Datasets:
wikidata_id large_stringlengths 5 10 | name large_stringlengths 5 31 | birth_date large_stringdate 1891-03-13 00:00:00 2000-01-01 00:00:00 ⌀ | death_date large_stringlengths 10 10 ⌀ | sex large_stringclasses 2
values | nationality large_stringclasses 64
values | employers large_stringclasses 162
values | num_flights int64 0 12 | time_in_space_min float64 0 71.5M ⌀ | birth_year float64 1.89k 2k ⌀ | time_in_space_hours float64 0 1.19M ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Q77349 | Abdul Ahad Mohmand | 1959-01-01 | null | male | Democratic Republic of Afghanistan | null | 2 | 12,746 | 1,959 | 212.4 |
Q4666165 | Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam | 1948-12-12 | null | male | Saudi Arabia | null | 0 | 0 | 1,948 | 0 |
Q136358206 | Adam Fuhrmann | 1989-10-19 | null | male | United States | null | 0 | null | 1,989 | null |
Q124670654 | Ajit Krishnan | 1982-04-19 | null | male | India | null | 0 | null | 1,982 | null |
Q375641 | Akihiko Hoshide | 1968-12-28 | null | male | Japan | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; National Space Development Agency | 3 | 490,270 | 1,968 | 8,171.2 |
Q310924 | Alan Bean | 1932-03-15 | 2018-05-26 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2 | 100,305 | 1,932 | 1,671.8 |
Q15197198 | Alan Eugene Johnston | 1962-12-07 | null | male | United States | null | 0 | null | 1,962 | null |
Q362220 | Alan G. Poindexter | 1961-11-05 | 2012-07-01 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Naval Postgraduate School | 2 | 40,149 | 1,961 | 669.2 |
Q174979 | Alan Shepard | 1923-11-18 | 1998-07-21 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2 | 13,017 | 1,923 | 217 |
Q2036814 | Albert Sacco | 1949-05-03 | null | male | United States | Northeastern University; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Texas Tech University | 1 | 22,894 | 1,949 | 381.6 |
Q955842 | Albert Scott Crossfield | 1921-10-02 | 2006-04-19 | male | United States | null | 0 | null | 1,921 | null |
Q446233 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov | 1948-05-27 | null | male | Ukraine | null | 3 | 563,752 | 1,948 | 9,395.9 |
Q18236847 | Aleksandr Borodin | 1953-03-03 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 0 | null | 1,953 | null |
Q446531 | Aleksandr Ivanchenkov | 1940-09-28 | null | male | Soviet Union | S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia | 3 | 212,437 | 1,940 | 3,540.6 |
Q345288 | Aleksandr Kaleri | 1956-05-13 | null | male | Russia | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 8 | 1,107,757 | 1,956 | 18,462.6 |
Q708452 | Aleksandr Laveykin | 1951-04-21 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 2 | 250,765 | 1,951 | 4,179.4 |
Q620632 | Aleksandr Lazutkin | 1957-10-30 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 266,287 | 1,957 | 4,438.1 |
Q725659 | Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin | 1953-07-30 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 257,837 | 1,953 | 4,297.3 |
Q444299 | Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov | 1951-12-01 | null | male | Bulgaria | null | 3 | 14,170 | 1,951 | 236.2 |
Q466483 | Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov | 1943-02-20 | null | male | Soviet Union | S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia | 5 | 446,042 | 1,943 | 7,434 |
Q711010 | Aleksandr Poleshchuk | 1953-10-30 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 257,803 | 1,953 | 4,296.7 |
Q928034 | Aleksandr Samokutyayev | 1970-03-13 | null | male | Russia | null | 6 | 28,639,500 | 1,970 | 477,325 |
Q362819 | Aleksandr Serebrov | 1944-02-15 | 2013-11-12 | male | Soviet Union | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 5 | 537,052 | 1,944 | 8,950.9 |
Q555679 | Aleksandr Skvortsov | 1966-05-06 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 9 | 497,185 | 1,966 | 8,286.4 |
Q221615 | Aleksandr Viktorenko | 1947-03-29 | 2023-08-10 | male | Russia | null | 5 | 717,213 | 1,947 | 11,953.6 |
Q465748 | Aleksei Gubarev | 1931-03-29 | 2015-02-21 | male | Soviet Union | null | 5 | 53,976 | 1,931 | 899.6 |
Q381541 | Aleksei Yeliseyev | 1934-07-13 | null | male | Russia | S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia | 4 | 12,860 | 1,934 | 214.3 |
