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Astronaut // Decoded

Everyone who
left the planet.

Fewer people have flown in space than live on a single city block. This is the live roster — who is off Earth at this moment, where their spacecraft is right now, and the full database of every human who has made the trip since 1961.

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Astronauts on file
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Countries flown
1961
First human flight
// Off-world

In space right now

Live crew roster, straight from the launch database.

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// The database

Every astronaut on file

Search by name, agency or country. Click anyone for their full record.

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// Spacefaring nations

Who sends people up

Astronauts on file by country of origin.

// Human spaceflight worldwide

Who flies people, and how

Every crewed program flying or in build right now — the vehicle, the operator and where it goes.

// Return to the Moon

The Artemis program

Artemis is NASA's programme to put humans back on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972 — and this time to stay. It flies on the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket NASA has ever fielded, with the Orion crew capsule and a European-built service module.

Artemis I flew uncrewed in November 2022, sending Orion around the Moon and back on a 25-day shakedown. Artemis II is the first crewed flight — a lunar free-return loop carrying commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and CSA's Jeremy Hansen, the first non-American to travel to the Moon. Artemis III is the landing: a crewed descent to the lunar south pole, a region chosen because permanently shadowed craters there hold water ice — the resource that makes staying possible.

The south pole is a genuinely harder target than Apollo's equatorial sites: the Sun sits permanently near the horizon, shadows are knife-edged and kilometres long, and the terrain is steep. The lander is a crewed variant of SpaceX's Starship, which has to be refuelled in orbit before it can make the trip — the reason the architecture depends on a cadence of tanker flights, not just one launch.

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Back around the Moon

Humans flew to the Moon for the first time in over half a century.

HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT

Artemis II looped four astronauts behind the lunar far side and home.

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, people flew to the Moon. Artemis II launched April 1, 2026 and returned April 11 — a nine-day free-return loop that swung Orion behind the lunar far side and back, with no landing. Aboard were Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen, the first non-American ever to travel to the Moon.

The flight was a shakedown of the crew systems Artemis III will need to actually land at the lunar south pole. Orion came home on a skip-entry profile — dipping into the atmosphere, bouncing back up, then re-entering — before a Pacific splashdown and Navy recovery.

> Sources: NASA Artemis II · BBC · Britannica.