Name an astronaut or cosmonaut

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez— First Black person in space, 1980, three years before NASA's.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aaron Newman
• Abdul Ahad Mohmand
• Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam
• Adam Fuhrmann
• Adonis Pouroulis
• Adrian Reynard
• Aidyn Aimbetov
• Aisha Bowe
• Ajit Krishnan
• Akihiko Hoshide
• Alain Fernandez
• Alan Bean
• Alan G. Poindexter
• Alan Stern
• Albert Crews
• Albert Sacco
• Alberto Gutiérrez
• Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov
• Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov
• Aleksandr Gorbunov
• Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
• Aleksandr Kaleri
• Aleksandr Kramarenko
• Aleksandr Laveykin
• Aleksandr Lazutkin
• Aleksandr Matinchenko
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin
• Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov
• Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
• Aleksandr Petrushenko
• Aleksandr Poleshchuk
• Aleksandr Samokutyayev
• Aleksandr Serebrov
• Aleksandr Viktorenko
• Aleksei Gubarev
• Aleksei Sorokin
• Aleksei Yeliseyev
• Aleksey Ovchinin
• Ales Svoboda
• Alexander Gerst
• Alexander Grebenkin
• Alexander Kolyabin
• Alexander Misurkin
• Alexey Zubritsky
• Alfred Worden
• Ali AlQarni
• Allie Kuehner
• Alper Gezeravcı
• Alvin Drew
• Alvin White
• Amanda Nguyen
• Amelie Schoenenwald
• Amy Medina Jorge
• Anastatia Mayers
• Anatoli Fyodorov
• Anatoli Ivanishin
• Anatoli Kartashov
• Anatoli Kuklin
• Anatoly Artsebarsky
• Anatoly Berezovoy
• Anatoly Filipchenko
• Anatoly Levchenko
• Anatoly Solovyev
• Anatoly Voronov
• Andre Douglas
• André Kuipers
• Andrea Patassa
• Andreas Mogensen
• Andrei Babkin
• Andrei Borisenko
• Andrew J. Feustel
• Andrew M. Allen
• Andrew R. Morgan
• Andrey Fedyaev
• Andriyan Nikolayev
• Andy Thomas
• Angad Pratap
• Angelo Landolfi
• Anil Menon
• Anna Kikina
• Anna Lee Fisher
• Anna Menon
• Anthea Comellini
• Anthony Llewellyn
• Anthony W. England
• Anton Shkaplerov
• Arnaud Prost
• Arvi Bahal
• Arvinder Bahal
• Audrey Powers
• Austin Litteral
• Aymette Medina Jorge
• Ayu Yoneda
• Barbara Morgan
• Bela Magyari
• Ben Bailey
• Bernard A. Harris Jr.
• Bertalan Farkas
• Beth Moses
• Bill Nelson
• Bjarni Tryggvason
• Bonnie J. Dunbar
• Boris Andreyev
• Boris Morukov
• Boris Volynov
• Boris Yegorov
• Brent W. Jett Jr.
• Brewster H. Shaw
• Brian Binnie
• Brian Duffy
• Brian O'Leary
• Bruce E. Melnick
• Bryan D. O'Connor
• Bui Thanh Liem
• Byron K. Lichtenberg
• C. Gordon Fullerton
• Cai Xuzhe
• Cameron Bess
• Cameron Jones
• Carl E. Walz
• Carl J. Meade
• Carl Kuehner
• Carlos I. Noriega
• Carmen Possnig
• Carol Schaller
• Catherine Coleman
• Chai Hongliang
• Charles Bassett
• Charles Bolden
• Charles Camarda
• Charles D. Gemar
• Charles D. Walker
• Charles E. Brady Jr.
• Charles Edward Jones— USAF spaceflight engineer, killed aboard Flight 11 on September 11.
