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:

1. A fictional astronaut must be human (not an alien, robot, or animal).
2. 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.
3. 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
   Space Age
   The Space Age is a time period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events. The Space Age is generally considered to have begun with Sputnik...
   
    to the present, and for a few decades into the future; currently, in the period of about 1960–2060.
4. A fictional astronaut is preferably part of a real space program, like NASA
   NASA
   The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
   
    or the Soviet/Russian space program, or fictional knockoffs of the same (e.g. ANSA, IASA).
5. 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.

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Stud. astr. Friede Velten Wolf Helius Hans Windegger Professor Georg Manfeldt	Woman in the Moon (1929), silent film	Friede	Contemporary?
	First film depiction of a moon-rocket and of a countdown Countdown A countdown is a sequence of counting backward to indicate the seconds, days, or other time units remaining before an event occurs or a deadline expires. Typical events for which a countdown is used include the launch of a rocket or spacecraft, the detonation of a bomb, the start of a race, and the... . Checkboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear on A4 rockets
Lewis Taine (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ), Pierre Leduc (France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... ), James Richards (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ), Victor Hassell (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ), Arnold Clinton (Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... )	Prelude to Space Prelude to Space Prelude to Space is a science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1947. However, it was not until 1951 that the story first appeared in magazine format from World Editions Inc as number three in the series Galaxy Science Fiction... (1947), novel	Prometheus Alpha/Beta	1978
	Candidates for the first manned mission to the moon.
Wilson, Louis Garnett	The Sentinel The Sentinel (short story) "The Sentinel" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, which was expanded and modified into the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke expressed impatience with the common description of it as "the story on which 2001 is based." He was quoted as saying, it is like comparing "an acorn to... (1948), short story	Unknown	1996
	Explorers who discover something remarkable on the shores of the Sea of Crises Mare Crisium Mare Crisium is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. This basin is of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago. This mare is in diameter, and 176,000 km2 in area. It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridges...
Karl Eckstrom Lisa Van Horn Floyd Graham, Col. Harry Chamberlain William Corrigan, Maj.	Rocketship X-M Rocketship X-M Rocketship X-M was the second of the American science fiction feature films of the space adventure genre begun in the post-war era, in 1950... (1950), film	X-M ("eXpedition Moon")	Near Future
	Astronauts on a moon rocket that "accidentally" lands on Mars.
Jim Barnes Dr. Charles Cargraves Thayer, Gen. Joe Sweeney	Destination Moon Destination Moon (film) Destination Moon is an American science fiction feature film produced by George Pal, who later produced When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine. Pal commissioned the script by James O'Hanlon and Rip Van Ronkel... (1950), film	Luna	Near Future
	Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the moon.
Daniel MacGregor Dare, Col., Albert Fitzwilliam Digby	Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories, that is, the Venus and Red Moon stories, and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn... (1950–1967), comic	Anastasia	1996+
	Astronaut in Earth's Interplanetary Spacefleet, travelled to Venus Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows... , Mercury Mercury (planet) Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits... , Saturn Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,...
Dr. Ludwig Rechenheim, Charles Greene, Victor Carroon	The Quatermass Experiment The Quatermass Experiment The Quatermass Experiment is a British science-fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first manned flight into space, overseen by... (1953), TV	Experimental Rocket	Unknown
	Astronauts of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Crew of the first manned space mission, only Victor Carroon survives the flight.
Andrew "Jet" Morgan, Captain Lemuel Barnet Stephen Mitchell "Doc" Matthews	Journey Into Space Journey Into Space Journey Into Space is a BBC Radio science fiction programme, written by BBC producer Charles Chilton. It was the last radio programme in the UK to attract a bigger evening audience than television... (1953–5), radio	Operation Luna	1965+
	British Commonwealth astronauts on a trip to the Moon and beyond.
Hugh Allenby. Commander, Burton. Pilot, Janus. Photographer, Gonzales. Botanist, Randolph. Biologist, Unnamed. Mineralogist	The Holes around Mars (1954), short story	Mars 1	Unknown
	Crew of the first manned expedition to Mars. They discover that the planet is orbited at very low altitude by a Micro black hole Micro black hole Micro black holes are tiny black holes, also called quantum mechanical black holes or mini black holes, for which quantum mechanical effects play an important role....
Prof. Bernard Quatermass, Dr. Leo Pugh	Quatermass II Quatermass II Quatermass II is a British science-fiction serial, originally broadcast by BBC Television in the autumn of 1955. It is the second in the Quatermass series by writer Nigel Kneale, and the first of those serials to survive in its entirety in the BBC archives... (1955), TV	Experimental Rocket	Near Future
	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.,
Barney Merritt, Capt. Samuel T. Merritt, Gen. Mahoney, Sgt. Jackie Siegle	Conquest of Space Conquest of Space Conquest of Space is a 1955 science fiction movie produced by George Pal which depicts a voyage to Mars. The science and technology were intended to be as realistic as possible... (1955), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on a mission to Mars Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
Chris Godfrey (UK), Serge Smyslov (USSR), Morrey Kant (USA), Tony Hale (UK)	Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series Hugh Walters (author) Hugh Walters was a writer of juvenile Science Fiction novels from Bradley in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom.-Biography:... (1957–79), juvenile novels	Numerous, including Luna 1, Columbus, Lenin and Phoenix	Near contemporary
	British astronaut who makes the first manned spaceflight, launching from Woomera Woomera, South Australia The town, or village, of Woomera is located in the south east corner of the Woomera Prohibited Area ; colloquially known as the Woomera Rocket Range... , and international colleagues who later join him in the "United Nations Exploration Agency" for missions to the Moon and all planets in the solar system.
Junius Robb, Capt. (USAF), Hamston, Kingsley, Farnsworth, Anderson	Moon Glow (1958), short story	Project Ajax(?) Ajax XX	Near future
	First Americans to land on the moon
Dan Prescott, Lt.	First Man into Space First Man into Space First Man into Space is a 1959 science fiction horror film directed by Robert Day and distributed by Amalgamated films.- Plot :... (1959), film	Y-13 spaceplane	Near future
	Air Force Space Command pilot flies plane into space, returns as monster.

Classic period

Astronauts from the 'Golden Age' of space travel, from its beginnings to the late 1970s, before the building of the Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...

