List of space travelers by nationality


The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The FAI defines spaceflight as any flight over. In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of are awarded astronaut wings. The majority of people who have flown into space have done so by entering Earth orbit. This list includes persons meeting all three criteria, in separate subdivisions.
The flags indicate the space traveler's nationality at the time of their flight or flights. 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 are or were citizens of the U.S. 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.
Except for the SpaceShipOne pilots, all of the space travelers have been crew or participants aboard flights launched by China, the Soviet Union/Russia or the United States.

Statistics

, people from 37 countries have traveled in space. 553 people have reached Earth orbit. 556 have reached the altitude of space according to the FAI definition of the boundary of space, and 562 people have reached the altitude of space according to the American definition. 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit and either circled, orbited, or walked on the Moon.
Of the 37 countries whose citizens have traveled into Earth orbit, 25 have flown a single space traveler, and four others have flown two each. 94% of all space travelers have been contributed by the following eight nations:
1 Includes 72 Soviet cosmonauts and 49 Russian cosmonauts.
2 Includes both national space programme activity and European Space Agency participation.
3 Includes astronauts from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

Suborbital space fliers

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

The Soviet Union never launched a spaceflight intended as suborbital. The following persons were launched aboard Soyuz 7K-T No.39, intended as orbital, but which was forced to abort before reaching orbit, after reaching suborbital space.
The following persons flew or were launched into the upper atmosphere, above, which counts as a space flight by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale guidelines:
The following persons flew into the upper atmosphere between, which counts as space flight by United States guidelines:

Afghanistan

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[European Space Agency] members

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

Additionally, Michael Foale was born in England to a British father and American mother and 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. Gregory H. Johnson has foreign citizenship, having been born in the UK to American parents, while Piers Sellers, Nicholas Patrick, Richard Garriott and Mark Shuttleworth have dual nationalities.
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Hungary

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All of the locations below were part of the former U.S.S.R. at the time of the cosmonauts' birth.
Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. / Azerbaijan
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Saudi Arabia

Non-NASA space travelers

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  1. William Anders, born in Hong Kong to American parents.
  2. Gregory Chamitoff, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  3. Michael Collins, born in Rome, Italy to American parents.
  4. Richard Garriott, born in Cambridge, England.
  5. Gregory H. Johnson, born in South Ruislip, England.
  6. Frederick W. Leslie, born in Ancón, Panama Canal Zone.
  7. Kjell N. Lindgren, born in Taipei, Taiwan.
  8. Shannon Lucid, born in Shanghai, China to American parents.
  9. James H. Newman, born in the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

    Naturalized Americans

  10. Anousheh Ansari, born in Mashhad, Iran. First Iranian-American in space. Fourth space tourist and first female space tourist.
  11. Franklin Chang-Diaz, born in San José, Costa Rica. First Costa Rican-American in space.
  12. Kalpana Chawla, born in Karnal, India. First Indian-American in space.
  13. Michael Foale, born in Louth, England, dual British and American citizen.
  14. Michael Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid, Spain.
  15. Carlos I. Noriega, born in Lima, Peru. First Peruvian-born person in space.
  16. Nicholas Patrick, born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England, dual UK-US citizen.
  17. Paul Scully-Power, born in Sydney, Australia.
  18. Piers Sellers, born in Crowborough, England, dual UK-US citizen.
  19. Charles Simonyi, born in Budapest, Hungary. Fifth space tourist.
  20. Andrew Thomas, born in Adelaide, Australia.
  21. Eugene Trinh, born in Saigon, State of Vietnam. First Vietnamese-American in space.
  22. Lodewijk van den Berg, born in Sluiskil, the Netherlands.
  23. Taylor Wang, born in Shanghai, China. First Chinese American in space.
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United Arab Emirates