• Charles J. Precourt
• Charles L. Veach
• Charles O. Hobaugh
• Charles Simonyi
• Chen Dong
• Chen Quan
• Chen Zhongrui
• Chiaki Mukai
• Chris Boshuizen
• Christer Fuglesang
• Christina Birch
• Christopher Ferguson
• Christopher Huie
• Christopher Loria
• Christopher Sembroski
• Christopher Williams
• Chun Wang
• Claude Nicollier
• Claudie Haigneré
• Clayton Anderson
• Clifton Williams
• Clint Kelly
• Coby Cotton— One-fifth of Dude Perfect, briefly the highest-altitude trick-shot artist alive.
• Colin Bennett
• Curt Michel
• Curtis Brown
• Dafydd Williams
• Dale Gardner
• Daniel Brandenstein
• Daniel C. Burbank
• Daniel M. Tani
• Daniel T. Barry
• Daniel W. Bursch
• Danna Karagussova
• Dave Mackay
• David C. Hilmers
• David Leestma
• David M. Brown
• David M. Walker
• David Saint-Jacques
• David Scott
• David Wolf
• Deborah Martorell
• Deke Slayton
• Deng Qingming
• Denis Matveev
• Deniz Burnham
• Dick Scobee
• Dirk Frimout
• Dmitri Kondratyev
• Dmitri Zaikin
• Dmitry Petelin
• Dominic A. Antonelli
• Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
• Don L. Lind
• Donald A. Thomas
• Donald E. Williams
• Donald H. Peterson
• Donald Holmquest
• Donald R. McMonagle
• Dong Xiaohai
• Donn F. Eisele
• Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
• Douglas H. Wheelock
• Du Jincheng
• Duane G. Carey
• Duane Graveline
• Dumitru Dediu
• Dumitru Prunariu
• Dylan Taylor
• Eberhard Kollner
• Ed Lu
• Edgar Mitchell
• Eduard Buinovski
• Eduard Kugno
• Eduard Stepanov
• Edward Gibson
• Edward Givens
• Eiman Jahangir
• Elaine Hyde
• Ellen S. Baker
• Elliot See— Killed with Charles Bassett training to command Gemini 9.
• Ellison Onizuka
• Emily Calandrelli
• Ephraim Rabin
• Eric Boe
• Eric Philips
• Erin Overcash
• Ernst Messerschmid
• Eugene Grin
• Eugene H. Trinh
• Evan Dick
• Evgeny Tarelkin
• Eytan Stibbe
• F. Drew Gaffney
• Faiz Khaleed
• Fang Guojun
• Fei Junlong
• Fernando Caldeiro
• Francis Neubeck
• Franco Malerba
• Frank De Winne
• Frank L. Culbertson Jr.
• Franklin Chang-Díaz
• Franz Haider
• Franz Viehböck
• Freddie Rescigno Jr.
• Frederick D. Gregory
• Frederick Hauck
• Frederick W. Leslie
• Frederick W. Sturckow
• Fyodor Yurchikhin
• G. David Low
• Garrett Reisman
• Gary Lai
• Gary Payton— Air Force payload specialist, not the NBA's Glove.
• Gayle King
• Gennadi Kolesnikov
• Gennadi Manakov
• Gennadi Sarafanov
• Gennadi Strekalov
• Gennady Padalka
• George D. Zamka
• George Nelson
• George Nield
• Georgi Ivanov
• Georgy Beregovoy
• Georgy Dobrovolsky
• Georgy Grechko
• Georgy Katys
• Georgy Shonin
• Gerald P. Carr
• Gerhard Thiele
• Gherman Titov
• Giorgio Manenti
• Glen de Vries
• Gökhan Erdem
• Gopi Thotakura
• Gopichand Thotakura
• Gordon Cooper
• Gregory C. Johnson
• Gregory Chamitoff
• Gregory H. Johnson
• Gregory J. Harbaugh
• Gregory Jarvis
• Gregory Olsen
• Gregory T. Linteris
• Gretchen Green
• Grigori Nelyubov— Erased from the cosmonaut group photos after his 1963 expulsion.
• Gui Haichao
• Guy Gardner— A real astronaut sharing his name with a Green Lantern.