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Mercury

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Mercury (1960–1963)
Jose Jimenez	Jose Jimenez the Astronaut (1961), Jose Jimenez in Orbit (1962), LP records Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,...	Contemporary
	Astronaut in the United States Interplanetary Expeditionary Force (USIEF). They were going to send a dog... but they thought that would be too cruel.
Michael A. R. Samson ("Mike Mars") Johnny Bluehawk Jack Lannigan Rodney Harger Joseph Stacey Orin McMahan Hart Williams	Mike Mars series (1961–6), novels	Project Quicksilver	Contemporary
	Astronauts in a project paralleling the actual Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,... , Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966....  and Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...  projects.
Margaret Mackenzie, Lt.	Tarzan, King of the Jungle. #51 (1961), comic	Operation High Ball	Contemporary
	NASA launches a young female pilot into space on a Mercury test flight, under the code name Operation High Ball. The mission goes badly wrong and in an emergency re-entry, the astronaut narrowly escapes death when her capsule lands in a central African lake. She is rescued by Tarzan, who eventually helps her return to civilization, and her home in Massachusetts.
Harry Jackson, Capt. Dennis Lynds, Forrest (First name not given)	What Need of Man? (1961), short story	Project Argus	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts involved in the testing of a fully automated winged orbital re-entry vehicle.
Howard Judgen, Maj.	The Time Factor (1962), novel	Unspecified, (At the conclusion of the novel Judgen mentions "... I may become the second or third man to make a circuit of the moon.")	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronaut reassigned from the space program to take part in a time travel Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...  experiment.
(USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ) Matt Crispin, Duke Dalmead, George Raccoli, (USN United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... ) Bruce Blair, Rupert Meredith	A Flight of Chariots (1963), novel	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,... Columbia 12	Contemporary
	Fictional astronauts added to the original Mercury 7 Mercury Seven Mercury Seven was the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1...  four months after they were selected. Matt Crispins flight in Columbia 12 ends with an emergency landing in the Gibson Desert Gibson Desert The Gibson Desert covers a large dry area in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an almost "pristine" state. It is about in size, making it the 5th largest desert in Australia, after the Great Sandy, Great Victoria, Tanami and Simpson deserts.-Location and description:The Gibson...  when the oxygen system fails.,
Sid Stein Mike Seaman	The Trouble with Telstar Telstar Telstar is the name of various communications satellites, including the first such satellite to relay television signals.The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962... (1963), short story	Dyna-Soar X-20 Dyna-Soar The X-20 Dyna-Soar was a United States Air Force program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites... Nelly Bly	Contemporary
	Astronauts launched to carry out the first in-space repair of a malfunctioning satellite
John Jameson John Jameson (comics) John Jameson is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics.-Publication history:... , Col.	The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. Being the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was... , Spider-Man Unlimited Spider-Man Unlimited Spider-Man Unlimited was a short-lived animated series featuring the Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man. The series was released in 1999, but, although it had fair ratings, was overshadowed by Pokémon, and was canceled after airing only a few episodes. Fox later resumed airing the show, airing... , Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. It is the second film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man... (1963–present), comics, TV, and film	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,... , Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut afflicted with lycanthropy.
Katerina Vasiliyevna Taraskaya, Jr.Lt.	Red Moon (2001), novel	Vostok Vostok Vostok may refer to one of the following.Spaceflight*The Soviet Vostok programme of human spaceflight.*The Vostok spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite.*The Vostok rocket, used to launch the Vostok spacecraft....	c. 1963
	A supporting character is the young and powerful Col. Katerina Borazova. It is revealed that four years earlier, when merely Jr.Lt. Taraskaya, she had been launched into orbit, after the Soviet premier had personally selected her to be the first woman in space. Character is loosely based on Valentina Tereshkova.
Francine Barry	Children of Orion (2010), Online novel	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,...	September 1963
	In this alternative history novel female pilots are included in NASA's 1962 astronaut group. One of them is to fly a Mercury mission before that programme ends, and become the first woman in space. Francine Barry, a 31 year old civilian test pilot from WA., is selected for the task. The Soviets fly a woman cosmonaut first, but the confident Ms. Barry still rides the fire into orbit, on the final Mercury-Atlas designed Serenity 7.
Alkilina Mikhailovna Chirikova, Jr. Lt.	Paragaea (2006), novel	Vostok Vostok Vostok may refer to one of the following.Spaceflight*The Soviet Vostok programme of human spaceflight.*The Vostok spacecraft used in that programme and also the basis of a reconnaissance satellite.*The Vostok rocket, used to launch the Vostok spacecraft....	1964
	This novel begins in 1964, with the Soviet Union's second female cosmonaut Jr. Lt. Akilina Chirikova, already aboard Vostok 7, waiting nervously to be blasted into Earth orbit. To her relief, she is launched successfully, but after a couple of uneventful orbits, her ship enters a wormhole, and subsequently she lands in another world, a parallel Earth, called Paragaea.
Maurice Minnifield	Northern Exposure Northern Exposure Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a... (1990–5), TV	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,...	Contemporary
	Former NASA astronaut living in Alaska

