiolkovskii A in Alphonsus; Sedov Base north of Tsiolkovskii A, at {{coord\|28
3\|globe:Moon}}; Lenin Base near southwest edge of Sinus Iridum. Allenby, Stanley and Kawolski fly first Earth-orbital Apollo/Saturn V mission. Carter, Quartermain and Wilson's Saturn V explodes after liftoff; crew saved by escape tower. First American Moon landing at {{coord\|14\|40\|S\|8\|30\|W\|globe:Moon}}, north of Lassell crater. UN Moon landing in center of Davy Y. Allenby's second landing in Gassendi crater. Fuller and Garret land in southern Mare Humorum, north of Doppelmayer crater. Showboat II establishes decoy LeMay Base at {{coord
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17\|globe:Moon}}, west of Fra Mauro E. Goddard Base established on southeast flank of central peak of Alphonsus; Goddard Base crew fly Lance spacecraft launched by Titan IIIE to reach lunar ferry with two lunar landers in Earth orbit. Twelve Chinese astronauts land in Sinus Aestuum, near Eratosthenes. Goodman is a former X-15 pilot.{{cite book \|last=Caidin \|first=Martin \|author-link=Martin Caidin \|title=No Man's World \|publisher=E. P. Dutton & Co. \|year=1967 \|lccn=67-10065}}
rowspan="2"\|Roy Fleming Fred Gifford, Maj. \|The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Russia plans on sending a dentist into space, to show the safety of their space program. NASA launches Fleming, Cape Canaveral's newest janitor, upstaging Russian launch.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/reluctant-astronaut-1967.htm \|title=The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|date=January 2, 2000 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=169–173}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/18569-THE-RELUCTANTASTRONAUT?sid=197c3961-24e3-47cd-8305-302295a4adc7&sr=10.238993&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=The Reluctant Astronaut \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|McIntyre (no first name given) Epsilon: Michael Stevens Harder, Col. (USAF) (Station Commander) Page Alison, Dr. (US) (Life Sciences) Henri Guy-Michel, Col. (Dr.) (French Air Force) (Communications and Navigation Program Director) William Jordan (USAF) (First Engineer) Werner Koelbe, Dr. (born Hans Bayerlein) (West Germany) (Physician/Medical research) Luke Parsons (USMC) (Engineer) Timothy Pollard, Dr. (Professor of Astronomical Sciences) (UK) June Strond, Ph.D. (Norway) (Geophysics and Earth Sciences Expert) StatCom: Atkins (no first name given){{efn\|Not explicitly stated to be an astronaut.}} Stubby Dolan Bandit One: Jack Dexter (Command Pilot) Ken Sanborne, Dr. (Physician) Hal Gunner, Dr. (Physician) \|Four Came Back (1968), novel \|Space Station Epsilon Bandit One (lifting body) (launched by Titan IIIC) \|September 1972
colspan="3"\|International space station crew ravaged by mysterious illness. Epsilon consists of two Saturn II tanks and one S-IVB tank, linked by cables and rotating to provide artificial gravity. Jordan and Parsons previously flew together on a 16-day orbital Apollo mission in 1969; Pollard flew on an Earth-orbital Apollo Applications Program mission in late 1970, becoming the first British astronaut in space. McIntyre suffered from a skin reaction during an earlier Apollo mission.{{cite book \|first=Martin \|last=Caidin \|title=Four Came Back \|publisher=David McKay Company \|year=1968 \|lccn=68-29629}}
rowspan="2"\|AS-906: Norwood "Woody" Liscombe, Lt. Col. (Command Pilot) Ted Green, Lt. Col. (Navigator) Doug Albers, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) AS-906 first reserve team/Phoenix One crew: Gordon "Gord" Nash (Flight Commander) Bill Ransom Unnamed astronaut Second reserve team: Glenn Eglund, Col. (CDR) Roger Caine, Cmdr. John Corbinet \|Nick Carter-Killmaster Operation Moon Rocket (1968), novel \|Apollo AS-906 (Unnamed CSM/LM) Phoenix One (Apollo) \|1968 (from May 16)
colspan="3"\|AS-906 crew is killed in spacecraft fire caused by sabotage; NASA hastily launches Phoenix One as follow-up. Liscombe is a Mercury and Gemini veteran; Green and Nash are Gemini veterans.{{cite book \|first=Nick \|last=Carter \|author-link=Nick Carter (literary character) \|others=Written by Lew Louderback \|title=Operation Moon Rocket \|series=Nick Carter-Killmaster \|publisher=Award Books/Tandem Books \|year=1968 \|title-link=Operation Moon Rocket}}
rowspan="2"\|Larry Hank George (no last names given) \|A Trip in Space (1968), picture book \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronauts on typical Apollo Earth-orbital mission.{{cite book \|first=Bruce \|last=Grant \|title=A Trip in Space \|url=https://archive.org/details/tripinspace00gran \|url-access=registration \|others=Illustrated by Seymour Fleishman \|publisher=Rand McNally & Company \|year=1968 \|series=Start-Right Elf Book}}{{cite web\|url=http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-trip-in-space-1968.html \|last=Sisson \|first=John \|title=Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera: A Trip in Space (1968) \|date=February 25, 2014 \|access-date=April 20, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Walter Emmons (CDR) Ed MacKenzie (CMP) Michael Carter (LMP) \|The Bold Ones: The New Doctors One Small Step for Man (1969), TV \|Apollo Unnamed (CSM)/Retriever (LM) \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Apollo crew experiences medical emergency prior to lunar landing. Carter is first Black astronaut on Moon mission.
rowspan="2"\|Major Tom \|David Bowie's songs (1969–2015) and various other songs \|Unknown \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut sent on a mission "one hundred thousand miles" away from the Earth, as chronicled in "Space Oddity" (1969), and who loses contact with "Ground Control" while in lunar orbit. References to him are made in "Ashes to Ashes" (1980) and the remixed version of "Hallo Spaceboy" as well as, possibly, the music videos of "Slow Burn" (1995) and Bowie's last song, "Blackstar" (2015), which might imply that Major Tom did not survive his mission.{{cite web \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o \|title=David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969) \|publisher=WHiRLED PEACE (YouTube) \|date=May 26, 2006 \|access-date=April 2, 2016}}
rowspan="2"\|Kenneth McGeorge, Maj. \|The Hardy Boys The Arctic Patrol Mystery (1969), novel \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut kidnapped in Iceland while training for Moon mission.{{cite book \|first=Franklin W. \|last=Dixon \|author-link=Franklin W. Dixon \|title=The Arctic Patrol Mystery \|series=Hardy Boys Mystery Stories \|number=48 \|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap \|year=1969 \|isbn=0-448-18948-8 \|title-link=The Arctic Patrol Mystery}}
rowspan="2"\|Ironman One: Jim Pruett (Mission Commander) Clayton Stone, Ph.D. (Scientist) Buzz Lloyd (Pilot) Voskhod: Andrei Yakovlev X-RV: Ted Dougherty (USAF) \|Marooned (1969), film, novel \|Ironman One (Apollo Applications Program) Voskhod X-RV lifting body \|Near future
colspan="3"\|NASA astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid.{{cite book \|first=Martin \|last=Caidin \|title=Marooned \|publisher=Bantam Books \|year=1969 \|isbn=978-0552083706 \|url-access=registration \|url=https://archive.org/details/marooned0000unse}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/marooned-1969.htm \|title=Marooned (1969) \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|date=July 9, 2003 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{harvnb\|Westfahl\|2012\|pp=294–299}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/23433-MAROONED?sid=cbdb23b0-25a0-4a39-83e5-b5b8716ef8aa&sr=10.996757&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Marooned \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut \|Squaps, the Moonling (1969), picture book \|Unknown \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|An astronaut takes a Moon creature home to meet his children.{{cite book \|first=Sita \|last=Jucker \|title=Squaps, the Moonling \|others=Text by Ursina Ziegler; translated by Barbara Kowal Gollob \|publisher=Atheneum Books \|year=1969 \|oclc=30241}}
rowspan="2"\|Andria Vishinkin, Maj. (Soviet Air Force) \|Stalin, Tommy Tucker and God (1969), novel \|Soyuz \|1973
colspan="3"\|This is not specifically a space-related novel, but a central character is Major Vishinkin, a cosmonaut in her mid-twenties, who is repeatedly described as the ‘most famous woman in Russia’. In the plot, she has just returned to Moscow from a solo space mission. The novel is openly set in 1973, so this appears to be a Soyuz.{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOLpAAAAMAAJ \|title=Stalin, Tommy Tucker, and God \|last=Quinn \|first=Stewart H. \|publisher=Dorrance \|year=1969}}
rowspan="2"\|Thomas (CDR) (no first/last name given) Miller (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut \|"A Triptych" (1969), short story \|Apollo? \|1968
colspan="3"\|Astronauts on deep space mission. Astronaut identified as "X" was not allowed to take part in broadcast from earlier flight after threatening to make dirty joke on air. Revised version included in 1971 fix-up novel Universe Day as Chapter II, "Some Headlines in the Void 1968".{{cite magazine \|first=Barry \|last=Malzberg \|author-link=Barry N. Malzberg \|title=A Triptych \|date=July 1969 \|volume=37 \|issue=1 \|magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction \|issn= \|pages=96–101 \|access-date=April 26, 2025 \|via=Internet Archive \|url=https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v037n01_1969-07_PDF/page/n93/}}{{cite web \|title=Title: Universe Day \|url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?6620 \|work=Internet Speculative Fiction Database \|publisher=Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team \|access-date=April 26, 2025}}{{cite web \|url=https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2014/12/24/book-review-universe-day-barry-n-malzberg-as-k-m-odonnell-1971/ \|last=Boaz \|first=Joachim \|title=Book Review: Universe Day, Barry N. Malzberg (as K. M. O'Donnell) (1971) \|date=December 24, 2014 \|website=Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations \|access-date=April 26, 2025}}
