List of space travellers by first flight

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres in altitude – the two grey-shaded regions.

This is a list of space travellers by first flight. The table is listed in chronological order from the date of first flight. The table adheres to a common definition of a space traveller; the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale criterion of achieving an altitude higher than 100 km (62 mi; 330,000 ft), thereby crossing the FAI-defined Kármán line. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. Personnel who qualify only for the United States Astronaut Badge, awarded to those who achieve an altitude of 50 mi (80 km; 264,000 ft), are listed at the X-15's highest flights and the VSS Unity test flights.

Space travellers

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Table parameters

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Legend
Italics Sub-orbital spaceflights that crossed 100 km (62 mi).
After the name, denotes sub-orbital space travellers who have flown into orbit on a subsequent space flight.
After the name, denotes space travellers who have flown to the Moon without landing.
After the name, denotes space travellers who have walked on the Moon.
After the name, denotes those who died during their first spaceflight.[nb 1]
After the name, denotes those who died during a subsequent spaceflight.[nb 1]
After the name, denotes those whose first spaceflight had begun and was clearly intended[nb 2] to cross 100 km (62 mi), but failed to do so.
Linked country In the 'Nationality' column, denotes the first from that country to pass 100 km (62 mi).[nb 3]
Unlinked name Subsequent table entry for a space traveller who made or attempted a previous spaceflight.[nb 4]

All entries are dated from launch time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which on occasion is one day earlier than the local date of launches from sites in the Eastern Hemisphere such as Baikonur and one day later than the local date of launches from sites in the Western Hemisphere such as Cape Canaveral.

As a rule, dual nationals fly under a single flag when flying as professional spacecrew and/or when flying on government-operated spacecraft, and this is the flag they are listed under in the table. For the spaceflights of dual nationals who are private citizens flying on commercial spacecraft as ordinary passengers, the flags displayed are those of their countries of birth, unless the space traveller did not hold citizenship of that country and/or otherwise made clear (s)he intended to represent a different nationality.

Table

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Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space and in orbit.
Alan Shepard, the first American and the second person in space.
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman and 12th person in space.
Alexei Leonov, joint 17th in space and first to perform an EVA.
John Young, 19th person in space, first to fly solo around the Moon and first to command a Space Shuttle.
Vladimir Komarov, joint 14th person and first to die during spaceflight (during Soyuz 1).
Vladimir Komarov, joint 14th person and first to die during spaceflight (during Soyuz 1).
Neil Armstrong, joint 26th person in space and first to set foot on the Moon
Harrison Schmitt, joint 59th person in space. The most recent person and first geologist to have arrived on the Moon
Vladimír Remek, 88th person in space and the first from a country other than the US or the Soviet Union
Sigmund Jähn, 91st person in space and the first German
Georgi Ivanov, 93rd person in space and the first Bulgarian
Phạm Tuân, 97th person in space, and the first from an Asian country (Vietnam)
Story Musgrave, joint 116th person in space and the only person to have flown on all five NASA Space Shuttles.
Sally Ride, joint 120th person and the first American woman in space
Guion Bluford, joint 125th person and the first African American in space
Bruce McCandless, joint 133rd person in space and the first to perform an untethered EVA
Rakesh Sharma, 139th person and the first Indian in space
Anna Lee Fisher, joint 155th person and the first mother in space
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, joint 170th person, first royal, and first Saudi Arabian in space.
Rodolfo Neri Vela, joint 192nd and first Mexican in space
Muhammed Faris, joint 202nd and first Syrian in space
Anatoly Solovyev, joint 206th person in space and the person to have the most time in EVA, as of 2014
Sergei Krikalev, 210th person in space
William Shepherd, joint 211th person in space and the first commander of the ISS
Toyohiro Akiyama, joint 239th person and the first journalist and the first Japanese in space on the first commercially organized spaceflight.
Helen Sharman, joint 249th and first British astronaut
Dirk Frimout, joint 268th and first Belgian to go into space
Franco Malerba, joint 277th and first Italian to go into space
Claude Nicollier, joint 277th and first Swiss to go into space
Mae Jemison, joint 280th person and first African American woman to go into space
Susan Helms, joint 286th person in space and first woman to serve on board the ISS
Yuri Malenchenko, joint 309th person in space and first to marry in space
Chiaki Mukai, joint 311th person and first Japanese woman in space
Yelena Kondakova, 318th person in space and first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight
Eileen Collins, the 322nd person in space, first female commander and first female pilot of a Space Shuttle
Koichi Wakata, joint 339th person in space and first Japanese commander of the ISS
Kalpana Chawla, joint 366th person, first Indian American astronaut and first Indian woman in space
Pedro Duque, 384th person in space and first Spanish national
Ivan Bella, 386th person and first Slovak in space
Scott Kelly, 391st person and first of the first identical twin brothers to go into space
Dennis Tito, the 404th person in space and the first space tourist
Mark Kelly, the 409th person in space, and the second of the first identical twin brothers to go into space
Mark Shuttleworth, 416th person in space and the first from an independent African country (South Africa)
Yang Liwei, the 432nd person in space and the first of the Chinese space program
Mike Melvill, the 435th person in space and the first commercial astronaut of a privately flown and funded spaceflight
Marcos Pontes, the 443rd person and the first Brazilian in space
Anousheh Ansari, the 449th person in space, first female space tourist and the first Iranian in space
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, joint 464th person and the first person from Malaysia to go into space
Yi So-yeon, joint 475th person and the first Korean in space
Richard Garriott, 486th person in space and first spacefaring son of an earlier astronaut (Owen Garriott).
Guy Laliberté, joint 506th person in space and the first Canadian space tourist
Luca Parmitano, 532nd person in space and first Italian to be commander of an ISS expedition. He has been the youngest astronaut to undertake a long-duration mission. He is the first astronaut from Sicily
Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015
Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space
Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut
Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first in space from the UAE
Jeff Bezos, joint 571st person and the founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin
Sian Proctor, joint 575th person and first female commercial astronaut spaceship pilot
Yulia Peresild, joint 579th person and the first professional actress to perform in space
Robert Hines, joint 608th person in space
Jessica Watkins, joint 608th person in space and first black woman to join a long-term mission to the International Space Station