List of astronauts by selection (original) (raw)
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1959
April 9 - 1959 NASA Group - Mercury Seven - USA
The first group of American astronauts was selected for the Mercury program by NASA in April 1959. This group. known as the "Mercury Seven", included: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
All seven of the first group of astronauts eventually flew in space, although one, Deke Slayton, did not fly a Mercury mission due to a medical disqualification. He eventually flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The other six each flew one Mercury mission. For two of these, Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, the Mercury mission was their only flight in the Apollo era (Glenn later flew on the space shuttle). Three of the Mercury astronauts, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper and Wally Schirra, also each flew a mission during the Gemini program. Alan Shepard did not fly a Gemini mission due to a medical disqualification, but later did fly an Apollo mission. He was the only Mercury astronaut to go to the moon. Wally Schirra also flew on Apollo, as well as Mercury and Gemini, the only astronaut to fly on all three types of spacecraft. (Gus Grissom was scheduled to fly the first Apollo flight, but died in a fire on the launch pad during training.)
1960
March 7 - Air Force Group 1 - USSR
The initial group of Soviet cosmonauts was chosen from Air Force jet pilots. The twenty, finalised on March 7 1960 were: Ivan Anikeyev, Pavel Belyayev, Valentin Bondarenko, Valery Bykovsky, Valentin Filatyev, Yuri Gagarin, Viktor Gorbatko, Anatoli Kartashov, Yevgeny Khrunov, Vladimir Komarov, Aleksei Leonov, Grigori Nelyubov,Andrian Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Mars Rafikov, Georgi Shonin, Gherman Titov, Valentin Varlamov, Boris Volynov, and Yevgeni Zaikin.
1962
March 12 Female Group - USSR
On March 12 1962, a group of five civilian women with parachuting experience was added to the cosmonaut group: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Valentina Ponomaryova, Irina Solovyova, Valentina Tereshkova, and Zhanna Yerkina. Only Tereshkova would fly.
September 17, 1962 - 1962 NASA Group - USA
A second group of nine astronauts was selected by NASA in September 1962. This group included Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Jim McDivitt, Jim Lovell, Elliott See, Tom Stafford, Ed White and John Young. All of this group flew missions in the Gemini program except Elliott See, who died in a flight accident while preparing for his Gemini flight. All of the others also flew on Apollo, except for Ed White, who died in a fire on the launch pad during training for the first Apollo flight. Three of this group, McDivitt, Borman and Armstrong, made single flights in both Gemini and Apollo. Four others, Young, Lovell, Stafford and Conrad, each made two flights in Gemini and at least one flight in Apollo. Young and Lovell both made two Apollo flights. Conrad and Stafford also made second flights in Apollo spacecraft, Conrad in Skylab and Stafford in Apollo-Soyuz. Six of this group, Borman, Lovell, Stafford, Young, Armstrong and Conrad, made flights to the moon. Lovell and Young went to the moon twice. Armstrong, Conrad, and Young walked on the moon. John Young also later flew on the Space Shuttle.
1963
January 10 - Air Force Group 2 - USSR
Yuri Artyukhin, Eduard Buinovski, Lev Demin, Georgi Dobrovolski,Anatoli Filipchenko, Aleksei Gubarev, Vladislav Gulyayev, Pyotr Kolodin, Eduard Kugno, Anatoli Kuklin, Aleksandr Matinchenko, Vladimir Shatalov, Lev Vorobyov, Anatoli Voronov, Vitali Zholobov
October 17 1963 NASA Group - USA
Five members of the third group of astronauts, selected by NASA in October 1963, also flew missions during the Gemini program. They were Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, Michael Collins, Richard Gordon and David Scott. Each flew a single Gemini mission and at least one mission in the Apollo program. Scott and Cernan both flew a second Apollo mission. All of this group went to the moon, Cernan went twice. Aldrin, Scott and Cernan walked on the moon.