rowspan="2"\|Robert Ruggles "Rug" McCargo, Cmdr. (USN) Gildy, Capt. (CMP) Parmenter, Cmdr. (no first names given for last two) \|The Apollo Legacy (1970), novel \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM The American-European-Soviet Outerspace Program (AESOP) \|Contemporary/near future (July)
colspan="3"\|NASA astronauts who traveled to Moon with monkey. All three astronauts landed on Moon; Parmenter remained inside LM. Landing at edge of Copernicus. Gildy is the first Black astronaut.{{cite book \|first=Albert \|last=Barker \|title=The Apollo Legacy \|publisher=Award Books/Tandem Books \|year=1970}}
rowspan="2"\|Jerry McGrath, Maj. (USAF) (Command Pilot) Earl Boggs, Maj. (USAF) (Pilot) Andrew Zapf, Col. (USAF) (Backup pilot/CAPCOM) \|Countdown (1970), novel \|Federal Space Agency (FSA): Hermes II (command module) Pegasus Orbiting Laboratory \|Near future (early 1970s)
colspan="3"\|Post-Apollo wet workshop space station with potential military applications. Zapf is a Gemini and Apollo veteran.{{cite book \|first=Frank G. \|last=Slaughter \|author-link=Frank G. Slaughter \|title=Countdown \|url=https://archive.org/details/countdown00slau \|url-access=registration \|publisher=Doubleday & Company \|year=1970 \|lccn=76-103776}}
rowspan="2"\|Bill Edwards (Command Pilot) Dick Larch (UK) Max Friedman \|Doomwatch Re-entry Forbidden (1970), TV \|NASA: Sunfire 1 Sunfire 2 \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|First flights of nuclear-powered spacecraft go awry. Larch is first British astronaut in space.{{cite web \|url=http://doomwatchblogger.blogspot.com/2008/07/season1-episode-6-re-entry-forbidden-by.html \|title=Season 1 Episode 6 Re-Entry Forbidden by Don Shaw \|date=July 4, 2008 \|access-date=December 7, 2016 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221014930/http://doomwatchblogger.blogspot.com/2008/07/season1-episode-6-re-entry-forbidden-by.html \|archive-date=December 21, 2016}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut \|"Journey Across a Crater" (1970), short story \|Cosmos 253 \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who engages in bizarre behavior and sexual perversions after spacecraft breaks up on re-entry.{{cite magazine \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=Journey Across a Crater \|magazine=New Worlds \|issue=198 \|date=February 1970 \|url=https://www.jgballard.ca/uncollected_work/journey_across_crater.html \|pages=2–5 \|access-date=April 6, 2020}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed LM Commander Unnamed LM Radio Officer Steven L. Lewison, Lt. 7 unnamed astronauts \|"Starlight Shining Through Her Eyes" (1970), short story \|United States Air Force Division of Space Exploration Project Wellspring: Ten-man LM \|July 1969 / Future
colspan="3"\|As a boy, Lewison believes stranded girl whose parents died in spacecraft crash contacted him from the Moon during Apollo 11 mission; he grows up to become an astronaut. Project Wellspring landing in Sea of Tranquility.{{cite magazine \|first=Neil \|last=Shapiro \|title=Starlight Shining Through Her Eyes \|date=July 1970 \|volume=39 \|issue=1 \|magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction \|issn= \|pages=48–55 \|access-date=April 27, 2025 \|via=Internet Archive \|url=https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v039n01_1970-07_PDF/page/n45/}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed CSM/LM Franklin Grimsby, Maj. Falcon Jonathan Cornelius Evans, Lt. Cmdr. (CDR) Jimmy Webster (CMP) Charlie Willmers (LMP) \|"Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You?" (1971), short story \|Unknown craft Apollo Unnamed CSM/Falcon (LM) \|1969
colspan="3"\|The first astronaut to walk on the Moon returns shaken, his sleep disturbed with nightmares, due to an incident during the first moonwalk.{{cite book \|first=Rod \|last=Serling \|author-link=Rod Serling \|title=Night Gallery \|publisher=Bantam \|year=1971}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed CSM/LM Unnamed CDR Richard Martin, Lt. Col. (CMP) Unnamed LMP Anna Christie Roger Allen, Capt. (CDR) Joseph Busby, Col. (CMP) William Davis, Lt. Col. (LMP) \|The Falling Astronauts (1971), novel \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM Anna Christie (CSM)/Unnamed (LM) \|Alternate late 1970s?
colspan="3"\|When the Command Module Pilot (CMP) of a lunar mission carrying nuclear seismic charges goes berserk, only the mission's information officer, a former CMP himself, stands between Earth and catastrophe. Davis is the first sociologist sent on a lunar mission.{{cite book \|first=Barry N. \|last=Malzberg \|title=The Falling Astronauts \|title-link=The Falling Astronauts \|publisher=Arrow \|year=1971 \|isbn=0-09-910950-6}}{{cite web \|url=https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2013/01/26/book-review-the-falling-astronauts-barry-n-malzberg-1971/ \|last=Boaz \|first=Joachim \|title=Book Review: The Falling Astronauts, Barry N. Malzberg (1971) \|date=January 26, 2013 \|website=Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations \|access-date=May 23, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Dick Matthews, Col. (CDR) Jim Dunlap, Maj. (CMP) Frank Perry, Capt. (LMP) \|Here's Lucy "Lucy and the Astronauts" (1971), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronauts returning from Moon are quarantined with Lucy Carter.{{cite episode \|first1=Lou \|last1=Derman \|first2=Larry \|last2=Rhine \|author-link2=Larry Rhine \|title=Lucy and the Astronauts \|series=Here's Lucy \|season=4 \|number=5 \|date=October 11, 1971 \|network=CBS}}{{cite web \|url=https://papermoonloveslucy.tumblr.com/post/167902678193/lucy-and-the-astronauts \|title=Papermoon Loves Lucy – LUCY AND THE ASTRONAUTS \|date=November 26, 2017 \|access-date=April 16, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Hannson (CDR) (no first name given) Two unnamed astronauts \|Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater (1971), novel \|Apollo 19 \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|The crew of a returning lunar mission are killed on re-entry because the Command Module systems have been contaminated with a plastic-eating virus.{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SqGDwAAQBAJ \|first1=Kit \|last1=Pedler \|author-link1=Kit Pedler \|first2=Gerry \|last2=Davis \|author-link2=Gerry Davis (screenwriter) \|title=Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater \|publisher=Pan Books \|year=1973 \|isbn=0-330-23796-9}}
rowspan="2"\|Poul Anderson \|Alpha Alpha Der Astronaut (1972), TV \|NASA \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut disappears after reentry.{{cite episode \|last=Henschel \|first=Wolfgang F. \|title=Der Astronaut \|series=Alpha Alpha \|season=1 \|number=4 \|date=May 31, 1972 \|network=ZDF \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEaLHBQuhsA \|access-date=March 11, 2020}}
rowspan="2"\|Dick Whitfield, Col. \|The Brady Bunch "My Fair Opponent" (1972), TV \|Apollo? \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut scheduled for Moon mission is guest of honor at Marcia Brady's junior high school senior banquet night.
rowspan="2"\|Shuckworth Shanks Showler (no first names given) \|Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), novel \|Commuter Capsule \|1972
colspan="3"\|Astronauts ferry hotel staff aboard Commuter Capsule to Space Hotel "U.S.A.", where they are attacked by Vermicious Knids.{{cite book \|first=Roald \|last=Dahl \|author-link=Roald Dahl \|title=Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator \|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf \|year=1972 \|isbn=0-394-82472-5 \|title-link=Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator}}
rowspan="2"\|Steve Austin, Col. (USAF) Kelly Wood, Maj. Josh Lang David Tate Leah Russell, Dr. \|Cyborg (1972), novel The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–78), TV \|Apollo 18 \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Novel by Martin Caidin and television series derived from it. Austin is a NASA astronaut injured in testing landing characteristics of lifting bodies in anticipation of the Space Shuttle program.{{cite book \|last=Caidin \|first=Martin \|title=Cyborg \|year=1972 \|publisher=Arbor House \|isbn=0-87795-025-3 \|title-link=Cyborg (novel)}} Other astronauts and cosmonauts appear in the TV series episodes Doomsday, and Counting; The Rescue of Athena One; Burning Bright; The Pioneers (1974); and The Deadly Countdown (1977).
rowspan="2"\|Walter Monaghan \|Revelations (1972), novel \|Fifteenth Expedition \|1970s
colspan="3"\|Twenty-ninth man on Moon attempts to reveal terrible secrets about space program on exploitative TV talk show.{{cite book \|first=Barry N. \|last=Malzberg \|title=Revelations \|publisher=Avon Books \|year=1977 \|series=SF Rediscovery \|volume=26 \|isbn=0-380-00905-6}}{{cite web \|url=https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2012/08/27/book-review-revelations-barry-n-malzberg-1972/ \|last=Boaz \|first=Joachim \|title=Book Review: Revelations, Barry N. Malzberg (1972) \|date=August 27, 2012 \|website=Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations \|access-date=May 23, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|George Lattimer Bobby Gelman \|Top of the Heap (1972), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Lattimer, an African-American police officer in Washington, D.C., fantasizes himself and his partner as astronauts on Moon mission.{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/what-to-stream-top-of-the-heap-christopher-st-john \|last=Brody \|first=Richard \|author-link=Richard Brody \|title=What to Stream: "Top of the Heap," a Tale of a Black Cop in Seventies D.C., is a Crucial Work of Afrofuturism \|magazine=The New Yorker \|date=July 3, 2020 \|access-date=May 22, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed US astronaut \|The Exorcist (1973), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|US astronaut whose death in space is foretold by Regan MacNeil. Connected by author William Peter Blatty to astronaut Billy Cutshaw in The Ninth Configuration.
