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This section includes highlight profiles of the astronauts and cosmonauts who flew the pioneering missions of the early decades of human space flight (1961-1980).

The lists below include all those selected in the various groups, regardless of whether they made a space mission. Brief profiles of some of those who left their respective programmes before flying (for whatever reason) will be included in due course. Links will be made live as each profile is added.

International space explorers (from countries other than the United States or the Soviet Union/Russia) will also be added later for those associated with space station missions.

Latest Profiles Added: (09/09/25) Frank Borman, Bill Anders; (12/08/25) Jim Lovell; (24/06/25) Scott Carpenter; (17/06/25) Yuri Gagarin.

NASA ASTRONAUTS

GROUP 1: 1959

Carpenter

Cooper

Glenn

Grissom

Schirra

Shepard

Slayton

 

 

 

GROUP 2: 1962

Armstrong

Borman

Conrad

Lovell

McDivitt

See

Stafford

White

Young

 

GROUP 3: 1963

Aldrin

Anders

Bassett

Bean

Cernan

Chaffee

Collins M.

Cunningham

Eisele

Freeman

Gordon

Schweickart

Scott

Williams C.C.

 

GROUP 4: 1965

Garriott

Gibson E.

Graveline

Kerwin

Michel

Schmitt

 

 

 

 

GROUP 5: 1966

Brand

Bull

Carr

Duke

Engle

Evans

Givens

Haise

Irwin

Lind

Lousma

Mattingly

McCandless

Mitchell

Pogue

Roosa

Swigert

Weitz

Worden

 

GROUP 6: 1967

Allen. J

Chapman

England

Henize

Holmquest

Lenoir

Llewellyn

Musgrave

O'Leary

Parker

Thornton W.

 

 

 

 

GROUP 7: 1968

Bobko

Crippen

Fullerton

Hartsfield

Overmyer

Peterson

Truly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOVIET/RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS

FIRST AIR FORCE SELECTION: 1960

Anikeyev

Belyayev

Bondarenko

Bykovsky

Filatyev

Gagarin

Gorbatko

Kartashov

Khrunov

Komarov

Leonov

Nelyubov

Nikolayev

Popovich

Rafikov

Shonin

Titov G.

Varlamov

Volynov

Zaikin

AIR FORCE FEMALE SELECTION: 1962

Kuznetsova

Ponomaryova

Solovyova

Tereshkova

Yorkina

SECOND AIR FORCE SELECTION: 1963

Artyukhin

Buinovsky

Demin

Dobrovolsky

Filipchenko

Gubarev

Gulyayev. V

Kolodin

Kugno

Kuklin

Matinchenko

Shatalov

Vorobyov

Voronov

Zholobov

SECOND AIR FORCE SELECTION (SUPPLEMENTAL): 1964

Beregovoi

 

 

 

 

VOSKHOD 1 SPECIAL SELECTION: 1964

Benderov

Feoktistov

Katys*

Lazarev

Polyakov B.

Sorokin

Yegorov

 

 

 

* Scientist G.P. Katys was also chosen for the Voskhod 3 special selection in 1965 and the Academy of  Sciences supplementary selection in 1968. He never flew in space.

THIRD AIR FORCE SELECTION: 1965

Belousov

Degtyaryov

Fedorov

Glazkov

Grishchenko

Khuludeyev

Kizim

Klimuk

Kolesnikov

Kramarenko

Lisun

Prebrazhensky

Petrushenko

Rozhdestvensky

Sarafanov

Sharafutdinov

Shcheglov

Skvortsov

Stepanov

Voloshin

Yakovlev

Zudov

 

 

 

VOSKHOD BIOMEDICAL MISSION SPECIAL SELECTION: 1965

Ilyin

Kisilev

Senkevich

 

 

VOSKHOD 3 SPECIAL SELECTION: 1965

Golovanov

Letunov

Rebrov

 

 

THIRD AIR FORCE SELECTION (SUPPLEMENTAL): 1966

Lazarev

 

 

 

 

ENERGIYA CIVILIAN ENGINEERS (TsKBEM) FIRST SELECTION: 1966

Anokhin

Bugrov

Dologpolov

Grechko

Kubasov

Makarov

Volkov

Yeliseyev

 

 

ENERGIYA ENGINEERS FIRST SELECTION (SUPPLEMENTAL): 1967

Rukavishnikov

Sevastyanov

 

 

 

FOURTH AIR FORCE SELECTION: 1967

Alekseyev

Beloborodov

Burdayev

Gaydukov

Isakov

Kovalyonok

Kozelsky

Lyakhov

Malyshev

Pisarev

Porvatkin

Sologub

 

 

 

ENERGIYA CIVILIAN ENGINEERS SECOND SELECTION: 1967

Nikitsky

Patsayev

Yazdovsky

 

 

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GROUP 1: 1967

Fatkullin

Gulyayev R.

Kolomitsev

Yershov

 

PATON INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC WELDING SPECIAL SELECTION: 1968

Fartushny

 

 

 

 

FIFTH AIR FORCE SELECTION: 1970

Berezovoi

Dedkov

Dzhanibekov

Fefelov

Illarionov

Isaulov

Kozlov

Popov

Romanenko. Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

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