During the Apollo program, (1961-1975), the United States launched a total of 31 manned missions: 6 in the Mercury program, 10 in the Gemini program, 11 in the Apollo program, 3 in the Skylab program, and 1 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test program. These 31 missions provided 71 individual flight opportunities: 6 in Mercury, 20 in Gemini, 33 in Apollo, 9 in Skylab, and 3 in Apollo-Soyuz. These 71 positions were filled by 43 individuals. Of these 43, 4 flew a total of 4 flights, 3 flew a total of 3 flights, 10 flew twice, and the remaining 26 flew only once. Thus only 17 flew more than once, and only seven flew more than twice. (Several later made additional flights on the Space Shuttle.)
Of the 31 Apollo-era flights, 2 were suborbital and 9 were lunar missions. The remaining 20 were earth orbital flights. The 9 lunar flights provided 27 individual lunar flight opportunities. These were filled by 24 individuals. Only 3 people flew to the moon twice. The 6 successful lunar landing flights provided 12 individual lunar landing opportunities. These were filled by 12 individuals. No one landed on the moon twice. Of those who landed on the moon, 2 had already flown to the moon once, 5 had made previous non-lunar flights, and 5 had no previous spaceflight experience.
All 6 Mercury flights and 3 of 10 Gemini flights had all-rookie crews, as did 1 of the 3 Skylab flights. All the Apollo missions included at least 1 veteran astronaut. Only 2 flights, the lunar landing mission and its dress-rehearsal, had all-veteran crews.
1964
January 25 Air Force Group 2 Supplemental - USSR
May 26 Voskhod Group (Medical Group 1) - USSR
Vladimir Benderov, Georgi Katys, Vasili Lazarev, Boris Polyakov, Aleksei Sorokin, Boris Yegorov
June 11 Civilian Specialist Group 1 - USSR
1965
June 1 - Journalist Group 1 - USSR
In 1965, three civilian journalists were selected for cosmonaut training in preparation for flight on a Voskhod mission. When the Voskhod programme was cancelled, Golovanov and Letunov were dismissed. Rebrov, on the other hand, stayed with the space programme as a journalist until 1974.
Yaroslav Golovanov, Yuri Letunov, Mikhail Rebrov
June 1 - Medical Group 2 - USSR
These physicians were selected for the long-duration Voskhod flights, all of which were subsequently cancelled to make way for the moon programme. All three were dismissed at the beginning of the following year.
Yevgeni Illyin, Aleksandr Kiselyov, Yuri Senkevich
June 28 - Scientist group - USA
Owen Garriott, Edward Gibson, Duane Graveline, Joseph Kerwin, Frank Michel, Harrison Schmitt
October 28 - Air Force Group 3 - USSR
This group of cosmonauts was selected for participation in five separate manned Soyuz programmes that the USSR was running. These included military programmes (with and without the Almaz/Salyut space stations) and two lunar programmes (only one of which aimed at a manned lunar landing). In the end, only the orbital programme and the space station programme went ahead, and few of the cosmonauts from this group ever were given the chance to fly.
Boris Belousov, Vladimir Degtyarov, Anatoli Fyodorov, Yuri Glazkov, Vitali Grishchenko, Veygeni Khludeyev, Leonid Kizim, Pyotr Klimuk, Gennadi Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Kramarenko, Mikhail Lisun, Aleksandr Petrushenko, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Valeri Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Sarafanov, Ansar Sharafutdinov, Vasili Shcheglov, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Eduard Stepanov, Valeri Voloshin, Oleg Yakovlev, Vyacheslav Zudov
