Astronaut Instance
API endpoint that allows Astronaut to be viewed.
GET: Return a list of all the existing astronauts.
MODE: Normal, List, LaunchList and Detailed /2.2.0/astronaut/?mode=detailed
FILTERS: Parameters - 'name', 'status', 'nationality', 'agency__name', 'agency__abbrev', 'date_of_birth', 'date_of_death', 'status_ids', 'is_human', 'type__id', 'has_flown', 'in_space' Example - /2.2.0/astronaut/?nationality=American
SEARCH EXAMPLE: /2.2.0/astronaut/?search=armstrong Searches through name, nationality and agency name
ORDERING: Fields - 'name', 'status', 'date_of_birth' Example - /2.2.0/astronaut/?order=name
GET /2.2.0/astronaut/713/?format=api
{ "id": 713, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/astronaut/713/?format=api", "name": "Anil Menon", "status": { "id": 3, "name": "In-Training" }, "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Government" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "eva_time": "P0D", "agency": { "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "type": "Government" }, "age": 49, "date_of_birth": "1976-01-01", "date_of_death": null, "nationality": "American", "twitter": "https://twitter.com/Astro_Menon", "instagram": null, "bio": "Anil Menon is a US Air Force lieutenant colonel from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support the human system during future missions. Prior to that, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station. Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine. As a physician, he was a first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident. In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing as a flight surgeon and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he logged over 100 sorties in the F-15 fighter jet and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team.\r\n\r\nExact date of birth unknown.", "profile_image": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/anil_menon_image_20211206185413.jpg", "profile_image_thumbnail": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190559.jpeg", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon_(astronaut)", "flights": [], "landings": [ { "id": 887, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/flight/887/?format=api", "destination": "International Space Station", "mission_end": null, "spacecraft": { "id": 616, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/spacecraft/616/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz MS-29", "serial_number": "11F732 #760", "is_placeholder": false, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P0D", "time_docked": "P0D", "flights_count": 0, "mission_ends_count": 0, "status": { "id": 4, "name": "Single Use" }, "description": "Soyuz capsule for the MS-29 mission to the ISS.", "spacecraft_config": { "id": 38, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/spacecraft/38/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz MS", "type": { "id": 2, "name": "Capsule" }, "agency": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "in_use": true, "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/soyuz_ms_in_orb_image_20240313130407.jpeg" } }, "launch": { "id": "a556b963-0f36-4660-95a8-fdffdba653e2", "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/launch/a556b963-0f36-4660-95a8-fdffdba653e2/?format=api", "slug": "soyuz-21a-soyuz-ms-29", "name": "Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-29", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "To Be Determined", "abbrev": "TBD", "description": "Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources." }, "last_updated": "2025-07-02T11:11:27Z", "net": "2026-06-30T00:00:00Z", "window_end": "2026-06-30T00:00:00Z", "window_start": "2026-06-30T00:00:00Z", "net_precision": { "id": 7, "name": "Month", "abbrev": "M", "description": "The T-0 is expected in the given month." }, "probability": null, "weather_concerns": null, "holdreason": "", "failreason": "", "hashtag": null, "launch_service_provider": { "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "type": "Government" }, "rocket": { "id": 8653, "configuration": { "id": 24, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.2.0/config/launcher/24/?format=api", "name": "Soyuz 2.1a", "family": "Soyuz", "full_name": "Soyuz 2.1a", "variant": "" } }, "mission": { "id": 7245, "name": "Soyuz MS-29", "description": "Soyuz MS-29 will carry three cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 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