List of Italian astronauts

The following is a list of Italian astronauts who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
As of 2024, twelve Italians have been in space. Eight of those have made orbital flights, and five have made suborbital flights, Walter Villadei being the only Italian to make both. The first Italian in space was Franco Malerba in 1992.
Roberto Vittori and Paolo Nespoli have both made three orbital spaceflights in their careers, which is the current record for Italian astronauts.

Orbital

Image	Name	Mission	Mission start	Mission duration	Space station	Mission objectives	Ref.
80px	Franco Malerba	STS-46		7 days		Deployed ESA's European Retrievable Carrier satellite
	Maurizio Cheli	STS-75		15 days		Deployed the Italian Tethered Satellite System
	Umberto Guidoni	STS-75		15 days		Deployed the Italian Tethered Satellite System
	Umberto Guidoni	STS-100		11 days	ISS	Delivered Canadarm2 to the ISS
	Roberto Vittori	Soyuz TM-34 / Soyuz TM-33		10 days	ISS
	Roberto Vittori	Soyuz TMA-6 / Soyuz TMA-5		10 days	ISS
	Roberto Vittori	STS-134		15 days	ISS	Delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.
	Paolo Nespoli	STS-120		15 days	ISS	ISS assembly
	Paolo Nespoli	Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / Expedition 27		159 days	ISS
	Paolo Nespoli	Soyuz MS-05 / Expedition 52 / Expedition 53		139 days	ISS
	Luca Parmitano	Soyuz TMA-09M / Expedition 36 / Expedition 37		166 days	ISS
	Luca Parmitano	Soyuz MS-13 / Expedition 60 / Expedition 61		200 days	ISS
	Samantha Cristoforetti	Soyuz TMA-15M / Expedition 42 / Expedition 43		200 days	ISS	Prepared a berthing slip prepared at the forward end of the Harmony connecting node
	Samantha Cristoforetti	SpaceX Crew-4 / Expedition 67 / Expedition 68		170 days	ISS
	Walter Villadei	Axiom Mission 3		21 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes	ISS

Suborbital

Image	Name	Mission	Flight date	Comments	Ref.
	Pantaleone Carlucci	Galactic 01		Reached an apogee of 85.1 km
	Angelo Landolfi	Galactic 01		Reached an apogee of 85.1 km
	Nicola Pecile	Galactic 01		Reached an apogee of 85.1 km
	Nicola Pecile	Galactic 03		Reached an apogee of 88.56 km
	Nicola Pecile	Galactic 06		Reached an apogee of 88.8 km
	Nicola Pecile	Galactic 07		Reached an apogee of 87.5 km
	Walter Villadei	Galactic 01		Reached an apogee of 85.1 km
	Ketty Maisonrouge	Galactic 05		Reached an apogee of 87.2 km
	Giorgio Manenti	Galactic 07		Reached an apogee of 87.5 km