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=780&ordering=-status
{ "count": 853, "next": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=790&ordering=-status", "previous": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=770&ordering=-status", "results": [ { "id": 744, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/744/?format=api", "name": "Shaun the Sheep", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "abbrev": "ESA", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Multinational" } }, "image": { "id": 571, "name": "[AUTO] Shaun the Sheep - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/shaun_the_sheep_image_20220818114142.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190213.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 6, "name": "Non-Human" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P25DT10H52M46S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": null, "date_of_birth": null, "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 17, "name": "Unknown", "alpha_2_code": "??", "alpha_3_code": "???", "nationality_name": "Earthling", "nationality_name_composed": "Earthling" } ], "bio": "Shaun the Sheep is the main character of the eponymous British stop-motion TV show. This plushie serves as zero-G indicator on the Artemis-1 mission.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_the_Sheep", "last_flight": "2022-11-16T06:47:44Z", "first_flight": "2022-11-16T06:47:44Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 653, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/653/?format=api", "name": "Matthias Maurer", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 27, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/27/?format=api", "name": "European Space Agency", "abbrev": "ESA", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Multinational" } }, "image": { "id": 567, "name": "[AUTO] Matthias Maurer - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/matthias_maurer_image_20211001184714.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190207.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": "P176DT2H39M29S", "eva_time": "PT6H54M", "age": 56, "date_of_birth": "1970-03-18", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 4, "name": "Germany", "alpha_2_code": "DE", "alpha_3_code": "DEU", "nationality_name": "German", "nationality_name_composed": "Germano" } ], "bio": "Maurer applied to the European Space Agency as an astronaut in 2008, but was not initially appointed to the European Astronaut Corps. He formally joined the European Astronaut Corps in July 2015. In March 2018, he gained certification to perform International Space Station-related spacewalks in the American spacesuit EMU. In 2018 he also successfully graduated from both basic astronaut training and pre-assignment training and thus became fully certified to go to space.\r\nOn 28 July 2020, Maurer was announced as a backup for Thomas Pesquet for the ISS expedition 65. His own flight is scheduled to take place no earlier than September 2021 aboard SpaceX Crew-3.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Maurer", "last_flight": "2021-11-11T02:03:31Z", "first_flight": "2021-11-11T02:03:31Z", "social_media_links": [ { "id": 5, "social_media": { "id": 1, "name": "X", "url": "https://x.com", "logo": { "id": 2320, "name": "X logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/x_logo_image_20250211191027.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.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_matthias" }, { "id": 6, "social_media": { "id": 2, "name": "Instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com", "logo": { "id": 2322, "name": "Instagram logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/instagram_logo_image_20250211191139.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.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/esamatthiasmaurer" } ], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 1 }, { "id": 168, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/168/?format=api", "name": "Oleg Kononenko", "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": 566, "name": "[AUTO] Oleg Kononenko - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/oleg2520kononenko_image_20181129233442.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190205.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": "P1110DT12H9M55S", "eva_time": "P1DT18H30M", "age": 61, "date_of_birth": "1964-06-21", "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": "Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Russian: Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has flown to the International Space Station three times, as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 aboard Soyuz TMA-12, as a flight engineer on Expedition 30 and commander of Expedition 31 aboard Soyuz TMA-03M, and as a flight engineer on Expedition 44 and Expedition 45 aboard Soyuz TMA-17M. Kononenko has accumulated over 533 days in orbit during three long duration flights to ISS.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko", "last_flight": "2023-09-15T15:44:35Z", "first_flight": "2008-04-08T11:16:39Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 5, "landings_count": 5, "spacewalks_count": 7 }, { "id": 770, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/770/?format=api", "name": "Kelly Latimer", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "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": 558, "name": "[AUTO] Kelly Latimer - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/kelly_latimer_image_20230718080208.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190153.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": "PT46M25S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": null, "date_of_birth": null, "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": "Pilot working for Virgin Galactic. First Spaceflight during the Galactic-02 Mission.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2023-11-02T15:44:00Z", "first_flight": "2023-08-10T15:17:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 3, "landings_count": 3, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 569, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/569/?format=api", "name": "Norishige Kanai", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 37, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/37/?format=api", "name": "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency", "abbrev": "JAXA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 553, "name": "[AUTO] Norishige Kanai - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/norishige2520kanai_image_20181203172829.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190144.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": "P168DT5H17M59S", "eva_time": "PT5H57M", "age": 49, "date_of_birth": "1976-12-05", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 28, "name": "Japan", "alpha_2_code": "JP", "alpha_3_code": "JPN", "nationality_name": "Japanese", "nationality_name_composed": "Nippo" } ], "bio": "Norishige Kanai, M.D. is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut.\r\n\r\nHe is a lieutenant and Diving Medical Officer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Medical Service Division, 1st Service School). He served as a crew member on board the International Space Station for Expedition 54/55, and returned to Earth on June 3 2018.