Current Statistics of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

(STS-124 - May 2008)

General Statistics USSR, CIS, and International Statistics USA Statistics
 
Total Fliers - 482
Men - 432
Women - 50
Total Tickets - 1,062

Note: Statistics in this table are for people who flew over
100 km in altitude, including X-15 flights by Joseph Walker.
Check Notes 5, 6 & 7 (below) for more space flight stats.
Rank Nation No.
1 United States 308
2 Soviet Union 72
3 CIS 31
4 Germany 9
4 France 9
5 Canada 8
6 Japan 7
7 Italy 5
8 China 3
9 Belgium 2
9 Bulgaria 2
9 Netherlands 2
Afghanistan 1
Austria 1
Brazil 1
Britain 1
Cuba 1
Czechoslovakia 1
East Germany 1
Hungary 1
India 1
Israel 1
Malaysia 1
Mexico 1
Mongolia 1
Poland 1
Romania 1
Saudi Arabia 1
Slovakia 1
South Africa 1
South Korea 1
Spain 1
Sweden 1
Switzerland 1
Syria 1
Vietnam 1
Total Countries 36
 
United States - 308
US Men - 267
US Women - 41
 
 
Soviet Union - 72
USSR Men - 70
USSR Women - 2
 
 
CIS - 31
CIS Men - 30
CIS Women - 1
 
 
Others - 71
Other Men - 65
Other Women - 6
 
Men with 7 flights - 2
Women with 7 flights - 0
Men with 6 flights - 6
Women with 6 flights - 0
Men with 5 flights - 14
Women with 5 flights - 6
Men with 4 flights - 57
Women with 4 flights - 6
Men with 3 flights - 66
Women with 3 flights - 6
All with 2 flights - 125
All with 1 flight - 194
General Statistics USSR, CIS, and International Statistics USA Statistics

Source: Space Demographics compiled by William Harwood with days in space from Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica and NASA.

Notes:

  1. Toktar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan) is listed under Soviet Union.
  2. Leonid Kadenyuk (Ukraine) and Talgat Musabayev (Kazakhstan) are listed under CIS.
  3. The three rookie crew members of STS-51L are not included, because the Space Shuttle Challenger was lost before reaching orbit on January 28, 1986.
  4. Two Soyuz missions also ended in launch aborts, but both crews survived the aborts and flew in space on later missions.
  5. 479 people have flown in orbit, following the launch of STS-124. (Joseph Engle flew three X-15 flights over 80 km in addition to two Space Shuttle missions)
  6. Under the United States Air Force (USAF) definition (over 80 km altitude): 488 (Seven additional X-15, including Joseph Walker, pilots flew the X-15 above 80 km. Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie flew SpaceShipOne over 100 km three times.)
  7. Under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) definition (over 100 km altitude): 482 (One of the X-15 pilots, Joseph Walker, flew two X-15 flights over 100 km. Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie flew SpaceShipOne over 100 km three times.)

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Updated - May 31, 2008