Gemini

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Gemini (1964–1966)
Dan Cooper	SOS dans l'espace and other Tintin magazine stories (1957–69), comics	Gemini XIII Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... and others	Contemporary
	comic book series by Albert Weinberg
Richard J. Pruett, Maj, USAF; Jim Dougherty, USAF; Andrei Yakovlev, Col.	Marooned Marooned (novel) Marooned is a 1964 science fiction thriller novel by Martin Caidin, about a manned spacecraft which becomes stranded in Earth orbit, oxygen running out, and only an experimental craft available to attempt a rescue... (1964), novel	Mercury 7 (Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,... ); Gemini (Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... ); Vostok IX (Vostok Vostok spacecraft The Vostok was a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union. The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on this spacecraft on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.... )	July 1964
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  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 Shepard Alan Shepard Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, in space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit...  and Masters
Anthony Nelson, Capt./Maj., Roger Healy, Maj. Sonya Tiomkin, Maj.	I Dream of Jeannie I Dream of Jeannie I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries... (1965–70), TV	Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... , Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	Career NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts. Major Tiomkin is a female Soviet cosmonaut who appears in the episode 'Russian Roulette'.
Unnamed astronaut	The Avengers The Avengers (TV series) The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants... , episode "Man-eater of Surrey Green" (1965), TV	Unknown; one-man capsule	Contemporary
	British astronaut dies in orbit; capsule re-enters following collision with giant alien plant.
Jennings, Maj. Pilot (First name not given), Bob Wyart, Co-Pilot	Under the Wide and Starry Sky... Joe Poyer Joseph John Poyer is a thriller novelist from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s who has shifted his attention to military-related, non-fiction books under his own publishing company, North Cape Publications.- Novels :Operation Malacca... (1966), short story	Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... , GT-9	Contemporary
	Fictional Gemini IX crew who find themselves in serious trouble during the last hours of their two week mission. The plot-line apparently based on the original Gemini IX flight plan.
Chris (last name not given) Unnamed US Astronaut; Two unnamed cosmonauts; Two unnamed Osato astronauts; Two unnamed US astronauts	You Only Live Twice You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name... (1967), film	Jupiter XVI (Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... ); Unnamed Soviet capsule (Voskhod Voskhod spacecraft The Voskhod was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft... ); Bird 1 (reusable Reusable launch system A reusable launch system is a launch system which is capable of launching a launch vehicle into space more than once. This contrasts with expendable launch systems, where each launch vehicle is launched once and then discarded.No true orbital reusable launch system is currently in use. The...  capsule); Jupiter XVII (Gemini)	Contemporary
	Presumed NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  and Soviet Union crews captured by Osato Chemicals (SPECTRE SPECTRE SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games... ) spacecraft. Bird 1 uses expendable booster Expendable launch system An expendable launch system is a launch system that uses an expendable launch vehicle to carry a payload into space. The vehicles used in expendable launch systems are designed to be used only once , and their components are not recovered for re-use after launch...  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 XVII & probable outbreak of WW III World War III World War III denotes a successor to World War II that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature....  prevented by James Bond James Bond James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,... .
Tom, Maj. Major Tom Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie, heard in his songs "Space Oddity," "Ashes to Ashes," and "Hallo Spaceboy." Bowie's own interpretation of the character evolved throughout his career. 1969's "Space Oddity" depicts an astronaut who casually slips the bonds of a crass and...	Space Oddity Space Oddity (album) -Release history:-7" open reel tape releases:There was only one release of Space Oddity on open reel, in 1972 duplicated by Magtec, North Hollywood, CA 91605. This is a high speed 7.5 ips release...  (1969), song	Unknown	Contemporary
	Astronaut in one-man capsule who loses touch with Earth while on a spacewalk
Steve Pitt "Robert Gauss" (real name Sam Stonebreaker)	Death of a Cosmonaut (1969), novel	Gemini XII-A Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966....	Spring 1967
	Crew of a Gemini mission which makes a clandestine rendezvous with a failed Voskhod to carry out an autopsy of the cosmonauts
Randy Claggett John Pope; Paul Linley	Space Space (novel) Space is a novel by James A. Michener published in 1982. It is a fictionalized history of the United States space program, with a particular emphasis on manned spaceflight.Michener writes in a semi-documentary style... (1982), novel, (1985), TV	Gemini XIII Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.... , Apollo 18 Altair (CSM), Luna (LM)	1960s
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts in James Michener's fictionalized account of the early years of the space program and the TV miniseries made from it.
Marcus Aurelius Belt, Lt. Col.	The X-Files The X-Files The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s... , Space (1993), TV	Gemini VIII	contemporary (flashback to c. 1966)
	Former NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut who is possessed by a creature from outer space.