rowspan="2"\|Fergusson (CDR) Hennis Drake (first names not given) \|The Medusa Touch (1973), novel; The Medusa Touch (1978), film \|Achilles 6 (Apollo-like) Unnamed CSM/LM \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|Moon mission is doomed by telekinetic John Morlar.{{cite book \|last=Van Greenaway \|first=Peter \|author-link=Peter Van Greenaway \|title=The Medusa Touch \|year=1973 \|publisher=Stein and Day \|isbn=0-8128-1632-3 \|title-link=The Medusa Touch}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/horror/medusa-touch-1978.htm \|title=The Medusa Touch (1978) \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|date=February 2, 2004 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Roland "Rick" Lawrence, Capt. (USN) (CDR) Benjamin Pelham (CMP) David Anderson, Col. (LMP) Tom Estes (CAPCOM) Flip Crowell (CAPCOM){{efn\|Does not appear in the film.}} Irving Sellers (backup){{efn\|Does not appear in the film.}} \|Stowaway to the Moon: The Camelot Odyssey (1973), novel; Stowaway to the Moon (1975), TV movie \|Apollo Camelot (CSM)/Little Dipper (LM) \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|NASA astronauts on an Apollo mission to the Altai Highlands who discover a child in the command module.{{cite book \|last=Shelton \|first=William R. \|title=Stowaway to the Moon: The Camelot Odyssey \|year=1973 \|publisher=Doubleday & Company \|isbn=0-385-08447-1}}
rowspan="2"\|Michael Kamp, Capt. \|Dhalgren (1974), novel \|Apollo \|Contemporary?
colspan="3"\|Apollo astronaut who visits the city of Bellona.{{cite book \|first=Samuel \|last=Delany \|author-link=Samuel Delany \|title=Dhalgren \|publisher=Bantam Books \|year=1975 \|isbn=978-0375706684 \|url=https://archive.org/details/dhalgren00dela_0}}
rowspan="2"\|William Driscoll David Kneller Leonard Wenger (CMP) Harold Hansar (LMP) \|The Last Canadian (a.k.a. Death Wind, The Last American) (1974), novel \|Apollo 23 ("John") (CSM/Lunar Exploration Module) Moonlab I Moonlab II \|Near future
colspan="3"\|Astronauts left without guidance from Houston after plague wipes out human life in United States.{{cite book \|first=William C. \|last=Heine \|author-link=William C. Heine \|title=The Last Canadian \|publisher=PaperJacks \|year=1974 \|isbn=0-7701-0015-5 \|title-link=The Last Canadian}}
rowspan="2"\|Melville (no first name given) \|"My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (1974), short story \|Unknown (Three-man spacecraft) \|Contemporary/near future
colspan="3"\|Astronaut recovering from "mental breakdown in space."{{cite magazine \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=My Dream of Flying to Wake Island \|magazine=Ambit \|issue=60 \|year=1974}}{{cite book\|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard \|year=2009 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/completestorieso00ball/page/811 811–819] \|isbn=978-0-393-07262-4}}
rowspan="2"\|John Christie "Chris" Andrews, Lt. Col. (USAF) (CDR) Harrison "Hank" Baker (CMP) Jim Cooper (LMP) \|"The Eve of the Last Apollo" (1976), short story \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Summer 1975 (through July 18)
colspan="3"\|Five years after becoming first man on Moon, Andrews experiences midlife crisis concurrent with Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.{{cite book \|first=Carter \|last=Scholz \|author-link=Carter Scholz \|chapter=The Eve of the Last Apollo \|title=The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction \|editor-last=Clarke \|editor-first=Neil \|editor-link=Neil Clarke (editor) \|year=2019 \|publisher=Night Shade Books \|pages=22–43 \|isbn=978-1-59780-999-3 }}
rowspan="2"\|Bob Grodin \|Alternative 3 (1977), TV (hoax documentary) \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase.{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LytoPRCDFF8C&pg=PA136 \|last1=Vankin \|first1=Jonathan \|author-link1=Jonathan Vankin \|last2=Whalen \|first2=John \|title=The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time \|year=2004 \|publisher=Citadel Press \|pages=136–137 \|isbn=0-8065-2531-2}}{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZluAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA362 \|last=Sheppard \|first=David \|title=On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno \|year=2009 \|publisher=Chicago Review Press \|page=362 \|isbn=978-1-55652-942-9}}
rowspan="2"\|Richard Royce, Cmdr. (USN) Stan Richmond (CMP) \|Hawaii Five-O Shake Hands With The Man On The Moon (1977), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Washed-up astronaut Royce gets involved with crooked real estate developer.{{cite web \|url=http://www.fiveohomepage.com/season10/s10e07-plot.htm \|title=S10E07 - "Shake Hands With The Man On The Moon" - Plot \|last=Quigley \|first=Mike \|access-date=April 16, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|US: Rick Delanty, Lt. Col. (USAF) John Baker, Col. (USAF) Evan (no last name given) Drew Wellen McAlliard (no first name given) USSR: Pieter Jakov, Brig Leonilla Alexandrovna Malik, M.D. \|Lucifer's Hammer (1977), novel \|Space Station Spacelab 2 Apollo Soyuz \|Alternate 1970s
colspan="3"\|Joint US/Soviet crew studying the close approach to Earth of the comet Hamner-Brown from orbit. Evan was Command Module pilot on an Apollo mission. Baker flew on a mission similar to Skylab 2 and did a spacewalk. McAlliard was sick during a long-duration space mission, possibly Baker's.{{cite book \|first1=Larry \|last1=Niven \|author-link1=Larry Niven \|first2=Jerry \|last2=Pournelle \|author-link2=Jerry Pournelle \|title=Lucifer's Hammer \|publisher=Futura \|year=1978 \|isbn=0-7088-1362-3 \|title-link=Lucifer's Hammer}}{{cite book \|first1=Larry \|last1=Niven \|first2=Jerry \|last2=Pournelle \|title=Lucifer's Hammer \|publisher=Ballantine/Del Rey \|year=c. 2009 \|isbn=0-449-20813-3}}
rowspan="2"\|Scott Rogers \|The New Adventures of Batman The Moonman (1977), TV \|Unknown \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|College friend of Bruce Wayne flew solo mission to the Moon.
rowspan="2"\|Horace Jones, Col. (CDR) Joseph Pelham, Cmdr. (DMP) Sydney Loren, Dr. (MS) \|Sargasso (1977), novel \|Apollo 19 \|1977
colspan="3"\|NASA crew of Apollo 19, a joint mission with the Soviets and the last Apollo flight before advent of the Space Shuttle. They vanish from their spacecraft when it splashes down in the Bermuda Triangle.{{cite book \|first=Edwin \|last=Corley \|author-link=Edwin Corley \|title=Sargasso \|publisher=Sphere \|year=1978 \|isbn=0-7221-0449-9}}
rowspan="2"\|Arthur Eaton \|Natural Enemies (1979), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who wants to write magazine article about his experience on the Moon.{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/56932-NATURAL-ENEMIES?sid=9e7496af-d378-43ae-a09d-8241d6a56fd0&sr=11.458168&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Natural Enemies \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=May 20, 2022}}
rowspan="2"\|Billy Cutshaw, Capt. (USMC) \|The Ninth Configuration (a.k.a. Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane) (1980), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|United States astronaut who lost his sanity just before launching into space. Connected by author William Peter Blatty to astronaut character in The Exorcist.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/horror/ninth-configuration-1979-twinkle-twinkle-killer-kane.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=The Ninth Configuration (1979) \|date=February 9, 2005 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/56474-THE-NINTHCONFIGURATION?sid=bafcb8c6-0448-4223-a8ec-3981500c5b9e&sr=9.735625&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=The Ninth Configuration \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Nate Andy Boris (last names not given) \|Superman II (1980), film \|Artemis 2 (Apollo-like) \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Fictional Society for International Space Exploration (SISE)-Soviet joint lunar mission. Crew killed by escaped Kyptonian criminals.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/superman-ii-1980.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=Superman II (1980) \|date=December 16, 2009 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/superman-ii-the-richard-donner-cut-2006.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) \|date=December 15, 2013 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/56701-SUPERMAN-II?sid=0516d0ae-f5b3-4ba7-8ad3-b65e45d90f1e&sr=9.935482&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Superman II \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Trippett, Capt. (USN) Slade (first names not given) \|"News from the Sun" (1981), short story \|NASA \|Unknown