Q50379793 | Aleksej Homenčuk | 1975-01-07 | null | male | Russia | null | 0 | null | 1,975 | null |
Q9601011 | Aleksey Boroday | 1947-07-28 | 2024-08-01 | male | Soviet Union | null | 0 | null | 1,947 | null |
Q4715991 | Aleksey Ovchinin | 1971-09-28 | null | male | Russia | Roscosmos State Corporation | 9 | 857,067 | 1,971 | 14,284.4 |
Q71248 | Alexander Gerst | 1976-05-03 | null | male | Germany | European Space Agency | 6 | 521,390 | 1,976 | 8,689.8 |
Q109490394 | Alexander Grebenkin | 1982-07-15 | null | male | Russia | null | 1 | 338,615 | 1,982 | 5,643.6 |
Q17593757 | Alexander Jabloncev | 1955-04-03 | 2012-05-09 | male | Russia | null | 0 | 0 | 1,955 | 0 |
Q2655329 | Alexander Misurkin | 1977-09-23 | null | male | Russia | null | 7 | 29,919,840 | 1,977 | 498,664 |
Q15222587 | Alexander William Dunlap | 1960-07-15 | null | male | United States | null | 0 | null | 1,960 | null |
Q154269 | Alexey Leonov | 1934-05-30 | 2019-10-11 | male | Russia | null | 2 | 10,112 | 1,934 | 168.5 |
Q109490367 | Alexey Zubritsky | 1992-08-22 | null | male | Ukraine | Roscosmos State Corporation | 1 | 352,756 | 1,992 | 5,879.3 |
Q115388013 | Aleš Svoboda | 1986-06-19 | null | male | Czech Republic | European Space Agency; Czech Air Force | 0 | null | 1,986 | null |
Q539385 | Alfred Worden | 1932-02-07 | 2020-03-18 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 | 17,712 | 1,932 | 295.2 |
Q116786187 | Ali AlGhamdi | 1992-01-01 | null | male | Saudi Arabia | Royal Saudi Air Force | 0 | null | 1,992 | null |
Q116765522 | Ali AlQarni | 1992-03-01 | null | male | Saudi Arabia | Royal Saudi Air Force | 1 | 13,286 | 1,992 | 221.4 |
Q118093594 | Alper Gezeravcı | 1979-12-02 | null | male | Turkey | null | 1 | 31,180 | 1,979 | 519.7 |
Q643556 | Alvin Drew | 1962-11-05 | null | male | United States | null | 2 | 36,780 | 1,962 | 613 |
Q98631581 | Amelie Schoenenwald | 1989-01-01 | null | female | Germany | European Space Agency | 0 | null | 1,989 | null |
Q118185981 | Anastasia Lenkova | 1995-03-30 | null | female | Belarus | null | 0 | null | 1,995 | null |
Q487622 | Anatoli Ivanishin | 1969-01-15 | null | male | Russia | null | 3 | 685,721 | 1,969 | 11,428.7 |
Q7258156 | Anatoli Kartashov | 1932-08-25 | 2005-12-11 | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | null | 1,932 | null |
Q488008 | Anatolii Levchenko | 1941-05-05 | 1988-08-06 | male | Soviet Union | null | 2 | 11,398 | 1,941 | 190 |
Q487984 | Anatoly Artsebarsky | 1956-09-09 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 208,281 | 1,956 | 3,471.4 |
Q465724 | Anatoly Berezovoy | 1942-04-11 | 2014-09-20 | male | Soviet Union | null | 3 | 304,384 | 1,942 | 5,073.1 |
Q488043 | Anatoly Filipchenko | 1928-02-26 | 2022-08-07 | male | Soviet Union | null | 2 | 15,663 | 1,928 | 261 |
Q28195006 | Anatoly Ivanovich Dedkovs | 1944-07-24 | 2016-09-16 | male | Russia | null | 0 | null | 1,944 | null |
Q11685717 | Anatoly Kuklin | 1932-01-03 | 2006-01-16 | male | Soviet Union | null | 0 | null | 1,932 | null |
Q447311 | Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev | 1948-01-16 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 7 | 937,442 | 1,948 | 15,624 |
Q109953238 | Andre Douglas | 1986-01-01 | null | male | United States | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; United States Coast Guard | 0 | null | 1,986 | null |
Q115388242 | Andrea Patassa | 1991-01-01 | null | male | Italy | European Space Agency | 0 | null | 1,991 | null |
Q499636 | Andreas Mogensen | 1976-11-02 | null | male | Kingdom of Denmark | European Space Agency | 3 | 300,873 | 1,976 | 5,014.6 |
Q26255563 | Andrei Babkin | 1969-04-21 | null | male | Russia | Roscosmos State Corporation | 0 | null | 1,969 | null |
Q505530 | Andrew J. Feustel | 1965-08-25 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 5 | 324,555 | 1,965 | 5,409.2 |
Q506349 | Andrew M. Allen | 1955-08-04 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 3 | 54,240 | 1,955 | 904 |
Q13500735 | Andrew R. Morgan | 1976-02-05 | null | male | United States | null | 2 | 391,008 | 1,976 | 6,516.8 |
Q502101 | Andrey Borisenko | 1964-04-17 | null | male | Russia | null | 6 | 485,816 | 1,964 | 8,096.9 |
