Home›Astronauts and Cosmonauts›Birth Year›1980sBrowse By1980sThis 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.Facts1980sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonField Origin EraWell-attested1961 11980sFilter Results34 entriesNation / ProgramAllAstronauts of Other National Programs (4)Canadian Astronauts (2)Chinese Taikonauts (12)European Space Agency Astronauts (6)French Astronauts (1)Mir and Space Station Cosmonauts (3)Space Station and Commercial Crew Astronauts (5)Space Tourists and Private Astronauts (1)AgencyAllCanadian Space Agency (2)China Manned Space Agency (1)European Space Agency (7)ISRO (1)Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (1)NASA (6)People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (11)Roscosmos (3)Saudi Space Agency (2)Associated WithAllAxiom Space (2)Canadian Space Agency (2)China Manned Space Agency (3)European Space Agency (6)ISRO (1)NASA (5)Roscosmos (4)SpaceX (2)Astronaut RoleAllCommander (5)Flight Engineer (7)Mission Specialist (11)Payload Specialist (2)Pilot (7)Selection YearAll2010 (2)2012 (2)2017 (7)2018 (2)2019 (1)2020 (9)2022 (8)2023 (2)NationalityAllBelgium (1)Canada (2)China (12)France (1)India (1)Iran (1)Norway (1)Poland (1)Russia (3)Saudi Arabia (2)Spain (2)Sweden (1)Switzerland (1)United Arab Emirates (1)United States (6)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 34Alexander Grebenkin1980sAnna Kikina1980sChen Zhongrui1980sDmitry Petelin1980sJared Isaacman1980sJasmin Moghbeli1980sJenni Gibbons1980sJessica Watkins1980sJiang Xinlin1980sJoshua Kutryk1980sKayla Barron1980sLai Ka-ying1980sLi Cong1980sLi Guangsu1980sMarco Sieber1980sMarcus Wandt1980sMariam Fardous1980sMatthew Dominick1980sPablo Álvarez Fernández1980sRaphaël Liégeois1980sRayyanah Barnawi1980sSara García Alonso1980sShubhanshu Shukla1980sSławosz Uznański1980sSophie Adenot1980sSultan Al Neyadi1980sTang Shengjie1980sWang Jie1980sWang Yaping1980sYe Guangfu1980sZena Cardman1980sZhang Hongzhang1980sZhang Zhiyuan1980sZhu Yangzhu1980sSources1. 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.