List of fictional astronauts 4591923 225229635 2008-07-12T16:09:57Z RandomCritic 838239 /* Modern period */ trivial, probably violates list criteria {{Dynamic list}} This is an incomplete '''list of fictional astronauts''' appearing in various media, including books, film, television shows (live or animated), radio shows, records, and comic books. To be included in this list, a fictional astronaut must be modeled upon actual astronauts of real-world space programs, as they have actually existed since the beginning of the Space Age, or were envisioned in the years leading up to the Space Age. Criteria include: # A fictional astronaut must be human (not an alien, robot, or animal). # A fictional astronaut must be on a flight originating from the Earth; space travellers engaging in casual voyages between other planets (as in ''Star Wars'' or ''Battlestar Galactica'') are not eligible. # A fictional astronaut must be presented as living in the period of the early exploration of Space, i.e. from the beginning of the Space Age to the present, and for a few decades into the future; currently, in the period of about 1960-2050. # A fictional astronaut is preferably part of a real space program, like [[NASA]] or the Soviet/Russian space program, or fictional knockoffs of the same (e.g. ANSA, IASA). # A fictional astronaut preferably uses space travel technology within the realm of the possible. Preference should be given to astronauts depicted using real technology (e.g. Apollo, Soyuz, Space Shuttle) or close fictional knockoffs of the same. ===Early period=== Fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age. {|Class="wikitable" |- !Name(s) !Appeared in !Medium !Date of appearance !Program / Mission / Spaceship !Fictional date !Other |- | Stud. astr. Friede Velten<br>Wolf Helius<br>Hans Windegger<br>Professor Georg Manfeldt |''[[Woman in the Moon]]'' |Silent film |[[1929]] |''Friede'' |contemporary? |First film depiction of a moon-rocket and of a [[countdown]]. Checkboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear or [[A4]] rockets |- |- |Dr. Ludwig Rechenheim, <br />Charles Greene, <br />Victor Carroon |''[[The Quatermass Experiment]]'' |Television |[[1953]] |experimental rocket |unknown |Astronauts of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Crew of the first manned space mission, only Victor Carroon survives the flight. |- |Prof. Bernard Quatermass, <br />Dr. Leo Pugh |''[[Quatermass II]]'' |Television |[[1955]] |experimental rocket |unknown |Scientists of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Go into space in an attempt to use a faulty nuclear rocket to blow up an alien asteroid/spacecraft directing a covert invasion of Earth. |- |Karl Eckstrom<br />Lisa Van Horn<br />Floyd Graham, Col.<br />Harry Chamberlain<br />William Corrigan, Maj. |''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' |Film |[[1950]] |''X-M'' ("eXpedition Moon") |near future |Astronauts on a moon rocket that "accidentally" lands on Mars. |- |Jim Barnes<br />Dr. Charles Cargraves<br />Thayer, Gen.<br />Joe Sweeney |''[[Destination Moon (film)|Destination Moon]]'' |Film |[[1950]] |''Luna'' |near future |Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the moon. |- | Andrew "Jet" Morgan, Captain<br/>Lemuel Barnet<br/>Stephen Mitchell<br/>"Doc" Matthews |''[[Journey Into Space]]'' | Radio | [[1953]]-[[1955]] | Operation Luna | 1965+ | Trip to the Moon and beyond |- |Barney Merritt, Capt.<br />Samuel T. Merritt, Gen.<br />Mahoney, Sgt.<br />Jackie Siegle |''[[Conquest of Space]]'' |Film |[[1955]] |unknown |near future |Astronauts on a mission to [[Mars]] |- |Daniel&nbsp;MacGregor&nbsp;Dare,&nbsp;Col.,<br />Albert Fitzwilliam Digby |''[[Dan Dare|Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future]]'' |Comics |[[1950]]-[[1967]] |''Anastasia'' |1996+ |Astronaut in Earth's Interplanetary Spacefleet, travelled to [[Venus]], [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Saturn]] |- |Chris Godfrey |''[[Hugh Walters|Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series]]'' |Juvenile novels |[[1957]]-[[1979]] |unknown |contemporary? |British astronaut for the "United Nations Exploration Agency", launching from [[Woomera, South Australia|Woomera]]. |} ===Classic period=== Astronauts from the 'Golden Age' of space travel, from its beginnings to the late 1970s, before the building of the [[Space Shuttle]]. {|Class="wikitable" |- !Name(s) !Appeared in !Medium !Date of appearance !Program / Mission / Spaceship !Fictional date !Other |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Mercury (1960-1963)''' |- |[[Jose Jimenez (character)|Jose Jimenez]] |''Jose Jimenez the Astronaut'', ''Jose Jimenez in Orbit'' |LP [[gramophone record|records]] |[[1961]]-[[1962]] |[[Project Mercury|Mercury]] |contemporary |Astronaut in the "United States Interplanetary Expeditionary Force." They were going to send a dog... but they thought that would be too cruel. |- |Michael A. R. "Mike Mars" Samson<br />Johnny Bluehawk<br />Jack Lannigan<br />Rodney Harger<br />Joseph Stacey<br />Orin McMahan<br />Hart Williams |''[[Mike Mars]]'' series |Novels |[[1961]]-[[1966]] |Project Quicksilver |contemporary |Astronauts in a project parallelling the actual [[Project Mercury|Mercury]], [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] and [[Project Apollo|Apollo]] projects. |- |[[John Jameson (comics)|John Jameson]], Col. |''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', ''[[Spider-Man Unlimited]]'', ''[[Spider-Man 2]]'' |Comics, Television, Film |[[1963]]-Present |[[Project Mercury|Mercury]], [[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronaut afflicted with lycanthropy. |- |[[Maurice Minnifield]] |''[[Northern Exposure]]'' |Television |[[1990]]-[[1995]] |[[Project Mercury|Mercury]] |contemporary |Former NASA astronaut living in Alaska |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Gemini (1964-1966)''' |- |Richard J. Pruett, Maj, USAF;<br />Jim Dougherty, USAF;<br />Andrei Yakovlev, Col. |''[[Marooned (novel)|Marooned]]'' |Novel |[[1964]] |''Mercury 7'' ([[Project Mercury|Mercury]]);<br />''Gemini'' ([[Project Gemini|Gemini]]);<br />''Vostok IX'' ([[Vostok spacecraft|Vostok]]) |July 1964 |[[NASA]] astronaut on 7th Mercury flight (MA-10) trapped in orbit due to no retrofire; boilerplate Gemini (GT-2) launched to rescue; Russian cosmonaut also rendezvous. Novel also mentions docking of Vostok VII & VIII and names GT-3 crew as [[Alan Shepard|Shepard]] and Masters |- |Anthony&nbsp;Nelson,&nbsp;Capt./Maj.,<br />Roger Healy, Maj. |''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' |Television |[[1965]]-[[1970]] |[[Project Gemini|Gemini]], [[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |Career [[NASA]] astronauts. |- |Chris (last name not given)<br />Unnamed US Astronaut;<br /><br />Two unnamed cosmonauts;<br /><br />Two unnamed Osato astronauts;<br /><br />Two unnamed US astronauts |''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' |Film |[[1967]] |''Jupiter 16'' ([[Project Gemini|Gemini]]);<br /><br />Unnamed Soviet capsule ([[Voskhod spacecraft|Voskhod]]);<br /><br />''Bird 1'' ([[Reusable launch system|reusable]] capsule);<br /><br />''Jupiter 17'' (Gemini) |contemporary |Presumed [[NASA]] and [[Soviet|Soviet Union]] crews captured by Osato Chemicals ([[SPECTRE]]) spacecraft. ''Bird 1'' uses [[Expendable launch system|expendable booster]] for launch; capsule capable of vertical pin-point landing like [[DC-X]]. Chris killed at capture due to EVA. Cosmonauts captured next. Capture of ''Jupiter 17'' & probable outbreak of [[World War III|WW III]] prevented by [[James Bond]]. |- |[[Major Tom|Tom, Maj.]] |''[[Space Oddity]]'' |Song |[[1969]] |unknown |contemporary |Astronaut in one-man capsule who loses touch with Earth while on a [[spacewalk]] |- |Marcus Aurelius Belt, Lt. Col. |''[[The X-Files]], Space'' |Television |[[1993]] |[[Gemini VIII]] |contemporary (flashback to c. [[1966]]) |Former [[NASA]] astronaut who is possessed by a creature from outer space. |- |Steve Pitt<br />"Robert Gauss"<br />(real name Sam Stonebreaker) |''Death of a Cosmonaut'' |Novel |[[1969]] |Gemini 12-A |Spring 1967 |Crew of a Gemini mission which makes a clandestine rendezvous with a failed Voskhod to carry out an autopsy of the cosmonauts |- |Dan Cooper |''SOS dans l'espace'' and other stories from ''Tintin'' magazine |Comics |1957-1969 |Gemini 13 and others |contemporary |comic book series by Albert Weinberg |- |Randy Claggett<br />John Pope;<br />Paul Linley |''[[Space (novel)|Space]]'' |Novel, Television |[[1982]], [[1985]] |[[Project Gemini|Gemini 13]],<br />[[Canceled Apollo missions|Apollo 18]] |1960s |[[NASA]] astronauts in James Michener's fictionalized account of the early years of the space program and the TV miniseries made from it. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Apollo (1967-1975)''' |- |Roy Fleming;<br />Fred Gifford, Maj. |''[[The Reluctant Astronaut]]'' |Film |[[1966]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |Russia plans on sending a dentist into space, to show the safety of their space program. [[NASA]] launches Fleming, Cape Canaveral's newest janitor, upstaging Russian launch. |- |Lee Stegler |''[[Countdown (film)|Countdown]]'' |Film |[[1968]] |[[Project Gemini|Gemini]] (''Pilgrim''), [[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |near future |[[NASA]] astronaut using modified Gemini craft to beat the Russians to the Moon. |- |[[Al Calavicci]], Rear Adm. |''[[Quantum Leap (TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'' |Television |[[1989]]-[[1993]] |[[Apollo 8]] |c. 1968 / 1999 |[[NASA]] Astronaut in Apollo program. Circled the moon ten times. Calavicci landed the spacecraft safely after the computer systems crashed. |- |Jim Pruett,<br />Clayton Stone,<br />Buzz Lloyd;<br />Andrei Yakovlev;<br />Jim Dougherty, USAF |''[[Marooned (film)|Marooned]]'' |Film |[[1969]] |Ironman One ([[Project Apollo|Apollo]]);<br />[[Voskhod spacecraft|Voskhod]];<br />X-RV [[lifting body]] |near future |[[NASA]] astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid. |- |Unnamed US astronaut |''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]'' |Film |[[1973]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |US astronaut whose death in space is foretold by [[Regan MacNeil]]. [[The Ninth Configuration#Connection to The Exorcist|Connected]] by author [[William Peter Blatty]] to astronaut Billy Cutshaw in ''[[The Ninth Configuration]]''. |- |Rick Lawrence, Capt.,<br />Ben Pelham,<br />Dave Anderson |''Stowaway to the Moon'' |Television |[[1975]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]]<br />''Camelot'' |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronauts on an Apollo mission who discover a child in the command module. |- |Billy Cutshaw, Capt. |''[[The Ninth Configuration]]'' |Film |[[1980]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |US astronaut who lost his sanity just before launching into space. [[The Ninth Configuration#Connection to The Exorcist|Connected]] by author [[William Peter Blatty]] to astronaut character in ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''. |- |Robert S. Massey |''[[Derek Lambert (author)|The Red Dove]]'' |Novel |[[1982]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |[[1972]], flashback from [[1983]] |US astronaut who has a mental breakdown during a press conference after returning from the moon. Later used by the [[CIA]] to persuade a Soviet cosmonaut to defect along with his spacecraft. |- |[[Gary Lucas (character)|Gary Lucas]], CDR<br />[[Charles Shepherd (character)|Charles Shepherd]], LMP<br />[[Victor Kendall (character)|Victor Kendall]], CMP;<br /><br />Bruce Cortney, CDR<br />[[James Irwin]], LMP<br />[[Donald K. Slayton]], CMP |''[[Ice (novel)|Ice]]'' |Novel |[[2002]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |February 1975 |[[Cancelled Apollo missions|Apollo 19]] astronauts on a mission to the [[South Pole-Aitken Basin|Aitken Basin]];<br />[[Cancelled Apollo missions|Apollo 20]] recovery mission |- |Horace Jones, Col, CDR<br />Joseph Pelham, Cmdr, DMP <br />Sydney Loren, Dr, MS |''Sargasso'' |Novel |[[1977]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |1977 |[[NASA]] Crew of [[Cancelled Apollo missions|Apollo 19]], a joint mission with the Soviets and the last Apollo flight before the Space Shuttle. They vanish from their spacecraft when it splashes down in the [[Bermuda Triangle]]. |- |[[Steve Austin (fictional character)|Steve Austin]], Col.<br />Kelly Wood, Maj.<br />Josh Lang<br />Dr. Leah Russell |''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' |Television |[[1973]]-[[1978]] |[[Apollo 17]] et al. |contemporary |Austin is a [[NASA]] astronaut injured in testing landing characteristics of lifting bodies in anticipation of the Space Shuttle program. Other astronauts appear in the episodes ''The Rescue of Athena One''; ''Burning Bright'' ([[1974]]); and ''The Deadly Countdown'' ([[1977]]). |- |Nate<br />Andy<br />Boris<br />(last names not given) |''[[Superman II]]'' |Film |[[1980]] |''Artemis 2''<br />(Apollo-like) |contemporary |Fictional "Society for International Space Exploration" (SISE)-Soviet joint lunar mission. Crew killed by escaped Kyptonian criminals. |- |Garrett Breedlove |''[[Terms of Endearment]]'', ''[[The Evening Star]]'' |Film |[[1983]], [[1996]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |Retired middle-aged astronaut played by [[Jack Nicholson]] |- |Forrest Gump,<br />Janet Fritch, Maj. |''[[Forrest Gump]]'' |Novel |[[1985]] |unknown |contemporary |Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation |- |Paul Andrews |''Beyond the Stars'' |Film |[[1989]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronaut who landed on the Moon. |- |Bob Grodin |''[[Alternative 3]]'' |Television (hoax documentary) |[[1977]] |[[Project Apollo|Apollo]] |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase. |- |} ===Modern period=== Astronauts from recent times, mostly using the [[Space Shuttle]]. {|Class="wikitable" |- !Name(s) !Appeared in !Medium !Date of appearance !Program / Mission / Spaceship !Fictional date !Other |- |''Spacelab 10''; Unnamed US Astronauts & Unnamed Cosmonauts<br /><br />''Space Shuttle''; Chuck Marshall US, <br />Giorgi (Last name not given) USSR |''[[Quatermass (TV serial)]]'' |Television/Novel |[[1979]] |[[Space Station]],<br />Spacelab Ten<br /><br />[[Space Shuttle]]<br />Not named, call-sign is ''Mother Bird'' |Alternate 1980s |''Spacelab Ten'' is a joint US/Soviet space project. |- |Dr. [[Holly Goodhead]]<br /><br />Numerous unnamed [[US Marine]] astronauts |''[[Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]]'' |Film |[[1979]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Moonraker 1-6'',<br /><br />[[Military space shuttle|Military Space Shuttle]]<br />''Marines'' |contemporary |[[James Bond]] and Goodhead launch to [[Hugo Drax]]'s space station to thrwart his plans. Six shuttles carrying several dozen men and women are also mentioned. |- |Addison "Skip" Carmichael,<br />Melanie "Mel" Slozar |''[[Salvage 1]]'' |TV Series |[[1979]] |[[Single-stage-to-orbit|SSTO]] ''Vulture'' |Early 1980s |Privately built rocket/spacecraft constructed by a scrap-yard dealer. Used for lunar mission with the goal of salvaging Apollo hardware left on the moon. |- |Steve Bancroft<br />Lew Price<br />John Gates, Col., USAF |''[[Hangar 18 (film)|Hangar 18]]'' |Film |[[1980]] |[[Space Shuttle]]<br />''Orbiter'' |contemporary |Launch of the first satellite by a Shuttle crew strikes a nearby [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]] killing Gates who is EVA in the cargo bay. |- |Nikolai Federenko, Major, USSR<br />Dr. Keith Stoner, NASA |''[[Ben Bova|Voyagers]]'' |Novel |[[1981]] |''Soyuz'' |July 1984 |Soviet Cosmonaut and American Astronaut who rendezvous with an alien spacecraft some 1 million miles from Earth. Craft is a standard Soyuz docked to three other larger modules assembled at [[Salyut 6]] along with a fourth "tanker" module. |- |''Dove'' crew; Oleg Sedrov, Cmdr <br/> Nicolay Talin, Co-Pilot <br /> Genin, Meteorologist (First name not given) <br/> Vinnikov (First name not given). |''[[Derek Lambert (author)|The Red Dove]]'' |Novel |[[1982]] |[[Buran program|Soviet Space Shuttle]] ''Dove'' |Alternate 1980's <br/><br/> May 1983 - January 1984 |Co-pilot of first Soviet Space Shuttle decides to defect to the United States along with his spacecraft after he discovers that the shuttle is carrying a thermonuclear weapon. |- |''Excalibur'' Crew; [[NASA]] Astronauts: White, Hess, Frisch & Carroll (first names not given)<br /><br /> ''Soyuz'' Crew; Vladimir Sergeevich Danilov, Yuriy Ivanovich Zhukov |''Kiev Footprint |Novel |[[1983]] |[[Space Shuttle]]<br />''Excalibur''<br /><br />[[Soyuz]] |Alternate 1980's |After the space shuttle ''Excalibur'' looses contact with Earth while on a [[Military space shuttle|military]] mission, the Soviet Union sends a Soyuz to investigate. |- |''[[NASA]] Astronauts'', Christopher Leyland Lt. Col., <br />William Cooke, Maj., <br />Wren T. Packard Capt., <br />Janet Caulden Capt. |''Blind Prophet'' |Novel |[[1984]] |[[Space Shuttle]]s<br /> ''Constitution'', <br />''Independence'' |Contemporary/Near Future |Crews of [[Military space shuttle|armed]] space shuttles sent to destroy Soviet military satellites. |- |''[[NASA]] Astronauts'', <br />Neil O'Hara, <br />Al Benyon, <br />Jim Bayliss, <br />Mike Pepper. <br /><br />''Non-NASA Payload Specialists'',<br/>Kellinah Assad, <br/>David Heinlein. |''[[James Follett|Dominator]]'' |Novel |[[1984]] |[[Space Shuttle]]<br/> ''Dominator (OV-141)'' |Alternate 1990s |[[NASA]] astronauts assigned to fly the space shuttle ''Dominator''. |- |Olaf Carlsen;<br /><br />Tom Carlsen, Col.