Apollo

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Apollo (1967–1975)
Lt. Col. Joseph Faulk CDR Lt. Cmdr. Lester Mallon CMP Maj. Max Kovac LMP	Apollo at Go Jefferson Howard Sutton Jefferson Howard Sutton was an American author who wrote 23 books of science fiction, war, political and juvenile fiction.-Biography:... (1963), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	1969
	Crew of first Apollo moon mission, launched on July 5, 1969; landing in Ocean of Storms.
Roberts, Col. Simms, Maj.	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... "Moon Landing" (1965), comic strip	Unknown (rocket marked "MS")	1970
	First men on the Moon. Country of origin not specified. Mission launches on July 20, 1970.
Roy Fleming; Fred Gifford, Maj.	The Reluctant Astronaut The Reluctant Astronaut The Reluctant Astronaut is a Universal Pictures feature film starring Don Knotts in a story about a kiddie-ride operator who is hired as a janitor at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and is eventually sent into space. The film was produced and directed by Edward J... (1966), film	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	Russia plans on sending a dentist into space, to show the safety of their space program. NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  launches Fleming, Cape Canaveral's newest janitor, upstaging Russian launch.,
Lee Stegler	Countdown (1968), film	Gemini Project Gemini Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966....  (Pilgrim), Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Near Future
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut using modified Gemini craft to beat the Russians to the Moon.,
Ironman One Jim Pruett, Clayton Stone, Buzz Lloyd; Voskhod Voskhod spacecraft The Voskhod was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft... Andrei Yakovlev; X-RV Ted Dougherty, USAF	Marooned Marooned (film) Marooned is a 1969 American film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman.... (1969), film	Ironman One (Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... ); Voskhod Voskhod spacecraft The Voskhod was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft... ; X-RV lifting body Lifting body A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing...	Near Future
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts trapped in a defective capsule; a Russian cosmonaut attempts aid.,,
Apollo ?? Unnamed CDR, Lt Col. Richard Martin CMP, Unnamed LMP Anna Christie Capt. Roger Allen CDR, Col. Joseph Busby CMP, William Davis LMP	The Falling Astronauts Barry N. Malzberg Barry Nathaniel Malzberg is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.-Overview:Initially in his post-graduate work Malzberg sought to establish himself as a playwright as well as a prose-fiction writer. His first two published novels were issed by Olympia Press... (1971), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... Apollo ??; Anna Christie	Alternate late 1970s?
	When the Command Module Pilot (CMP) of a lunar mission carrying nuclear seismic charges Nuclear weapon A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount...  goes berserk, only the missions information officer, a former CMP himself stands between Earth and catastrophe.
Three unnamed US astronauts	Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater Doomwatch Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC One between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist , responsible for investigating and combating various... (1971), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... Apollo 19	Contemporary
	The crew of a returning lunar mission are killed on re-entry because the Command Module systems have been contaminated with a plastic-eating virus.
Unnamed US astronaut	The Exorcist The Exorcist (film) The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her... (1973), film	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	US astronaut whose death in space is foretold by Regan MacNeil. Connected by author William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....  to astronaut Billy Cutshaw in The Ninth Configuration The Ninth Configuration The Ninth Configuration, is an American-made film, released in 1980, directed by William Peter Blatty... .
Steve Austin Steve Austin (fictional character) Steve Austin is a fictional character created by Martin Caidin for his 1972 novel, Cyborg, who later became a 1970s television icon as portrayed by Lee Majors in the 1974-1978 series The Six Million Dollar Man.-Background:... , Col. Kelly Wood, Maj. Josh Lang Dr. Leah Russell	The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI... (1973–8), TV	Apollo 17 Apollo 17 Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the... et al.	Contemporary
	Austin is a NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  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).
Rick Lawrence, Capt., Ben Pelham, Dave Anderson	Stowaway to the Moon (1975), TV	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... Camelot	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts on an Apollo mission who discover a child in the command module.
Bob Grodin	Alternative 3 Alternative 3 Alternative 3 is a television programme, broadcast once only in the United Kingdom in 1977, and later broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, as a fictional hoax, an heir to Orson Welles' radio production of The War of the Worlds... (1977), TV (hoax documentary)	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut who landed on the Moon and inadvertently stumbled upon a secret moonbase.
US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Rick Delanty, Johnny Baker USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... Pieter Jakov, Leonilla Alexandrova Malik	Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1977. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. A comic book adaptation was published by Innovation Comics in 1993.... (1977), novel	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Spacelab 2 Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today...	Alternate 1970s
	Joint US/Soviet crew studying the close approach to Earth of the comet Hamner-Brown from orbit.
Horace Jones, Col, CDR Joseph Pelham, Cmdr, DMP Sydney Loren, Dr, MS	Sargasso (1977), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F... Apollo 19	1977
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  Crew of Apollo 19 Cancelled Apollo missions Several planned missions of the Apollo manned Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled for a variety of reasons, including changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, hardware delays, and budget limitations... , a joint mission with the Soviets and the last Apollo flight before advent of the Space Shuttle. They vanish from their spacecraft when it splashes down in the Bermuda Triangle Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances.... .
Billy Cutshaw, Capt.	The Ninth Configuration The Ninth Configuration The Ninth Configuration, is an American-made film, released in 1980, directed by William Peter Blatty... (1980), film	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	US astronaut who lost his sanity just before launching into space. Connected by author William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....  to astronaut character in The Exorcist The Exorcist (film) The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her... .
Nate Andy Boris (last names not given)	Superman II Superman II Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman and stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, and Jack O'Halloran. It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors... (1980), film	Artemis 2 (Apollo-like)	Contemporary
	Fictional Society for International Space Exploration (SISE)-Soviet joint lunar mission. Crew killed by escaped Kyptonian criminals.
Robert S. Massey	The Red Dove Derek Lambert (author) Derek Lambert was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist.... (1982), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	1972, flashback from 1983
	US astronaut who has a mental breakdown while preparing for a press conference after returning from the moon. Later used by the CIA to persuade a Soviet cosmonaut to defect along with his spacecraft. Note: The Apollo mission mentioned in the novel is implied to be Apollo 17 Apollo 17 Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the... .
Garrett Breedlove	Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment Terms of Endearment is a 1983 romantic comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson... (1983), The Evening Star The Evening Star The Evening Star is a 1996 sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway she played in the original film. The movie takes place about fifteen years after the original following the characters from 1988 to... (1996), films	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	Retired middle-aged astronaut played by Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...
Forrest Gump, Janet Fritch, Maj.	Forrest Gump Forrest Gump (novel) Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The title character experiences adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships to thinking about his childhood love. The Vietnam War and college football are all part of the story. Throughout his life, Gump views the world simply... (1985), novel	Unknown	Contemporary
	Gump's history as an astronaut was not included in the film adaptation
Paul Andrews	Beyond the Stars (1989), film	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut who landed on the Moon.
Al Calavicci Al Calavicci Rear Admiral Upper Half Albert “Al” Calavicci USN is a fictional character on the science fiction drama Quantum Leap, created by Donald P. Bellisario and played by Dean Stockwell.-Biography:... , Rear Adm.	Quantum Leap (1989–93), TV	Apollo 8 Apollo 8 Apollo 8, the second manned mission in the American Apollo space program, was the first human spaceflight to leave Earth orbit; the first to be captured by and escape from the gravitational field of another celestial body; and the first crewed voyage to return to Earth from another celestial...	c. 1968 / 1999
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  Astronaut in Apollo program. Circled the moon ten times. Calavicci landed the spacecraft safely after the computer systems crashed.
Gary Lucas, CDR Charles Shepherd, LMP Victor Kendall, CMP; Bruce Cortney, CDR	Ice Ice (novel) Ice is a Christian science fiction novel by author Shane Johnson.-Plot introduction:A fictional Apollo 19 mission suffers a major system failure, forcing its crew to strike out on their own.-Explanation of the novel's title:... (2002), novel	Apollo Project Apollo The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...	February 1975
	Apollo 19 Cancelled Apollo missions Several planned missions of the Apollo manned Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled for a variety of reasons, including changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, hardware delays, and budget limitations...  astronauts on a mission to the Aitken Basin South Pole-Aitken basin The South Pole-Aitken basin is an impact crater on Earth's Moon. Roughly in diameter and deep, it is one of the largest known impact craters in the Solar System. It is the largest, oldest and deepest basin recognized on the Moon. This moon basin was named for two features on opposing sides; the... ; Apollo 20 Cancelled Apollo missions Several planned missions of the Apollo manned Moon landing program of the 1960s and 1970s were canceled for a variety of reasons, including changes in technical direction, the Apollo 1 fire, hardware delays, and budget limitations...  recovery mission.
Voskhodyeniye Yefgenii Yeremin	Ascent Ascent (novel) Ascent is a novel published in 2007, written by Jed Mercurio. It follows the career of Yevgeni Yeremin, an orphan of Stalingrad, from his days as a MiG-15 pilot in the Korean War, where he becomes a leading ace. However, at the end of the war he crashes in a plane bearing USSR insignia... (2007), novel	Zond Project Soviet Moonshot The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961...	July 1969
	Soviet Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....  Korean War Korean War The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...  veteran launched on a secret mission to beat Apollo 11 Apollo 11 In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...  to the moon. When the mission fails he is erased from history.