1966
April 4 - 1966 NASA Group - USA
Vance Brand, John Bull, Gerald Carr, Charles Duke, Joseph Engle, Ronald Evans, Edward Givens, Fred Haise, James Irwin, Don Lind, Jack Lousma, Thomas Mattingly, Bruce McCandless, Edgar Mitchell, William Pogue, Stuart Roosa, John Swigert, Paul Weitz, Alfred Worden
May 23 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 - USSR
Sergei Anokhin, Vladimir Bugrov, Gennadi Dolgopolov, Georgi Grechko, Valeri Kubasov, Oleg Makarov, Vladislav Volkov, Aleksei Yeliseyev
June 30 - USAF MOL Group 2 - USA
Karol Bobko, Robert Crippen, Gordon Fullerton, Henry Hartsfield, Robert Overmyer, Donald Peterson
1967
January 31 - Civilian Specialist Group 2 Supplemental - USSR
Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Viatli Sevastyanov
May 7 - Air Force Group 4 - USSR
Vladimir Alekseyev, Vladimir Beloborodov, Mikhail Burdayev, Sergei Gaidukov, Vladimir Isakov, Vladimir Kovalyanok, Vladimir Kozelsky, Vladimir Lyakhov, Yuri Malyshev, Viktor Pisarev, Nikolai Porvatkin, Mikhail Sologub
May 22 - Academy of Sciences Group - USSR
Mars Fathulin, Rudolf Gulyayev, Ordinard Kolomitsev, Vsevolod Yegorov, Valentin Yershov
October 4 - Scientist group - USA
Joseph Allen, Philip Chapman, Anthony England, Karl Henize, Donald Holmquest, William Lenoir, John Llewellyn, Story Musgrave, Brian O'Leary, Robert Parker, William Thornton
1968
May 27 - Civilian Specialist Group 3 - USSR
Vladimir Fartushny, Viktor Patsayev, Valeri Yazdovsky
1969
September 10 - Civilian Engineer Group - USSR
Anatoli Demyanenko, Valeri Makrushin, Dmitri Yuyukov
1970
April 27 - Air Force Group 5 - USSR
Anatoli Berezovoi, Aleksandr Dedkov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Nikolai Fefelov, Valeri Illarianov, Yuri Isaulov, Vladimir Kozlov, Leonid Popov, Yuri Romanenko
1971
February 25 - 1971 Scientific Group - USSR
Gurgen Ivanyan
1972
March 22 - Civilian Specialist Group 4 - USSR
Boris Andreyev, Valentin Lebedev, Yuri Ponomaryov
March 22 - Medical Group 3 - USSR
Georgi Machinski, Valeri Polyakov, Lev Smirenny
1973
March 27 - Civilian Specialist Group 5 - USSR
Vladimir Aksyonov, Vladimir Gevorkyan, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Valeri Romanov, Valeri Ryumin, Gennadi Strekalov
1974
January 1 - Physician Group - USSR
Zyyadin Abuzyarov
1976
August 23 - Air Force Group 6 - USSR
Leonid Ivanov, Leonid Kadenyuk, Nikolai Moskalenko, Sergei Protchenko, Yevgeni Saley, Anatoli Solovyov, Vladimir Titov, Vladimir Vasyutin, Aleksandr Volkov
November 25 - 1976 Intercosmos Group - USSR
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Zenon Jankowski, Sigmund J�hn, Eberhard K�llner, Oldrich Pelcak, Vladimir Remek
1978
January 16 - 1978 NASA Group - USA
Due to the long delay between the last Apollo mission and the first flight of the Space Shuttle in 1981, only few astronauts from the older groups stayed with NASA. Thus in 1978 a new group of 35 astronauts was selected after 9 years without new astronauts, including the first female astronauts, and also the first black astronaut Guion Bluford. Roughly every two years a new group was selected since then. Two different astronaut groups were formed, pilots and mission specialists. Additionally it has payload specialists which are selected for a single mission and are not part of the astronaut corps - among them were mostly scientist, also a few politicians and many international astronauts.