<br />eight others |''[[The Space Vampires]]'';<br /><br />''[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]] |Novel;<br /><br />Film |[[1976]];<br /><br />[[1985]] |spaceship ''Hermes'';<br /><br />[[ESA]] [[Space Shuttle]]<br />''HMS Churchill'', rescue shuttle |early 21st century;<br /><br />near future |''Hermes'' crew finds alien craft adrift in open space;<br /><br />While investigating [[Halley's Comet]] an ESA/NASA crew of nine aboard the ''Churchill'' find an alien craft. Rescue shuttle returns aliens and Carlsen to Earth. |- |Edward Jupp, Maj. <br />Larry Wahlquist, <br /> (First name not given) Newman, Col. |''The Krone Experiment'' |Novel |[[1986]] |[[Space Shuttle]] |c. 1986 |Crew of a space shuttle on a [[Military space shuttle|military]] mission to capture a Soviet military satellite. |- |Andie Bergstrom |''[[SpaceCamp|Space Camp]]'' |Film |[[1986]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]'' |contemporary |Astronaut camp instructor who is accidentally launched into space with a bunch of teenagers. |- |''Atlantis'' crew; Wakeman, CDR, Unnamed American Astronauts <br /><br />''Kutuzov'' crew; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts |''[[Craig Thomas (author)|Winter Hawk]]'' |Novel |[[1987]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]''<br /><br />[[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105|Raketoplan]]* ''Kutuzov'' |Contemporary/Near Future |''Atlantis'' is in orbit to rendezvous with a Soviet space shuttle, while the ''Kutuzov'' deploys a Soviet laser weapon to destroy''Atlantis''. |- |Jason Grant, Col.,<br />Ray Tanner |''[[Moontrap]]'' |Film |[[1989]] |[[Apollo]],<br />[[Space Shuttle]]<br />''Intrepid'' |contemporary |Astronauts using remnant Apollo hardware for a trip to the Moon. |- |''Mikhail Suslov'' crew; Dmitri Bulganin Lt Col. <br /> Unnamed Co-pilot <br /><br />''Intrepid'' crew; Frank Mulchahey Maj. <br />Julian Kapuscinski Col. <br /> Jerry Rodriquez Dr <br /><br /> ''Constellation'' crew; Philip Heitmann Lt Col. ([[United States Marine Corps|USMC]])<br /> Jack Townsend Maj. ([[United States Air Force|USAF]]) <br /> Sandford Watkins Maj. ([[United States Army|US Army]]) <br /><br />''Soyuz'' crew; Vasili Lubinin, <br />Sergi Yemitov <br /><br />''Kestrel'' crew; Leroy "Mad Dog" Monaghan Cmdr. ([[United States Navy|USN]]), <br /> Peter "Hot Rod" Lamborghini Col. |''[[Storming Intrepid]]'' |Novel |[[1989]] |[[Buran (spacecraft)|Soviet Space Shuttle]] ''Mikhail Suslov''<br /><br />[[Space Shuttle|Space Shuttles]] ''Intrepid'', ''Constellation''<br /><br />''[[Soyuz]]''<br /><br />[[Military space shuttle|Spaceplane]] ''Kestrel'' |contemporary |The Soviet Union tries to hijack a space shuttle. |- |Matt Gosling, Commander, <br />Paul Balchin, Pilot, <br /> Stella Richards, Payload Manager |''[[James Follett|Torus]]'' |Novel |[[1990]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Colorado'' |early 2000s |Crew of Space Shuttle on a mission to retrieve derelict satellites from [[geosynchronous]] orbit. |- |''Freedom:'' Alex Seerey Col., <br />John Quanty Maj., <br />Hugh Lyghtson, <br />Scott Dawkins, <br /> Joseph King, <br />Celia Hereson, <br />Lee Wynn, <br />Judith Cianta <br /><br />''Lincoln:'' Two unnamed astronauts (Commander & Co-Pilot). |''Ghost Beyond Earth'' |Novel |[[1993]] |[[Space Station]]<br />''[[Space Station Freedom|Freedom]]''<br /><br />[[Space Shuttle]]<br />''Lincoln'' |Contemporary/near future |Space station crew is attacked by a diabolical entity in orbit. The survivors are rescued by the space shuttle ''Lincoln''. |- |[[Buzz Aldrin]],<br/>Homer Simpson,<br />Race Banyon |''[[The Simpsons]]'' (''[[Deep Space Homer]]'') |Television |[[1994]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Corvair'' |contemporary |Simpson is drafted as a [[NASA]] astronaut for publicity purposes |- |[[Harmon_Rabb]] Cmdr. |''[[JAG]] (episode title: recovery)'' |TV Series |[[1995]] |[[Space Shuttle]] |1996 |A pilot is killed while training for a shuttle mission. JAG tries to determine who is responsible so that they can repair a satellite. |- |Henry "Bull" Eckert, Col.,<br />Jack Riles, Col. |''[[The Cape]]'' |Television |[[1996]]-[[1997]] |[[Space Shuttle]] |contemporary |[[NASA]] career astronauts. |- |S.R. Hadden |''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]'' |Film |[[1997]] |[[Soyuz]] |contemporary |Billionaire industrialist's privately financed spaceflight to [[Mir]]. |- |''Gateway'' crew; <br /><br />''Atlantis'' crew; <br /><br /> ''RV-1'' crew; |''Fallout'' |Film |[[1998]] |[[Space Station]] ''Gateway''<br /> <br />[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']]<br /> <br />[[Lockheed Martin X-33|X-33]] ''RV-1'' |March/April 2015 |Russian rebels hijack a space station. |- |''Atlantis'' crew;<br />William Sharp, Col. (CMR)<br />Jennifer Watts (PLT)<br />Gruber (Nuclear Tech)<br />Charles 