List of human spaceflights

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File:Apollo 7 photographed in flight by ALOTS (68-HC-641).jpg
Apollo 7 heads into orbit with its crew of three, 1968

This is a list of all crewed spaceflights throughout history. Beginning in 1961 with the flight of Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, crewed spaceflight occurs when a human crew flies a spacecraft into outer space. Human spaceflight is distinguished from spaceflight generally, which entails both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft.

There are two definitions of spaceflight. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), an international record-keeping body, defines the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space at Template:Convert above sea level. This boundary is known as the Kármán line. The United States awards astronaut wings to qualified personnel who pilot a spaceflight above an altitude of Template:Convert.

As of the launch of Soyuz MS-27 on 8 April 2025, there have been 398 human spaceflight launches. Two missions did not cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space and therefore do not qualify as spaceflights. These were the fatal STS-51-L (Challenger disaster), and the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission T-10a. Two aborted missions did cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space. One was the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission MS-10 which did not reach the Kármán line but did pass the 80 km (50 mi) line. The other was the non-fatal Soyuz mission, 18a which crossed the Kármán line. Four missions successfully achieved human spaceflight, yet ended as fatal failures as their crews died during the return. These were Soyuz 1, X-15 flight 191, Soyuz 11, and STS-107 (Columbia disaster). Twenty two flights in total reached an apogee beyond Template:Convert, but failed to go beyond Template:Convert, so therefore do not qualify as spaceflights under the FAI definition.

Summary

Since 1961, three countries (China, Russia, and the United States) and one former country (Soviet Union) have conducted human spaceflight using seventeen different spacecraft series, or: "programs", "projects".


Entity Template:URS (1961–1991) /
Template:RUS (1992–present)
Template:USA Template:CHN Subtotals
by decade
Agency Soviet space program
File:Roscosmos logo ru.svg Roscosmos
File:NASA logo.svg NASA Private space corporations operating sub-orbital flights out of the United States Private space corporations operating orbital flights out of the United States CMSA
Decades Program DatesTemplate:Efn No.Template:EfnTemplate:Efn ProgramTemplate:Efn Dates No.Template:Efn Company Program Dates No.Template:Efn Company Program Dates No. Program Dates No.
1961–1970 Vostok 1961–1963 6 Mercury 1961–1963 6 52
Voskhod 1964–1965 2 X-15 1962–1968 13
Soyuz 1967–1991 66 Gemini 1965–1966 10
Apollo 1968–1972 11
1971–1980 39
Skylab 1973–1974 3
Apollo–Soyuz 1975 1
1981–1990 Space
Shuttle
1981–2011 135 63
1991–2000 Soyuz 1992–present 89 83
2001–2010 Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne 2004 3 Shenzhou 2003–present 16 61
2011–2020 Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo 2018–2024 11 SpaceX Crew Dragon (Commercial Crew) 2020–present 19 47
2021–2030 Blue Origin New Shepard 2021–present 15 Boeing Boeing Starliner (Commercial Crew) 2024–present 1 62
Subtotals
by entity
163 179 29 20 16 Total 407

Human spaceflights

The Salyut series, Skylab, Mir, ISS, and Tiangong series space stations, with which many of these flights docked in orbit, are not listed separately here. See the detailed lists (links below) for information.

  • Missions which were intended to reach space but which failed to do so are listed in bold.
  • Missions between 50 miles (80.45 km) and 100 km (62 mi), which satisfy the US Military definition of space(50 Miles), but not the NASA or Internationally recognized Karman Line definition (100 km) are listed in italics.
  • Fatal missions are marked with a dagger (†) symbol.