• Guy Laliberté
• Gyula Cserenyi
• Hamish Harding
• Hans Koenigsmann
• Hans Schlegel
• Hazza Al Mansouri
• Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
• Heike Walpot
• Henry Gordon
• Henry Hartsfield
• Henry Wolfond
• Hu Zhanzi
• Igor Volk
• Imelda Muller
• Irina Solovyova
• Irving (Yitzhak) Pergament
• Ivan Anikeyev
• Ivan Bella
• Ivan Vagner
• Iven Kincheloe
• J. D. Russell
• Jack Fischer
• Jack Hathaway
• Jack McKay
• Jack R. Lousma
• Jaime Alemán
• Jaison Robinson
• Jake Garn
• Jameel Janjua
• James A. Pawelczyk
• James Abrahamson
• James Buchli
• James C. Adamson
• James D. Halsell
• James Dutton
• James F. Reilly
• James H. Newman
• James Irwin
• James M. Kelly
• James M. Taylor
• James McDivitt
• James P. Bagian
• James S. Voss
• James Sitkins
• James van Hoften
• James Wood
• Jamila Gilbert
• Jan Davis
• Janet L. Kavandi
• Janice E. Voss
• Jannicke Mikkelsen
• Jasmin Moghbeli
• Jason Stansell
• Jay C. Buckey
• Jean-François Clervoy
• Jean-Jacques Favier
• Jean-Loup Chrétien
• Jean-Pierre Haigneré
• Jeanette Epps
• Jeff Elgin
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman
• Jeffrey Ashby
• Jeffrey Williams
• Jenni Gibbons
• Jerome Apt
• Jerry L. Ross
• Jerry M. Linenger
• Jesse Williams
• Jessica Watkins
• Jessica Wittner
• Jesús Calleja
• Jiang Xinlin
• Jim Hendren
• Jim Kitchen
• Jim Sitkin
• Jim Wetherbee
• Jing Haipeng
• Joan Higginbotham
• Joe Engle
• Joe F. Edwards Jr.
• Joey Hyde
• John Casper
• John D. Olivas
• John E. Blaha
• John Finley
• John Herrington
• John L. Phillips
• John M. Fabian
• John M. Grunsfeld
• John M. Lounge
• John McFall— ESA's first parastronaut, cleared for an ISS mission with a prosthetic leg.
• John Oliver Creighton
• John S. Bull
• John Shoffner
• John-David F. Bartoe
• Jon Goodwin
• Jon McBride
• Jonny Kim
• Joseph A. Walker
• Joseph M. Acaba
• Joseph P. Allen
• Joseph P. Kerwin
• Joseph R. Tanner
• Josh A. Cassada
• Joshua Kutryk
• Judith Resnik
• Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
• Justin Sun— Bought Blue Origin's first auction seat, then flew in 2025.
• K. Megan McArthur
• Karen L. Nyberg
• Karl Gordon Henize
• Karol J. Bobko
• Karsen Kitchen
• Katherine Bennell-Pegg— Australia's first astronaut trained under the Australian flag.
• Katherine Spies
• Kathleen Rubins
• Kathryn C. Thornton
• Kathryn D. Sullivan
• Kathryn P. Hire
• Katya Echazarreta— First Mexican-born woman in space.
• Kayla Barron
• Keisha Schahaff
• Kellie Gerardi
• Kelly Latimer
• Ken Baxter
• Ken Bowersox
• Ken Money
• Kenneth Cockrell
• Kenneth D. Cameron
• Kenneth Ham
• Kenneth Hess
• Kenneth S. Reightler Jr.
• Kent Rominger
• Kerianne Flynn
• Ketty Maisonrouge
• Kevin A. Ford
• Kevin P. Chilton
• Kevin R. Kregel
• Kimiya Yui
• Kirill Peskov
• Kjell N. Lindgren
• Klaus-Dietrich Flade
• Klim Shipenko
• Ko San
• Koichi Wakata
• Konstantin Borisov
• Konstantin Feoktistov
• Konstantin Kozeyev
• Konstantin Valkov
• L. Blaine Hammond
• Lachlan Macleay
• Lai Ka-ying
• Lane Bess
• Larry Connor
• Larry James
• Laura Shepard Churchley— Alan Shepard's daughter, who flew the rocket named after him.
