Astronaut List
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/?format=api&offset=20&ordering=age
{ "count": 813, "next": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=30&ordering=age", "previous": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=10&ordering=age", "results": [ { "id": 782, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/782/?format=api", "name": "Shengjie Tang", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/17/?format=api", "name": "China National Space Administration", "abbrev": "CNSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 917, "name": "[AUTO] Shengjie Tang - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/shengjie_tang_image_20231025055827.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305191127.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P187DT6H31M58S", "eva_time": "PT7H25M", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1989-12-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 6, "name": "China", "alpha_2_code": "CN", "alpha_3_code": "CHN", "nationality_name": "Chinese", "nationality_name_composed": "Sino" } ], "bio": "Tang Shengjie is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Forces in September 2008, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 2013.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2023-10-26T03:14:02Z", "first_flight": "2023-10-26T03:14:02Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 1 }, { "id": 717, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/717/?format=api", "name": "Sarah Gillis", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/121/?format=api", "name": "SpaceX", "abbrev": "SpX", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Commercial" } }, "image": { "id": 347, "name": "[AUTO] Sarah Gillis - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/sarah_gillis_image_20220214140409.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185621.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 3, "name": "Private" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P4DT22H13M5S", "eva_time": "PT8M", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01", "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": "Sarah Gillis is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX, responsible for overseeing the company’s astronaut training program. This includes the development of mission-specific curriculum and training execution for both NASA and commercial astronauts who fly aboard the Dragon spacecraft. She prepared NASA astronauts for the Demo-2 and Crew-1 missions as well as directly trained the Inspiration4 astronauts. She is an experienced mission control operator, who has supported real-time operations for Dragon’s cargo resupply missions to and from the International Space Station as a Navigation Officer, and as a crew communicator for Dragon’s human spaceflight missions.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2024-09-10T09:23:49Z", "first_flight": "2024-09-10T09:23:49Z", "social_media_links": [ { "id": 8, "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/Gillis_SarahE" } ], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 1 }, { "id": 841, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/841/?format=api", "name": "Jie Wang", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/17/?format=api", "name": "China National Space Administration", "abbrev": "CNSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": null, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": true, "time_in_space": "P37DT16H44M7S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1989-09-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 6, "name": "China", "alpha_2_code": "CN", "alpha_3_code": "CHN", "nationality_name": "Chinese", "nationality_name_composed": "Sino" } ], "bio": "Wang Jie is a Chinese astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 2009 and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 2021. Prior to being chosen into the astronaut corps, he worked as a engineer at the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2025-04-24T09:17:31Z", "first_flight": "2025-04-24T09:17:31Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 818, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/818/?format=api", "name": "Haozhe Wang", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/17/?format=api", "name": "China National Space Administration", "abbrev": "CNSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": null, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P182DT8H40M39S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1990-03-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 6, "name": "China", "alpha_2_code": "CN", "alpha_3_code": "CHN", "nationality_name": "Chinese", "nationality_name_composed": "Sino" } ], "bio": "Wang Haozhe is a Chinese astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 2009 and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 2021. Prior to being chosen into the astronaut corps, she worked as a senior propulsion engineer at the Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2024-10-29T20:27:34Z", "first_flight": "2024-10-29T20:27:34Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 803, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/803/?format=api", "name": "Kirill Peskov", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 2129, "name": "Kirill Peskov during training", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kirill_peskov_d_image_20240802063311.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kirill_peskov_d_image_thumbnail_20240802063315.jpeg", "credit": "Roscosmos", "license": { "id": 14, "name": "Roscosmos Image Use Policy", "priority": 3, "link": "https://www.roscosmos.ru/22650/" }, "single_use": false, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": true, "time_in_space": "P78DT2H57M25S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1990-05-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 5, "name": "Russia", "alpha_2_code": "RU", "alpha_3_code": "RUS", "nationality_name": "Russian", "nationality_name_composed": "Russo" } ], "bio": "Russian group 17 cosmonaut and former airline pilot.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2025-03-14T23:03:48Z", "first_flight": "2025-03-14T23:03:48Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 796, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/796/?format=api", "name": "Cong Li", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 17, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/17/?format=api", "name": "China National Space Administration", "abbrev": "CNSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 2081, "name": "Cong Li", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cong_li_image_20240427170446.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/cong_li_image_thumbnail_20240427170446.png", "credit": "CASC", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P192DT4H25M27S", "eva_time": "PT6H31M", "age": 35, "date_of_birth": "1989-10-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 6, "name": "China", "alpha_2_code": "CN", "alpha_3_code": "CHN", "nationality_name": "Chinese", "nationality_name_composed": "Sino" } ], "bio": "Li Cong is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in September 2009, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 2011.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2024-04-25T12:59:00Z", "first_flight": "2024-04-25T12:59:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 1 }, { "id": 35, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/35/?format=api", "name": "Ed White", "status": { "id": 5, "name": "Lost 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": 817, "name": "[AUTO] Ed White - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ed2520white_image_20181128143747.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190845.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P3DT23H59M", "eva_time": "PT20M", "age": 36, "date_of_birth": "1930-11-14", "date_of_death": "1967-01-27", "nationality": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "bio": "Edward Higgins White II was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to walk in space. White died along with astronauts Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee during prelaunch testing for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Canaveral. 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While training on the astronaut program, she developed software and operating procedures for NASA missions.[2] She was also a pilot and made research contributions to biomedical engineering, as a research fellow of biomedical engineering at the National Institutes of Health.\r\n\r\nInitially planning to be a concert pianist, Resnik had turned down a place at the Juilliard School of Music, choosing instead to study mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University after being one of only 16 girls in the United States to have attained 100% scores in her SAT exams at the time. She went on to graduate from Carnegie Institute of Technology in electrical engineering, before graduating with a Ph.D. magna cum laude in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.\r\n\r\nResnik was the second American woman in space, and the fourth woman in space worldwide, logging 145 hours in orbit. She was also the first Jewish American in space, and the first Jewish woman of any nationality in space. 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She holds an honors bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Montreal and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Cambridge. While at McGill, she conducted research on flame propagation in microgravity, in collaboration with CSA and the National Research Council Flight Research Laboratory. 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