List of space travelers by nationality

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The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The {{Lang|fr|Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|italic=no}} (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over {{convert|100|km|mi}}, while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of {{convert|50|mi|km}} are awarded astronaut wings. The majority of people who have flown into space have done so by entering Earth orbit. This list includes people meeting all three criteria, in separate subdivisions.

The flags indicate the space traveler's nationality at the time of their flight. In cases of dual citizenship, the space traveler is listed under their primary residence. A secondary list appended to the entry for the Soviet Union shows the birth countries of space travelers not born in Russia. A similar list after the entry for the United States shows the birth countries of space travelers who were citizens of the US but were born elsewhere. Flags shown in the secondary lists are those in use at the time of the space travelers' birth.

Names in italic are space travelers who are not part of any national astronaut program or astronaut corps (Toyohiro Akiyama, Helen Sharman, the Space Adventures customers and the sub-orbital SpaceShipOne and Blue Origin pilots).

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Statistics

{{As of|2025|03|df=US}}, people from 47 countries have traveled in space.Other Wikipedia articles count Anousheh Ansari as an Iranian-American dual citizen; they may also consider Russia and the Soviet Union, or East, West, and even united Germany as distinct countries, resulting in counts of 40 or more countries. 682 people have reached the altitude of space according to the FAI definition of the boundary of space. 721 people have reached the altitude of space according to the USAF definition, and 624 have reached Earth orbit.{{cite web | title=Astronaut/Cosmonaut Statistics | website=World Space Flight | date=2023-06-15 | url=https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/stats.php | access-date=2023-08-09}} 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit and either circled, orbited, or walked on the Moon.

Of the 44 countries whose citizens have traveled into Earth's orbit, 25 have flown a single space traveler, and four others (Belgium, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) have flown two each. 94% of all space travelers have hailed from the following eight nations:

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1 Includes both national space programme activity and European Space Agency participation.

2 Includes astronauts from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

Orbital space travelers

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= China=

{{See also|List of Chinese astronauts}}

= Cuba=

=Czechoslovakia=

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=European Space Agency members=

{{See also|European Astronaut Corps}}

Some of these astronauts participated in national space programme activity unrelated to their home country's contemporary or subsequent membership of the European Space Agency.

==Austria==

== Belgium==

==Denmark==

==France==

{{See also|List of French spationauts}}

==Germany==

{{See also|List of German astronauts}}

== Hungary ==

==Italy==

{{See also|List of Italian astronauts}}

==Netherlands==

{{See also|List of Dutch astronauts}}

==Norway==

(Marcus Wandt, who went on Axiom Mission 3 in 2024, is listed under Sweden but also holds a Norwegian passport.)

==Malta==

==Poland==

== Romania==

== Spain==

Additionally, Michael López-Alegría, born in Madrid to an American mother and Spanish father who moved to California at the age of 9, holds both Spanish and American nationality. A six-time astronaut with the most recent mission in 2024, he is in the top five astronauts who have been to space most often, and has the second longest record for spacewalks, spending a total of 68 hours walking in Outer Space, which is also the longest among non-Russian astronauts and the longest in the 21st century. After retiring from NASA, López-Alegría commanded Axiom-1, the first ever all-private team of commercial astronaut mission in 2021.

==Sweden==

(Jessica Meir, who went on Soyuz MS-15 in 2019, is listed under United States but also holds a Swedish passport.)

==Switzerland==

==United Kingdom==

Additionally, Michael Foale was born in England to a British father and American mother. He is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States, and was raised and educated in England. He flew as a member of NASA's Astronaut Corps with dual British American citizenship.{{cite news|title=Astronaut Michael Foale retires from Nasa|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23645168|access-date=5 November 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=10 August 2013}} Piers Sellers, Nicholas Patrick, Richard Garriott, Marcus Wandt and Mark Shuttleworth have dual nationalities.

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= India =

=Israel=

= Japan=

{{See also|List of Japanese astronauts}}

= Kazakhstan=

=Malaysia=

=Mexico=

= Mongolia=

= Russian Federation =

{{Main|Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps}}

{{Further|List of cosmonauts}}

:All here listed cosmonauts were citizens of the Russian Federation at the time of at least one of their space flights. The Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA) cosmonauts born outside of Russia are marked with an asterisk (*). For cosmonauts who flew for the Soviet Union see the dedicated header. The Soviet space program had no unified space agency, the parts of the program which were claimed by today's Russian Federation became part of its Russian Federal Space Agency.

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= Saudi Arabia=

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= South Africa=

=South Korea=

= Soviet Union =

{{Further|List of cosmonauts}}

:All here listed cosmonauts were citizens of the Soviet Union at the time of at least one of their space flights. The cosmonauts born within republics of the Soviet Union other than the Russian Soviet Republic are marked with an asterisk (*) and their place of birth is shown in an appended list. For cosmonauts of ex-Soviet countries see their dedicated headers. The Soviet space program had no unified space agency, its parts were claimed by different ex-Soviet countries.