• Laura Stiles
• Laurel Clark
• Lauren Edgar
• Lauren Sánchez
• Lawrence J. DeLucas
• Lee Archambault
• Lee Morin
• Leland Larson
• Leonid Ivanov
• Leonid Kadeniuk
• Leonid Kizim
• Leonid Popov
• Léopold Eyharts
• Leroy Chiao
• Lev Dyomin
• Lev Vorobyov
• Li Cong
• Li Guangsu
• Li Qinglong
• Li Shichang
• Lina Borozdina
• Linda Edwards
• Linda M. Godwin
• Lionel Pitchford
• Lisa Nowak
• Liu Boming
• Liu Chongfu
• Liu Wang
• Liu Yang
• Liu Zhongyi
• Livingston Holder
• Lodewijk van den Berg
• Loral O'Hara
• Loren Acton
• Loren Shriver
• Lu Xiangxiao
• Luca Parmitano
• Luke Delaney
• Luke Mays
• Ma Zizhong
• Magomed Tolboev
• Maidarjavyn Ganzorig
• Makoto Suwa
• Maksim Ponomaryov
• Maksim Surayev
• Mamoru Mohri
• Marc Hagle
• Marco Sieber
• Marcos Berrios
• Marcos Pontes
• Marcus Wandt
• Margaret Rhea Seddon
• Mariam Fardous
• Marianne Merchez
• Marina Vasilevskaya
• Mário Ferreira
• Mario Runco Jr.
• Mark Bezos
• Mark C. Lee
• Mark L. Polansky
• Mark N. Brown
• Mark P. Stucky
• Mark Pathy
• Mark Rocket
• Mark Serov
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Mark Vande Hei
• Mars Rafikov— A cosmonaut candidate literally named Mars, who never got there.
• Marsha Ivins
• Martin J. Fettman
• Marty Allen
• Mary Ellen Weber
• Mary L. Cleave
• Mason Angel
• Matthew Dominick
• Matthias Maurer
• Maurizio Cheli
• Meganne Christian
• Meng Senlin
• Michael A. Baker
• Michael Adams— Died when X-15 Flight 191 broke up in 1967.
• Michael Barratt
• Michael Coats
• Michael E. Fossum
• Michael Fincke
• Michael Foale
• Michael Foreman
• Michael J. Bloomfield
• Michael J. McCulley
• Michael J. Smith
• Michael L. Gernhardt
• Michael Lampton
• Michael López-Alegría
• Michael Masucci
• Michael McKay
• Michael P. Anderson
• Michael R. Clifford
• Michael S. Hopkins
• Michael T. Good
• Michaela Benthaus
• Michal Fulier
• Michel Tognini
• Mike Melvill
• Mike Mullane
• Mikhail Burdayev
• Mikhail Korniyenko
• Mikhail Lisun
• Mikhail Rebrov
• Mikhail Sologub
• Mikhail Tyurin
• Millie Hughes-Fulford
• Milt Thompson
• Mirosław Hermaszewski
• Mohammad Al Mulla
• Mohammad Dauran
• Muhammed Faris
• Mukhtar Aymakhanov
• Musa Manarov
• Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya
• Nagapathi Chidambar Bhat
• Namira Salim
• Nancy J. Currie
• Naoko Yamazaki
• Neal Milch
• Neil Kornswiet
• Neil Woodward
• Nicholas Patrick
• Nichole Ayers
• Nick Hague
• Nicola Pecile
• Nicola Winter
• Nicole Aunapu Mann
• Nicole Stott
• Nicolina Elrick
• Nie Haisheng
• Nikolai Budarin
• Nikolai Chub
• Nikolai Porvatkin
• Nikolai Tikhonov
• Nikolay Rukavishnikov
• Nora Al Matrooshi— First female Emirati astronaut.
