Astronaut List
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/?format=api&offset=240
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He is the founder and current CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of Cummins' board of directors. He became an American citizen in 1977. He is of Chinese (paternal side) and Costa Rican Spanish (maternal side) descent. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, tieing the record, as of 2018 for the most spaceflights (a record set by Jerry L. Ross). He was the third Latin American, but the first Latin American immigrant NASA Astronaut selected to go into space. 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It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.", "administrator": "Founder: Richard Branson", "founding_year": "2004", "launchers": "VMS Eve", "spacecraft": "VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/virgin_galactic_image_20210522131723.jpeg" }, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/clint_nichols_image_20210522145635.jpg", "profile_image_thumbnail": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185803.jpeg", "last_flight": "2013-09-05T12:00:00Z", "first_flight": "2010-11-17T00:00:00Z" }, { "id": 774, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/774/?format=api", "name": "Marcus Wandt", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1980-09-22", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Swedish", "bio": "Marcus Wandt is a Swedish test pilot and member of the European Space Agency's 2022 astronaut class reserve.", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/astro_marcus", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/esaastro_marcus/", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wandt", "agency": { "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "featured": false, "type": "Multinational", "country_code": "FRA,ITA,DEU,ESP,CHE,GBR,AUT,SWE,BEL,PRT,NLD,HUN,POL,DNK,CZE,ROU,NOR,FIN,GRC,EST,IRL,LUX,SVN", "abbrev": "ESA", "description": "The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees.\r\n\r\nESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.", "administrator": "Director General: Josef Aschbacher", "founding_year": "1975", "launchers": "Ariane | Vega", "spacecraft": "Space Rider", "parent": null, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/esa_patch_float_image_20250211192109.png" }, "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/marcus_wandt_image_20230912131352.jpg", "profile_image_thumbnail": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185253.jpeg", "last_flight": "2024-01-18T21:49:11Z", "first_flight": "2024-01-18T21:49:11Z" }, { "id": 798, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/798/?format=api", "name": "Jameel Janjua", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Canadian", "bio": "VSS Unity pilot for Virgin Galactic.", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "wiki": null, "agency": null, "profile_image": null, "profile_image_thumbnail": null, "last_flight": "2024-06-08T15:26:00Z", "first_flight": "2024-06-08T15:26:00Z" }, { "id": 804, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/804/?format=api", "name": "Shubhanshu Shukla", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown" }, "date_of_birth": "1985-10-10", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "Indian", "bio": "Indian astronaut part of the first group of the Indian domestic human spaceflight program.", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "wiki": null, "agency": { "id": 31, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/31/?format=api", "name": "Indian Space Research Organization", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "IND", "abbrev": "ISRO", "description": "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the space agency of the Government of India headquartered in the city of Bangalore. 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Brown", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1951-11-18", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "bio": "Mark Neil Brown is an American engineer, retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and former NASA astronaut.", "twitter": null, "instagram": null, "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_N._Brown", "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NASA", "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. 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Kimbrough", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "date_of_birth": "1967-06-04", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "bio": "Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer, and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of two spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a 6-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50 and later spent 6 months on the ISS as part of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission. He retired from NASA on July 31, 2022.", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/astro_kimbrough", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/astro_kimbrough/", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Kimbrough", "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "featured": true, "type": "Government", "country_code": "USA", "abbrev": "NASA", "description": "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. 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