List of European astronauts

Alphabetical list

EAC = European Astronaut Corps

• BUL Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov (Intercosmos) — Soyuz TM-5
• FRA Patrick Baudry, second Frenchman in space, born in Douala, Cameroon — STS-51-G
• SVK Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space — Soyuz TM-29/28
• ITA Maurizio Cheli, EAC — STS-75
• FRA Jean-Loup Chrétien, CNES (Intercosmos), first French person in space and first non-Soviet European to walk in space — Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7/6, STS-86
• FRA Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — STS-66, STS-84, STS-103
• ITA Samantha Cristoforetti, EAC — Soyuz TMA-15M (Expedition 42, SpaceX Crew-4 (Expedition 67)
• BEL Frank De Winne, EAC — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
• ESP Pedro Duque, EAC, first Spaniard in space — STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
• GER Reinhold Ewald, EAC — Soyuz TM-25/24
• FRA Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26, STS-122/123
• HUN Bertalan Farkas (Intercosmos), first Hungarian in space — Soyuz 36/35
• FRA Jean-Jacques Favier, born in Kehl, Germany — STS-78
• GER Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
• BEL Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space — STS-45
• SWE Christer Fuglesang, EAC, first Swede in space — STS-116, STS-128
• GER Reinhard Furrer, born in Wörgl, Austria (1940–1995) — STS-61-A (flew for West Germany)
• ITA Umberto Guidoni, EAC, first European on the International Space Station — STS-75, STS-100
• FRA Claudie André-Deshays Haigneré[[Image:Pink Venus symbol.svg|8px]], EAC, first Frenchwoman in space (Mir, 1996) — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
• FRA Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
• POL Mirosław Hermaszewski (Intercosmos), first Pole in space — Soyuz 30
• BUL Georgi Ivanov (Intercosmos), first Bulgarian in space — Soyuz 33
• GER Sigmund Jähn (Intercosmos), first German in space — Soyuz 31/29 (flew for East Germany)
• NLD André Kuipers, EAC — Soyuz TMA-4/3
• ITA Franco Malerba, first Italian in space — STS-46
• GER Matthias Maurer, SpaceX Crew-3
• GER Ulf Merbold, EAC — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19 (flew for both West Germany and united Germany)
• GER Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A (flew for West Germany)
• DNK Andreas Mogensen, EAC, first Dane in space — Soyuz TMA-18M, SpaceX Crew-7
• ITA Paolo A. Nespoli, EAC — STS-120
• CHE Claude Nicollier, EAC, first Swiss in space — STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103
• NLD Wubbo Ockels, EAC, first Dutchman in space — STS-61-A
• ITA Luca Parmitano, EAC — Soyuz TMA-09M (Expedition 36)
• FRA Philippe Perrin, EAC, born in Meknes, Morocco — STS-111
• FRA Thomas Pesquet, EAC, — ISS
• ROM Dumitru Prunariu (Intercosmos), first Romanian in space — Soyuz 40
• GER Thomas Reiter, EAC, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS — Soyuz TM-22, STS-121/116
• CSK Vladimír Remek (Intercosmos), first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space — Soyuz 28
• GER Hans Schlegel, EAC — STS-55, STS-122
• GBR Helen Sharman[[Image:Pink Venus symbol.svg|8px]], first Briton in space — Soyuz TM-12/11
• GBR Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and first South African in space — Soyuz TM-34/33
• GER Gerhard Thiele, EAC — STS-99
• FRA Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93
• AUT Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space — Soyuz TM-13/12
• ITA Roberto Vittori, EAC — Soyuz TM-34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5
• GER Ulrich Walter — STS-55
• ITA Walter Villadei — Axiom Mission 3
• SWE/NOR Marcus Wandt, EAC — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
• TUR Alper Gezeravcı — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
• Malta Chun Wang — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
• Norway/UK Jannicke Mikkelsen, first Norwegian in space. First person to enter a polar retrograde orbit, i.e., to fly over Earth's poles. The first European astronaut to command a spacecraft, — Fram2 (2025)
• GER Rabea Rogge, first german woman and first person to enter a polar retrograde orbit, i.e., to fly over Earth's poles., — Fram2 (2025)
• POL Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, EAC — Axiom Mission 4 (2025)
• HUN Tibor Kapu — Axiom Mission 4 (2025)

Resident outside Europe

Other European astronauts now residing or holding citizenship outside Europe include:

• GBR Michael Foale, born in Louth, England, dual British and American citizen.
• GBR Nicholas Patrick, born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England.
• GBR Piers Sellers, born in Crowborough, England. Resident in US, died 2016.
• HUN Charles Simonyi, born in Budapest, Hungary. Fifth space tourist.
• NLD Lodewijk van den Berg, born in Sluiskil, Netherlands. Resident in US, died 2022.

Notes

References

References

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3. McDowell, Jonathan. "First Space Force orbit data for Fram-2 out , showing it in a 202 x 413 km x 90.01 deg orbit".
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