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
Search
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
Find all the FAQs and support links on the documentation homepage - lldev.thespacedevs.com/docs
GET /2.3.0/astronauts/830/?format=api
{ "id": 830, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/830/?format=api", "name": "Gayle King", "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": "P0D", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 70, "date_of_birth": "1954-12-28", "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": "Gayle King is an American television personality, author, and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings, and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. King was named one of Time magazine's \"100 Most Influential People of 2019\".", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_King", "last_flight": null, "first_flight": null, "social_media_links": [ { "id": 267, "social_media": { "id": 2, "name": "Instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com", "logo": { "id": 2322, "name": "Instagram logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/instagram_logo_image_20250211191139.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/instagram_logo_image_thumbnail_20250211191139.png", "credit": "Instagram", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "url": "https://www.instagram.com/gayleking/" }, { "id": 268, "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://x.com/gayleking" } ], "flights_count": 0, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0, "flights": [], "landings": [ { "id": 873, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_flights/873/?format=api", "destination": "Suborbital", "mission_end": null, "spacecraft": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 608, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft/608/?format=api", "name": "Unknown RSS", "serial_number": "TBD", "is_placeholder": false, "image": { "id": 2152, "name": "New Shepard Crew Capsule Jules Verne under parachutes", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_cre_image_20240812144851.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_cre_image_thumbnail_20240812144851.jpeg", "credit": "Blue Origin", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 0, "mission_ends_count": 0, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "description": "The specific spacecraft for this launch is currently unknown.", "spacecraft_config": { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 21, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/spacecraft_configurations/21/?format=api", "name": "Crew Capsule 2.0", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "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" } }, "family": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 5, "name": "New Shepard Crew Capsule", "description": "Capsules built for suborbital human spaceflight on New Shepard", "manufacturer": { "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" } }, "parent": null, "maiden_flight": "2015-04-29" } ], "in_use": true, "image": { "id": 1907, "name": "New Shepard M7 H. G. Wells landed", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/crew2520capsule25202.0_image_20190309095011.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305194115.jpeg", "credit": "Blue Origin", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "fastest_turnaround": null }, "launch": { "id": "08433f85-5ba3-470d-95ed-167e615e9e9a", "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launches/08433f85-5ba3-470d-95ed-167e615e9e9a/?format=api", "name": "New Shepard | NS-31", "response_mode": "normal", "slug": "new-shepard-ns-31", "launch_designator": null, "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Go for Launch", "abbrev": "Go", "description": "Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources." }, "last_updated": "2025-03-27T13:43:35Z", "net": "2025-04-14T13:30:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 1, "name": "Minute", "abbrev": "MIN", "description": "The T-0 is accurate to the minute." }, "window_end": "2025-04-14T13:30:00Z", "window_start": "2025-04-14T13:30:00Z", "image": { "id": 2098, "name": "New Shepard liftoff (NS-25)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_lif_image_20240621062033.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_lif_image_thumbnail_20240621062033.jpeg", "credit": "Blue Origin", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "infographic": null, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "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" } }, "rocket": { "id": 8543, "configuration": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 137, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/launcher_configurations/137/?format=api", "name": "New Shepard", "families": [], "full_name": "New Shepard", "variant": "" } }, "mission": { "id": 7134, "name": "NS-31", "type": "Tourism", "description": "NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.", "image": null, "orbit": { "id": 15, "name": "Suborbital", "abbrev": "Sub", "celestial_body": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 1, "name": "Earth" } }, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 141, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "abbrev": "BO", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.", "administrator": "CEO: Jeff Bezos", "founding_year": 2000, "launchers": "New Shepard | New Glenn", "spacecraft": "", "parent": null, "image": { "id": 5, "name": "[AUTO] Blue Origin - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_image_20190207032427.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184551.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "logo": { "id": 116, "name": "[AUTO] Blue Origin - logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_logo_20190207032427.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184921.png", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "social_logo": { "id": 45, "name": "[AUTO] Blue Origin - social_logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/blue2520origin_nation_20240222073724.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305184738.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "total_launch_count": 31, "consecutive_successful_launches": 8, "successful_launches": 30, "failed_launches": 1, "pending_launches": 5, "consecutive_successful_landings": 2, "successful_landings": 28, "failed_landings": 3, "attempted_landings": 31, "successful_landings_spacecraft": 30, "failed_landings_spacecraft": 0, "attempted_landings_spacecraft": 30, "successful_landings_payload": 0, "failed_landings_payload": 0, "attempted_landings_payload": 0, "info_url": "http://www.blueorigin.com/", "wiki_url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin", "social_media_links": [] } ], "info_urls": [], "vid_urls": [] }, "pad": { "id": 90, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/pads/90/?format=api", "active": true, "agencies": [ { "response_mode": "normal", "id": 141, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/141/?format=api", "name": "Blue Origin", "abbrev": "BO", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" }, "featured": true, "country": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "description": "Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. 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Site One (LSO), is a spaceport owned and operated by Blue Origin which is located approximately 30 miles north of the town of Van Horn, Texas, United States.", "image": { "id": 2098, "name": "New Shepard liftoff (NS-25)", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_lif_image_20240621062033.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/new_shepard_lif_image_thumbnail_20240621062033.jpeg", "credit": "Blue Origin", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "map_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/map_images/location_29_20200803142436.jpg", "longitude": -104.757152, "latitude": 31.422927, "timezone_name": "America/Chicago", "total_launch_count": 30, "total_landing_count": 30 }, "longitude": null, "latitude": null, "image": { "id": 2152, "name": "New Shepard Crew Capsule Jules Verne under 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"https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/earth_2528apol_image_thumbnail_20240402194305.jpeg", "credit": "NASA", "license": { "id": 4, "name": "NASA Image and Media Guidelines", "priority": 0, "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/" }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "description": "Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.", "wiki_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" } }, "type": { "id": 4, "name": "Parachute Landing", "abbrev": "PCL", "description": "Unpowered landing using parachute(s)." } }, "duration": null, "turn_around_time": null, "response_mode": "normal" } ], "spacewalks": [] }
