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This is an alphabetical list of space travelers, people who have traveled in space, organized by nationality.
The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The FAI defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 80 kilometres (50 mi) 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 (Toyohiro Akiyama, Helen Sharman, the Space Adventures customers and the sub-orbital SpaceShipOne pilots).
Except for the SpaceShipOne pilots, all of the space travellers have been crew or participants aboard flights launched by China, the Soviet Union/Russia or the United States.
As of September 26, 2013, people from 35 countries have traveled in space.[1] 536 people have reached Earth orbit. 539 have reached the altitude of space according to the FAI definition of the boundary of space, and 545 people have reached the altitude of space according to the American definition. Only 24 people have traveled beyond low Earth orbit.
Of the 35 countries whose citizens have traveled into Earth orbit, 24 have only flown a single space traveler. Over 94% of all space travelers have been contributed by the following eight nations:
1 Includes 61 Soviet cosmonauts and 11 cosmonauts who flew for both Russia and the Soviet Union. 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.
The following persons flew or were launched into the upper atmosphere, above 100 km, which counts as a space flight by FAI guidelines:
The following persons flew into the upper atmosphere between 80 and 100 km, which counts as space flight by United States guidelines:
The Soviet Union never launched a spaceflight intended as suborbital. The following persons were launched aboard Soyuz 18a, intended as orbital, but which was forced to abort before reaching orbit, after reaching suborbital space.[2]
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.
Additionally, Michael Foale, 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; however, he is a member of NASA's Astronaut Corps and flew as an American.[4]
All of the locations below were part of the former U.S.S.R. at the time of the cosmonauts' birth.
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World War II, Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian language, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ukraine, India, China, Turkey, United Kingdom
New York City, United States, American Civil War, Hawaii, Western United States
Ontario, Quebec City, Quebec, Ottawa, Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Isle of Man, India, Canada, European Union, British Overseas Territories
European Space Agency, International Space Station, Nasa, Project Mercury, Spaceflight
China, Japan, India, Israel, Iran
United States, Soviet Union, Russia, Canada, India
Iceland, Solar System, New Zealand, India, History
Solar System, Spaceflight, International Space Station, Human spaceflight, Project Mercury