colspan="3"\|Trippett was the last man on the Moon; Slade was a trainee astronaut who washed out of the space program.{{cite magazine \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=News from the Sun \|magazine=Ambit \|year=1981}}{{cite book \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard \|year=2009 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/completestorieso00ball/page/1010 1010–1036] \|isbn=978-0-393-07262-4}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed CDR Robert S. Massey (CMP) Unnamed LMP \|The Red Dove (1982), novel \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM{{efn\|The Apollo mission mentioned in the novel is implied to be Apollo 17.}} \|1972, flashback from 1983
colspan="3"\|US astronaut who has a mental breakdown while preparing for a press conference after returning from the Moon. Later used by the CIA to persuade a Soviet cosmonaut to defect along with his spacecraft.{{cite book \|first=Derek \|last=Lambert \|author-link=Derek Lambert (author) \|title=The Red Dove \|publisher=Sphere \|year=1983 \|isbn=0-7221-5348-1}}
rowspan="2"\|Garrett Breedlove \|Terms of Endearment (1983), The Evening Star (1996), films \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Retired middle-aged astronaut played by Jack Nicholson.{{cite news \|journal=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/endearment-ar1.html \|last=Farber \|first=Stephen \|title=Comedy Buoys 'Terms of Endearment' \|date=November 20, 1983 \|access-date=September 24, 2017}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58145-TERMS-OFENDEARMENT?sid=76d060eb-3d32-44ab-b51c-ec7966222887&sr=11.558822&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Terms of Endearment \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-evening-star-1996 \|last=Ebert \|first=Roger \|author-link=Roger Ebert \|title=The Evening Star Movie Review (1996) \|date=December 27, 1996 \|access-date=September 24, 2017 \|work=RogerEbert.com \|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC}}
rowspan="2"\|Thomas Jefferson Stamford, Col. (USAF) (CDR) \|"The Object of the Attack" (1984), short story \|Apollo 20 \|1974 / 1982–1988
colspan="3"\|Retired NASA astronaut, rumored to have commanded secret Apollo 20 mission to place nuclear missile station in Mare Imbrium, becomes world-renowned religious leader.{{cite magazine \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=The Object of the Attack \|magazine=Interzone \|issue=9 \|year=1984}}{{cite book \|first=J. G. \|last=Ballard \|title=The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard \|year=2009 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/completestorieso00ball/page/1090 1090–1100] \|isbn=978-0-393-07262-4}}
rowspan="2"\|Christopher J. Ahern, Col. (USAF) \|Simon & Simon "The Wrong Stuff" (1984), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Veteran of 1971 moonwalk works for aerospace company connected to porn film.{{cite episode \|url=http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/simon-and-simon/video/the-wrong-stuff/n30330?onid=193351#vc193351=2 \|first=Alan \|last=Brennert \|author-link=Alan Brennert \|title=The Wrong Stuff \|series=Simon & Simon \|season=3 \|number=16 \|date=February 9, 1984 \|network=CBS \|via=NBC Universal \|access-date=March 5, 2015}}
rowspan="2"\|Forrest Gump Janet Fritch, Maj. \|Forrest Gump (1985), novel \|Unknown \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation.{{cite book \|first=Winston \|last=Groom \|author-link=Winston Groom \|title=Forrest Gump \|publisher=Doubleday \|year=1986 \|isbn=0-385-23134-2 \|title-link=Forrest Gump (novel)}}
rowspan="2"\|William Miles, Ph.D. \|Remington Steele "Steele in the Chips" (1985), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who walked on Moon promotes Booster Bars for food company.{{cite episode \|first1=Robin \|last1=Bernheim \|author-link1=Robin Bernheim \|first2=Stephanie \|last2=Zimbalist \|author-link2=Stephanie Zimbalist \|others=Story by Robin Bernheim & Stephanie Zimbalist and Howard Baldwin \|title=Steele in the Chips \|series=Remington Steele \|season=3 \|number=20 \|date=March 19, 1985 \|network=NBC}}
rowspan="2"\|Luna 15 Nikolai L. Kuzmin Unnamed cosmonaut Armstrong Base Unnamed astronauts \|Top Secret "Codename: Starfall" (1987), role playing game \|FKA Luna 15 NASA Moonbase Armstrong Base \|1969 & 1999
colspan="3"\|Soviet cosmonauts sent to beat Apollo 11 to the Moon. Kuzmin is killed in the crash landing; his unnamed companion lives long enough to plant the Soviet flag on the lunar surface. Their remains are not discovered for thirty years.{{cite magazine \|last=Rasmussen \|first=Merle M. \|author-link=Merle M. Rasmussen \|date=July 1987 \|title=Operation Zondraker, Pt 2 \|magazine=Dragon \|volume=XII \|number=2 \|pages=82–86}}
rowspan="2"\|Gerald R. "Gunner" Smith, Cmdr. (CDR) William C. Griffin, Capt. (CMP) Edward Scott Stone, Capt. (LMP) \|Darkside (1988), play \|Apollo 18 Independence (CSM)/Yorktown (LM) \|Autumn 1973
colspan="3"\|Smith and Stone are stranded on Moon when LM engine fails to ignite.{{cite book \|first=Ken \|last=Jones \|title=Darkside: A Play \|year=1989 \|publisher=Samuel French, Inc. \|isbn=978-0-573-69115-7}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5584/darkside \|title=Darkside \|publisher=Samuel French, Inc. \|access-date=July 2, 2019}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.mach25media.com/playdarkside.html \|title=playdarkside \|publisher=Mach 25 Media \|access-date=July 2, 2019}}
rowspan="2"\|Paul Andrews \|Beyond the Stars (1989), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|NASA astronaut who landed on the Moon.{{cite web \|title=Beyond the Stars (Personal Choice) Movie Review and Ratings by Kids \|url=https://www.dogomovies.com/beyond-the-stars-personal-choice/movie-review/770686645 \|publisher=DOGO Media, Inc. \|access-date=April 18, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Spike "Touchdown" Tiggler (USN) Bud Stomovicz Mike (CMP) (no last name given) \|A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (1989), novel \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|1943 – c. 1978
colspan="3"\|Former astronaut Tiggler searches for Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. Moon landing in summer 1974.{{cite book \|first=Julian \|last=Barnes \|author-link=Julian Barnes \|title=A History of the World in 10½ Chapters \|chapter=Project Ararat \|pages=245–278 \|year=1990 \|publisher=Vintage International \|isbn=0-679-73137-7 \|title-link=A History of the World in 10½ Chapters}}
rowspan="2"\|John Harper Wilson, Maj. (USSF) (Commander) Neil Holliday, Capt. (USSF) (Eagle One Pilot/Second-in-command) 18 unnamed astronauts \|"John Harper Wilson" (1989), short story \|United States Space Force (USSF) Luna One: Eagle One, Eagle Two (passenger ships) Eagle Three (cargo ship) \|July 1969 (alternate history) / 1988 (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|In alternate history, Eagle One makes first human Moon landing on July 20, 1969, in Sea of Tranquility; Wilson is first man on Moon. USSF spacecraft Columbus made first human lunar flyby in December 1968 (crew unnamed). Set in same timeline as Steele's short story "Goddard's People" and novels V-S Day and The Tranquillity Alternative (q.v.).{{cite magazine \|first=Allen \|last=Steele \|author-link=Allen Steele \|title=John Harper Wilson \|magazine=Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction \|date=June 1989}}{{cite book \|first=Allen \|last=Steele \|chapter=John Harper Wilson \|title=Rude Astronauts \|url=https://archive.org/details/rudeastronauts0000alle \|url-access=limited \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rudeastronauts0000alle/page/131 131]–145 \|year=1993 \|publisher=Old Earth Books \|isbn=1-882968-00-X}}
rowspan="2"\|Dave "Rockford" Muldorff, Col. (USAF) (CDR) Thomas Milburne Gavin, Maj. (USAF) (CMP) Richard Edgar Baedecker, Col. (USMC) (LMP) \|Phases of Gravity (1989), novel \|Apollo Peregrine (CSM)/Discovery (LM) \|December 1971 / June 1987 – November 1988
colspan="3"\|In June 1987, Baedecker takes a business trip to India and begins a voyage of self-discovery. 1971 landing near Marius Crater in Oceanus Procellarum.{{cite book \|first=Dan \|last=Simmons \|author-link=Dan Simmons \|title=Phases of Gravity \|year=2011 \|publisher=Subterranean Press \|isbn=978-1-59606-416-4 \|url=https://archive.org/details/phasesofgravity00simm }}
rowspan="2"\|Albert Calavicci, Rear Adm. (USN) \|Quantum Leap (1989–93), TV \|"Apollo 8" \|c. 1968 / 1999
colspan="3"\|NASA astronaut in Apollo program. Circled the Moon ten times. Calavicci landed the spacecraft safely after the computer systems crashed.