Pilots: Daniel Brandenstein, Michael Coats, Richard Covey, John Creighton, Robert Gibson, Frederick Gibson, Frederick Hauck, Jon McBride, Francis Scobee, Brewster Shaw, Loren Shriver, David Walker, Donald Williams
Mission specialists: Guion Bluford, James Buchli, John Fabian, Anna Fisher, Dale Gardner, David Griggs, Terry Hart, Steven Hawley, Jeffrey Hoffman, Shannon Lucid, Ronald McNair, Richard Mullane, Steven Nagel, George Nelson, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon, Robert Stewart, Kathryn Sullivan, Norman Thagard, James van Hoften
March 1 - 1978 Intercosmos Group - USSR
Aleksandr P. Aleksandrov, Dumitru Dediu, Jose Lopez Falcon, Bertalan Farkas, Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig, Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, Georgi Ivanov, Bela Magyari, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, Dumitru Prunariu
May 1 - Payload Specialists - ESA
Ulf Merbold, Claude Nicollier, Wubbo Ockels, Franco Malerba
1979
April 1 - 1979 Intercosmos Group - USSR
Tuan Pham, Thanh Liem Bui
1980
May 29 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: John Blaha, Charles Bolden, Roy Bridges, Guy Gardner, Ronald Grabe, Byan O'Connor, Richard Richards, Michael Smith
Mission specialists: James Bagian, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Mary Cleave, Bonnie Dunbar, William Fisher, David Hilmers, David Leestma, John Lounge, Jerry Ross, Sherwood Spring, Robert Springer
International mission specialists: Claude Nicollier, Wubbo Ockels
1982
December 1 - Payload Specialists - Germany
Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid
1984
May 23 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: Kenneth Cameron, John Casper, Frank Culbertson, Sidney Guiterrez, Blaine Hammond, Michael McCulley, James Wetherbee
Mission specialists: James Adamson, Ellen Baker, Mark Brown, Manley Cartner, Marsha Ivins, Mark Lee, David Low, William Sheperd, Kathryn Thornton, Charles Veach
1985
June 4 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: Michael Baker, Robert Cabana, Brian Duffy, Terence Henricks, Stephen Oswald, Stephen Thorne
Mission specialists: Jerome Apt, Charles Gemar, Linda Godwin, Richard Hieb, Tamara Jernigan, Carl Meade, Pierre Thuot
August 1 1985 - 1985 NASDA Group - Japan
Mamoru Mohri, Chiaki Mukai
1987
June 12 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: Andrew Allen, Kenneth Bowersox, Curtis Brown, Kevin Chilton, David McMonagle, William Readdy, Kenneth Reightler
Mission specialists: Thomas Akers, Jan Davis, Michael Foale, Gregory Harbaugh, Mae Jemison, Bruce Melnick, Mario Runco, James Voss
August 3 - 1998 Payload Specialists - Germany
Renate Br�mmer, Hans Schlegel, Gerhard Thiele, Heike Walpot, Ulrich Walter
1980
January 17 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: Kenneth Cockrell, Eileen Collins, William Gregory, James Halsell, Charles Precourt, Richard Searfoss, Terrence Wilcutt
Mission specialists: Daniel Bursch, Leroy Chiao, Michael Clifford, Bernard Harris, Susan Helms, Thomas Jones, William McArthur, James Newman, Ellen Ochoa, Ronald Sega, Nancy Sherlock, Donald Thomas, Janice Voss
October 8 - 1990 Germany
Reinhold Ewald, Klaus-Dietrich Flade
1992
March 31 - NASA Group - USA
Pilots: Scott Horowitz, Brent Jett, Kevin Kregel, Kent Rominger
Mission specialists: Daniel Barry, Charles Brady, Catherine Coleman, Michael Gernhard, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Jerry Lineger, Richard Linneham, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Scott Parazynski, Winston Scott, Steven Smith, Joseph Tanner, Andrew Thomas, Mary Weber
International mission specialists: Marc Garneau, Chris Hadfield, Maurizio Cheli, Jean-Francois Clervoy, Koichi Wakata
April - 1992 NASDA Group - Japan
Koichi Wakata
May 15 - ESA
Maurizio Cheli, Jean-Francois Clervoy, Pedro Duque, Christer Fuglesang, Marianne Merchez
1994
December 12 - NASA Group - USA
1995
1995 NASDA Group - Japan
Takao Doi
1996
May 1 - NASA Group - USA
1998
January - Chinese Group 1 - China
Chen Quan, Deng Qingming, Fei Junlong, Jing Haipen, Liu Buoming, Liu Wang, Nie Haishen, Pan Zhanchun, Yang Liwei, Zhai Zhigang, Zhang Xiaoguan, Zhao Chuandong, Chen Long (?)
June 4 - NASA Group - USA
October 7 - 1998 ESA Group - ESA
Frank de Winne, Leopold Eyharts, Andre Kuipers, Paolo Nespoli, Hans Schlegel, Roberto Vittori
December 14 - 1999 NASDA Group - Japan
Satoshi Furukawa, Akihiko Hoshide, Naoko Sumino
2000
July 26 NASA Group - USA