List of European astronauts
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This is an incomplete list of astronauts who are resident in any of the countries of Europe, who have reached Earth's orbit, exclusive of the former Soviet republics of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. People who are "space tourists" rather than working astronauts may be included, indicated by italics.
Alphabetical list
EAC = European Astronaut Corps
- Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov (Intercosmos) — Soyuz TM-5
- Template:Flagicon Patrick Baudry, second Frenchman in space, born in Douala, Cameroon — STS-51-G
- Template:Flagicon Ivan Bella, first Slovak in space — Soyuz TM-29/28
- Template:Flagicon Maurizio Cheli, EAC — STS-75
- Template:Flagicon 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
- Template:Flagicon Jean-François Clervoy, EAC — STS-66, STS-84, STS-103
- Template:Flagicon Samantha Cristoforetti, EAC — Soyuz TMA-15M (Expedition 42, SpaceX Crew-4 (Expedition 67)
- Template:Flagicon Frank De Winne, EAC — Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34, Soyuz TMA-15
- Template:Flagicon Pedro Duque, EAC, first Spaniard in space — STS-95, Soyuz TMA-3/2
- Template:Flagicon Reinhold Ewald, EAC — Soyuz TM-25/24
- Template:Flagicon Léopold Eyharts, EAC — Soyuz TM-27/26, STS-122/123
- Template:Flagicon Bertalan Farkas (Intercosmos), first Hungarian in space — Soyuz 36/35
- Template:Flagicon Jean-Jacques Favier, born in Kehl, Germany — STS-78
- Template:Flagicon Klaus-Dietrich Flade — Soyuz TM-14/13
- Template:Flagicon Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space — STS-45
- Template:Flagicon Christer Fuglesang, EAC, first Swede in space — STS-116, STS-128
- Template:Flagicon Reinhard Furrer, born in Wörgl, Austria (1940–1995) — STS-61-A (flew for West Germany)
- Template:Flagicon Umberto Guidoni, EAC, first European on the International Space Station — STS-75, STS-100
- Template:Flagicon Claudie André-Deshays HaigneréFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, EAC, first Frenchwoman in space (Mir, 1996) — Soyuz TM-24/23, Soyuz TM-33/32
- Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC — Soyuz TM-17/16, Soyuz TM-29
- Template:Flagicon Mirosław Hermaszewski (Intercosmos), first Pole in space — Soyuz 30
- Template:Flagicon Georgi Ivanov (Intercosmos), first Bulgarian in space — Soyuz 33
- Template:Flagicon Sigmund Jähn (Intercosmos), first German in space — Soyuz 31/29 (flew for East Germany)[1]
- Template:Flagicon André Kuipers, EAC — Soyuz TMA-4/3
- Template:Flagicon Franco Malerba, first Italian in space — STS-46
- Template:Flagicon Matthias Maurer, SpaceX Crew-3
- Template:Flagicon Ulf Merbold, EAC — STS-9, STS-42, Soyuz TM-20/19 (flew for both West Germany and united Germany)
- Template:Flagicon Ernst Messerschmid — STS-61-A (flew for West Germany)
- Template:Flagicon Andreas Mogensen, EAC, first Dane in space — Soyuz TMA-18M, SpaceX Crew-7
- Template:Flagicon Paolo A. Nespoli, EAC — STS-120
- Template:Flagicon Claude Nicollier, EAC, first Swiss in space — STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103
- Template:Flagicon Wubbo Ockels, EAC, first Dutchman in space — STS-61-A
- Template:Flagicon Luca Parmitano, EAC — Soyuz TMA-09M (Expedition 36)
- Template:Flagicon Philippe Perrin, EAC, born in Meknes, Morocco — STS-111
- Template:Flagicon Thomas Pesquet, EAC, — ISS
- Template:Flagicon Dumitru Prunariu (Intercosmos), first Romanian in space — Soyuz 40
- Template:Flagicon Thomas Reiter, EAC, first German to walk in space and first ESA astronaut to stay on the ISS — Soyuz TM-22, STS-121/116
- Template:Flagicon Vladimír Remek (Intercosmos), first Czech and first non-Soviet European in space — Soyuz 28
- Template:Flagicon Hans Schlegel, EAC — STS-55, STS-122
- Template:Flagicon Helen SharmanFile:Pink Venus symbol.svg, first Briton in space — Soyuz TM-12/11
- Template:Flagicon Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and first South African in space — Soyuz TM-34/33
- Template:Flagicon Gerhard Thiele, EAC — STS-99
- Template:Flagicon Michel Tognini, EAC — Soyuz TM-15/14, STS-93
- Template:Flagicon Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space — Soyuz TM-13/12
- Template:Flagicon Roberto Vittori, EAC — Soyuz TM-34/33, Soyuz TMA-6/5
- Template:Flagicon Ulrich Walter — STS-55
- Template:Flagicon Walter Villadei — Axiom Mission 3
- Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Marcus Wandt, EAC — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
- Template:Flagicon Alper Gezeravcı — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Efn Chun Wang — Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Nnbsp/Template:NnbspTemplate:FlagiconTemplate:Efn Jannicke Mikkelsen, first Norwegian in space. First person to enter a polar retrograde orbit,[2] i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.[3] The first European astronaut to command a spacecraft, — Fram2 (2025)
- Template:Flagicon Rabea Rogge, first german woman and first person to enter a polar retrograde orbit,[2] i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.,[3] — Fram2 (2025)
- Template:Flagicon Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, EAC — Axiom Mission 4 (2025)
- Template:Flagicon Tibor Kapu — Axiom Mission 4 (2025)
Resident outside Europe
Other European astronauts now residing or holding citizenship outside Europe include:
- Template:Flagicon Michael Foale, born in Louth, England, dual British and American citizen.
- Template:Flagicon Nicholas Patrick, born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England.
- Template:Flagicon Piers Sellers, born in Crowborough, England. Resident in US, died 2016.
- Template:Flagicon Charles Simonyi, born in Budapest, Hungary. Fifth space tourist.
- Template:Flagicon Lodewijk van den Berg, born in Sluiskil, Netherlands. Resident in US, died 2022.
See also
- List of Soviet human spaceflight missions
- List of Russian human spaceflight missions
- List of space travelers by nationality
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