1975–1979

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Spacelab Dynostar; Eddie Van Buren, Cmdr., Russ Walters (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ), Bob Townsend, Phillip Lyall, Richard Hart (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ), Rene Lasalle, Jean Lucas (France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... ), Theodore Neumann, Otto Sigmund (Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... ), Will Patterson (Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... ), Mel Freeman. Orbiter Four; John Hayward, Cdr., Eric Fischer, Daniel Sicura Maj.	The Dynostar Menace Kit Pedler Dr Christopher Magnus Howard "Kit" Pedler was a British medical scientist, science fiction author and writer on science in general.... (1975), novel	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Spacelab Dynostar Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Orbiter Four	Near Future
	A Multinational team of astronauts work under the auspices of the United States Space Authority (USSA) to carry out the first test of a nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion is the process by which two or more atomic nuclei join together, or "fuse", to form a single heavier nucleus. This is usually accompanied by the release or absorption of large quantities of energy...  reactor in earth orbit.
Prometheus; Patrick Winter Maj., Ely Bron Dr., Coretta Samuel Dr (Medic)., (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ) Nadya Kalinina Maj., Vladimir Kuznekov Col., Gregor Salnikov (USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... ), Orbiter; Cooke Maj. Cmdr, Decosta Capt. Pilot	Skyfall (1976), novel	Orbital Power Station Prometheus USAF Space Shuttle Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge... Orbiter	Near Future
	A series of malfunctions turn an attempt to launch an orbital solar power station into disaster, trapping the payload in a decaying orbit and forcing the use of a military space shuttle to rescue the crew, even as the race to prevent it crashing into a populated area continues.
Olaf Carlsen; Tom Carlsen, Col. eight others	The Space Vampires The Space Vampires The Space Vampires is a British science fiction horror novel written by author Colin Wilson, and first published in England and the United States by Random House in 1976. This is Wilson's fifty-first book... (1976), novel; Lifeforce Lifeforce (film) Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper from a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, from the novel The Space Vampires, published in 1976, by Colin Wilson.-Plot:...  (1985), film	Hermes; ESA Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... HMS Churchill, rescue shuttle	Early 21st century; Near Future
	Hermes crew finds alien craft adrift in open space; 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.
Apollo ??; Thomas Alvar Nicols, Maj., Van Druten, Riley (first names not given) Enterprise; Richard Bradford Ridge, Maj. (Commander), David Priestly (Co-Pilot), Marvin Leisen (Navigator), Jim O'Toole, Archie Carfagno Orpheus; Thomas Alvar Nicols, Maj(Co-Pilot). Richard Bradford Ridge, Maj (Pilot).	The Hermes Fall John Baxter (author) John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel... (1978), novel	Apollo Apollo Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology... Apollo ??, Orpheus, Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight...	1980
	A NASA Moonflight veteran and the commander of the first space shuttle mission are sent on a desperate mission to prevent the asteroid Hermes 69230 Hermes -External links:* * *...  crashing into the Earth.
Floyd Hartwell, Andrew Bukowski Capt, (Air Force Astronaut Wing United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ), Leonard Dmetriev (USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... ), Unnamed Chinese Astronaut	Impact! (1979), novel	Argonaut XX	Contemporary?
	International crew sent to prevent an asteroid impacting Earth.
Spacelab 10; Unnamed US Astronauts & Unnamed Cosmonauts Space Shuttle; Chuck Marshall US, Giorgi (Last name not given) USSR	Quatermass (TV serial) Quatermass (TV serial) Quatermass is a British television science fiction serial produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979. Like its three predecessors, Quatermass was written by Nigel Kneale... (1979), TV/novel	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... , Spacelab 10 Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Not named, call-sign is Mother Bird	Near Future
	Spacelab Ten is a joint US/Soviet space project.
Dr. Holly Goodhead Holly Goodhead Dr. Holly Goodhead is a fictional character from the James Bond franchise, portrayed by Lois Chiles. She does not appear in any of the novels, solely appearing in the film version of Moonraker. However, her character is somewhat similar to Gala Brand, who is the female lead character in the... Numerous unnamed US Marine astronauts	Moonraker Moonraker (film) Moonraker is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, and Richard Kiel... (1979), film/novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...  Moonraker 1–6, Military Space Shuttle Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge... Marines	Contemporary
	James Bond James Bond James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...  and Goodhead launch to Hugo Drax Hugo Drax Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the James Bond novel Moonraker. Fleming named him after his friend, Sir Reginald Drax. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was largely transformed by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, Drax is portrayed by... 's space station to thrwart his plans. Six shuttles carrying several dozen men and women are also mentioned.
Addison "Skip" Carmichael, Melanie "Mel" Slozar	Salvage 1 Salvage 1 Salvage 1 is an American science fiction series that aired for 16 episodes on ABC during 1979. The pilot film, Salvage, aired on January 20, 1979 to high ratings.... (1979), TV	SSTO Single-stage-to-orbit A single-stage-to-orbit vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware, expending only propellants and fluids. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers to reusable vehicles.... 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.