Q85867505 | Andrey Fedyayev | 1981-02-26 | null | male | Russia | null | 2 | 267,762 | 1,981 | 4,462.7 |
Q312474 | Andriyan Nikolayev | 1929-09-05 | 2004-07-03 | male | Soviet Union | null | 2 | 31,160 | 1,929 | 519.3 |
Q454649 | André Kuipers | 1958-10-05 | null | male | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 5 | 277,618 | 1,958 | 4,627 |
Q507894 | Andy Thomas | 1951-12-18 | null | male | Australia | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 5 | 255,434 | 1,951 | 4,257.2 |
Q124670657 | Angad Pratap | 1982-07-17 | null | male | India | null | 0 | null | 1,982 | null |
Q13429632 | Angelo Vermeulen | 1971-01-01 | null | male | Belgium | null | 0 | null | 1,971 | null |
Q109950137 | Anil Menon | 1976-10-15 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States Air Force; SpaceX; California Hospital Medical Center; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | 0 | null | 1,976 | null |
Q18352451 | Anna Kikina | 1984-08-27 | null | female | Russia | null | 2 | 226,681 | 1,984 | 3,778 |
Q237470 | Anna Lee Fisher | 1949-08-24 | null | female | United States | null | 1 | 11,504 | 1,949 | 191.7 |
Q110916349 | Anna Menon | 1985-12-24 | null | female | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Texas A&M University; SpaceX; Duke University; Wyle Laboratories | 0 | null | 1,985 | null |
Q13500570 | Anne McClain | 1979-06-07 | null | female | United States | null | 2 | 505,915 | 1,979 | 8,431.9 |
Q17519 | Anousheh Ansari | 1966-09-12 | null | female | Iran | null | 2 | 15,665 | 1,966 | 261.1 |
Q115388093 | Anthea Comellini | 1992-03-31 | null | female | Italy | European Space Agency | 0 | null | 1,992 | null |
Q986620 | Anthony Llewellyn | 1933-04-22 | 2013-07-02 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Florida State University | 0 | null | 1,933 | null |
Q574124 | Anthony W. England | 1942-05-15 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States Geological Survey; University of Michigan | 1 | 11,445 | 1,942 | 190.8 |
Q592219 | Anton Shkaplerov | 1972-02-20 | null | male | Russia | null | 4 | 1,021,444 | 1,972 | 17,024.1 |
Q362902 | Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez | 1942-01-29 | null | male | Cuba | Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force | 2 | 11,323 | 1,942 | 188.7 |
Q115328941 | Arnaud Prost | 1992-01-01 | null | male | France | European Space Agency; Direction générale de l'Armement; French Air Force | 0 | null | 1,992 | null |
Q108800154 | Audrey Powers | null | null | female | United States | null | 0 | null | null | null |
Q4831087 | Aydyn Aimbetov | 1972-07-27 | null | male | Kazakhstan | null | 2 | 14,174 | 1,972 | 236.2 |
Q116945702 | Ayu Yoneda | 1995-01-01 | null | female | Japan | null | 0 | null | 1,995 | null |
Q235047 | Barbara Morgan | 1951-11-28 | null | female | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Boise State University | 1 | 18,353 | 1,951 | 305.9 |
Q554409 | Barry E. Wilmore | 1962-12-29 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 3 | 668,642 | 1,962 | 11,144 |
Q136365925 | Ben Bailey | 1987-08-07 | null | male | United States | null | 0 | null | 1,987 | null |
Q822249 | Bernard A. Harris, Jr. | 1956-06-26 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Math and Science Initiative | 2 | 26,288 | 1,956 | 438.1 |
Q12865 | Bertalan Farkas | 1949-08-02 | null | male | Hungary | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | 3 | 11,325 | 1,949 | 188.8 |
Q19242 | Bill Anders | 1933-10-17 | 2024-06-07 | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 | 8,820 | 1,933 | 147 |
Q1395516 | Bill Dana | 1930-11-03 | 2014-05-06 | male | United States | Armstrong Flight Research Center | 0 | 0 | 1,930 | 0 |
Q358437 | Bill Nelson | 1942-09-29 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 | 8,763 | 1,942 | 146 |
Q725233 | Bjarni Tryggvason | 1945-09-21 | 2022-04-05 | male | Canada | Western University | 1 | 18,508 | 1,945 | 308.5 |
Q29618 | Bonnie J. Dunbar | 1949-03-03 | null | female | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 5 | 72,504 | 1,949 | 1,208.4 |
Q834956 | Boris Andreyev | 1940-10-06 | 2021-07-09 | male | Soviet Union | null | 0 | 0 | 1,940 | 0 |