rowspan="2"\|Mitiok Sviridenko (Trainee) Luna-17B: Sema Anikin (First stage) Ivan Grechka (Second stage) Otto Plucis (Third stage) Dima Matiushevich (Lunar module) Omon Matveevich Krivomazov{{efn\|Patronymic not given; deduced from father's name.}} (call sign Ra) (Lunokhod) Luna-17B: Pasiuk "Pasha" Drach, Maj. Zurab "Zura" Pratsvania, Capt. Salyut: Armen Vezirov Djambul Mezhelaitis \|Omon Ra (1992), novel \|Luna-17B/Lunokhod Salyut \|1970s
colspan="3"\|With the Soviet Union unable to operate automated spacecraft, young cosmonauts train for suicide mission to lunar farside.{{cite book \|first=Victor \|last=Pelevin \|author-link=Victor Pelevin \|title=Omon Ra \|year=1996 \|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux \|others=Trans. Andrew Bromfield \|isbn=0-374-22592-3 \|title-link=Omon Ra}}
rowspan="2"\|Roy "Eject" Richard Howard (no last names given) \|"Walking on the Moon" (1992), short story \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Contemporary (July 4)
colspan="3"\|Apollo crew reunites for holiday get-together. Set in same timeline as Steele's Near-Space series.{{cite book \|first=Allen \|last=Steele \|chapter=Walking on the Moon \|title=Rude Astronauts \|url=https://archive.org/details/rudeastronauts0000alle \|url-access=limited \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rudeastronauts0000alle/page/5 5]–15 \|year=1993 \|publisher=Old Earth Books \|isbn=1-882968-00-X}}
rowspan="2"\|Boris Prishkin, Col. Ekaterina Univer "Katya" Prishkin Soyuz 4: Dmitry Mikhailovich "Mitya" Zhukovsky, Col. (Commander) Soyuz 5: Konstantine K. "Kostya" Strogolshikov, Col. (Commander) Valya Glavtop, Capt. Kolya Grin, Capt. (latter two transfer to Soyuz 4) Luna 15: Dmitry Mikhailovich Zhukovsky, Major-General (Command Pilot) Konstantine K. Strogolshikov, Major-General Alexander Alexandrovich "Sasha" Oryolin, Major-General (Flight Engineer) Cosmonaut squadron: Yurka Adama-Bibliov Vitya Artzybashev, Capt. Misha Cherryntevsky, Maj. Zhora Fedyuninsky, Maj. Valya Glavtop, Capt. Kolya Grin, Capt. Kopa Kandidim, Capt. Trifya Miserbiev Tima Schtange, Lt. Genka Stumpelkin, Lt. Vasya Tevyelook, Lt. Cosmonaut candidates: Peter Apollonovich "Petya" Nevsky, Lt. Marcus Gogol, Dr. Lev Lympyet, Prof. Arkady Volgamints, Maj. \|Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing (1993), novel \|Soyuz 4 Soyuz 5 Luna 15 (Soyuz) Laikushka (lunar lander) \|June 17, 1968 – July 21, 1969
colspan="3"\|Cosmonauts in renewed push for lunar landing. Oryolin, Strogolshikov and Zhukovsky command squadron within Cosmonaut Corps. Soyuz 4/5 fly January 14–18, 1969 (as in reality). Luna 15 launches July 14, 1969; crash landing (in Sea of Crisis) and loss of contact on July 21. Nevsky, Stumpelkin, Gogol and Lympyet later fly Earth orbital missions in the 1970s and 1980s; Nevsky becomes commander of Cosmonaut Corps and visits Tranquillity Base with Stumpelkin at turn of century. Boris Prishkin was a cosmonaut in the early days of the Russian program; Katya Prishkin was one of four female cosmonauts trained for Vostok 6.{{cite book\|last=Batchelor \|first=John Calvin \|author-link=John Batchelor \|title=Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing \|publisher=Henry Holt and Company \|year=1993 \|isbn=0-8050-2141-8 \|url=https://archive.org/details/peternevskytrue00batc}}
rowspan="2"\|Duke "Danger Duke" Robinson Unnamed CMP \|Murphy Brown "Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?" (1994), TV Love & War "A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You" (1994), TV \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Robinson is target of slow-speed chase by police after allegedly murdering his brother with a Moon rock. His Moon mission's CMP is the getaway driver. Robinson played croquet on the Moon and was the technical advisor for Capricorn One.
rowspan="2"\|Gemini: Chuck Brittain (Gemini 9 prime crew) Allen Cloud (USAF) (Gemini 12 Pilot) Apollo: Allen Cloud (CDR) Walt Hammond (CMP) Charlie Sumner (LMP) Pete Leitner (Backup CDR) \|Sea of Tranquillity (1994), novel \|Apollo (Apollo 16?) Cormorant (CSM)/Raptor (LM) \|1970–1990
colspan="3"\|Astronaut Cloud becomes estranged from his gay son. Moon mission in April 1972, landing in Cayley Plains; Cloud and Sumner are ninth and tenth men on Moon. Brittain was killed in NASA T-38 crash.{{cite book \|first=Paul \|last=Russell \|author-link=Paul Russell (novelist) \|title=Sea of Tranquillity \|year=1994 \|publisher=Dutton \|isbn=0-525-93895-8 \|url=https://archive.org/details/seaoftranquility00russ}}
rowspan="2"\|Charles "Ace" Galvin, Lt. Col. Buzz Thompson \|Wings "The Wrong Stuff" (1994), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Moonwalker Galvin is invited to endorse Sandpiper Air.{{cite episode \|first=David \|last=Lloyd \|author-link=David Lloyd (writer) \|title=The Wrong Stuff \|series=Wings \|season=6 \|number=10 \|date=November 29, 1994 \|network=NBC}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 21: Stan Freeman, Ph.D. (CDR) Ben Santori (CMP) Nick Jensen (LMP) Apollo 29: Nick Jensen Amy Jordan Unnamed astronaut Ares: Nick Jensen (Mission Commander) Amy Jordan Jake Burnett 15 unnamed astronauts Star Spear: Six unnamed astronauts Discovery: Nick Jensen Amy Jordan Four unnamed astronauts Challenger: Jill Rodriguez Unnamed astronauts \|"In Saturn Time" (1995), short story \|Apollo 21 Nightwing (CSM)/Flamebird (LM) Apollo 29 Ares Space Transportation System Star Spear Discovery Challenger \|October 15, 1974 – October 19, 2001 (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|Alternate history in which Morris Udall defeated Richard Nixon in 1972 Presidential election. Flamebird lands in Peary crater near north pole of Moon. Freeman is the first Black man in space. Bykovsky and Leonov land at edge of Oceanus Procellarum aboard Soyuz L-4 in summer 1977, during American Apollo 29 mission. NASA launches Moonbase to site near Amundsen crater aboard Saturn 5M in spring 1980. Jensen flies to lunar station with Walter Cronkite in August 1984. Jensen, Jordan and Burnett make first crewed landing on Mars in May 1988; Jensen is first human on Mars. Space Transportation System flies for first time in June 1993. Discovery and Challenger fly to Jupiter in 2001 and orbit Callisto.{{cite web \|first=William \|last=Barton \|author-link=William Barton (writer) \|title=In Saturn Time \|url=https://epdf.pub/in-saturn-time.html \|year=1995 \|access-date=July 23, 2020}}
rowspan="2"\|Tom Scott (CDR) Chad Williams (LMP) \|Walking on the Moon (1995), play \|Apollo 18 Unnamed CSM/LM \|c. 1996 – 1997
colspan="3"\|During 1975 Apollo 18 mission to Taurus–Littrow, Williams accidentally ran over Scott with Lunar Roving Vehicle, leaving him in a coma. Twenty years later, Williams is tempted to kill Scott in order to sell his story to Hollywood.{{cite book \|first=Jason \|last=Milligan \|title=Walking on the Moon: A Comedy \|year=1997 \|publisher=Samuel French, Inc. \|isbn=0-573-65250-3}}
rowspan="2"\|Nikolai Gushkov Alexander Brinkov \|The Cape "Buried in Peace" (1996), TV \|Soviet crewed lunar programs,{{which\|date=July 2020}} Soyuz{{efn\|The Soyuz depicted in the episode most closely resembles the 7K-TM used for the ASTP, rather than the 7K-L1 lunar flyby or 7K-LOK lunar landing versions.}} \|1968
colspan="3"\|Cosmonauts launched on December 5, 1968, in an attempt to beat Apollo 11 to the Moon with a planned landing in the Sea of Crises. The mission fails when contact with the spacecraft is abruptly lost. The launch is covered up by the Soviet authorities as an uncrewed launch in the Zond program until the spacecraft is re-discovered by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Brinkov is described as a veteran of 6 previous missions and second only to Gagarin in the Soviet space program.{{cite episode \|first=Todd Ellis \|last=Kessler \|author-link=Todd Ellis Kessler \|title=Buried in Peace \|series=The Cape \|season=1 \|number=9 \|date=October 28, 1996 \|network=Syndication}}
rowspan="2"\|Grandpa (unnamed) (CDR) \|Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon (1996), picture book \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Apollo astronaut tells his grandchild bedtime story about his trip to the Moon.{{cite book\|first=Timothy R. \|last=Gaffney \|others=Illustrated by Barry Root \|title=Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon \|year=1996 \|publisher=Tambourine Books \|isbn=0-688-13937-X \|url=https://archive.org/details/grandpatakesmeto00gaff }}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut \|"In the MSOB" (1996), short story \|Apollo \|c. 2020
colspan="3"\|The last surviving astronaut to walk on the Moon is euthanized in nursing home.{{cite magazine \|first=Stephen \|last=Baxter \|author-link=Stephen Baxter (author) \|title=In the MSOB \|magazine=Interzone \|date=March 1996}}{{cite book \|last=Baxter \|first=Stephen \|chapter=In the MSOB \|title=The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection \|editor-last=Dozois \|editor-first=Gardner \|year=1997 \|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin \|isbn=0-312-15702-9 \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/yearsbestscience00gard_9/page/678 678–683] \|title-link=The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection }}