1980–1989

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(1980–1989)
Steve Bancroft Lew Price John Gates, Col., USAF	Hangar 18 Hangar 18 (film) Hangar 18 is a 1980 science fiction film that was released to capitalize on the UFO interest of the era. The film itself carries ties to Area 51, as well as ufology. Although it flopped , it tantalized those who saw government cover-ups of UFOs... (1980), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Orbiter	Contemporary
	Launch of the first satellite by a Shuttle crew strikes a nearby UFO Unidentified flying object A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...  killing Gates who is EVA in the cargo bay.,
Soyuz 47; Valentin Karpov, Flight Cmdr, Boris Tsiolkovsky, Flight Engineer, Shabir Al'Timimi, Pilot Orbiter 102; Michael Allon, Col, Peter Peabody, Col, David Browne, Col.	The Hunting of Salyut 7 (1981), novel	Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today... Soyuz 47, Salyut Salyut The Salyut program was the first space station program undertaken by the Soviet Union, which consisted of a series of nine space stations launched over a period of eleven years from 1971 to 1982... Salyut 7 Salyut 7 Salyut 7 was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first manned in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including a total of 12 manned and 15 unmanned launches... , Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Orbiter 102 Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew...	Near Future
	Palestinian Guest Cosmonaut Intercosmos Interkosmos was a space program of the Soviet Union designed to include members of military forces of allied Warsaw Pact countries in manned and unmanned missions...  hijacks an armed Soviet space-station.
Vince Torino Lt. Col, William Cranston Columbia; Christopher 'Rusty' Bishop III Col. Cmdr, Richard Merriman Lt. Col. Pilot Enterprise; Austin 'Tex' Harwood Col. Cmdr, Adrienne Brooks Dr. Pilot Atlantis; Lionel Gerber, Gordon Alexander Yorktown; Jack Lewis Jr Lt. Cmdr (USN United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... ), Robert D. Clark Lt. Col (USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ) Hornet Noonan, Schacter (First names not given)	Shuttle David Onley David Charles Onley, OOnt is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada.Onley was a television journalist prior to his viceregal appointment. He worked primarily for Citytv as a science and technology reporter, and for the 24-hour news station CablePulse 24 as a news anchor and... (1981), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... s, Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew... , Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight... , Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States... Hypersonic Hypersonic In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...  Boosters, Yorktown, Hornet	Late 20th Century
	The first attempt to launch a space shuttle using a manned booster fails leaving both craft stranded in orbit.
Joe Marvin Atlantis; Frank King, Col. (USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ), Pilot, Lew Clay, Cmdr (USN United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... ), co-Pilot, George "Hap" Hazard, P/S, Jacqueline Hart, M/S	Shuttle Down Shuttle Down Shuttle Down is a novel by American author G. Harry Stine, written under the nom de plume Lee Correy. First appearing as a four-part serial in Analog magazine between December 1980 and March 1981, the novel was later published by Ballantyne/Del Rey in 1981, with a second edition following in... (1980/81), magazine serial, (1981), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...	Near Future
	The shuttle Atlantis is forced to make an emergency landing on Easter Island after launching from Vandenberg, causing an international crisis.
Nikolai Federenko, Major, USSR Dr. Keith Stoner, NASA	Voyagers Ben Bova Benjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor. He is the recipient of six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor for his work at Analog Science Fiction in the 1970's.-Personal life:... (1981), novel	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 Salyut 6 Salyut 6 , DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the 'second-generation' type of space station. Salyut 6 possessed several revolutionary advances over the earlier...  along with a fourth "tanker" module.
Alvin Kingsbury Cmdr, Randy Hull Co-Pilot.	Orbit (1982), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... 02	Near future
	When a hypersonic Hypersonic In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...  airliner suffers a malfunction that results in it being trapped in orbit NASA prepares a space shuttle for a rescue mission. Note: Novel may have been the inspiration for the film Starflight One Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden... .
Dove; Oleg Sedrov, Cmdr Nicolay Talin, Co-Pilot Genin, Meteorologist, Vinnikov (First names not given for the last two crew).	The Red Dove Derek Lambert (author) Derek Lambert was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist.... (1982), novel	Soviet Space Shuttle Dove	Near Future 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; White, Hess, Frisch, Carroll (First names not given) Soyuz Crew; Vladimir Sergeevich Danilov, Yuriy Ivanovich Zhukov	Kiev Footprint (1983), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Excalibur Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today...	Alternate 1980s
	After the space shuttle Excalibur looses contact with Earth while on a military Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge...  mission, the Soviet Union sends a Soyuz to investigate.
Christopher Leyland, Lt. Col., William Cooke, Maj., Wren T. Packard Capt., Janet Caulden Capt.	Blind Prophet (1984), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... s Constitution, Independence	Contemporary/Near Future
	Crews of armed Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge...  space shuttles sent to destroy Soviet military satellites. The satellites are launched under the guise of the double launch of the space stations Salyut 9 & Salyut 10.
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  Astronauts, Neil O'Hara, Al Benyon, Jim Bayliss, Mike Pepper. Non-NASA Payload Specialists, Kellinah Assad, David Heinlein.	Dominator James Follett James Follett is an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England.Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many... (1984), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Dominator (OV-141)	Near Future.
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts assigned to fly the space shuttle Dominator.
Anna Firdova Maj., Sergi Bustovsky Maj., Two unnamed cosmonauts	Black Alert (1985), novel	Soviet Space Station Almaz The Almaz program was a series of military space stations launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the civilian Salyut DOS-17K program after 1971.... Medusa Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today... ? Minotaur	Contemporary?
	Cosmonauts assigned to crew a nuclear armed space station.
Cecil Howe Cmdr, Eva Jordan Dr. Walker (First name not given)	Def-Con 4 Def-Con 4 Def-Con 4 is a 1985 post-apocalyptic film, portraying three astronauts who survive World War III aboard a space station and return to earth to find greatly changed circumstances.-Synopsis:... (1985), film	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Nemesis	Near Future ("The day after tomorrow")
	Military astronauts who become trapped in orbit when World War III World War III World War III denotes a successor to World War II that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature....  breaks out.
Edward Jupp, Maj. Larry Wahlquist, (First name not given) Newman, Col.	The Krone Experiment (1986), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	Contemporary
	Crew of a space shuttle on a military Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge...  mission to capture a Soviet military satellite.
Andie Bergstrom	Space Camp SpaceCamp SpaceCamp is a 1986 American film based on a book by Patrick Bailey and Larry B. Williams and inspired by the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Directed by Harry Winer from a screenplay by Clifford Green and Casey T. Mitchell, the film stars Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B... (1986), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...	Contemporary