• Norishige Kanai
• Norman Thagard
• Oldrich Pelcak
• Oleg Artemyev
• Oleg Atkov
• Oleg Blinov
• Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko— Buran test pilot, not the record-holding ISS commander.
• Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov
• Oleg Kononenko
• Oleg Kotov
• Oleg Novitskiy
• Oleg Platonov
• Oleg Skripochka
• Oliver Daemen— Youngest person ever in space at 18, on dad's ticket.
• Owen K. Garriott
• Owolabi Salis
• Pablo Alvarez Fernandez
• Pamela Melroy
• Pan Zhanchun
• Pantaleone Carlucci
• Paolo A. Nespoli
• Paramaswaren Radhakrishnan Nair
• Patricia Robertson
• Patrick Baudry
• Patrick G. Forrester
• Paul J. Weitz
• Paul Jeris
• Paul Lockhart
• Paul Scully-Power
• Paul W. Richards
• Pavel Belyayev
• Pavel Popovich
• Pavel Vinogradov
• Pedro Duque
• Pete Knight— Flew the X-15 to Mach 6.7, still the crewed record.
• Peter Wisoff
• Phạm Tuân
• Philip Chapman
• Philippe Perrin
• Pierre J. Thuot
• Piers Sellers
• Prasanth Nair
• Pratiwi Sudarmono— Indonesia's microbiologist astronaut, bumped when Challenger grounded the shuttle.
• Pyotr Dubrov
• Pyotr Klimuk
• Pyotr Kolodin— Trained three decades, assigned to crews five times, never left the ground.
• Rabea Rogge
• Raja Chari
• Randolph Bresnik
• Raphael Liegeois
• Ravish Malhotra— Rakesh Sharma's 1984 backup - India's other first-generation cosmonaut.
• Rayyanah Barnawi
• Rebecca Lawler
• Reinhard Furrer
• Reinhold Ewald
• Renate Brummer
• Rex J. Walheim
• Richard A. Searfoss
• Richard F. Gordon Jr.
• Richard Garriott
• Richard H. Truly
• Richard Hieb
• Richard Lawyer
• Richard M. Linnehan
• Richard Mastracchio
• Richard N. Richards
• Richard O. Covey
• Richard R. Arnold
• Richard Scott
• Rick Husband
• Rimantas Stankevicius
• Rob Ferl
• Robb Kulin
• Robert A. Parker
• Robert C. Springer
• Robert Crippen
• Robert Curbeam
• Robert D. Cabana
• Robert F. Overmyer
• Robert Herres
• Robert Hines
• Robert J. Cenker
• Robert L. Gibson
• Robert L. Stewart
• Robert Lawrence— First Black astronaut selected, killed training before he could fly.
• Robert Rushworth
• Robert S. Kimbrough
• Robert Satcher
• Robert Thirsk
• Robert White— First X-15 pilot past 50 miles, 1962 - the first winged spaceflight.
• Roberto Vittori
• Robie Vaughn
• Rodolfo Neri Vela
• Roger K. Crouch
• Roman Romanenko
• Ron Rosano
• Ronald A. Parise
• Ronald Evans
• Ronald J. Garan Jr.
• Ronald J. Grabe
• Ronald M. Sega
• Ronald McNair
• Rosemary Coogan
• Roy D. Bridges Jr.
• Russell Rogers
• Russell Wilson
• Rusty Schweickart
• S. David Griggs
• Salizhan Sharipov
• Samuel T. Durrance
• Sandra Magnus
• Sara Garcia Alonso
• Sara Sabry
• Sarah Gillis— Played her violin in orbit on Polaris Dawn.
• Satoshi Furukawa
• Scott Altman
• Scott Carpenter
• Scott Crossfield— First to fly the X-15, picked for spaceflight in 1958.