1961–1970

Vostok 1 — Mercury-Redstone 3 — Mercury-Redstone 4 — Vostok 2
Mercury-Atlas 6 — Mercury-Atlas 7 — X-15 Flight 62 — Vostok 3 — Vostok 4 — Mercury-Atlas 8
X-15 Flight 77 — Mercury-Atlas 9 — Vostok 5 — Vostok 6 — X-15 Flight 87 — X-15 Flight 90 — X-15 Flight 91
Voskhod 1
Voskhod 2 — Gemini 3 — Gemini 4 — X-15 Flight 138* — X-15 Flight 143* — Gemini 5 — X-15 Flight 150 — X-15 Flight 153 — Gemini 7 — Gemini 6A
Gemini 8 — Gemini 9A — Gemini 10 — Gemini 11 — X-15 Flight 174 — Gemini 12
Soyuz 1† — X-15 Flight 190 — X-15 Flight 191†
X-15 Flight 197 — Apollo 7 — Soyuz 3 — Apollo 8
Soyuz 4 — Soyuz 5 — Apollo 9 — Apollo 10 — Apollo 11 — Soyuz 6 — Soyuz 7 — Soyuz 8 — Apollo 12
Apollo 13 — Soyuz 9

1971–1980

Apollo 14 — Soyuz 10 — Soyuz 11† — Apollo 15
Apollo 16 — Apollo 17
Skylab 2 — Skylab 3 — Soyuz 12 — Skylab 4 — Soyuz 13
Soyuz 14 — Soyuz 15 — Soyuz 16
Soyuz 17 — Soyuz 18a — Soyuz 18 — Soyuz 19 — Apollo-Soyuz
Soyuz 21 — Soyuz 22 — Soyuz 23
Soyuz 24 — Soyuz 25 — Soyuz 26
Soyuz 27 — Soyuz 28 — Soyuz 29 — Soyuz 30 — Soyuz 31
Soyuz 32 — Soyuz 33
Soyuz 35 — Soyuz 36 — Soyuz T-2 — Soyuz 37 — Soyuz 38 — Soyuz T-3

1981–1990

Soyuz T-4 — Soyuz 39 — STS-1 — Soyuz 40 — STS-2
STS-3 — Soyuz T-5 — Soyuz T-6 — STS-4 — Soyuz T-7 — STS-5
STS-6 — Soyuz T-8 — STS-7 — Soyuz T-9 — STS-8 — Soyuz T-10a — STS-9
STS-41-B — Soyuz T-10 — Soyuz T-11 — STS-41-C — Soyuz T-12 — STS-41-D — STS-41-G — STS-51-A
STS-51-C — STS-51-D — STS-51-B — Soyuz T-13 — STS-51-G — STS-51-F — STS-51-I — Soyuz T-14 — STS-51-J — STS-61-A — STS-61-B
STS-61-C — STS-51-L† — Soyuz T-15
Soyuz TM-2 — Soyuz TM-3 — Soyuz TM-4
Soyuz TM-5 — Soyuz TM-6 — STS-26 — Soyuz TM-7 — STS-27
STS-29 — STS-30 — STS-28 — Soyuz TM-8 — STS-34 — STS-33
STS-32 — Soyuz TM-9 — STS-36 — STS-31 — Soyuz TM-10 — STS-41 — STS-38 — STS-35 — Soyuz TM-11

1991–2000

STS-37 — STS-39 — Soyuz TM-12 — STS-40 — STS-43 — STS-48 — Soyuz TM-13 — STS-44
STS-42 — Soyuz TM-14 — STS-45 — STS-49 — STS-50 — Soyuz TM-15 — STS-46 — STS-47 — STS-52 — STS-53
STS-54 — Soyuz TM-16 — STS-56 — STS-55 — STS-57 — Soyuz TM-17 — STS-51 — STS-58 — STS-61
Soyuz TM-18 — STS-60 — STS-62 — STS-59 — Soyuz TM-19 — STS-65 — STS-64 — STS-68 — Soyuz TM-20 — STS-66
STS-63 — STS-67 — Soyuz TM-21 — STS-71 — STS-70 — Soyuz TM-22 — STS-69 — STS-73 — STS-74
STS-72 — Soyuz TM-23 — STS-75 — STS-76 — STS-77 — STS-78 — Soyuz TM-24 — STS-79 — STS-80
STS-81 — Soyuz TM-25 — STS-82 — STS-83 — STS-84 — STS-94 — Soyuz TM-26 — STS-85 — STS-86 — STS-87
STS-89 — Soyuz TM-27 — STS-90 — STS-91 — Soyuz TM-28 — STS-95 — STS-88
Soyuz TM-29 — STS-96 — STS-93 — STS-103
STS-99 — Soyuz TM-30 — STS-101 — STS-106 — STS-92 — Soyuz TM-31 — STS-97