rowspan="2"\|Prospero One Roly Gough, Wg Cdr (Commander) Geoff Lighthill, Dr Bob Nash (CAPCOM) \|"Prospero One" (1996), short story \|Prospero \|April 26, 1974 (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|Crew of the first independently launched British spacecraft. Story set in same alternate history as Stephen Baxter's Voyage (q.v.).{{cite magazine \|first1=Stephen \|last1=Baxter \|first2=Simon \|last2=Bradshaw \|url=http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/prospero.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050310032846/http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/prospero.html \|archive-date=10 March 2005 \|access-date=April 30, 2014 \|title=Prospero One \|magazine=Interzone \|date=October 1996}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 3? Alan York (USAF) Unknown program: Daniel Gary Frederick March \|Rats Saw God (1996), novel \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Moonwalker York has troubled teenage son.{{cite book \|first=Rob \|last=Thomas \|author-link=Rob Thomas (writer) \|title=Rats Saw God \|year=1996 \|publisher=Simon & Schuster \|isbn=0-689-80207-2 \|title-link=Rats Saw God}}
rowspan="2"\|NASA: Ted Curval Bob Gold (Scientist-astronaut) Apollo 11: Joseph Muldoon, Col. (LMP) X-15: Philip Stone, Maj. (USAF) Apollo/Moonlab: Charles Jones (CDR) James Dana Phil Stone Moonlab/Soyuz: Grissom Joe Muldoon, Col. (CDR) Adam Bleeker Phil Stone Komarov Vladimir Pavlovich Viktorenko, Lt. Col. (Commander) Aleksandr Solovyov Apollo-N: Chuck Jones (CDR) Jim Dana (CMP) Ben Priest, Col. \|Voyage (1996), novel \|NASA: Apollo 11 NASA/USAF: X-15-1 NASA: Apollo/Moonlab: Enterprise (CSM) Moonlab (Wet Workshop) Moonlab/Soyuz: Grissom (CSM) Soyuz T-3 (Komarov) Moonlab Apollo-N (NERVA) \|July 1969 (alternate history) October 27, 1969 (alternate history) August 1976 (alternate history) November–December 1980 (alternate history) November 28 – December 4, 1980 (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|In alternate history, Muldoon is Apollo 11 LMP rather than Buzz Aldrin; Stone flies 200th and last mission of X-15 program in October 1969. Jones, Dana and Stone place Moonlab in lunar orbit in 1976. Soyuz T-3 (launched with N-1 rocket) docks with NASA Moonlab on December 1, 1980. Apollo-N, 1980 test flight of NERVA engine, ends in disaster.{{cite book \|first=Stephen \|last=Baxter \|title=Voyage \|publisher=HarperPrism \|year=1996 \|isbn=0-06-105258-2 \|title-link=Voyage (novel)}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo: Slade (CDR) Al Pond (CMP) Bado, Col. (USAF) (LMP) Apollo: Williams (no first name given) Unnamed astronaut Soviet mission: Unnamed cosmonaut Prometheus: Jim Richards, Capt. (RAF) Taine (no first name given) \|"Moon Six" (1997), "Sun-Drenched" (1998), short stories \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM Apollo Unnamed LM/Lunar Payload Module/Lunar Flying Unit Soviet lunar lander Royal Air Force: Prometheus (Alpha/Beta) \|1970 (alternate histories)
colspan="3"\|In "Moon Six", Bado finds himself shifting between parallel universes while on the Moon; in "Sun-Drenched", Slade and Bado are stranded on Moon when Command Module explodes in lunar orbit, killing Pond. Landing near Surveyor 7 or 8 landing site, near Tycho.{{cite book \|first=Stephen \|last=Baxter \|chapter=Sun-Drenched \|title=Science Fiction \|series=Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Writing \|editor1-last=Griffith \|editor1-first=Nicola \|editor1-link=Nicola Griffith \|editor2-last=Pagel \|editor2-first=Stephen \|publisher=The Overlook Press \|year=1998 \|isbn=0-87951-856-1 \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefiction0000unse/page/132 132–142] \|title-link=Bending the Landscape#Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction}}{{cite book \|first=Stephen \|last=Baxter \|chapter=Moon Six \|title=Other Worlds Than These \|editor-last=Adams \|editor-first=John Joseph \|editor-link=John Joseph Adams \|publisher=Night Shade Books \|year=2012 \|isbn=978-1-59780-433-2 \|pages=1–32}}
rowspan="2"\|Ivan Fiodorovich Istochnikov, Col. \|Sputnik (1997), conceptual artwork \|Soyuz 2 \|October 25, 1968
colspan="3"\|Istochnikov is discovered by Soyuz 3 to have vanished from capsule after apparent meteoroid strike.{{cite web \|url=http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik.html \|title=SPUTNIK FOUNDATION \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605182703/http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik.html \|date=1997 \|archive-date=June 5, 2008 \|publisher=Fundación Telefónica \|access-date=September 11, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik1.html \|title=SPUTNIK TEXTS 1 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821200355/http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik1.html \|date=1997 \|archive-date=August 21, 2008 \|publisher=Fundación Telefónica \|access-date=September 11, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik2.html \|title=SPUTNIK TEXTS 2 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119083240/http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik2.html \|date=1997 \|archive-date=November 19, 2008 \|publisher=Fundación Telefónica \|access-date=September 11, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik3.html \|title=SPUTNIK TEXTS 3 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106022120/http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/esputnik3.html \|date=1997 \|archive-date=January 6, 2009 \|publisher=Fundación Telefónica \|access-date=September 11, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Charlie (CDR) (no last name given) James "Jays" Holland, Col. (USAF) (LMP) \|"Moon-Calf" (1998), short story \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|1990s (June)
colspan="3"\|Twenty-five years after his sole spaceflight, moonwalker Holland visits strange chapel at Hereford Cathedral.{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-su2HZ6swMC \|first=Stephen \|last=Baxter \|chapter=Moon-Calf \|title=Phase Space: Stories from the Manifold and Elsewhere \|publisher=HarperVoyager \|year=2012 \|isbn=9780007387335 }}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 18: Bruce Cortney (CMP) Apollo 19: Gary Lucas (CDR) Victor Kendall (CMP) Charles Shepherd (LMP) Apollo 20: Bruce Cortney (CDR) \|Ice (2002), novel \|Apollo 18 Unnamed CSM/LM Apollo 19 Quest (CSM)/Starlight (LM) Apollo 20 Unnamed CSM/LM \|February 1975
colspan="3"\|Apollo 19 astronauts on a mission to the Aitken Basin; Apollo 20 recovery mission. Apollo 18 mission to Schröter's Valley in the Ocean of Storms is part of back-story.{{cite book \|first=Shane \|last=Johnson \|author-link=Shane Johnson (author) \|title=Ice \|publisher=Waterbrook Press \|year=2002 \|isbn=1-57856-548-0 \|title-link=Ice (Johnson novel)}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 19: Jeremiah "Jerry" Finch Backup crew: Gary Sprine Flek Davis Cud Wilson (backup to Finch) \|Gentlemen of Space (2003), novel \|Apollo 19 Unnamed CSM/LM \|October 1975 – August 1976
colspan="3"\|Earth science teacher Finch wins contest to become first ordinary person on Moon. July 1976 landing in Sea of Tranquility.{{cite book \|first=Ira \|last=Sher \|title=Gentlemen of Space \|year=2003 \|publisher=The Free Press \|isbn=0-7432-4218-1 \|url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemenofspace00sher}}
rowspan="2"\|Orbital mission: Sullivan Carew Moon landing: Wallace "Suitcase" Jefferson Louis "Loopie Louie" Hayes Peter "Stinky Pete" Carver Rocket Randall Unnamed astronauts \|The Old Negro Space Program (2003), short film \|Negro American Space Society of Astronauts (NASSA) \|1957–1966
colspan="3"\|African-American organization formed in response to lack of jobs for Black Americans at NASA. Moon landing on September 31, 1966.{{cite AV media \|people=Andy Bobrow (Writer/Director/Producer/Actor) \|year=2003 \|title=The Old Negro Space Program \|medium=Motion picture \|url=http://www.negrospaceprogram.com/ \|access-date=January 5, 2016}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 18: Jake "Doggie Daddy" Deaver, Cmdr. (USN) (CDR) Augustus Julian "Augie"{{efn\|Also known as "Augie Doggie".}} Blake, Col. (USMC) (LMP) Apollo (US/Soviet): Three unnamed astronauts/cosmonauts \|The Orion Protocol (2003), novel \|Apollo 18 Unnamed CSM/LM Apollo (US/Soviet mission) Unnamed CSM/LM \|1973 December 1974
colspan="3"\|Two-man crew of final official Apollo Moon mission investigates alien ruins in Sinus Medii. Secret US/Soviet follow-up mission, launched by Soviet Titan-class rocket, lands in Sinus Medii on December 25, 1974.{{cite book\|first=Gary \|last=Tigerman \|title=The Orion Protocol \|year=2003 \|publisher=William Morrow \|isbn=0-380-97670-6 \|url=https://archive.org/details/orionprotocol00tige}}
rowspan="2"\|Bucky Brandt \|50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (a.k.a. How to Lose Your Lover) (2004), film \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who traveled to Moon is having his biography written.
rowspan="2"\|Robert Paradise \|Paradise (2004), TV movie \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Apollo astronaut who becomes a televangelist after his return to Earth.