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norishige_Kanai", "last_flight": "2017-12-17T07:21:01Z", "first_flight": "2017-12-17T07:21:01Z", "social_media_links": [ { "id": 106, "social_media": { "id": 1, "name": "X", "url": "https://x.com", "logo": { "id": 2320, "name": "X logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/x_logo_image_20250211191027.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.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_Kanai" } ], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 1 }, { "id": 577, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/577/?format=api", "name": "Matthew Dominick", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "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": 539, "name": "[AUTO] Matthew Dominick - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/matthew2520dominick_image_20200110160726.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190121.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": "P235DT3H35M24S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 44, "date_of_birth": "1981-12-07", "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": "Matthew Stuart Dominick is a US Navy test pilot and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2017. He has more than 1,600 hours of flight time in 28 aircraft, 400 carrier-arrested landings, 61 combat missions, and almost 200 flight test carrier landings.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Dominick", "last_flight": "2024-03-04T03:53:38Z", "first_flight": "2024-03-04T03:53:38Z", "social_media_links": [ { "id": 88, "social_media": { "id": 2, "name": "Instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com", "logo": { "id": 2322, "name": "Instagram logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/instagram_logo_image_20250211191139.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.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/matthew.dominick/" } ], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 546, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/546/?format=api", "name": "Stephen Bowen", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "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": 530, "name": "[AUTO] Stephen Bowen - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/stephen_bowen_image_20220911034047.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190106.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": "P226DT8H45M57S", "eva_time": "P2DT18H57M", "age": 62, "date_of_birth": "1964-02-13", "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": "Stephen Gerard Bowen is a United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut; he was the second submariner to travel into space. Bowen has been on three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. His first mission, STS-126, took place in November 2008, and his second was STS-132 in May 2010.\r\n\r\nIn March 2011, Bowen completed his third spaceflight as a Mission Specialist on STS-133, which was Space Shuttle Discovery's final planned flight. Having flown on both STS-132 and STS-133, Bowen became the first and only astronaut to fly on consecutive shuttle missions. Originally Tim Kopra was scheduled to fly on STS-133, but Kopra had a bicycle injury shortly before the mission, and so he was replaced by Bowen.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bowen_(astronaut)", "last_flight": "2023-03-02T05:34:14Z", "first_flight": "2008-11-15T00:55:39Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 4, "landings_count": 4, "spacewalks_count": 10 }, { "id": 865, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/865/?format=api", "name": "Hongzhang Zhang", "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": 2500, "name": "Hongzhang Zhang official portrait", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/hongzhang_zhang_image_20251030081806.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/hongzhang_zhang_image_thumbnail_20251030081806.jpeg", "credit": "CNSA", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": true, "time_in_space": "P148DT11H46M41S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 39, "date_of_birth": "1986-04-01", "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": "Zhang Hongzhang is a Chinese astronaut selected as a payload specialist as part of the Shenzhou program. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August 2004. He was a researcher on battery technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics prior to joining the astronaut corps.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2025-10-31T15:44:46Z", "first_flight": "2025-10-31T15:44:46Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 714, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/714/?format=api", "name": "Christopher Williams", "status": { "id": 1, "name": "Active" }, "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": 671, "name": "Christopher Williams official portrait", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/christopher_wil_image_20211206185420.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190450.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": false, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": true, "time_in_space": "P121DT18H34S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 43, "date_of_birth": "1983-01-01", "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": "Christopher Williams grw up in Potomac, Maryland and graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a doctorate in physics from MIT in 2012, where his research was in astrophysics. Williams is a board-certified medical physicist, completing his residency training at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty as a clinical physicist and researcher. He most recently worked as a medical physicist in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He was the lead physicist for the Institute’s MRI-guided adaptive radiation therapy program. His research focused on developing image guidance techniques for cancer treatments.\r\n\r\nExact date of birth unknown.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Williams_(astronaut)", "last_flight": "2025-11-27T09:27:57Z", "first_flight": "2025-11-27T09:27:57Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 755, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/755/?format=api", "name": "Alexander Grebenkin", "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": 518, "name": "[AUTO] Alexander Grebenkin - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/alexander_grebe_image_20230304134134.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190048.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": "P235DT3H35M24S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 43, "date_of_birth": "1982-07-15", "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": "Alexander Grebenkin is a Russian cosmonaut with a background in radio communications engineering.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": "2024-03-04T03:53:38Z", "first_flight": "2024-03-04T03:53:38Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 } ] }