	Astronaut camp instructor who is accidentally launched into space with a bunch of teenagers.
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... ; Chuck Samson Valley Forge; Joe Dover, Cmdr, Bob Ortega, Maj, Brian MacFay, Cpt, Unnamed Pilot Kosmolyot II (1); Andrian E. Bykovsky, Maj. Kosmolyot II (2); Vladimir M. Koidunov, Col.	Alpha Bug (1987), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Valley Forge Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge... Kosmolyot II Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 was a manned test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing.It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane...	Near Future
	When a Soviet military spaceplane gets into trouble in orbit the United States sends up a shuttle to investigate. The novel also contains reference to Salyut 9 and an aborted joint US/Soviet space project called Spacelab 5.
Atlantis; Wakeman, CDR, Unnamed American Astronauts Kutuzov; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts	Winter Hawk Craig Thomas (author) David Craig Owen Thomas was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant series.-Background:... (1987), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States... Raketoplan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 was a manned test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing.It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane... * 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.
Space Shuttle: Peter Venkman Peter Venkman Peter Venkman, Ph.D. is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise. He is a parapsychologist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the films Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters... Raymond Stantz Raymond Stantz Raymond "Ray" Stantz, Ph.D., is a fictional scientist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the films Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Casper and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters . He is one of the three doctors of parapsychology on the team, along with Dr. Peter... Egon Spengler Egon Spengler Egon Spengler is a fictional character appearing in the films Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters and later Extreme Ghostbusters. He is a member of the Ghostbusters, and one of the three doctors of parapsychology on the team... Winston Zeddemore Winston Zeddemore Winston Zeddemore is a fictional character appearing in the Ghostbusters films, TV series, and video games. He was played by Ernie Hudson in both movies and was voiced by Arsenio Hall in the first two seasons of The Real Ghostbusters. Buster Jones provided Winston's voice in the remaining seasons,... Galileo: Kirov, Capt. Irahqua, Lt. McTavish, Lt. Sato, Lt. Whitney, Yeoman	The Real Ghostbusters The Real Ghostbusters The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with... "Ain't NASA-sarily So" (1987), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Experimental Space Platform Galileo	Contemporary/Near Future
	The Ghostbusters Ghostbusters Ghostbusters is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis and follows three eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a...  investigate a haunted space station.
Lowell Crawford Col. Cmdr (USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ), Henry "Hank" Doherty Lt Cmdr. Pilot (USN United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... ), Alan Cresottie PS, Minh Tran Dr. PS, Ward Culdrew Maj. MS (USMC United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States... )	Defcon One (1989), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew...	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts assigned to launch SDI Strategic Defense Initiative The Strategic Defense Initiative was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic...  satellites.
Jason Grant, Col., Ray Tanner	Moontrap Moontrap Moontrap is a 1989 science fiction movie from Magic Films. It was written by Tex Ragsdale and directed by Robert Dyke. A comic book adaptation was released on the same year by Caliber Comics. The cast features Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell and Leigh Lombardi... (1989), film	Apollo Apollo Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology... Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Intrepid	Contemporary
	Astronauts using remnant Apollo hardware for a trip to the Moon.
Discovery; Conrad Williams III, Cmdr, Joey Wells, Pilot (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ), George Evans (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ), Aelita Zakharov, Vladimir Turnov (USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... ), Alex Vonberger (GDR) OV-105; Gerald Bingham, Cmdr, Brad Parker, Pilot, Russell Madlinger.	Night Launch Night Launch Night Launch is a 1989 novel by former US Senator and astronaut Jake Garn about terrorists taking over a space shuttle.... (1989), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011... , OV-105 Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States. Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger...	c. 1990
	A sleeper agent Sleeper agent A sleeper agent is a spy who is placed in a target country or organization, not to undertake an immediate mission, but rather to act as a potential asset if activated...  for a Neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....  organization hijacks the space shuttle carrying out the first joint US/USSR space mission since the ASTP Apollo-Soyuz Test Project -Backup crew:-Crew notes:Jack Swigert had originally been assigned as the command module pilot for the ASTP prime crew, but prior to the official announcement he was removed as punishment for his involvement in the Apollo 15 postage stamp scandal.-Soyuz crew:... , forcing NASA to launch the untested replacement for Challenger Space Shuttle Challenger Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia having been the first. The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California...  on a desperate rescue mission.
Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... ; Five Unnamed Military Astronauts Soyuz 881; Nikolai Sitnikov, Three Unnamed Cosmonauts.	Star Shot Douglas Terman Douglas Terman was an American writer of military novels.- Biography :He helped develop Petit Saint Vincent as an exclusive resort in the Grenadines with his best friend Hazen Richardson, travelling through the Caribbean on his boats Encantada and Jacinta... (1989), novel (First published as Enemy Territory)	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... , Soviet Space Shuttle? Soyuz 881	Contemporary
	The Soviet Union attempts to destroy, or if that fails, to steal an experimental SDI Strategic Defense Initiative The Strategic Defense Initiative was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic...  satellite.
Mikhail Suslov; Dmitri Bulganin Lt Col. Unnamed Co-pilot Intrepid; Frank Mulchahey Maj. Julian Kapuscinski Col. Jerry Rodriquez Dr Constellation; Philip Heitmann Lt Col. (USMC United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States... ) Jack Townsend Maj. (USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ) Sandford Watkins Maj. (US Army United States Army The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services... ) Soyuz; Vasili Lubinin, Sergi Yemitov Kestrel; Leroy "Mad Dog" Monaghan Cmdr. (USN United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... ), Peter "Hot Rod" Lamborghini Col.	Storming Intrepid Storming Intrepid Storming Intrepid is the name of a 1988 novel by Payne Harrison. It is a Cold War era technothriller. The plot centers on the in-flight hijacking of the United States space shuttle Intrepid by a Soviet agent and the United States race to retrieve it before the Soviets can return it to earth... (1989), novel	Soviet Space Shuttle Mikhail Suslov Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... s Intrepid, Constellation Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today... Spaceplane Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge... Kestrel	Contemporary
	The Soviet Union tries to hijack a space shuttle.

