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/713/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 713,
    "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/713/?format=api",
    "name": "Anil Menon",
    "status": {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "In-Training"
    },
    "agency": {
        "response_mode": "list",
        "id": 44,
        "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api",
        "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
        "abbrev": "NASA",
        "type": {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Government"
        }
    },
    "image": {
        "id": 709,
        "name": "[AUTO] Anil Menon - image",
        "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/anil_menon_image_20211206185413.jpg",
        "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190559.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": "P0D",
    "eva_time": "P0D",
    "age": 49,
    "date_of_birth": "1976-01-01",
    "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": "Anil Menon is a US Air Force lieutenant colonel from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support the human system during future missions. Prior to that, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station. Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine. As a physician, he was a first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident. In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing as a flight surgeon and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he logged over 100 sorties in the F-15 fighter jet and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team.\r\n\r\nExact date of birth unknown.",
    "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon_(astronaut)",
    "last_flight": null,
    "first_flight": null,
    "social_media_links": [
        {
            "id": 4,
            "social_media": {
                "id": 1,
                "name": "X",
                "url": "https://x.com",
                "logo": {
                    "id": 2320,
                    "name": "X logo",
                    "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/x_logo_image_20250211191027.jpg",
                    "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/x_logo_image_thumbnail_20250211191027.jpeg",
                    "credit": "X",
                    "license": {
                        "id": 1,
                        "name": "Unknown",
                        "priority": 9,
                        "link": null
                    },
                    "single_use": true,
                    "variants": []
                }
            },
            "url": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Menon"
        }
    ],
    "flights_count": 0,
    "landings_count": 0,
    "spacewalks_count": 0,
    "flights": [],
    "landings": [],
    "spacewalks": []
}