Home›Astronauts and Cosmonauts›Birth Year›1940sBrowse By1940sThis dimension groups astronauts by the year they were born, showing which generation of spaceflight they belong to. Wikipedia notes that "as of April 2026, 781 humans have flown in space," a population spanning many decades of birth years from the earliest Soviet and American astronauts onward. Browsing by birth year lets a visitor compare astronauts of the same generation.Facts1940sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonField Origin EraWell-attested1961 11940sFilter Results41 entriesNation / ProgramAllCanadian Astronauts (3)European Space Agency Astronauts (3)French Astronauts (2)German Astronauts (2)Guest Cosmonauts of Partner Nations (5)Japanese Astronauts (1)Mir and Space Station Cosmonauts (5)Soyuz and Salyut Cosmonauts (6)Space Shuttle Astronauts (10)Space Tourists and Private Astronauts (3)Vostok and Voskhod Cosmonauts (1)AgencyAllCanadian Space Agency (3)CNES (1)DLR (1)European Space Agency (4)Hughes Aircraft Company (1)Interkosmos (6)NASA (9)National Space Development Agency of Japan (1)Roscosmos (4)Soviet space program (8)Space Adventures (2)Associated WithAllCanadian Space Agency (2)CNES (1)European Space Agency (4)Interkosmos (1)NASA (9)National Space Development Agency of Japan (1)Roscosmos (6)Soviet space program (10)Astronaut RoleAllCommander (9)Flight Engineer (1)Mission Specialist (8)Payload Specialist (9)Pilot (1)Research Cosmonaut (10)Spaceflight Participant (3)Selection YearAll1962 (1)1965 (3)1967 (1)1970 (2)1972 (1)1976 (2)1978 (14)1979 (1)1980 (3)1982 (2)1983 (3)1984 (1)1985 (4)NationalityAllBelarus (1)Bulgaria (1)Canada (3)Cuba (1)Czechia (1)France (2)Germany (2)Hungary (2)India (1)Japan (2)Netherlands (1)Russia (4)Soviet Union (10)Switzerland (1)Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1)United States (12)Vietnam (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 41Alexander Viktorenko1940sAlexander Volkov1940sAnatoly Solovyev1940sAnna Fisher1940sArnaldo Tamayo Mendez1940sBertalan Farkas1940sBjarni Tryggvason1940sCharles Bolden1940sCharles Simonyi1940sChrista McAuliffe1940sClaude Nicollier1940sDennis Tito1940sEllison Onizuka1940sErnst Messerschmid1940sGeorgi Ivanov1940sGregory Jarvis1940sGuion Bluford1940sJean-Pierre Haigneré1940sJudith Resnik1940sLeonid Kizim1940sMamoru Mohri1940sMarc Garneau1940sMichael J. Smith1940sMichel Tognini1940sNorman Thagard1940sPham Tuan1940sPyotr Klimuk1940sRakesh Sharma1940sRoberta Bondar1940sShannon Lucid1940sSvetlana Savitskaya1940sTatyana Kuznetsova1940sToyohiro Akiyama1940sUlf Merbold1940sValentin Lebedev1940sValeri Polyakov1940sVladimir Dzhanibekov1940sVladimir Kovalyonok1940sVladimir Remek1940sWubbo Ockels1940sYuri Romanenko1940sSources1. Wikipedia: Yuri Gagarintier 2Wikimedia FoundationYuri Gagarin, lead sectionQuote, Yuri Gagarin, lead sectionTravelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.View the SourceNASA Astronaut BiographiesNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.