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=810&ordering=-spacewalks_count
{ "count": 853, "next": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=820&ordering=-spacewalks_count", "previous": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=800&ordering=-spacewalks_count", "results": [ { "id": 85, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/85/?format=api", "name": "Maurizio Cheli", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "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": 425, "name": "[AUTO] Maurizio Cheli - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/maurizio2520cheli_image_20181128224319.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185823.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": "P15DT17H40M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 66, "date_of_birth": "1959-05-04", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 3, "name": "Italy", "alpha_2_code": "IT", "alpha_3_code": "ITA", "nationality_name": "Italian", "nationality_name_composed": "Italo" } ], "bio": "Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian air force officer, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.\r\n\r\nHe trained with the United States Air Force and was selected as an astronaut candidate by the European Space Agency in 1992. He holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force. He flew aboard STS-75 in 1996 as a mission specialist.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cheli", "last_flight": "1996-02-22T20:18:00Z", "first_flight": "1996-02-22T20:18:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 206, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/206/?format=api", "name": "Rodolfo Neri Vela", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "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": 424, "name": "[AUTO] Rodolfo Neri Vela - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/rodolfo2520neri2520vela_image_20181201182057.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185822.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": "P6DT21H4M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 74, "date_of_birth": "1952-02-19", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": [ { "id": 25, "name": "Mexico", "alpha_2_code": "MX", "alpha_3_code": "MEX", "nationality_name": "Mexican", "nationality_name_composed": "Mexico" } ], "bio": "Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the first Mexican, and the second Latin American to have traveled to space.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo_Neri_Vela", "last_flight": "1985-11-27T00:29:00Z", "first_flight": "1985-11-27T00:29:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 197, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/197/?format=api", "name": "Ernst Messerschmid", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 29, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/29/?format=api", "name": "German Aerospace Center", "abbrev": "DLR", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 434, "name": "[AUTO] Ernst Messerschmid - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/ernst2520messerschmid_image_20181201175413.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185837.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": "P7DT44M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 80, "date_of_birth": "1945-05-21", "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": "Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born May 21, 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut.\r\nFrom 1978 to 1982, he worked at the DFVLR (the precursor of the DLR) in the Institute of Communications Technology in Oberpfaffenhofen on space-borne communications. In 1983, he was selected as one of the astronauts for the first German Spacelab mission D-1. He flew as payload specialist on STS-61-A in 1985, spending over 168 hours in space.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Messerschmid", "last_flight": "1985-10-30T17:00:00Z", "first_flight": "1985-10-30T17:00:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 121, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/121/?format=api", "name": "James Halsell", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "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": 423, "name": "[AUTO] James Halsell - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/james2520halsell_image_20181129201925.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185820.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": "P52DT10H31M32S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 69, "date_of_birth": "1956-09-29", "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": "James Halsell was an Air Force Test Pilot when he was selected by NASA to become an Astronaut in 1990. He was a veteran of five flights totalling over 1,250 hours in space, pilot of two STS missions and commander of three. He also served as a manager for Shuttle Launch Integration and Space Shuttle Program manager. After the Columbia accident he led the NASA Return to Flight Planning team.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Halsell", "last_flight": "2000-05-19T10:11:10Z", "first_flight": "1994-07-08T16:43:01Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 5, "landings_count": 5, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 685, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/685/?format=api", "name": "Wally Funk", "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": { "id": 436, "name": "[AUTO] Wally Funk - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/wally_funk_image_20220911033704.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185840.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": "PT10M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 88, "date_of_birth": "1938-02-01", "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": "Mary Wallace \"Wally\" Funk is an American aviator and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Funk", "last_flight": "2021-07-20T13:12:00Z", "first_flight": "2021-07-20T13:12:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 373, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/373/?format=api", "name": "Mary L. Cleave", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "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": 437, "name": "[AUTO] Mary L. Cleave - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mary2520l.2520cleave_image_20181202120740.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185842.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": "P10DT22H1S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1947-02-05", "date_of_death": "2023-11-27", "nationality": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "bio": "Mary Louise Cleave was an American engineer and NASA astronaut. She also served from 2004 to 2007 as NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Cleave", "last_flight": "1989-05-04T18:46:59Z", "first_flight": "1985-11-27T00:29:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 2, "landings_count": 2, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 876, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/876/?format=api", "name": "Yuri Kubo", "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": 2611, "name": "Yuri Kubo official portait", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/yuri_kubo_offic_image_20251205153414.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/yuri_kubo_offic_image_thumbnail_20251205153414.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": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "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": "NASA astronaut candidate bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University. He spent 12 years working across various teams at SpaceX, including as launch director for Falcon 9 rocket launches, director of avionics for the Starshield program, and director of Ground Segment.", "wiki": null, "last_flight": null, "first_flight": null, "social_media_links": [ { "id": 366, "social_media": { "id": 4, "name": "LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/", "logo": { "id": 2321, "name": "LinkedIn logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/linkedin_logo_image_20250211191111.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/linkedin_logo_image_thumbnail_20250211191112.png", "credit": "LinkedIn", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-kubo-116a65a0/" }, { "id": 367, "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/astro_kubo/" }, { "id": 368, "social_media": { "id": 7, "name": "Facebook", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/", "logo": { "id": 2420, "name": "Facebook logo", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/facebook_logo_image_20250721163611.png", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/facebook_logo_image_thumbnail_20250721163611.png", "credit": "Facebook", "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] } }, "url": "https://www.facebook.com/astroyurikubo/" } ], "flights_count": 0, "landings_count": 0, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 461, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/461/?format=api", "name": "Jeffrey Ashby", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "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": 439, "name": "[AUTO] Jeffrey Ashby - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jeffrey_ashby_image_20220911034133.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185845.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": "P27DT16H17M27S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 71, "date_of_birth": "1954-06-16", "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": "Jeffrey Shears \"Bones\" Ashby is an American mechanical engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut, a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. 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Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed to do so.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Rukavishnikov", "last_flight": "1979-04-10T17:34:34Z", "first_flight": "1971-04-22T23:54:06Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 3, "landings_count": 3, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 102, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/102/?format=api", "name": "Jean-Jacques Favier", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 46, "url": "https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/46/?format=api", "name": "National Center of Space Research", "abbrev": "CNES", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 422, "name": "[AUTO] Jean-Jacques Favier - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jean-jacques2520favier_image_20181128230836.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185819.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": "P16DT21H48M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 73, "date_of_birth": "1949-04-13", "date_of_death": "2023-03-19", "nationality": [ { "id": 1, "name": "France", "alpha_2_code": "FR", "alpha_3_code": "FRA", "nationality_name": "French", "nationality_name_composed": "Franco" } ], "bio": "Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) was a French engineer and CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission. Favier was due to fly aboard the Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier has been Deputy Director for Space Technology and Deputy Director for Advanced Concepts and Strategy at CNES, Director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and Research Program Director at the International Space University.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Favier", "last_flight": "1996-06-20T14:49:00Z", "first_flight": "1996-06-20T14:49:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 } ] }
