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 |