List of space travellers by first flight

This is a list of space travelers by first flight. The table is listed in chronological order from the date of first flight. The table adheres to a common definition of a space traveller; the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale criterion of achieving an altitude higher than 100 km (62 mi; 330,000 ft), thereby crossing the FAI-defined Kármán line. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. Personnel who qualify only for the United States Astronaut Badge, awarded to those who achieve an altitude of 50 mi (80 km; 264,000 ft), are listed at the X-15's highest flights and the VSS Unity test flights.

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Italics	Sub-orbital spaceflights that crossed 100 km (62 mi).
◉	After the name, denotes sub-orbital space travellers who have flown into orbit on a subsequent space flight.
△	After the name, denotes space travellers who have flown to the Moon without landing.
▲	After the name, denotes space travellers who have walked on the Moon.
‡	After the name, denotes those who died during their first spaceflight.^{[nb 1]}
†	After the name, denotes those who died during a subsequent spaceflight.^{[nb 1]}
⊗	After the name, denotes those whose first spaceflight had begun and was clearly intended^{[nb 2]} to cross 100 km (62 mi), but failed to do so.
Linked country	In the 'Nationality' column, denotes the first from that country to pass 100 km (62 mi).^{[nb 3]}
Unlinked name	Subsequent table entry for a space traveller who made or attempted a previous spaceflight.^{[nb 4]}

List of space travellers by first flight

Space travellers

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#	Name	Nationality	Date	Flight	Ref.
1	Yuri Gagarin	Soviet Union	12 April 1961	Vostok 1	^[1]^[2]^{[nb 5]}^{[nb 6]}
2	Alan Shepard ◉▲	United States	5 May 1961	Freedom 7	^[5]^[6]
3	Virgil Grissom ◉	United States	21 July 1961	Liberty Bell 7	^[7]^[8]
4	Gherman Titov	Soviet Union	6 August 1961	Vostok 2	^[9]
5	John Glenn	United States	20 February 1962	Friendship 7	^[10]^[11]
6	Scott Carpenter	United States	24 May 1962	Aurora 7	^[12]
7	Andriyan Nikolayev	Soviet Union	11 August 1962	Vostok 3	^[13]^[14]
8	Pavel Popovich	Soviet Union	12 August 1962	Vostok 4	^[13]^[15]
9	Walter Schirra	United States	3 October 1962	Sigma 7	^[16]
10	Gordon Cooper	United States	15 May 1963	Faith 7	^[17]
11	Valery Bykovsky	Soviet Union	14 June 1963	Vostok 5	^[18]
12	Valentina Tereshkova	Soviet Union	16 June 1963	Vostok 6	^[19]
13	Joseph Walker	United States	19 July 1963	X-15 Flight 90	^[20]
14	Konstantin Feoktistov	Soviet Union	12 October 1964	Voskhod 1	^[21]
	Vladimir Komarov †	Soviet Union			^[21]^{[nb 7]}
	Boris Yegorov	Soviet Union			^[21]
17	Pavel Belyayev	Soviet Union	18 March 1965	Voskhod 2	^[22]
17	Alexei Leonov	Soviet Union	18 March 1965	Voskhod 2	^[22]
19	John Young △▲	United States	23 March 1965	Gemini 3	^[23]
20	James McDivitt	United States	3 June 1965	Gemini 4	^[24]
20	Edward White	United States	3 June 1965	Gemini 4	^[24]
22	Pete Conrad ▲	United States	21 August 1965	Gemini 5	^[25]
23	Frank Borman △	United States	4 December 1965	Gemini 7	^[26]
23	James Lovell △△	United States	4 December 1965	Gemini 7	^[26]
25	Thomas Stafford △	United States	15 December 1965	Gemini 6A	^[27]
26	Neil Armstrong ▲	United States	16 March 1966	Gemini 8	^[28]
26	David Scott ▲	United States	16 March 1966	Gemini 8	^[28]
28	Eugene Cernan △▲	United States	3 June 1966	Gemini 9A	^[29]
29	Michael Collins △	United States	18 July 1966	Gemini 10	^[30]
30	Richard Gordon △	United States	12 September 1966	Gemini 11	^[31]
31	Edwin Aldrin ▲	United States	11 November 1966	Gemini 12	^[32]
32	Walter Cunningham	United States	11 October 1968	Apollo 7	^[33]
32	Donn Eisele	United States	11 October 1968	Apollo 7	^[33]
34	Georgy Beregovoy	Soviet Union	26 October 1968	Soyuz 3	^[34]
35	William Anders △	United States	21 December 1968	Apollo 8	^[35]
36	Vladimir Shatalov	Soviet Union	14 January 1969	Soyuz 4	^[36]
37	Yevgeny Khrunov	Soviet Union	15 January 1969	Soyuz 5	^[37]
	Boris Volynov	Soviet Union
	Aleksei Yeliseyev	Soviet Union
40	Russell Schweickart	United States	3 March 1969	Apollo 9	^[38]