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This is an incompletelist of astronauts who are resident in any of the countries ofEurope, who have reached Earth's orbit, exclusive of the former Soviet republics ofRussia,Belarus, andUkraine. People who are "space tourists" rather than workingastronauts may be included, indicated byitalics.
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov (Intercosmos) —Soyuz TM-5
Patrick Baudry, second Frenchman in space, born in Douala, Cameroon —STS-51-G
Ivan Bella, firstSlovak in space —Soyuz TM-29/28
Maurizio Cheli, EAC —STS-75Jean-Loup Chrétien,CNES (Intercosmos), firstFrench person in space and first non-SovietEuropean to walk in space —Soyuz T-6,Soyuz TM-7/6,STS-86Jean-François Clervoy, EAC —STS-66,STS-84,STS-103Samantha Cristoforetti, EAC —Soyuz TMA-15M (Expedition 42,SpaceX Crew-4 (Expedition 67)
Frank De Winne, EAC —Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34,Soyuz TMA-15
Pedro Duque, EAC, firstSpaniard in space —STS-95,Soyuz TMA-3/2
Reinhold Ewald, EAC —Soyuz TM-25/24Léopold Eyharts, EAC —Soyuz TM-27/26,STS-122/123
Bertalan Farkas (Intercosmos), firstHungarian in space —Soyuz 36/35Jean-Jacques Favier, born in Kehl, Germany —STS-78Klaus-Dietrich Flade —Soyuz TM-14/13Dirk Frimout, firstBelgian in space —STS-45
Christer Fuglesang, EAC, firstSwede in space —STS-116,STS-128Reinhard Furrer, born in Wörgl, Austria (1940–1995) —STS-61-A (flew forWest Germany)Umberto Guidoni, EAC, firstEuropean on the International Space Station —STS-75,STS-100Claudie André-Deshays Haigneré.svg)
, EAC, firstFrenchwoman in space (Mir, 1996) —Soyuz TM-24/23,Soyuz TM-33/32Jean-Pierre Haigneré, EAC —Soyuz TM-17/16,Soyuz TM-29
Mirosław Hermaszewski (Intercosmos), firstPole in space —Soyuz 30Georgi Ivanov (Intercosmos), firstBulgarian in space —Soyuz 33Sigmund Jähn (Intercosmos), firstGerman in space —Soyuz 31/29 (flew forEast Germany)[1]
André Kuipers, EAC —Soyuz TMA-4/3Franco Malerba, firstItalian in space —STS-46Matthias Maurer,SpaceX Crew-3Ulf Merbold, EAC —STS-9,STS-42,Soyuz TM-20/19 (flew for bothWest Germany and united Germany)Ernst Messerschmid —STS-61-A (flew forWest Germany)
Andreas Mogensen, EAC, firstDane in space —Soyuz TMA-18M,SpaceX Crew-7Paolo A. Nespoli, EAC —STS-120
Claude Nicollier, EAC, firstSwiss in space —STS-46,STS-61,STS-75,STS-103Wubbo Ockels, EAC, firstDutchman in space —STS-61-ALuca Parmitano, EAC —Soyuz TMA-09M (Expedition 36)Philippe Perrin, EAC, born in Meknes, Morocco —STS-111Thomas Pesquet, EAC, —ISS
Dumitru Prunariu (Intercosmos), first Romanian in space —Soyuz 40Thomas Reiter, EAC, firstGerman to walk in space and firstESA astronaut to stay on theISS —Soyuz TM-22,STS-121/116
Vladimír Remek (Intercosmos), firstCzech and first non-SovietEuropean in space —Soyuz 28Hans Schlegel, EAC —STS-55,STS-122
Helen Sharman, firstBriton in space —Soyuz TM-12/11Mark Shuttleworth, second "space tourist" and firstSouth African in space —Soyuz TM-34/33Gerhard Thiele, EAC —STS-99Michel Tognini, EAC —Soyuz TM-15/14,STS-93
Franz Viehböck, firstAustrian in space —Soyuz TM-13/12Roberto Vittori, EAC —Soyuz TM-34/33,Soyuz TMA-6/5Ulrich Walter —STS-55Walter Villadei —Axiom Mission 3/
Marcus Wandt, EAC —Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
Alper Gezeravcı —Axiom Mission 3 (2024)
[a]Chun Wang —Axiom Mission 3 (2024) / [b]Jannicke Mikkelsen, firstNorwegian in space. First person to enter apolarretrograde orbit,[4] i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.[5] The first European astronaut to command a spacecraft, —Fram2 (2025)Rabea Rogge, first german woman and first person to enter apolarretrograde orbit,[4] i.e., to fly over Earth's poles.,[5] —Fram2 (2025)Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, EAC —Axiom Mission 4 (2025)Tibor Kapu —Axiom Mission 4 (2025)Other European astronauts now residing or holding citizenship outside Europe include:
Michael Foale, born inLouth,England, dual British and American citizen.Nicholas Patrick, born inSaltburn-by-the-Sea, England.Piers Sellers, born inCrowborough, England. Resident in US, died 2016.Charles Simonyi, born inBudapest,Hungary. Fifthspace tourist.Lodewijk van den Berg, born inSluiskil,Netherlands. Resident in US, died 2022.