Q352137 | Boris Borisovich Yegorov | 1937-11-26 | 1994-09-12 | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 1,457 | 1,937 | 24.3 |
Q281604 | Boris Morukov | 1950-10-01 | 2015-01-01 | male | Soviet Union | null | 1 | 16,992 | 1,950 | 283.2 |
Q9177589 | Boris Polakow | 1938-05-10 | null | male | Soviet Union | null | 0 | null | 1,938 | null |
Q448538 | Boris Volynov | 1934-12-18 | null | male | Russia | null | 2 | 75,317 | 1,934 | 1,255.3 |
Q725339 | Brent W. Jett | 1958-10-05 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 4 | 60,121 | 1,958 | 1,002 |
Q497530 | Brewster H. Shaw | 1945-05-16 | null | male | United States | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 3 | 32,031 | 1,945 | 533.8 |
Astronaut Database
Part of the Astronomy Datasets collection on Hugging Face.
Complete database of every person who has traveled to space — 863 astronauts from 64 countries, sourced from Wikidata.
Dataset description
Since Yuri Gagarin's flight aboard Vostok 1 in April 1961, fewer than 700 individuals have crossed the Karman line (100 km altitude). This dataset records every one of them, from the Mercury Seven and Voskhod cosmonauts through Space Shuttle crews, ISS expeditions, and the recent wave of commercial astronauts aboard Crew Dragon and New Shepard.
The dataset includes birth/death dates, sex, nationality, employer history (space agencies and contractors), number of spaceflights, and total time spent in space. This enables demographic analysis of astronaut corps, diversity-in-STEM research, and historical studies of human spaceflight programs.
Sourced from Wikidata's structured knowledge base (property P106=Q11631 for occupation:astronaut), which is maintained by the WikiProject Spaceflight community and updated as new flights occur.
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
wikidata_id |
string | Wikidata entity ID (e.g. Q1029) |
name |
string | Full name |
birth_date |
string | Date of birth (YYYY-MM-DD) |
death_date |
string | Date of death if deceased |
sex |
string | Sex (male/female) |
nationality |
string | Nationality |
employers |
string | Employers, semicolon-separated (space agencies, contractors) |
num_flights |
int | Number of spaceflights |
time_in_space_min |
int | Total time in space (minutes) |
birth_year |
int | Year of birth (derived) |
time_in_space_hours |
float | Total time in space (hours, derived) |
Quick stats
- 863 astronauts from 64 countries
- 733 male, 130 female
- 644 with recorded spaceflights
- Most flights: Fyodor Yurchikhin (12)
- Top nationalities: United States (447), Soviet Union (95), Russia (89), People's Republic of China (33), Japan (17)
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("juliensimon/astronaut-database", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()
# Astronauts by nationality
print(df["nationality"].value_counts().head(10))
# Female astronauts
female = df[df["sex"] == "female"]
print(f"{len(female):,} female astronauts")
# Most time in space
top_time = df.nlargest(10, "time_in_space_hours")[["name", "nationality", "time_in_space_hours"]]
print(top_time)
# NASA astronauts
nasa = df[df["employers"].str.contains("NASA", na=False)]
print(f"{len(nasa):,} NASA-affiliated astronauts")
Data source
Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. Astronauts identified via property P106 (occupation) = Q11631 (astronaut). Data is community-curated by WikiProject Spaceflight.
Update schedule
Static dataset. Re-run manually to pick up new astronauts.
Related datasets
- launch-log -- McDowell launch log
- satcat -- Satellite catalog
- nasa-eva -- NASA EVA history
Pipeline
Source code: juliensimon/space-datasets
Support
If you find this dataset useful, please give it a ❤️ on the dataset page and share feedback in the Community tab! Also consider giving a ⭐️ to the space-datasets repo.
Citation
@dataset{astronaut_database,
author = {Simon, Julien},
title = {Astronaut Database},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/astronaut-database},
note = {Sourced from Wikidata (CC0)}
}
License
CC0-1.0 (Wikidata content is public domain)
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