• Scott D. Tingle
• Scott E. Parazynski
• Scott J. Horowitz
• Scott Poteet
• Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor
• Sergei Anokhin
• Sergei Avdeyev
• Sergei Gaidukov
• Sergei Krikalev
• Sergei Moshchenko
• Sergei Revin
• Sergei Treshchov
• Sergei Vozovikov
• Sergei Zalyotin
• Sergei Zhukov
• Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov
• Sergey Korsakov
• Sergey Kud-Sverchkov
• Sergey Mikayev
• Sergey Nikolayevich Ryzhikov
• Sergey Prokopyev
• Sergey Ryazansky
• Sergey Teteryatnikov
• Shannon Walker
• Shao Zhijian
• Sharon Hagle
• Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
• Sherwood C. Spring
• Sian Proctor
• Sidney M. Gutierrez
• Sigmund Jähn
• Sirisha Bandla
• Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski
• Soichi Noguchi
• Song Lingdong
• Sonny Carter
• Sophie Adenot
• Stanley G. Love
• Stephanie Wilson
• Stephen Bowen
• Stephen Frick
• Stephen Robinson
• Stephen S. Oswald
• Stephen Thorne
• Steve MacLean
• Steve Young— A telecom executive, not the quarterback, on New Shepard 2022.
• Steven Hawley
• Steven Lindsey
• Steven R. Nagel
• Steven Smith
• Steven Swanson
• Stuart Roosa
• Sultan Al Neyadi
• Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
• Susan J. Helms
• Susan Kilrain
• Svetlana Savitskaya
• Sylvain Chiron
• Takao Doi
• Takuya Onishi
• Talgat Musabayev
• Tamara E. Jernigan
• Tang Hongbo
• Tang Shengjie
• Tatyana Kuznetsova
• Taufik Akbar
• Taylor Wang
• Terence T. Henricks
• Terrence W. Wilcutt
• Terry Hart
• Theodore Freeman
• Thomas Akers
• Thomas David Jones
• Thomas J. Hennen
• Thomas Marshburn
• Thomas P. Stafford
• Thomas Reiter
• Tibor Kapu
• Tim Drexler
• Timothy Creamer
• Timothy Kopra
• Timothy Nash
• Toktar Aubakirov
• Toyohiro Akiyama— A TV journalist who beat Japan's professional astronauts to orbit.
• Tracy Caldwell Dyson
• Trevor Beattie
• Tushar Shah
• Tuva Cihangir Atasever
• Ulf Merbold
• Ulrich Walter
• Umberto Guidoni
• Valentin Bondarenko— A 1961 training fire took him weeks before Gagarin flew.
• Valentin Filatyev
• Valentin Lebedev
• Valentin Varlamov
• Valentina Ponomaryova— Tereshkova's backup - trained, ready, and never launched.
• Valeri Kubasov
• Valeri Polyakov— Spent 437 straight days in orbit, the longest single spaceflight ever.
• Valeri Tokarev
• Valeri Voloshin
• Valery Bykovsky
• Valery Korzun
• Valery Makrushin
• Valery Rozhdestvensky
• Valery Ryumin
• Vance D. Brand
• Vanessa O'Brien
• Vasili Shcheglov
• Vasily Lazarev
• Vasily Tsibliyev
• Victor Hespanha
• Victor Vescovo
• Viktor Gorbatko
• Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
• Viktor Patsayev
• Viktor Savinykh
• Vitali Grishchenko
• Vitalii Ostrovsky
• Vitaly Sevastyanov
• Vitaly Zholobov
• Vladimir Aksyonov
• Vladimir Beloborodov
• Vladimir Benderov
• Vladimir Dezhurov
• Vladimir Dzhanibekov
• Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov
• Vladimir Komarov
• Vladimir Kovalyonok
• Vladimir Lyakhov
• Vladimir Preobrazhensky
• Vladimír Remek
• Vladimir Shatalov
• Vladimir Solovyov
• Vladimir Vasyutin
• Vladislav Gulyayev
• Vladislav Volkov
• Vyacheslav Zudov
• Wally Schirra
• Walter Cunningham
• Walter Villadei
• Wang Fuhe
• Wang Fuquan
• Wang Haoze
• Wang Jie
• Wang Quanbo
• Wang Rongsen
• Wang Yaping
• Wang Zhiyue
• Warren Hoburg
• Wendy B. Lawrence
• William A. Pailes
• William B. Lenoir
• William Bridgeman
• William C. McCool
• William Dana
• William E. Thornton
• William F. Readdy
• William Frederick Fisher
• William G. Gregory
• William H. Lewis
• William Oefelein
• William R. Pogue
• William S. McArthur
• William Shepherd
• Winston E. Scott
• Wu Fei
• Wu Jie
• Wubbo Ockels
• Yaroslav Golovanov
• Yaroslav Pustovyi
• Ye Guangfu
• Yelena Kondakova
• Yelena Serova
• Yevgeni Khludeyev
• Yevgeny Khrunov
• Yi So-Yeon
• Yozo Hirano
• Yu Guilin
• Yulia Peresild
• Yuri Baturin
• Yuri Gidzenko
• Yuri Kubo
• Yuri Letunov
• Yuri Malenchenko
• Yuri Senkevich— Corps physician who became Soviet TV's most famous travel host.
