List of German astronauts

The following is a list of German astronauts who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
As of 2024, twelve Germans have been in space. The first German, and only East German, in space was Sigmund Jähn in 1978. Three astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid – represented West Germany during the time of divided Germany.
Merbold made two other spaceflights after Germany was reunified in 1990. He is the only German to have been in space three times.

List

Image	Name	Mission	Mission start	Mission duration	Space station	Mission objectives
	Sigmund Jähn	Soyuz 31 / Soyuz 29		7 days	Salyut 6	Scientific experiments in Salyut 6
	Ulf Merbold	STS-9		10 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module
	Ulf Merbold	STS-42		8 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module
	Ulf Merbold	Soyuz TM-20 / Soyuz TM-19		31 days	Mir
	Reinhard Furrer	STS-61-A		7 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module, deployment of the Global Low Orbiting Message Relay Satellite
	Ernst Messerschmid	STS-61-A		7 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module, deployment of GLOMR
	Klaus-Dietrich Flade	Soyuz TM-14 / Soyuz TM-13		7 days	Mir
	Hans Schlegel	STS-55		9 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module
	Hans Schlegel	STS-122		12 days	ISS	Installation of the Columbus Orbital Facility
	Ulrich Walter	STS-55		9 days		Scientific experiments in the Spacelab Module
	Thomas Reiter	Soyuz TM-22 / Euromir 95		179 days	Mir
	Thomas Reiter	STS-121 / Expedition 13 / Expedition 14 / STS-116		171 days	ISS
	Reinhold Ewald	Soyuz TM-25 / Soyuz TM-24		19 days	Mir
	Gerhard Thiele	STS-99		11 days		Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, positioning of several satellites
	Alexander Gerst	Soyuz TMA-13M / Expedition 40 / Expedition 41		165 days	ISS
	Alexander Gerst	Soyuz MS-09 / Expedition 56 / Expedition 57		197 days	ISS
	Matthias Maurer	SpaceX Crew-3 / Expedition 66 / Expedition 67		190 days	ISS
	Rabea Rogge	Fram2		4 days		Space Tourist. First German women and first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit, i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.

Amelie Schoenenwald and Nicola Winter were selected in the reserve corps of the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group. They are the first women to be selected as astronauts representing Germany, though Rogge became the first German women in space.