'Chick' Chapple<br />Max Lennert<br />'Rockhound'<br />Harry Stamper;<br />Davis, Col. (CMR)<br />Tucker (PLT)<br />Halsey, Lt. (Nuclear Tech)<br />Oscar Choi<br />A.J. Frost<br />Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear<br />Freddy Noonan;<br />Lev Andropov<br /> |''[[Armageddon (1998 film)|Armageddon]]'' |Film |[[1998]] |[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']];<br /><br />[[X-71]] [[Military space shuttle|Military Space Shuttle]]s:<br />''Freedom'',<br />''Independence'';<br /><br />''[[Mir]]'' (greatly expanded) |contemporary |''Atlantis'' destroyed by [[meteoroid]]s preceding [[asteroid]] on collision course with Earth. X-71s each with 3 crew and 4 person [[Well drilling|drilling]] teams refuel at ''Mir'', rescue Andropov from its destruction. |- |Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner, Capt.<br />Oren Monash, (plt)<br />Andrea 'Andy' Baker<br />Dr. Gus Partenza<br />Mark Simon<br /> |''[[Deep Impact (film)|Deep Impact]]'' |Film |[[1998]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]'',<br />''Messiah'' |near future |Astronauts on mission to destroy an oncoming comet. |- |Spencer Armacost, Cdr. <br>Alex Streck, Capt. |''[[The Astronaut's Wife]]'' |Film |[[1999]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Victory'' |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronauts, narrowly escape death after an explosion during an EVA. Streck dies from a massive stroke shortly after returning to earth. Armacost seems to be in good health, but he suffers a mysterious and sinister personality change after the mission. |- |[[John Crichton]] |''[[Farscape]]'' |Television |[[1999]]-[[2004]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Collaroy'',<br />[[Farscape One]] |contemporary/near future |[[International Aeronautics and Space Administration|IASA]] astronaut lost in space. His father was former astronaut [[Jack Crichton]]. |- |Jim Rowland Col., Cmdr, <br />Lee Everett, Pilot, <br />Gail Scott, Payload Specialist, <br />Sharon Ling, Mission Specialist,<br />three unnamed astronauts. |''Shadow Watch'' |Novel |[[1999]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''Orion'' |2001 |Crew of Space Shuttle ''Orion''. Col. Rowland is killed when sabotage causes the shuttle to catch fire on the launch pad. |- |Frank Corvin,<br />William&nbsp;"Hawk"&nbsp;Hawkins,&nbsp;Col.,<br />Jerry O'Neill<br />Tank Sullivan<br />Ethan Glance<br />Roger Hines |''[[Space Cowboys]]'' |Film |[[2000]] |[[Space Shuttle]] |contemporary |[[NASA]] astronauts on a satellite salvage mission. |- |Chuck Taggart<br />Kurt Mendel<br />Neil Taggart<br />Sarah Forbes<br />Angela Perry |''[[Odyssey 5]]'' |Television |[[2002]] |[[Space Shuttle]]<br />''Odyssey'' |August 7, 2007,<br /> [[Time Travel]] to 2002 |Crew sent back in time 5 years by a being called the Seeker to attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth. '''''Trivia Note:'''Part of the pilot episode's plotline is based on that of [[Quatermass II]].'' |- |Robert Iverson, Cmdr<br />Rebecca Childs, Maj<br />Flight Engineer Timmins |''[[The Core]]'' |Film |[[2003]] |[[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Endeavour]]'' |contemporary |Shuttle crew who make an emergency landing on [[Sepulveda Dam]] spillway. |- |Musa Khiromanovich Ivanov, Cmdr, CIS, <br />Anatole Konstantinovich Krivalapov, Flight Engineer, CIS, <br />Sable Jones, NASA |''[[Time's Eye (novel)|Times Eye]]'' |Novel |[[2004]] |[[Soyuz]] |2037 |Personnel returning from the [[International Space Station]] who pass through a [[time travel|temporal discontinuity]] shortly after undocking. |- |Yukari Morita, Cmdr<br />Matsuri Mortia, Backup Cmdr<br />Akane Miura, Specialist |''[[Rocket Girls]]'' |[[Anime]] (2007), based on [[Light Novel]] (1995) |[[2007]] |[[Spacecraft]] ''Tanpopo'', ''Coconut'' and ''Mangosteen'' |[[2007]] |Teenage pilots of the fictional Solomon Space Agency, trained to perform orbital repairs on satellites, who later assist the [[Space Shuttle Atlantis]] in launching an unmanned probe to Pluto, the ''Orpheus''. |- |Charles Farmer<br/ ><br />Frank Masterson, Col, USAF |''[[The Astronaut Farmer]]'' |Film |[[2007]] |[[Project Mercury|Mercury]]<br />''The Dreamer'' |contemporary |Ex-USAF pilot with degree in aerospace engineering builds his own Mercury capsule and [[Atlas (missile)|Atlas]] launch vehicle for a self-funded flight in Earth orbit. Masterson is a friend of Farmer and a shuttle astronaut. |- |} ===Futuristic=== Astronauts on lunar bases, performing interplanetary travel, and other feats not yet achieved. {|Class="wikitable" |- !Name(s) !Appeared in !Medium !Date of appearance !Program / Mission / Spaceship !Fictional date !Other |- |Sky Masters, Maj. |''[[Sky Masters]] of the Space Force'' |Comic strip |[[1958]]-[[1961]] |unknown |near future |Astronaut in the United States Space Force. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Moon''' |- |Edward McCauley, Col. |''[[Men Into Space]]'' |Television |[[1959]]-[[1960]] |various missions |c. 1970-1980 |Future astronauts go to the moon, build a space station and go on to Mars. |- |Major Perry Rhodan<br />Captain Reginald Bell<br />Captain Clark G. Fletcher<br />Lieutenant Eric Manoli (names from the US-English translation) |''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' series |Novellas, comics, movie, audio books |1961-Present |Enterprise Stardust |1971 |The astronauts are members of the ''United States Space Force'' and are their mission is the first moon-landing – where they find a marooned alien space ship and its crew. |- |Multi-national astronauts;<br />Joseph Cavor<br />Katherine 'Kate' Callender<br />Arnold Bedford |''[[First Men in the Moon]]'' |Film |[[1964]] |[[United Nations|UN]] spacecraft;<br />[[Cavorite]] sphere |1960s;<br />flashback to 1899 |UN crew on Moon discover evidence of 19th century British lunar expedition. Aged survivor Bedford tells what occurred. |- |Peter Lattemore, US<br />Eileen Forbes, US;<br /><br />Igor Baklenikov, USSR<br />Anna Soblova, USSR |''[[Way...Way Out]]'' |Film |[[1966]] |unknown |1989 |US sends a married couple to live on the moon and operate a weather station close to a nearby Soviet lunar base. Couples have a space race to see who will have the first "moon baby". |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''"Counter-Earth"''' |- |Neil Stryker |''[[The Stranger (1973 film)|The Stranger]]'' |Television |[[1973]] |unknown |contemporary |Astronaut who crash-lands on a duplicate of Earth ruled by a totalitarian regime. |- |John Kane, UK<br />Glenn Ross, Col., US |''[[Doppelgänger (1969 film)|Doppelgänger]]''<br />(''Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'') |Film |[[1969]] |''Phoenix'' / ''Dove''<br />([[SSTO]] [[lifting body]]);<br />''DOPPELGANGER'' lifting body |near-future |EUROSEC mission to a newly discovered [[Antichthon|unknown planet]] orbiting exactly the opposite side of the [[Sun]] from [[Earth]]. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Venus''' |- |Jefferson Barton, Brig. Gen. |''[[The Outer Limits]], [[Cold Hands, Warm Heart (episode)|Cold Hands, Warm Heart]]'' |Television |[[1964]] |unknown |future |Astronaut who succumbs to a mysterious disease after a mission to Venus. |- |Arthur<br />Cory<br />(last names not given) |''[[I Am the Doorway]]'' |Short Story |[[1978]] |Project Zeus |contemporary |Presumed [[NASA]] Crew on flight to Venus similar to cancelled [[Manned Venus Flyby]]. Arthur infected with alien organism during EVA; left [[paraplegia|paraplegic]] when parachutes malfunction. Cory dies in landing. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Mars''' |- |Dan McReady, Col.<br />Christopher "Kit" Draper, Cdr. |''[[Robinson Crusoe on Mars]]'' |Film |[[1964]] |Mars Gravity Probe-1 (Elinor M) |future |Astronauts visiting Mars; one dies, the other is stranded. |- |Brice Randolph, Col. |''The Astronaut'' |Television |[[1972]] |unknown |near future |Astronaut who dies on a mission to Mars. |- |Charles&nbsp;Brubaker,&nbsp;Col.,<br />Peter&nbsp;Willis,&nbsp;Lt.&nbsp;Col.,<br />John Walker, Cdr. |''[[Capricorn One]]'' |Film |[[1978]] |Capricorn One,<br /> (Apollo-like) |contemporary/near future |Astronauts on a [[NASA]] mission to Mars that goes terribly wrong. |- |Luke Graham<br />Renée Coté<br />Nicholas Willis<br />Sergei Kirov<br />Woodrow "Woody" Blake<br />Jim McConnell<br />Terri Fisher<br />Phil Ohlmyer |''[[Mission to Mars]]'' |Film |[[2000]] |unknown |c. 2020 |[[NASA]] astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars and a follow-up mission to rescue them. |- |Kate Bowman, Cmdr.<br/ >Dr. Quinn Burchenal<br/ >Dr. Bud Chantillas<br/ >Robby Gallagher<br/ >Chip Pettengill<br/ >Ted Santen, Lt. |''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'' |Film |[[2000]] |''Mars-1'' |2057 |Commercially sponsored crew investigates reported oxygen reduction of automated [[terraforming]] of Mars. Solar flare complicates mission and landing crew are at mercy of rogue robot. |- |John Mark Kelly, Lt.