• Yuri Gagarin, (1934-1968), USSR, first person in space
  • Neil Armstrong, (born 1930), US, first person on the Moon
  • John Glenn, (born 1921), first US astronaut to orbit the Earth
  • Sergei Krikalev, 6 flights and longest time in space ( 803 days and 9 hours and 39 minutes)
  • Valeri Polyakov - Single longest spaceflight - 437-days
  • Valentina Tereshkova, (born 1937), USSR, first woman in space.
  • Sally Ride, (born 1951), first US woman in space
  • Claudie Haigneré, first European woman in space
  • Chiaki Mukai, first Japanese woman in space
  • Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to walk in space
  • Kathryn D. Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
  • Leonid Kadenyuk, first Ukrainian in space
  • Sigmund Jähn, (born 1937), first German in space
  • Franz Viehböck, first Austrian in space
  • Jean-Loup Chrétien, first Frenchmen in space
  • Franco Malerba, first Italian in space
  • Wubbo Ockels, first Dutchman in space
  • Rodolfo Neri Vela, first Mexican in space.
  • Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Polish in space
  • Vladimír Remek, first Czech in space
  • Rakesh Sharma, first Indian in space
  • Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha, first Mongolian in space
  • Abdul Ahad Mohmand, (born 1959), first Afghan in space
  • Georgi Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space
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