GET

Astronaut Instance

Modes

Levels of detail in the response - list, normal, detailed

Example - /astronauts/?mode=list

Filters

Parameters - age, age__gt, age__gte, age__lt, age__lte, agency_ids, date_of_birth, date_of_birth__gt, date_of_birth__gte, date_of_birth__lt, date_of_birth__lte, date_of_death, date_of_death__gt, date_of_death__gte, date_of_death__lt, date_of_death__lte, first_flight, first_flight__gt, first_flight__gte, first_flight__lt, first_flight__lte, flights_count, flights_count__gt, flights_count__gte, flights_count__lt, flights_count__lte, has_flown, in_space, is_human, landings_count, landings_count__gt, landings_count__gte, landings_count__lt, landings_count__lte, last_flight, last_flight__gt, last_flight__gte, last_flight__lt, last_flight__lte, nationality, status_ids, type__id

Example - /astronauts/?has_flown=true

Fields searched - agency__abbrev, agency__name, name, nationality__nationality_name

Example - /astronauts/?search=Pesquet

Ordering

Fields - age, date_of_birth, eva_time, flights_count, id, landings_count, last_flight, name, spacewalks_count, status, time_in_space

Example - /astronauts/?ordering=-time_in_space

Number of results

Use limit to control the number of objects in the response (max 100)

Example - /astronauts/?limit=2

Format

Switch to JSON output - /astronauts/?format=json

Help

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GET /2.3.0/astronauts/196/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 196,
    "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/196/?format=api",
    "name": "Ulf Merbold",
    "status": {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Retired"
    },
    "agency": {
        "response_mode": "list",
        "id": 27,
        "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/27/?format=api",
        "name": "European Space Agency",
        "abbrev": "ESA",
        "type": {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "Multinational"
        }
    },
    "image": {
        "id": 401,
        "name": "[AUTO] Ulf Merbold - image",
        "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ulf2520merbold_image_20181201175303.jpg",
        "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185746.jpeg",
        "credit": null,
        "license": {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Unknown",
            "priority": 9,
            "link": null
        },
        "single_use": true,
        "variants": []
    },
    "response_mode": "detailed",
    "type": {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Government"
    },
    "in_space": false,
    "time_in_space": "P49DT20H36M57S",
    "eva_time": "P0D",
    "age": 83,
    "date_of_birth": "1941-06-20",
    "date_of_death": null,
    "nationality": [
        {
            "id": 4,
            "name": "Germany",
            "alpha_2_code": "DE",
            "alpha_3_code": "DEU",
            "nationality_name": "German",
            "nationality_name_composed": "Germano"
        }
    ],
    "bio": "Dr. Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is the first West German citizen and second German native (after Sigmund Jähn) to have flown in space. He is also the first member of the European Space Agency Astronaut Corps to participate in a spaceflight mission and the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft. In 1983, he and Byron Lichtenberg became the first Payload Specialists to fly on the shuttle.",
    "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Merbold",
    "last_flight": "1994-10-03T22:42:30Z",
    "first_flight": "1983-11-28T16:00:00Z",
    "social_media_links": [],
    "flights_count": 3,
    "landings_count": 3,
    "spacewalks_count": 0,
    "flights": [],
    "landings": [],
    "spacewalks": []
}