• Yuri Shargin
• Yury Artyukhin
• Yury Glazkov
• Yury Lonchakov
• Yury Malyshev
• Yury Onufriyenko
• Yury Romanenko
• Yury Usachov
• Yvonne Cagle
• Zena Cardman
• Zenon Jankowski
• Zhai Zhigang
• Zhang Hongzhang
• Zhang Lu
• Zhang Ruxiang
• Zhang Xiaoguang
• Zhang Zhiyuan
• Zhanna Yorkina
• Zhao Chuandong
• Zhu Yangzhu

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Alexei Leonov
• Anne McClain
• Anousheh Ansari
• Barry E. Wilmore
• Bruce McCandless II
• Charles Duke
• Christa McAuliffe
• Christina Koch
• Christopher Cassidy
• Dennis Tito
• Donald Pettit
• Douglas G. Hurley
• Ed Dwight— Picked under JFK, denied the job, flew at 90.
• Ed White
• Eileen Collins
• Ellen Ochoa
• Eugene Cernan
• Francisco Rubio— A leaky Soyuz stretched his mission to a record 371 days.
• Frank Borman
• Fred Haise
• Guion Bluford
• Gus Grissom
• Harrison Schmitt
• Hayley Arceneaux
• Helen Sharman
• Ilan Ramon
• Jack Swigert
• Jared Isaacman
• Jeremy Hansen
• Jessica Meir
• Jim Lovell
• John Young
• José M. Hernández
• Julie Payette
• Kalpana Chawla
• Ken Mattingly
• Leland D. Melvin
• Marc Garneau
• Michael Collins
• Michael J. Massimino
• Michael Strahan
• Peggy Whitson
• Pete Conrad
• Rakesh Sharma— Asked how India looked from space, he quoted a poem.
• Reid Wiseman
• Richard Branson
• Robert L. Behnken
• Roberta Bondar— First Canadian woman in space, a neurologist studying her crew.
• Roger Chaffee— Apollo 1's rookie, an astronaut who never got to fly.
• Samantha Cristoforetti
• Scott Kelly
• Shannon Lucid
• Shubhanshu Shukla
• Story Musgrave
• Terry W. Virts
• Thomas Pesquet
• Tim Peake
• Valentina Tereshkova— First woman in space, and still the only solo one.
• Victor Glover
• Wally Funk— Mercury 13 aviator who finally flew with Bezos at 82.
• William Anders
• Yang Liwei
• Yusaku Maezawa

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Alan Shepard
• Chris Hadfield— Sang Bowie's Space Oddity aboard the ISS.
• Jeff Bezos
• John Glenn
• Katy Perry
• Mae Jemison
• Mark Kelly
• Sally Ride
• Sunita Williams
• William Shatner
• Yuri Gagarin— First human in space, 1961.

The most common answer on the board.

• Buzz Aldrin
• Neil Armstrong