Timeline of astronauts by nationality
Since the first spaceflight by the Soviet Union, astronauts who were citizens of 32 countries have flown into space.
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1960s
- 1961 Soviet
Union Yuri
Gagarin
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- 1961 United
States Alan
Shepard
1970s
- 1978 Czechoslovakia Vladimir Remek
- 1978 East Germany Sigmund Jähn
- 1978 Poland Miroslaw Hermaszewski
- 1979 Bulgaria Georgi Ivanov
1980s
- 1980 Hungary Bertalan Farkas
- 1980 Vietnam Pham Tuan
- 1980 Cuba Arnaldo Mendez
- 1981 Romania Dumitru Prunariu
- 1981 Mongolia Jugderdemidiyn Gurragcha
- 1982 France Jean-Loup Chrétien
- 1983 West Germany Ulf Merbold
- 1984 Canada Marc Garneau
- 1984 India Rakesh Sharma
- 1985 Netherlands Wubbo Ockels
- 1985 Mexico Rodolfo Neri
- 1985 Saudi Arabia Salman al-Saud
- 1987 Syria Mohammed Faris
- 1988 Afghanistan Abdul Mohmand
1990s
- 1990 Japan Toyohiro Akiyama
- 1991 United Kingdom Helen Sharman
- 1991 Austria Franz Viehböck
- 1992 Belgium Dirk Frimout
- 1992 Italy Franco Malerba
- 1992 Switzerland Claude Nicollier
- 1994 Kazakhstan Talgat Musabayev
- 1996 Australia Andy Thomas
- 1997 Ukraine Leonid Kadenjuk
- 1998 Spain Pedro Duque
- 1999 Slovakia Ivan Bella
2000s
- 2002 South Africa Mark Shuttleworth
- 2003 Israel Ilan Ramon
- 2003 China Yang Liwei