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==Soviet cosmonauts born outside the Russian Soviet Republic==

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=== Latvian SSR / Latvia ===

=== Ukrainian SSR / Ukraine ===

===Uzbek SSR / Uzbekistan ===

=Syria=

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= United States=

: {{small|*}} Asterisked space travelers were born outside the United States

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==Americans born abroad==

  1. {{flagicon image|Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg}} William Anders, born in Hong Kong to American parents.
  2. {{flagicon image|Flag of Argentina.svg}} Fernando Caldeiro, born in Ituzaingó, Argentina.
  3. {{flagicon|Canada|1962}} Gregory Chamitoff, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  4. {{flagicon|Italy|1861}} Michael Collins, born in Rome, Italy to American parents.
  5. {{Flagicon|GBR}} Richard Garriott, born in Cambridge, England.
  6. {{Flagicon|GBR}} Gregory H. Johnson, born in South Ruislip, England.
  7. {{Flagicon|PAN}} Frederick W. Leslie, born in Ancón, Panama Canal Zone (now Panama).
  8. {{Flagicon|Taiwan}} Kjell N. Lindgren, born in Taipei, Taiwan.
  9. {{Flagicon|China|1928}} Shannon LucidFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, born in Shanghai, China (then under Japanese rule) to American parents.
  10. {{Flagicon|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands}} James H. Newman, born in the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Micronesia).
  11. {{Flagicon|West Germany}} Jasmin Moghbeli, born in Bad Nauheim, West Germany.'

==Naturalized Americans==

  1. {{flagicon|Iran|1964}} Anousheh AnsariFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, born in Mashhad, Iran. First Iranian-American in space. Fourth space tourist and first female space tourist.
  2. {{Flagicon|IND}} Sirisha BandlaFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, born in Guntur, India.
  3. {{Flagicon|CRC}} Franklin Chang-Diaz, born in San José, Costa Rica. First Costa Rican-American in space.
  4. {{Flagicon|IND}} Kalpana ChawlaFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, born in Karnal, India. First Indian-American in space.
  5. {{Flagicon|GBR}} Michael Foale, born in Louth, England, dual British and American citizen.
  6. {{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Michael Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid, Spain.
  7. {{Flagicon|PER}} Carlos I. Noriega, born in Lima, Peru. First Peruvian-born person in space.
  8. {{Flagicon|GBR}} Nicholas Patrick, born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England, dual UK-US citizen.
  9. {{Flagicon|AUS}} Paul Scully-Power, born in Sydney, Australia.
  10. {{Flagicon|GBR}} Piers Sellers, born in Crowborough, England, dual UK-US citizen.
  11. {{flagicon|Hungary|1946}} Charles Simonyi, born in Budapest, Hungary. Fifth space tourist.
  12. {{Flagicon|AUS}} Andrew Thomas, born in Adelaide, Australia.
  13. {{Flagicon|South Vietnam}} Eugene Trinh, born in Saigon, State of Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). First Vietnamese-American in space.
  14. {{Flagicon|NLD}} Lodewijk van den Berg, born in Sluiskil, the Netherlands.
  15. {{Flagicon|China|1928}} Taylor Wang, born in Shanghai, China. First Chinese American in space.

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=Vietnam=

Suborbital space fliers

Fliers marked with an asterisk flew into the upper atmosphere between {{convert|80|and|100|km}}, which counts as space flight by United States guidelines. Those without flew above {{convert|100|km}}, which counts as a space flight by {{Lang|fr|Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|italic=no}} guidelines.

=Antigua and Barbuda=

=Austria=

=Australia=

=Brazil=

=Canada=

=Egypt=

=France=

=India=

=Israel=

=Italy=

=New Zealand=

=Pakistan=

=Panama=

=Puerto Rico=

=Portugal=

=Singapore=

  • Nicolina Elrick, first astronaut / space tourist, representing Singapore. — Blue Origin NS-26 (2024)

=South Africa=

  • Timothy Nash*{{Cite web |title=Core memory unlocked. Welcome to space, #Galactic03. Congratulations, 014, 015, and 016! |url=https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/1700170319343112596?s=20 |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}Galactic 03 (2023)

=Spain=

=The Netherlands=

=Turkey=

=Ukraine=

=Union of Soviet Socialist Republics=

The Soviet Union never launched a spaceflight intended as suborbital. The following people were launched aboard Soyuz 7K-T No.39 (also Soyuz 18a), which was intended as orbital, but aborted before reaching orbit.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz181.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020206225318/http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz181.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2002|title=Soyuz 18-1|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|access-date=July 27, 2014}}

=United States=

=United Kingdom=

=Dual Citizens=

Additionally, Hamish Harding was a dual national British and UAE and Vanessa O'Brien is a dual national American and British. Both chose to fly the British flag on their respective Blue Origin flights.{{cite web |title=Dubai resident Hamish Harding to fly into space on Blue Origin's mission on May 20 |url=https://dailyguardian.ae/dubai-resident-hamish-harding-to-fly-into-space-on-blue-origins-mission-on-may-20/ |website=Daily Guardian |access-date=17 May 2022}} But, Timothy Nash who is a dual national South African and British flew under both flags. Some others like him also flew under two flags.

See also

Notes

{{Reflist}}*Due to the rise of space tourism (predominately done through private companies, such as but not limited to: Space X and Virgin) this list may change or may become outdated .{{Space exploration lists and timelines||state=uncollapsed}}

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