2001–2010

STS-98 — STS-102 — STS-100 — Soyuz TM-32 — STS-104 — STS-105 — Soyuz TM-33 — STS-108
STS-109 — STS-110 — Soyuz TM-34 — STS-111 — STS-112 — Soyuz TMA-1 — STS-113
STS-107† — Soyuz TMA-2 — Shenzhou 5 — Soyuz TMA-3
Soyuz TMA-4 — SpaceShipOne Flight 15P — SpaceShipOne Flight 16P — SpaceShipOne Flight 17P — Soyuz TMA-5
Soyuz TMA-6 — STS-114 — Soyuz TMA-7 — Shenzhou 6
Soyuz TMA-8 — STS-121 — STS-115 — Soyuz TMA-9 — STS-116
Soyuz TMA-10 — STS-117 — STS-118 — Soyuz TMA-11 — STS-120
STS-122 — STS-123 — Soyuz TMA-12 — STS-124 — Shenzhou 7 — Soyuz TMA-13 — STS-126
STS-119 — Soyuz TMA-14 — STS-125 — Soyuz TMA-15 — STS-127 — STS-128 — Soyuz TMA-16 — STS-129 — Soyuz TMA-17
STS-130 — Soyuz TMA-18 — STS-131 — STS-132 — Soyuz TMA-19 — Soyuz TMA-01M — Soyuz TMA-20

2011–2020

STS-133 — Soyuz TMA-21 — STS-134 — Soyuz TMA-02M — STS-135 — Soyuz TMA-22 — Soyuz TMA-03M
Soyuz TMA-04M — Shenzhou 9 — Soyuz TMA-05M — Soyuz TMA-06M — Soyuz TMA-07M
Soyuz TMA-08M — Soyuz TMA-09M — Shenzhou 10 — Soyuz TMA-10M — Soyuz TMA-11M
Soyuz TMA-12M — Soyuz TMA-13M — Soyuz TMA-14M — Soyuz TMA-15M
Soyuz TMA-16M — Soyuz TMA-17M — Soyuz TMA-18M — Soyuz TMA-19M
Soyuz TMA-20M — Soyuz MS-01 — Shenzhou 11 — Soyuz MS-02 — Soyuz MS-03
Soyuz MS-04 — Soyuz MS-05 — Soyuz MS-06 — Soyuz MS-07
Soyuz MS-08 — Soyuz MS-09 — Soyuz MS-10 — Soyuz MS-11 — VSS Unity VP-03
VSS Unity VF-01 — Soyuz MS-12 — Soyuz MS-13 — Soyuz MS-15
Soyuz MS-16 — Crew Dragon Demo-2 — Soyuz MS-17 — SpaceX Crew-1

2021–present

Soyuz MS-18 — SpaceX Crew-2 — Virgin Galactic Unity-21 — Shenzhou-12 — Virgin Galactic Unity-22 — Blue Origin NS-16 — SpaceX Inspiration4 — Soyuz MS-19 — Blue Origin NS-18 — Shenzhou-13 — SpaceX Crew-3 — Soyuz MS-20 — Blue Origin NS-19
Soyuz MS-21 — Blue Origin NS-20 — Axiom Mission 1 — SpaceX Crew-4 — Blue Origin NS-21 — Shenzhou-14 — Blue Origin NS-22 — Soyuz MS-22 — SpaceX Crew-5 — Shenzhou-15
SpaceX Crew-6 — Axiom Mission 2 — Virgin Galactic Unity 25 — Shenzhou-16 — Galactic 01 — Galactic 02 — SpaceX Crew-7 — Galactic 03 — Soyuz MS-24 — Galactic 04 — Shenzhou-17 — Galactic 05
Axiom Mission 3 — Galactic 06 — SpaceX Crew-8 — Soyuz MS-25 — Shenzhou-18 — Blue Origin NS-25 — Boeing CFT — Galactic 07 — Blue Origin NS-26 — Polaris Dawn — Soyuz MS-26 — SpaceX Crew-9 — Shenzhou-19 — Blue Origin NS-28
Blue Origin NS-30 — SpaceX Crew-10 — Fram2 — Soyuz MS-27 — Blue Origin NS-31 — Shenzhou-20 — Blue Origin NS-32 — Axiom Mission 4 — Blue Origin NS-33 — SpaceX Crew-11 — Blue Origin NS-34 — Blue Origin NS-36 — Shenzhou-21

