Astronauts

Meet the exceptional people that have ventured into space.


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Ye Guangfu
Chinese

Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu was born in 1980 in the Sichuan province of China. He is an air force pilot and spent four years as an instructor and fo…

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Yusaku Maezawa
Japanese

Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector. He founded Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail websit…

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Zena Cardman
American

Zena Maria Cardman is an American marine biologist and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2017.

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Zhai Zhigang
Chinese

Zhai Zhigang (born October 10, 1966) is a major general in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. During the Shenzhou 7 mission…

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Zhang Lu
Chinese

Zhang Lu is a Chinese pilot selected in 2010 to be an astronaut.

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Zhang Xiaoguang
Chinese

Zhang Xiaoguang is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He was born in May 1966 in Jinzhou, to a family of Manchu ethnicity a…

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Zhongrui Chen
Chinese

Chen Zhongrui is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force …

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Zohar
Earthling

Mannequin used as part of the DLR MARE radiations measurement experiment.

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Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 15 hours ago
Starlink Group 10-11
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 12 hours ago
Starlink Group 10-56
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Starship
Success
4 days ago
Flight 10
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 4 hours ago
NAOS
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembour…


Long March 8A
Success
5 days, 4 hours ago
SatNet LEO Group 10
Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 17 hours ago
Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

33rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…


Electron
Success
1 week ago
Live, Laugh, Launch
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

'Live, Laugh, Launch' is the second of two dedicated missions on Electron for a confidential customer in 2025. Possible customer candidates include E…


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 17-6
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 1 day ago
OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Eighth flight of the X-37B program. The X-37B is a dynamic and responsive spacecraft responsible for conducting a range of tests and experiments …


Angara 1.2
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
Kosmos 2590-2593 (?)
35/1 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

4 classified satellites for the Russian military.