Astronaut Instance
API endpoint that allows Astronaut to be viewed.
GET: Return a list of all the existing astronauts.
MODE: Normal, List, LaunchList and Detailed /2.0.0/astronaut/?mode=detailed
FILTERS: Parameters - 'name', 'status', 'nationality', 'agency__name', 'agency__abbrev', 'date_of_birth', 'date_of_death', 'status_ids' Example - /2.0.0/astronaut/?nationality=American
SEARCH EXAMPLE: /2.0.0/astronaut/?search=armstrong Searches through name, nationality and agency name
ORDERING: Fields - 'name', 'status', 'date_of_birth' Example - /2.0.0/astronaut/?order=name
GET /2.0.0/astronaut/513/?format=api
{ "id": 513, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/513/?format=api", "name": "Peggy Whitson", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "agency": { "id": 1022, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/1022/?format=api", "name": "Axiom Space", "type": "Private" }, "date_of_birth": "1960-02-09", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/AstroPeggy", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/astro_peggy/", "bio": "Peggy Annette Whitson is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, and former NASA Chief Astronaut. Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5. Her second mission launched October 10, 2007, as the first female commander of the ISS with Expedition 16. She was on her third long-duration space flight and was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 51, before handing over command to Fyodor Yurchikhin on June 1, 2017.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/peggy_whitson_image_20210210144848.jpeg", "profile_image_thumbnail": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190851.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Whitson", "flights": [], "landings": [ { "id": 671, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/flight/671/?format=api", "destination": "International Space Station", "mission_end": null, "spacecraft": { "id": 595, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/spacecraft/595/?format=api", "name": "Crew Dragon C213", "serial_number": "C213", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "Crew Dragon spacecraft first used for Crew-10.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 6, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/spacecraft/6/?format=api", "name": "Crew Dragon 2", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "in_use": true, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/spacex_dm-2_cre_image_20200504065311.jpeg" } }, "launch": { "id": "0805af04-c2ea-4750-9eb4-f24f89eeb5d6", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/launch/0805af04-c2ea-4750-9eb4-f24f89eeb5d6/?format=api", "launch_library_id": null, "slug": "falcon-9-block-5-axiom-space-mission-4", "name": "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Axiom Space Mission 4", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Go" }, "net": "2025-06-08T13:11:00Z", "window_end": "2025-06-08T13:11:00Z", "window_start": "2025-06-08T13:11:00Z", "inhold": false, "tbdtime": false, "tbddate": false, "probability": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "type": "Commercial" }, "rocket": { "id": 2952, "configuration": { "id": 164, "launch_library_id": 188, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/config/launcher/164/?format=api", "name": "Falcon 9", "family": "Falcon", "full_name": "Falcon 9 Block 5", "variant": "Block 5" } }, "mission": { "id": 1369, "launch_library_id": null, "name": "Axiom Space Mission 4", "description": "This is a Crew Dragon flight for a private company Axiom Space. The mission will carry a professionally trained commander alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. This crew will stay aboard space station for at least eight days.", "launch_designator": null, "type": "Tourism", "orbit": { "id": 8, "name": "Low Earth Orbit", "abbrev": "LEO" } }, "pad": { "id": 87, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/pad/87/?format=api", "agency_id": 121, "name": "Launch Complex 39A", "info_url": null, "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39#Launch_Pad_39A", "map_url": "https://www.google.com/maps?q=28.60822681,-80.60428186", "latitude": "28.60822681", "longitude": "-80.60428186", "location": { "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/location/27/?format=api", "name": "Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA", "country_code": "USA", "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_27_20200803142447.jpg", "total_launch_count": 265, "total_landing_count": 0 }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/pad_87_20200803143537.jpg", "total_launch_count": 207 }, "webcast_live": false, "image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/falcon2520925_image_20210525170218.jpeg", "infographic": null, "program": [ { "id": 32, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/program/32/?format=api", "name": "Axiom Private Spaceflight", "description": "Axiom Space provides human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station. \r\nThe company sent its first commercial astronauts into orbit in 2022. It also plans human spaceflight for government-funded and commercial astronauts engaging in in-space research, in-space manufacturing, and space exploration.", "agencies": [ { "id": 1022, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/1022/?format=api", "name": "Axiom Space", "type": "Private" } ], "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/axiom2520priva_program_20231231100427.jpeg", "start_date": "2022-04-08T00:00:00Z", "end_date": null, "info_url": "https://www.axiomspace.com/missions/", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Space#Missions" } ] } } ], "last_flight": "2023-05-21T21:37:09Z", "first_flight": "2002-06-05T21:22:49Z" }
