Chosen for or Flown on Shuttle or Beyond Missions
|
Name |
Group |
1st Mission |
Speciality |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | STS-51A | Mission Specialist | 1st mother in space | |
| 8 | STS-51G | Mission Specialist | 1st woman to make 3 spaceflights | |
| 8 | STS-41D | Mission Specialist | Died in STS-51L Explosion | |
| 8 | STS-7 | Mission Specialist | 1st US woman in space | |
| 8 | STS-51D | Mission Specialist | 1st US astronaut to marry another astronaut | |
| 8 | STS-41G | Mission Specialist | 1st US woman to walk in space | |
| 9 | STS-61B | Mission Specialist | ||
| 9 | STS-61A | Mission Specialist | 1st shuttle docking with Mir | |
| 10 | STS-34 | Mission Specialist | 1st shuttle docking with Mir | |
| 10 | STS-32 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 10 | STS-33 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 11 | STS-37 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 11 | STS-40 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 12 | STS-47 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 12 | STS-47 | Mission Specialist | 1st black woman in space | |
| 13 | STS-63 | Pilot | 1st female pilot. Also 1st female Commander of a Space Shuttle Mission. | |
| 13 | STS-64 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 13 | STS-56 | Mission Specialist | 1st Hispanic Woman in Space | |
| 13 | STS-57 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 13 | STS-57 | Mission Specialist | Died February 2012 of cancer | |
| 14 | STS-73 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 14 | STS-67 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 14 | STS-70 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 15 | STS-87 | Mission Specialist | Born in New Delhi, India Died in STS-107 disaster |
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| 15 | STS-90 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 15 | STS-91 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 15 | STS-92 | Pilot | ||
| 15 | STS-83 | Pilot | ||
| 16 | None | Mission Specialist | Now a NASA Management Astronaut and not eligible for spaceflight | |
| 16 | STS-107 | Mission Specialist | Died in STS-107 disaster | |
| 16 | STS-116 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 16 | STS-112 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 16 | STS-121 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 16 | STS-96 | Mission Specialist | Canadian Space Agency | |
| 16 | STS-115 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 16 | ISS Exp 5 /STS-113 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 16 | STS-121 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 17 | STS-118 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 17 | None | Mission Specialist | Died in a private plane crash | |
| 17 | STS-118 | Mission Specialist | See also below | |
| 17 | STS-116 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 18 | STS-125 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 18 | STS-124 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 18 | ISS Exp. 19 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 19 | STS-131 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 19 | ISS Exp. 24/25 | Mission Specialist ISS Flight Engineer |
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| 19 | STS-131 | International Mission Specialist | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut | |
| 20 | ISS Exp. 56/57 | Mission Specialist | Replaced Jeanette Epps for Exp. 56/57 | |
| 20 | SpaceX Crew-8 | Mission Specialist | ||
| 20 | ISS Exp. 48 | Flight Engineer | ||
| 21 | ISS Exp. 59/60 | Flight Engineer | ||
| 21 | SpaceX Crew-5 | Commander | First Native American woman to fly in space | |
| 21 | ISS Exp. 58/59 | Flight Engineer | Youngest Astronaut on NASA roster when selected | |
| 21 | ISS Exp. 61/62 | Flight Engineer | ||
| Kayla Barron | 22 | SpaceX Crew-3 | Mission Specialist | |
| Zena Cardman | 22 | SpaceX Crew 11 | Commander | Was assigned to SpaceX Crew-9 but reassigned to a later flight |
| Jasmin Moghbeli | 22 | SpaceX Crew-7 | Mission Specialist | |
| Loral O’Hara | 22 | ISS Exp. 69/70 | Flight Engineer | |
| Jessica Watkins | 22 | SpaceX Crew-4 | Mission Specialist | |
| Nichole Ayers | 23 | SpaceX Crew-10 | Pilot | |
| Christina Birch | 23 | Astronaut | ||
| Deniz Burnham | 23 | Astronaut | ||
| Jessica Wittner | 23 | Astronaut | ||
| N/A | STS-40 | Payload Specialist | ||
| N/A | STS-51L | Teacher in Space | Died in STS-51L Explosion | |
|
Mary Helen McKay |
N/A | STS-51B | Backup Payload Specialist | |
| N/A | STS-51L | Teacher in space Backup | See also above | |
| N/A | STS-51F | Backup Payload Specialist | ||
| N/A | STS-65 | Payload Specialist | Japan's 1st female astronaut | |
| N/A | STS-42 | Payload Specialist | Canadian Space Agency | |
| N/A | STS-84 | Russian Cosmonaut | 1st Russian Female Cosmonaut on Shuttle | |
| N/A | Expeditian 14 | Iranian/American Participant | 1st Iranian born person in Space. 1st female Muslim in Space. | |
| N/A | Expedition 17 | South Korean Participant | 1st Korean in Space | |
| Elena_Serova | N/A | Expedition 41 | Russian Cosmsnaut | 1st female Russian to visit the ISS |
| Samantha Cristoforetti | N/A | Expedition 42 | Italian Astronaut | 1st female Italian astronaut |
| Anna Kikina | N/A | SpaceX Crew-5 | Russian Cosmsnaut |
*Scheduled
Last Modified 28 March 2025
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