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/674/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 674,
    "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/674/?format=api",
    "name": "Doug Shane",
    "status": {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Retired"
    },
    "agency": {
        "response_mode": "list",
        "id": 1024,
        "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/1024/?format=api",
        "name": "Virgin Galactic",
        "abbrev": "VG",
        "type": {
            "id": 5,
            "name": "Private"
        }
    },
    "image": {
        "id": 663,
        "name": "[AUTO] Doug Shane - image",
        "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/doug_shane_image_20210522150034.jpg",
        "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190438.jpeg",
        "credit": null,
        "license": {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Unknown",
            "priority": 9,
            "link": null
        },
        "single_use": true,
        "variants": []
    },
    "response_mode": "detailed",
    "type": {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "Private"
    },
    "in_space": false,
    "time_in_space": "P0D",
    "eva_time": "P0D",
    "age": 65,
    "date_of_birth": "1960-01-01",
    "date_of_death": null,
    "nationality": [
        {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "United States of America",
            "alpha_2_code": "US",
            "alpha_3_code": "USA",
            "nationality_name": "American",
            "nationality_name_composed": "Americano"
        }
    ],
    "bio": "Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut. He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in addition to being one of the program pilots, and later served as President of Scaled Composites from 2008 through early 2013.\r\n\r\nBirthday is unknown.",
    "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Shane",
    "last_flight": "2011-06-14T12:00:00Z",
    "first_flight": "2011-04-22T12:00:00Z",
    "social_media_links": [],
    "flights_count": 4,
    "landings_count": 4,
    "spacewalks_count": 0,
    "flights": [],
    "landings": [],
    "spacewalks": []
}