<br />Rose Kumagawa<br />Andrei Novakovich |''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', ''One Small Step'' |Television |[[1999]] |Ares IV |2032 |[[NASA]] astronauts on an early mission to Mars |- |Tom Easton<br />Bill Frager<br />Michael McKendrick |''[[Meteor (film)|Meteor]]'' |Film |[[1979]] |''Challenger-2'' |near future |Astronauts on a spacecraft orbiting [[Mars]] that happens to look exactly like [[Skylab]] |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Jupiter''' |- |Guy Crayford |''[[Doctor Who]]<br />[[The Android Invasion]]'' |Television |[[1975]] |XK-5 ''Space Raider'' |contemporary |UK Senior Space Defence astronaut vanished, presumed dead, on Jupiter mission saved by Kraal alien race who use him in their plans for invasion of Earth. |- |[[David Bowman]],<br />[[Frank Poole]],<br />Dr. Hunter,<br />Dr. Kimball,<br />Dr. Kaminsky |''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' |Film/Novel |[[1968]] |[[Discovery One]] |2001 |Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near [[Jupiter]] (on [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]] in the book, and Kimball was renamed Whitehead) |- |Tanya Kirbuk,<br />Vladimir Rudenko,<br />Vasili Orlov,<br />[[Heywood Floyd]],<br />[[Dr. Chandra|R. Chandra]],<br />[[Walter Curnow]] |''[[2010: Odyssey Two]]'' and ''[[2010 (film)|2010]]'' |Film/Novel |[[1982]],[[1984]] |''Alexei Leonov'' |2010 |Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of ''Discovery One''. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Saturn''' |- |Sean Jeffrey Christopher (aka Sean Geoffrey, Shaun Geoffrey) |''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', ''[[Tomorrow Is Yesterday (TOS episode)|Tomorrow Is Yesterday]]'' |Television |[[1967]] |unknown |Early 21st century |Leader of the first "probe" to travel from Earth to [[Saturn]]. |- |Steve West, Col. |''The Incredible Melting Man'' |Film |[[1977]] |Scorpio V |future |Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to [[Saturn]]. |- |bgcolor="silver" colspan="7" align="center"| '''Other''' |- |[[Buck Rogers|William "Buck" Rogers]], Capt. |''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' |Television |[[1979]]-[[1981]] |Ranger 3 |1987 |[[NASA]] astronaut whose voyage in a [[Space Shuttle]]-like "deep space probe" results in suspended animation |} ===To Infinity and Beyond=== Astronauts performing or attempting feats beyond the capabilities of the present or near future, such as interstellar travel. {|Class="wikitable" |- !Name(s) !Appeared in !Medium !Date of appearance !Program / Mission / Spaceship !Fictional date !Other |- |[[Mister Fantastic|Reed Richards]],<br />[[Invisible Woman|Susan Storm]],<br />[[Human Torch|Johnny Storm]],<br />[[Thing (comics)|Benjamin Grimm]] |''[[Fantastic Four]]'' |Comics |[[1961]]-Present |Experimental interstellar spacecraft |contemporary |Private space venture, astronauts bizarrely affected by [[cosmic ray]]s. |- |[[Zefram Cochrane]] |''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]] ([[Metamorphosis (Star Trek)|Metamorphosis]])''<br />''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' |Television, film |[[1967]], [[1996]] |''[[Phoenix (Star Trek)|Phoenix]]'' |2063 |First use of [[warp drive]] by an Earth vessel in the [[Star Trek]] timeline. |- |[[Taylor (Planet of the Apes)|George&nbsp;Taylor]],&nbsp;Col.<br />Dodge,<br />Landon,<br />Stewart |''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]'' |Film |[[1968]] |''[[Icarus (fictional spacecraft)|Icarus]]'' |1972 |ANSA astronauts on an interstellar mission, perhaps to [[Bellatrix]]. |- |} ==Astronauts in other media== Several toy astronaut dolls and action figures were produced in response to the popularity of astronauts in the 1960s. Most of them had no associated storylines. They included: *[[Johnny Apollo (toy)|Johnny and Jane Apollo]], 1968 plastic toys with accessories including a "Moon Rover". *[[Barbie]], the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume, in the 1960s. *[[Billy Blastoff]], an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s. *The [[Major Matt Mason]] line of toys from 1968, including Major Mason himself, Lt. Jeff Long, Sgt. Storm, and Doug Davis. *[[Moon McDare]], a generic astronaut figure from 1965, packaged with various accessories. ==External links== *[http://www.biblioinfo.com/moon/sf_moon.html The Moon in Science Ficiton] [[Category:Fictional astronauts|*]] [[Category:Science fiction themes]] [[Category:Lists of astronauts|Fictional astronauts]] [[Category:Lists of fictional characters by occupation|Astronauts]]