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/793/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 793,
    "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/793/?format=api",
    "name": "Kenneth Lafferty Hess",
    "status": {
        "id": 14,
        "name": "Occasional Spaceflight"
    },
    "agency": {
        "response_mode": "list",
        "id": 141,
        "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/141/?format=api",
        "name": "Blue Origin",
        "abbrev": "BO",
        "type": {
            "id": 3,
            "name": "Commercial"
        }
    },
    "image": null,
    "response_mode": "detailed",
    "type": {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "Private"
    },
    "in_space": false,
    "time_in_space": "PT9M53S",
    "eva_time": "P0D",
    "age": 72,
    "date_of_birth": "1953-01-22",
    "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": "Ken is a software engineer and entrepreneur who shaped today's technology-based family history industry when he developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. The company was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2003. In 2001, Ken gave back by founding Science Buddies, a K-12 nonprofit created to level the playing field and improve STEM literacy by inspiring students through free, personalized, hands-on projects in all areas of science, including space exploration. Science Buddies has reached one-quarter billion users. Ken’s lifelong passion for space exploration is in his DNA, with numerous early American pioneers in his mother’s lineage and many engineers and technicians in his father’s.",
    "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Hess",
    "last_flight": "2024-05-19T14:35:09Z",
    "first_flight": "2024-05-19T14:35:09Z",
    "social_media_links": [],
    "flights_count": 1,
    "landings_count": 1,
    "spacewalks_count": 0,
    "flights": [],
    "landings": [],
    "spacewalks": []
}