rowspan="2"\|Chet Aston \|"Astronaut of the Year" (2005), short story \|Apollo? \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Veteran of thirteen spaceflights has become lonely and rude in his old age.{{cite journal \|first=Joe \|last=Meno \|author-link=Joe Meno \|title=Astronaut of the Year \|journal=The 2nd Hand}}{{cite book \|first=Joe \|last=Meno \|title=Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir: Stories \|publisher=Northwestern University Press (TriQuarterly Books) \|year=2005 \|isbn=0-8101-5167-7 \|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bluebirdsusedtoc00meno/page/171 171–180] \|title-link=Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir: Stories }}
rowspan="2"\|Timothy Vine \|Cold Case "Debut" (2006), TV \|Apollo \|December 14, 1968 / 2006 (Winter)
colspan="3"\|Astronaut in line for Moon landing whose daughter is killed at debutante ball.{{cite episode \|last1=Lewicki \|first1=Karin \|author-link1=Karin Lewicki \|last2=Purdy \|first2=Kate \|title=Debut \|series=Cold Case \|season=3 \|number=13 \|network=CBS \|date=January 29, 2006 \|url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x55by6o \|access-date=July 21, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Nick Tercel \|Honeymoon With Mom (2006), TV movie \|Apollo? \|2005
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who walked on Moon in 1980 now owns island resort.{{cite web \|url=http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/honeymoon-with-mom/honeymoon-with-mom.html \|last=Webb \|first=Andy \|title=Review: Honeymoon with Mom (2006) \|publisher=The MovieScene \|access-date=April 1, 2016}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 19?: Stephanie Ellis (Grumman) Apollo 20: Leona Marietta Snyder (Bell Labs) (CMP) \|Apollo 20 hoax (2007), Internet hoax \|Apollo 19 Apollo 20 Phoenix (LM) \|February 1976 August 1976
colspan="3"\|Man calling himself William Rutledge claimed he commanded US/Soviet Apollo 20 mission, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, with crewmates Snyder and Alexei Leonov. Alleged landing southwest of Delporte Crater on lunar farside.{{cite web \|url=http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/REPORTS_ARTICLES/Apollo20-InterviewWithWilliamRutledge.htm \|first=Luca \|last=Scantamburlo \|title=An Alien Spaceship on the Moon: Interview With William Rutledge, member of the Apollo 20 Crew \|date=May 2007 \|access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/REPORTS_ARTICLES/Phoenix-PresumedFlightCourse.htm \|first=Luca \|last=Scantamburlo \|title=The Presumed Flight Course of the Phoenix Lunar Module Before Descent \|date=August 8, 2007 \|access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/REPORTS_ARTICLES/Apollo19CDR-interview.htm \|first=Luca \|last=Scantamburlo \|title=An Interview with Apollo 19 Commander \|date=September 15, 2008 \|access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cite web \|url=http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/PRESS_RELEASES/taurus-spaceprogram-pressrelease2016.htm \|first=Luca \|last=Scantamburlo \|title=Taurus Space Program. American Astronauts on the Moon in 1966 - Press release - testimony \|date=April 10, 2016 \|access-date=January 8, 2019}}
rowspan="2"\|Voskhodyeniye Yefgenii Yeremin \|Ascent (2007), novel \|Zond Project \|July 1969
colspan="3"\|Soviet Korean War veteran launched on a secret mission to beat Apollo 11 to the Moon. When the mission fails he is erased from history.{{cite book \|first=Jed \|last=Mercurio \|author-link=Jed Mercurio \|title=Ascent \|publisher=Random House (Vintage Books) \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-0-09-946852-3 \|title-link=Ascent (novel)}}
rowspan="2"\|Clark Evans \|"The Dream Life of Astronauts" (2007), short story \|Apollo \|1980s
colspan="3"\|Unflown Apollo astronaut recruits gay teenager for sexual threesome.{{cite book \|first=Patrick \|last=Ryan \|author-link=Patrick Ryan (American author) \|title=Between Men \|chapter=The Dream Life of Astronauts \|publisher=Running Press \|year=2007}}{{cite book \|first=Patrick \|last=Ryan \|title=The Dream Life of Astronauts \|publisher=The Dial Press \|year=2016 \|isbn=978-0-385-34138-7 \|pages=33–62}}
rowspan="2"\|Richard Wade, Capt. (USAF) Mark Garris, Capt. (USAF) Michael Hagen, Capt. (USAF) \|Fallout 3 (2008), video game \|United States Space Administration (USSA): Valiant 11 Virgo II (Apollo and LK-like) \|July 16, 1969 (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|In this video game taking place in 2277, exactly 200 years after a nuclear war, the player can visit the Museum of Technology in the ruins of Washington, D.C. The game (and the rest of the series) takes place in an alternate timeline that diverges from reality after World War II. As in our timeline, the United States was the first country to land humans on the Moon and did so starting in July 1969. The mission itself is slightly different to the one in reality as shown by the museum's Space Race exhibit. This fictional version of Apollo 11, known as "Valiant 11", was launched by the United States Space Administration (USSA), the timeline's version of NASA. All three astronauts on the mission were U.S. Air Force Captains, namely, Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen. The lunar module that flew them there was known as Virgo II and the date they landed on the Moon was July 16, 1969 (the same day Apollo 11 was launched in real life). The exhibit at the museum displays a replica of Virgo II which does not resemble the Apollo LM used in Apollo 11; instead it appears similar to the LK lunar module that was tested by the Soviets in the 1960s and 1970s but never carried humans to the Moon.{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.pcgamer.com/major-events-in-the-fallout-timeline/ \|last=Macgregor \|first=Jody \|title=Major events in the Fallout timeline \|date=July 28, 2018 \|magazine=PC Gamer \|publisher=Future US, Inc. \|access-date=October 23, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Paul, Capt. (CMP) Jack (LMP) (no last names given) \|The Spaceman (2009), novelet \|Apollo 20 Artemis (CSM)/Raven (LM) \|December 15–17, 1972 (alternate history) / Summer 1994
colspan="3"\|Command module loses contact with lunar module during J mission to Tycho commanded by Stu Roosa.{{cite magazine \|first=Mike \|last=O'Driscoll \|title=The Spaceman \|date=June–July 2009 \|volume=116 \|issue=6 & 7 \|magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction \|issn=1095-8258 \|pages=230–256}}
rowspan="2"\|Frank Allen (CDR) Unnamed CMP Max Donnelly (LMP) \|"The Cassandra Project" (2010), short story \|Apollo Unnamed CSM/LM \|Late 1968
colspan="3"\|Secret landing before Apollo 11 to investigate alien dome in Cassegrain Crater. Astronauts' names changed in 2012 novel adaptation.{{cite magazine \|first=Jack \|last=McDevitt \|author-link=Jack McDevitt \|title=The Cassandra Project \|date=June 2010 \|issue=1 \|magazine=Lightspeed \|url=http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cassandra-project/}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 18: Nathan Walker, Cmdr. (CDR) John Grey, Lt. Col. (CMP) Benjamin Anderson, Capt. (LMP) Thomas Young (CAPCOM){{efn\|Not explicitly stated to be an astronaut.}} LK Proton lander: Unnamed Russian cosmonaut \|Apollo 18 (2011), film \|Apollo 18 Freedom (CSM)/Liberty (LM) Soviet Union: LK Proton lander \|December 1974
colspan="3"\|Apollo 18 astronauts on top-secret DOD mission to the lunar south pole discover dead Russian cosmonaut and alien life.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/apollo-18-2011.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=Apollo 18 (2011) \|date=December 31, 2011 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{cite web \|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67666-APOLLO-18?sid=c0f8b829-26a6-430f-9eb9-39598ac4fa56&sr=10.985389&cp=1&pos=0 \|title=Apollo 18 \|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films \|publisher=American Film Institute \|access-date=November 8, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Vance Peterson, Col. \|Adrift on the Sea of Rains (2012), novella \|Apollo \|Late 1980s (alternate history)
colspan="3"\|Commander of US military Moon base which follows on from, and uses hardware developed for, the Apollo program.
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed CSM/LM: Sidney Myshko (CDR) Brian Peters (CMP) Louie "Crash" Able (LMP){{efn\|The book contradicts itself on whether Peters or Able was Myshko's LMP; see pp. 21 and 375.}} Frank Kirby (CAPCOM) Unnamed CSM/LM: Aaron Walker (CDR) Amos Bartlett (CMP) Lenny Mullen (LMP) \|The Cassandra Project (2012), novel \|Apollo \|January 11–21, 1969 April 1969
colspan="3"\|Secret landings before Apollo 11 to investigate alien dome in Cassegrain Crater.{{cite book \|first1=Jack \|last1=McDevitt \|first2=Mike \|last2=Resnick \|author-link2=Mike Resnick \|title=The Cassandra Project \|publisher=Ace Books \|year=2012 \|isbn=978-1-937008-71-0 \|url=https://archive.org/details/cassandraproject00jack}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 18: Robert Cartwright, Cmdr. (CDR) Steve Dayton, Maj. (CMP) Mason Gale (LMP) Rick Delahousse (CAPCOM) Rodinia: Boris Vasiliyevich Petrov, Col. (Commander) Alexander Ivanovich "Sasha" Kruchinkin (Cosmonaut-Engineer) \|Sea of Crises (2012), novel \|Apollo 18 Lexington (CSM)/Concord (LM) Soviet Union: Rodinia \|September 1976 / contemporary
colspan="3"\|Apollo 18 mission to Mare Crisium to investigate secret Soviet moonbase.{{cite book \|last=Steere \|first=Marty \|title=Sea of Crises \|publisher=Penfield Publications \|year=2012 \|isbn=978-0-9854014-0-5}}
rowspan="2"\|Stas Arsenievich \|The Cosmonaut (2013), film \|Soviet Moonshot program Kolibri module (fictional) \|c. 1970–1975
colspan="3"\|Only member of the first Soviet human mission to the Moon. He gets lost during the trip to the Moon; upon his return, he has been inexplicably transported to an alternate Earth.{{cite web \|url=http://screenanarchy.com/2009/05/has-the-cosmonaut-discovered-the-future-of-film-making.html \|last=Brown \|first=Todd \|title=Has THE COSMONAUT Discovered The Future Of Film Making? \|date=May 28, 2009 \|publisher=ScreenAnarchy \|access-date=October 4, 2017}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut \|Louie "Model" (2014), TV \|Apollo \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Former astronaut who walked on Moon punches Louie after he injures his daughter.