Timeline

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List by decades

Decade Total flights Major milestones First by nationality

1960s

41

Template:Flagicon Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Template:Flagicon Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space.
Template:Flagicon Alexei Leonov, first EVA.
Template:Flagicon Neil Armstrong, first human on the Moon.

Template:Flagicon Yuri Gagarin
Template:Flagicon Alan Shepard

1970s

38

Template:Flagicon Alfred Worden, first deep space EVA.

Template:Flagicon Vladimír Remek
Template:Flagicon Mirosław Hermaszewski
Template:Flagicon Sigmund Jähn
Template:Flagicon Georgi Ivanov
Template:Flagicon Bertalan Farkas
Template:Flagicon Phạm Tuân
Template:Flagicon Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

1980s

61

Template:Flagicon Bruce McCandless II, first untethered spacewalk.

Template:Flagicon Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
Template:Flagicon Dumitru Prunariu
Template:Flagicon Jean-Loup Chrétien
Template:Flagicon Ulf Merbold
Template:Flagicon Rakesh Sharma
Template:Flagicon Marc Garneau
Template:Flagicon Sultan Salman Al Saud
Template:Flagicon Wubbo J. Ockels
Template:Flagicon Mohammed Faris
Template:Flagicon Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Template:Flagicon Rodolfo Neri Vela
Template:Flagicon Toyohiro Akiyama

1990s

83

Template:Flagicon Yuri Gidzenko, Template:Flagicon Sergei Krikalev and Template:Flagicon William M. Shepherd, first crew on ISS.

Template:Flagicon Helen Sharman
Template:Flagicon Franz Viehböck
Template:Flagicon Dirk Frimout
Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri
Template:Flagicon Claude Nicollier
Template:Flagicon Franco Malerba
Template:Flagicon Leonid Kadeniuk
Template:Flagicon Pedro Duque
Template:Flagicon Ivan Bella

2000s 61

Template:Flagicon Dennis Tito, first paying space tourist.
SpaceShipOne flight 16P, first private suborbital flight

Template:Flagicon Mark Shuttleworth
Template:Flagicon Ilan Ramon
Template:Flagicon Yang Liwei
Template:Flagicon Christer Fuglesang
Template:Flagicon Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Template:Flagicon Yi So-yeon

2010s

44 —

Template:Flagicon Andreas Mogensen
Template:Flagicon Aidyn Aimbetov
Template:Flagicon Hazza Al Mansouri

2020-present

51 Inspiration4, first fully private orbital flight
Axiom Mission 1, first fully private ISS orbital flight
Polaris Dawn, first fully private orbital spacewalk
Fram2, first polar retrograde orbital flight
Template:Flagicon Mário Ferreira
Template:Flagicon Sara Sabry
Template:Flagicon Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers
Template:Flagicon Namira Salim
Template:Flagicon Alper Gezeravcı
Template:Flagicon Marina Vasilevskaya
Template:FlagiconTemplate:Nnbsp/Template:NnbspTemplate:FlagiconTemplate:Efn Chun Wang

Template:Flagicon Chris Boshuizen
Template:FlagiconTemplate:Nnbsp/Template:NnbspTemplate:FlagiconTemplate:Efn Jannicke Mikkelsen
Template:Flagicon Aisha Bowe
Template:Flagicon Jaime Alemán
Template:Flagicon Mark Rocket
Template:Flagicon Owolabi Salis

See also

Notes

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  • Spacefacts Compare with the present article. The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights 90 and 91, SpaceShipOne flights 15P, 16P and 17P, and Soyuz 18a.
  • Astronautix Similarly, see the list for "Manned Spaceflight" given at Astronautix, which includes other related categories.

References

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