List of the human (not alien ) astronauts

Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, first man in space (1961)

Alan Shepard, (May 1961) first American in space (not to circle the earth); (1971), the fifth man on the moon

German Stepanovich Titov, second Soviet citizen in space (August 1961) and the youngest astronaut to date (was in his space flight 25 years old)

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, first woman in space (1963)

Alexei Leonov Arkhipovich, first spacewalk (1965)

Vladimir Komarov, the first man who died during a space mission (1967)

Neil Armstrong (1969) the first man on the moon

Edwin Aldrin, (1969), second man on the moon

John Glenn (1962) first American to orbit the earth (1998) the oldest person in space (77 years)

Edward White, (1965), the first American, who performed a spacewalk.

James Lovell, (1970) commander of Apollo 13

Vladimír Remek, first space traveler to a third nation, (1978) as a Czech partner of the Soviets

Sigmund Jahn, the first German in space (1978)

John Young, (1981) first commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia

Jean-Loup Chrétien, first western Europeans in space, as a Frenchman ("spationaute") guest of the Soviet Union (1982)

Sally Ride, first American woman in space, the third woman in space after two Soviet citizens (1983)

Ulf Merbold, (1983) first West German astronaut, belonged to the first team of the Spacelab. First German, who was with both Americans and Russians in space.

Franz Viehboeck, the first Austrian ("Austronaut") in space as a guest of the Soviet Union (1991)

Claude Nicollier, (1992) first Swiss in space

Sergei Krikalev, starting as the last Soviet citizens to return as first citizen of Russia (1991) in space, has the current record for the longest total period of stay in space.

Valery Polyakov, the longest stay in space or on a space station (1994/95)

Thomas Reiter, German astronaut with the longest stay in space (I (1995-96) and ISS (2006))

Eileen Collins, (1999) first Space Shuttle Commander

Dennis Tito, first space tourist (2001)

Yang Liwei, a Chinese citizen and first taikonaut in space (2003)

Michael Melvill, (2004) first astronaut, who reached with a non-governmental spacecraft into space.

Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist (2006)