rowspan="2"\|Project Apollo: Frank Goldwing, Capt. Unnamed astronauts Modern era: Scott Goldwing Sam Unnamed astronauts Carson Industries: Richard Carson III \|Capture the Flag (2015), film \|NASA: Apollo Unnamed (CSM)/Falcon (LM) Carson Industries \|Near future (2010s)
colspan="3"\|When billionaire Carson attempts to claim the Moon for its helium-3 deposits, NASA launches an old Apollo spacecraft crewed by the retired Frank Goldwing, two children and a lizard to recover Apollo 11's US flag. Frank Goldwing was scheduled to fly on the last Apollo Moon mission but was dropped from the crew.{{cite journal \|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/capture-the-flag-review-1201655191/ \|journal=Variety \|last=Leydon \|first=Joe \|author-link=Joe Leydon \|title='Capture the Flag' Review: A Family-Friendly Space-Race Adventure \|date=December 7, 2015 \|access-date=September 24, 2017}}
rowspan="2"\|Andrei Sergeyevich Ilith (sp?){{efn\|Not explicitly stated to be a cosmonaut.}} Unnamed cosmonaut \|The Cosmonaut (2015), short film \|Soyuz \|c. 1970
colspan="3"\|Unnamed cosmonaut experiences emergency during spacecraft systems test.{{cite AV media \|people=Fran Bafaluy \|date=July 2, 2015 \|title=The Cosmonaut \|medium=Motion picture \|language=en \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQh9iZLVfoQ \|access-date=August 14, 2018 }}
rowspan="2"\|Edward R. Jones, Cmdr. \|The Devout (2015), film \|Apollo 1 \|Contemporary
colspan="3"\|Astronaut who died in Apollo 1 fire is possibly reincarnated as little girl.{{cite web \|url=http://www.moriareviews.com/fantasy/devout-2015.htm \|first=Richard \|last=Scheib \|website=Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review \|title=The Devout (2015) \|date=October 16, 2015 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Alan York \|iZombie "Patriot Brains", "Astroburger" (2015), TV \|Apollo (unspecified flight) \|Between 1969 and 1972
colspan="3"\|Alan York is depicted as one of the first of the twelve men to have walked on the Moon. Cf. Rats Saw God above.{{efn\|Rats Saw God was written by Rob Thomas, the co-developer of the iZombie TV series.}}{{cite episode \|last=Forman \|first=Robert \|title=Patriot Brains \|series=iZombie \|series-link=iZombie (TV series) \|date=May 12, 2015 \|season=1 \|number=9}}{{cite episode \|last=Boss \|first=Kit \|title=Astroburger \|series=iZombie \|series-link=iZombie (TV series) \|date=May 26, 2015 \|season=1 \|number=11}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 20: William "Memphis" Cato, Col. (CDR) Angela Phelps, Dr. (Geologist) (LMP) Clockwork Corp.: Unnamed pilots Other unnamed personnel \|"Let Baser Things Devise" (2015), short story \|Apollo 20 Unnamed CSM/LM Clockwork Corp.: Camelot Base \|1975 2025
colspan="3"\|Cato and Phelps were fatally stranded in Mare Serenitatis due to thruster failure and meteor impact. Fifty years later, an "uplifted" chimpanzee named Pierre and a robot discover Cato and Phelps' bodies while on mining mission. Apollo 19 is mentioned as also experiencing an emergency. Pierre and the robot fly to Moon aboard Russian rocket with American orbiter and Japanese lunar module.{{cite journal \|url=http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/henderson_04_15/ \|first=Berrien C. \|last=Henderson \|title=Let Baser Things Devise \|journal=Clarkesworld Magazine \|issue=103 \|date=April 2015 \|access-date=April 14, 2021}}{{cite book \|first=Berrien C. \|last=Henderson \|chapter=Let Baser Things Devise \|title=The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction \|editor-last=Clarke \|editor-first=Neil \|year=2019 \|publisher=Night Shade Books \|pages=516–528 \|isbn=978-1-59780-999-3}}
rowspan="2"\|Salyut 4: Ilya Ilyushin, Maj.{{efn\|Incorrectly called "Captain" in author's note (p. 234).}} \|Astrotwins: Project Rescue (2016), novel \|Soviet Union: Salyut 4 Soyuz Apollo: Crazy 9 (CSM){{efn\|Jacket illustration depicts Gemini spacecraft, but text describes Apollo CSM.}} \|March 28 – April 13, 1976
colspan="3"\|Twelve-year-old Scott and Mark Kelly fly spare Apollo CSM to rescue cosmonaut stranded on Salyut space station. Crazy 9 is launched by Titan II rocket powered by sugar-based solid propellant.{{cite book \|last1=Kelly \|first1=Mark \|author-link1=Mark Kelly \|last2=Freeman \|first2=Martha \|title=Astrotwins: Project Rescue \|publisher=Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers \|year=2016 \|isbn=978-1-4814-2458-5}}
rowspan="2"\|Ulyana Markovskaya \|The Last Dream for the Moon (2016), short film \|Soviet Union: Zond L1-S3 Lunniy Korabl Z (lunar lander) \|June 19 – 20, 1969 / 2009
colspan="3"\|Female cosmonaut returning from failed Moon mission crashes in Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Mission possibly launched using N1-L3 rocket.{{cite web \|url=https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/post/the-last-dream-for-the-moon-short-film \|first=Daniel \|last=Reason \|website=UK Film Review \|title=The Last Dream for the Moon short film \|date=August 8, 2017 \|access-date=April 17, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Robert Henley (CDR) Garris (CMP) (no first name given) Eric Dysart, Dr. (Prof.) (USN) (LMP) \|The Rift: The Dark Side of the Moon (2016), film \|Apollo \|1976 / 2011
colspan="3"\|Henley disappeared on final Apollo flight, a classified mission to lunar farside. Dysart was selected as one of the first NASA Scientist-Astronauts in 1965 and flew aboard Skylab in 1973.{{cite web \|url=http://filmthreat.com/reviews/the-rift-dark-side-of-the-moon/ \|first=Malik \|last=Adán \|work=Film Threat \|title=The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon \|date=December 21, 2017 \|access-date=November 14, 2018}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut \|Apollo 18 (2017), short film \|Apollo 18 \|September 24, 2015
colspan="3"\|Lone astronaut travels to Moon in order to fire bullet to destroy wasp hive on Earth.{{cite AV media \|people=Ryan Patton (Director/Writer/Editor) \|year=2017 \|title=Apollo 18 \|medium=Motion picture \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJNoYZIiVY \|access-date=February 14, 2021 \|publisher=Orange Studios}}
rowspan="2"\|Kyle "Chip" Casperson \|All the Beautiful Girls (2018), novel \|NASA \|Late 1967
colspan="3"\|Spaceflight veteran who has affair with Las Vegas showgirl Ruby Wilde.{{cite book \|last=Church \|first=Elizabeth J. \|title=All the Beautiful Girls \|publisher=Large Print Press \|year=2019 \|isbn=978-1-4328-6126-1}}
rowspan="2"\|Avraham "Avi" Stein, Capt. (Hebrew: אברהם שטיין) (Israeli Air Force) Apollo 18: Dale "Penalty Box" Lunden, Capt.{{efn\|Later promoted to Colonel.}} (USAF?) (CDR) Two unnamed astronauts \|The Astronaut's Son (2018), novel \|Apollo 18 \|1974 (September – November)
colspan="3"\|Israeli astronaut Stein, assigned to command Apollo 18, dies of apparent heart attack two days before scheduled launch. Vietnam veteran Lunden, previously assigned to command the mission, reclaims his spot after Stein's death. Apollo 18 launches on November 18, 1974.{{cite book \|last=Seigel \|first=Tom \|title=The Astronaut's Son \|publisher=Woodhall Press \|year=2018 \|isbn=978-0-9975437-8-0}}
rowspan="2"\|Apollo 18: Edward I. Lovett (CDR) Barton "Bo" Cunningham, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (CMP) Albert R. Borden (Geologist) (LMP) \|The Landing (2018), film \|Apollo 18 Unnamed CSM/LM \|May – June 1973 / 1998
colspan="3"\|Documentary made for 25th anniversary of Apollo 18 mission. Lovett and Cunningham were members of NASA Astronaut Group 2. Moon landing on May 26, 1973; Command Module overshoots splashdown target and lands in Taklamakan Desert in Northwest China on June 3, 1973.{{cite journal \|last=Scheck \|first=Frank \|author-link=Frank Scheck \|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/landing-1138739 \|title='The Landing': Film Review \|date=August 31, 2018 \|journal=The Hollywood Reporter \|access-date=April 14, 2021}}{{cite journal \|last=Gibson \|first=Bradley \|url=https://filmthreat.com/reviews/the-landing/ \|title=The Landing \|date=October 15, 2018 \|journal=Film Threat \|access-date=April 14, 2021}}
rowspan="2"\|Unnamed astronaut(s) \|One Hundred Hunters - A visit from the Moon (2018), music video \|Gemini Apollo \|c. late 1960s/early 1970s
colspan="3"\|Astronaut on Apollo mission investigates alien spheres on Moon; the same or another astronaut eventually disappears into portal in larger sphere.{{cite AV media \|people=Nigel John Stanford \|date=April 13, 2018 \|title=One Hundred Hunters - A visit from the Moon \|medium=Music video \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky2rtCpbn7k \|access-date=April 25, 2018 }}
rowspan="2"\|Johnson (no first name given) \|Stuck The Untold Story of Apollo 18 (2023), short film \|Apollo 18 \|1970s?
colspan="3"\|Astronaut on secret mission to plant fallen Apollo 11 flag upright.{{cite AV media \|people=Jordy Vandeput (Writer/Director/Actor) \|year=2023 \|title=The Untold Story of Apollo 18 \|medium=Motion picture \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGd63nIVN78 \|access-date=August 30, 2023 \|publisher=Cinecom.net}}

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