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, 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, are listed at the X-15's highest flights and the VSS Unity test flights.

Space travellers

Table parameters

All entries are dated from launch time in Coordinated Universal Time, which on occasion is one day earlier than the local date of launches from sites in the Eastern Hemisphere such as Baikonur and one day later than the local date of launches from sites in the Western Hemisphere such as Cape Canaveral.
As a rule, dual nationals fly under a single flag when flying as professional spacecrew and/or when flying on government-operated spacecraft, and this is the flag they are listed under in the table. For the spaceflights of dual nationals who are private citizens flying on commercial spacecraft as ordinary passengers, the flags displayed are those of their countries of birth, unless the space traveller did not hold citizenship of that country and/or otherwise made clear he intended to represent a different nationality.

Table

#NameNationalityDateFlight
1Yuri GagarinUSSRrefn|group="nb"|Under Fédération Aéronautique Internationale rules, the Vostok missions are not deemed completed spaceflights, as cosmonauts did not land with the spacecraft. The first Soviet mission that did fulfill this requirement was Voskhod 1. However, despite this issue, the FAI does recognize Yuri Gagarin as the first person to perform a spaceflight.