The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.

The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-speaking country of birth or ancestry.

Orbital

# Image Name
Birth date
Country Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
January 29, 1942
 Cuba First person from Latin America to fly in space. First person of African descent in space. First Cuban in space. Soyuz 38 (September 18, 1980)
2 Rodolfo Neri Vela
February 19, 1952
 Mexico First Mexican in space. STS-61-B (November 26, 1985)
3 Franklin Chang-Diaz
April 5, 1950
 United States
( Costa Rica)
First Costa Rican astronaut STS-61-C (January 12, 1986)
STS-34 (October 18, 1989)
STS-46 (July 31, 1992)
STS-60 (February 3, 1994)
STS-75 (February 22, 1996)
STS-91 (June 2, 1998)
STS-111 (June 5, 2002)
4 Sidney M. Gutierrez
June 27, 1951
 United States
( Mexico)
First U.S.-born Hispanic astronaut STS-40 (June 5, 1991)
STS-59 (April 9, 1994)
5 Ellen Ochoa
May 10, 1958
 United States
( Mexico)
First female Hispanic astronaut STS-56 (April 8, 1993)
STS-66 (November 3, 1994)
STS-96 (May 27, 1999)
STS-110 (April 8, 2002)
6 Michael Lopez-Alegria
May 30, 1958
 United States- Spain[1]
( Spain)
First Spanish-born astronaut STS-73 (October 20, 1995)
STS-92 (October 11, 2000)
STS-113 (November 24, 2002)
Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18, 2006)
Axiom Mission 1 (April 8, 2022)
7 Carlos I. Noriega
October 8, 1959
 United States
( Peru)
First Peruvian-born astronaut STS-84 (May 15, 1997)
STS-97 (November 30, 2000)
8 Pedro Duque
March 14, 1963
 Spain First Spanish astronaut STS-95 (October 29, 1998)
Soyuz TMA-3/2 (October 18, 2003)
9 John D. Olivas
May 25, 1965
 United States
( Mexico)
STS-117 (June 8, 2007)
STS-128 (August 28, 2009)
10 George D. Zamka  United States
( Colombia)
STS-120 (October 23, 2007)
STS-130 (February 8, 2010)
11 Joseph M. Acaba
May 17, 1967
 United States
( Puerto Rico)
First Puerto Rican astronaut STS-119 (March 15, 2009)
Soyuz TMA-04M (May 15, 2012)[2]
Soyuz MS-06 (September 12, 2017)
12 José M. Hernández
August 7, 1962
 United States
( Mexico)
First migrant farm worker in space. STS-128 (August 28, 2009)
13 Serena M. Auñón
Apr. 9, 1976
 United States
( Cuba)
Soyuz MS-09 (June 6, 2018)
14 Francisco Rubio

December 11, 1975

 United States
( El Salvador)
First salvadoreño astronaut. Soyuz MS-22 (Sept. 21, 2022)

Suborbital

# Name
Birth date
Country Comment Missions (Launch date)
1 Katya Echazarreta
June 16, 1995
United States United States
(Mexico Mexico)
Suborbital flight to a height of 106 km United States Blue Origin NS-21 (June 4, 2022)

Other Hispanic astronauts

Image Name
Birth date
Country Comment
José López Falcón
February 8, 1950
 Cuba Backup for Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez on Soyuz 38
Ricardo Peralta y Fabi
 Mexico Backup for Rodolfo Neri Vela on STS-61-B
Fernando Caldeiro
June 12, 1958
 United States
( Argentina)
Died October 3, 2009.

See also

References

  1. "Entrevista exclusiva con el astronauta español MIGUEL LÓPEZ-ALEGRIA". YouTube.
  2. Astronomy PR Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
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