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 - ll.thespacedevs.com/docs
GET /2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&offset=240&ordering=-age
{ "count": 807, "next": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=250&ordering=-age", "previous": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/?format=api&limit=10&offset=230&ordering=-age", "results": [ { "id": 612, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/612/?format=api", "name": "Albert Sacco", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 574, "name": "[AUTO] Albert Sacco - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/albert2520sacco_image_20190211162452.jpeg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190217.jpeg", "credit": null, "license": { "id": 1, "name": "Unknown", "priority": 9, "link": null }, "single_use": true, "variants": [] }, "response_mode": "normal", "type": { "id": 5, "name": "Payload Specialist" }, "in_space": false, "time_in_space": "P15DT21H52M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1949-05-03", "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": "Albert Sacco Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sacco", "last_flight": "1995-10-20T13:53:00Z", "first_flight": "1995-10-20T13:53:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 373, "url": "https://ll.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://ll.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-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/mary2520l.2520cleave_image_20181202120740.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.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": 187, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/187/?format=api", "name": "Vladimir Lyakhov", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 306, "name": "[AUTO] Vladimir Lyakhov - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/vladimir2520lyakhov_image_20181130000114.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185507.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": "P333DT7H47M46S", "eva_time": "PT7H7M", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1941-07-20", "date_of_death": "2018-04-19", "nationality": [ { "id": 5, "name": "Russia", "alpha_2_code": "RU", "alpha_3_code": "RUS", "nationality_name": "Russian", "nationality_name_composed": "Russo" } ], "bio": "Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov (Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич Ля́хов; 20 July 1941 – 19 April 2018) was a Russian Soviet cosmonaut.\r\n\r\nHe was selected as cosmonaut on 5 May 1967, and retired on 7 September 1994. Lyakhov was the Commander on Soyuz 32, Soyuz T-9, and Soyuz TM-6, and spent 333 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes in space.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lyakhov", "last_flight": "1988-08-29T04:23:11Z", "first_flight": "1979-02-25T11:53:49Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 3, "landings_count": 3, "spacewalks_count": 3 }, { "id": 374, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/374/?format=api", "name": "Bonnie J. Dunbar", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 727, "name": "[AUTO] Bonnie J. Dunbar - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/bonnie2520j.2520dunbar_image_20181202120831.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190626.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": "P50DT8H24M3S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1949-03-03", "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": "Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. From January 2013 - December 2015, Dr. Dunbar lead the University of Houston's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and was a faculty member in the Cullen College of Engineering.[1] Currently, she is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and serves as Director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI), a joint entity in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_J._Dunbar", "last_flight": "1998-01-23T02:48:15Z", "first_flight": "1985-10-30T17:00:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 5, "landings_count": 5, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 329, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/329/?format=api", "name": "C. Gordon Fullerton", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 851, "name": "[AUTO] C. Gordon Fullerton - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/c.2520gordon2520fullerton_image_20181202093753.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190938.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": "P7DT22H45M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1936-10-11", "date_of_death": "2013-08-21", "nationality": [ { "id": 2, "name": "United States of America", "alpha_2_code": "US", "alpha_3_code": "USA", "nationality_name": "American", "nationality_name_composed": "Americano" } ], "bio": "Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.[1] His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft. Fullerton, who logged more than 380 hours in space flight, was a NASA astronaut from September 1969 until November 1986 when he joined the research pilot office at Dryden. In July 1988, he completed a 30-year career with the U.S. Air Force and retired as a colonel. He continued in his position of NASA research pilot as a civilian. Fullerton and his wife and their two children lived in Lancaster, California.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Gordon_Fullerton", "last_flight": "1985-07-29T21:00:00Z", "first_flight": "1982-03-22T16:00:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 2, "landings_count": 2, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 602, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/602/?format=api", "name": "Jerome Apt", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 912, "name": "[AUTO] Jerome Apt - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/jerome2520apt_image_20181208003023.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305191119.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": "P35DT7H10M25S", "eva_time": "PT10H13M", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1949-04-28", "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": "Jerome \"Jay\" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from ground-based observatories.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Apt", "last_flight": "1996-09-16T08:54:49Z", "first_flight": "1991-04-05T14:22:45Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 4, "landings_count": 4, "spacewalks_count": 2 }, { "id": 588, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/588/?format=api", "name": "Charles D. Walker", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 565, "name": "[AUTO] Charles D. Walker - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/charles2520d.2520walker_image_20181207221334.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190204.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": "P19DT21H54M33S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1948-08-29", "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": "Charles David \"Charlie\" Walker (born August 29, 1948) is an American engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985 as a Payload Specialist for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. He is the first non-government individual to fly in space.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Walker", "last_flight": "1985-11-27T00:29:00Z", "first_flight": "1984-08-30T12:41:50Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 3, "landings_count": 3, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 398, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/398/?format=api", "name": "Robert D. Cabana", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 44, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/44/?format=api", "name": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration", "abbrev": "NASA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 802, "name": "[AUTO] Robert D. Cabana - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/robert2520d.2520cabana_image_20181202135135.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190821.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": "P37DT22H41M10S", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1949-01-23", "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": "Robert Donald Cabana is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Cabana", "last_flight": "1998-12-04T08:35:34Z", "first_flight": "1990-10-06T11:47:15Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 4, "landings_count": 4, "spacewalks_count": 0 }, { "id": 281, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/281/?format=api", "name": "Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov", "status": { "id": 2, "name": "Retired" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 63, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/?format=api", "name": "Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)", "abbrev": "RFSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 512, "name": "[AUTO] Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/aleksandr2520aleksandrovich2520volkov_image_20181201224523.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190039.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": "P391DT11H51M54S", "eva_time": "PT10H12M", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1948-05-27", "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": "Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Во́лков, born 27 May 1948) is a retired Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of 3 space flights, including twice to the Mir Soviet space station, and is the father of cosmonaut Sergey Volkov.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Aleksandrovich_Volkov", "last_flight": "1991-10-02T05:59:38Z", "first_flight": "1985-09-17T12:38:52Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 3, "landings_count": 3, "spacewalks_count": 2 }, { "id": 271, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/271/?format=api", "name": "Bjarni Tryggvason", "status": { "id": 11, "name": "Deceased" }, "agency": { "response_mode": "list", "id": 16, "url": "https://ll.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/16/?format=api", "name": "Canadian Space Agency", "abbrev": "CSA", "type": { "id": 1, "name": "Government" } }, "image": { "id": 773, "name": "[AUTO] Bjarni Tryggvason - image", "image_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/bjarni2520tryggvason_image_20181201223221.jpg", "thumbnail_url": "https://thespacedevs-prod.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190736.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": "P11DT20H27M", "eva_time": "P0D", "age": 76, "date_of_birth": "1945-09-21", "date_of_death": "2022-04-06", "nationality": [ { "id": 26, "name": "Canada", "alpha_2_code": "CA", "alpha_3_code": "CAN", "nationality_name": "Canadian", "nationality_name_composed": "Canado" } ], "bio": "Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere.", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarni_Tryggvason", "last_flight": "1997-08-07T14:41:00Z", "first_flight": "1997-08-07T14:41:00Z", "social_media_links": [], "flights_count": 1, "landings_count": 1, "spacewalks_count": 0 } ] }
