The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions.

This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. …

SpaceX's former medical director at SpaceX, Anil Menon, is now a NASA astronaut selected in 2021 as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 23. SpaceX employees Anna Menon (Lead Space Operations Engineer) and Sarah Gillis (Senior Space Operations Engineer), were selected to participate in the private Polaris Dawn mission as a part of Polaris Program .

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside Space Shuttle Challenger on shuttle mission STS-41-B in 1984 An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning 'star', and ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard …

2025年1月29日 · Astronauts. The term “astronaut” derives from the Greek words meaning “star sailor,” and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard NASA spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond.

Learn more about Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, including when he was selected by NASA to be an astronaut, his flight experience, education, background and more. Read More

2024年11月12日 · The NASA Astronaut Fact Book provides information on the 360 explorers who have been selected as astronauts since NASA's first class in 1959. Encyclopedia Updated Nov 12, 2024

2025年1月30日 · NASA astronauts often spend extended periods of time aboard the International Space Station. NASA tracks and publishes the single spaceflight record holders (the most days spent in space on a single mission) and the cumulative days in space record holders (combined time in space over an astronaut’s career).

2025年1月28日 · Tyler “Nick” Hague was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station for Expedition 59 and 60. For his second mission to the space station, Hague launched as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Sept. 28 alongside crewmate Aleksandr Gorbunov.

NASA-Astronaut Bruce McCandless II bei einem Außenbordeinsatz am 11. Februar 1984. Ein Raumfahrer (auch Weltraumfahrer) ist ein Teilnehmer an einer bemannten Expedition in den Weltraum. Der erste Raumfahrer war Juri Gagarin; er …