1990–1999

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(1990–1999)
Matt Gosling, Commander, Paul Balchin, Pilot, Stella Richards, Payload Manager	Torus James Follett James Follett is an author and screenwriter, born in 1939 in Tolworth, England.Follett became a full-time fiction writer in 1976, after resigning from contract work as a technical writer for the British Ministry of Defence. He has since written over 20 novels, several television plays, and many... (1990), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Colorado	Early 2000s
	Crew of Space Shuttle on a mission to retrieve derelict satellites from geosynchronous orbit.
(US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ) Hes Adams, Heinemann, O'Grady, Marshall, Wilson (First names not provided for the last four US crew), (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... ) Michael Dreyfuss Maj.	Westwind (1990), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Argos	Contemporary/near future
	Anglo-American crew of a routine shuttle mission that ends disastrously when the shuttles systems fail on final approach.
Shuttle-C:Chuck Conard, Maj, Coates, Capt, Byron, Col, Gibbons, Col, Unnamed Marine Colonel Nomad: Donald J. Pollock, Col, Chuck Conard, Maj	Hawkeye (1991), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...  Shuttle-C Nomad Spaceplane	Contemporary/near future
	Spy satellites belonging to the major powers are destroyed by an unknown foe.
Freedom: Tom Jenkins, Cmdr (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ), Julia Magriffe, MS (Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... ), Di Lella, Dr (Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... ), Detrich (Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... ), Two unnamed astronauts. Edo:Sekigawa, Cmdr (Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... ), Kroeger, MS, (Germany), Unnamed crewman Nomad (1): Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt, Frank Rowan Nomad (2):Frank Rowan, Gates, Capt Nomad (3):Jefferson "Sonny" Cleary, Capt, James Henry Mackenzie, Maj.	Cobra (1991), novel (released after Hawkeye)	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Freedom Space Station Freedom Space Station Freedom was a NASA project to construct a permanently manned Earth-orbiting space station in the 1980s. Although approved by then-president Ronald Reagan and announced in the 1984 State of the Union Address, Freedom was never constructed or completed as originally designed, and after... Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...  (Japanese) Edo Nomad Spaceplane	Contemporary/near future
	A multi-national conspiracy threatens Space Station Freedom and its crew in an attempt to gain control of space.
Trikon; Daniel Tighe Cmdr, Lorraine Renoir Dr, Freddie Aviles, Lance Muncie, Kurt Jaeckle, Carla Sue Gamble, Russell Cramer, Jeffries, Stanley (First names not given for the last two). Also scientists and technicians from Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... , United Europe EEC EEC is an abbreviation that usually refers to the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European Union.It may also refer to;* The East Erie Commercial Railroad, a shortline in Pennsylvania...  & the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... . Constellation; N. J. Wiliamson Cmdr, Williams, Duncan Yeager; Unnamed pilot and co-pilot.	The Trikon Deception (1992), novel	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Trikon Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Constellation Spaceplane Yeager	Near Future 15 August 1998 – 7 December 1998
	Personnel who work aboard and support the worlds first commercial space-station.
Freedom: Alex Seerey Col., John Quanty Maj., Hugh Lyghtson, Scott Dawkins, Joseph King, Celia Hereson, Lee Wynn, Judith Cianta Lincoln: Two unnamed astronauts (Commander & Co-Pilot).	Ghost Beyond Earth (1993), novel	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Freedom Space Station Freedom Space Station Freedom was a NASA project to construct a permanently manned Earth-orbiting space station in the 1980s. Although approved by then-president Ronald Reagan and announced in the 1984 State of the Union Address, Freedom was never constructed or completed as originally designed, and after... Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... 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 Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history... , Homer Simpson, Race Banyon	The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie... , ep. Deep Space Homer Deep Space Homer "Deep Space Homer" is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fifth season and first aired on February 24, 1994. The episode was directed by Carlos Baeza and was the only episode of The Simpsons written by David Mirkin, who was also the executive producer at the time... (1994), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Corvair	Contemporary
	Simpson is drafted as a NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut for publicity purposes
David Kennedy	High Flight (1995), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	Contemporary
	Former shuttle pilot, who now heads a major aeronautics firm.
Col. Fisher, Lt.Cdr. Mark Lowrey, Capt. Tang, Maj. Russell, Capt. Matthews	JAG JAG (TV series) JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions... , episode "Recovery" (1995), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	1996
	A pilot is killed while training for a shuttle mission. JAG investigators Harmon Rabb Harmon Rabb Captain Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr., JAGC, USN, is a fictional and lead character in the American television series JAG....  and Meg Austin Meg Austin Lieutenant, Junior Grade Megan "Meg" Austin , is a main character in the first season of the television series JAG portrayed by actress Tracey Needham.-Character Biography:...  try to determine who is responsible so that the shuttle can launch to repair a spy satellite.
Sergei Orlov, Gen	Op Center: Mirror Image (1995), novel	Soyuz	Contemporary
	Veteran Cosmonaut (One of whose missions seems to have been based on Soyuz 33 Soyuz 33 -Backup crew:-Mission parameters:*Mass: *Perigee: *Apogee: *Inclination: 51.63°*Period: 88.99 minutes-Mission highlights:... ), assigned to command Russia's new Combined Operations Center located beneath the Hermitage Museum Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,... .
Henry "Bull" Eckert, Col., Jack Riles, Col.	The Cape (1996–7), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  career astronauts.
Adam Freis, Col. Atlantis; NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... , Marc Franklin Dr., Cmdr, Vic Green Lt. Col., Pilot, Arlan Burns Maj., Frank Purvis, FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... , Alexandra Koslovsky MS, Orlov, Nichi (First names not given for the last two crew members)	Ignition (1996), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...	Contemporary
	As the Space Shuttle Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...  prepares to lift off on a resupply mission Shuttle-Mir Program The Shuttle–Mir Program was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States, which involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the shuttle and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to engage in...  to Mir Mir Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the... , extortionists take over Cape Kennedy and threaten to blow up the shuttle and its crew on the launch pad unless a ransom is paid.
S.R. Hadden	Contact Contact (film) Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact.... (1997), film	Soyuz Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today...	Contemporary
	Billionaire industrialist's privately financed spaceflight to Mir Mir Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the... .
Jiang Ling Lt.	Titan (1997), novel	Shenzhou Shenzhou Shenzhou may refer to:*Shenzhou , or "Divine Land", name of China*Shenzhou City, in Hebei, China*Shenzhou , an album by ambient musician Biosphere*Shenzhou program, a manned spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China...	Contemporary
	First Chinese human spaceflight, Lei Feng 1, is launched in late 2004. The solo astronaut is a young female PLAAF officer. The craft and flight profile are remarkably similar to the Shenzhou missions flown several years after the novel was published.
Gateway crew; Atlantis crew; RV-1 crew;	Fallout (1998), film	Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Gateway Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States... X-33 Lockheed Martin X-33 The Lockheed Martin X-33 was an unmanned, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane developed in the 1990s under the U.S. government-funded Space Launch Initiative program. The X-33 was a technology demonstrator for the VentureStar orbital spaceplane, which was planned to be a... RV-1	March/April 2015
	Russian rebels hijack a space station.
Atlantis crew; William Sharp, Col. (CMR) Jennifer Watts (PLT) Gruber (Nuclear Tech) Charles 'Chick' Chapple Max Lennert 'Rockhound' Harry Stamper; Davis, Col. (CMR) Tucker (PLT) Halsey, Lt. (Nuclear Tech) Oscar Choi A.J. Frost Jayotis 'Bear' Kurleenbear Freddy Noonan; Lev Andropov	Armageddon (1998), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States... ; X-71 Military Space Shuttle Military space shuttle A military space shuttle would be the military equivalent of NASA's space shuttle. Many experts believed that it is extremely unlikely that NASA, the United States Department of Defense or any other Federal agency could keep the existence of such a spacecraft secret, given the official knowledge... s: Freedom, Independence; Mir Mir Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the... (greatly expanded)	Contemporary
	Atlantis destroyed by meteoroid Meteoroid A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is called a meteorite... s preceding asteroid Asteroid Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...  on collision course with Earth. X-71s each with 3 crew and 4 person drilling Well drilling Well drilling is the process of drilling a hole in the ground for the extraction of a natural resource such as ground water, natural gas, or petroleum...  teams refuel at Mir, rescue Andropov from its destruction.
Spurgeon "Fish" Tanner, Capt. Oren Monash, (plt) Andrea 'Andy' Baker Dr. Gus Partenza Mark Simon	Deep Impact Deep Impact (film) Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster-drama film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder and stars Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, and Morgan Freeman... (1998), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States... , Messiah	Near Future
	Astronauts on mission to destroy an oncoming comet.
Spencer Armacost, Cdr. Alex Streck, Capt.	The Astronaut's Wife The Astronaut's Wife The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 science fiction/thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich. It stars Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron.-Plot:... (1999), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Victory	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  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 Farscape Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment... (1999–2004), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Collaroy, Farscape One	Contemporary/Near Future
	IASA astronaut lost in space. His father was former astronaut Jack Crichton.
Jim Rowland Col., Cmdr, Lee Everett, Pilot, Gail Scott, Payload Specialist, Sharon Ling, Mission Specialist, three unnamed astronauts.	Shadow Watch (1999), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Orion	2001
	Crew of Space Shuttle Orion. Col. Rowland is killed when sabotage causes the shuttle to catch fire on the launch pad.

2000–2009

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
(2000–2009)
Frank Corvin, William "Hawk" Hawkins, Col., Jerry O'Neill Tank Sullivan Ethan Glance Roger Hines	Space Cowboys Space Cowboys Space Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite... (2000), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Daedalus	Contemporary
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts on a satellite salvage mission.
Christopher "Chief" Hart, Col.	The Switch (2000), novel	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	Contemporary
	Career astronaut accused of murder.
Julie Foley	Men with Brooms Men with Brooms Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the... (2002), film		Contemporary
	Astronaut for the American Space Agency (ASA)
Chuck Taggart Kurt Mendel Neil Taggart Sarah Forbes Angela Perry	Odyssey 5 Odyssey 5 Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada.In the United States, the initial run of the series ran for 14 of the 20 episodes, leaving the six remaining episodes unaired for a period of roughly two years... (2002), TV	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Odyssey	August 7, 2007, time travel Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...  to 2002
	Crew sent back in time 5 years by a being called the Seeker to attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth. Note: Part of the pilot episode's plotline is based on that of Quatermass II Quatermass II Quatermass II is a British science-fiction serial, originally broadcast by BBC Television in the autumn of 1955. It is the second in the Quatermass series by writer Nigel Kneale, and the first of those serials to survive in its entirety in the BBC archives... .
Robert Iverson, Cmdr Rebecca Childs, Maj Flight Engineer Timmins	The Core The Core The Core is a 2003 American disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core... (2003), film	Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States. Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger...	Contemporary
	Shuttle crew who make an emergency landing on Sepulveda Dam Sepulveda Dam Located in Los Angeles, California, the Sepulveda Dam is a project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, built in 1941 to withhold winter flood waters along the Los Angeles River...  spillway.
Marina Potaski	Воры и проститутки (Vory i prostitutki) (2004), Russian film	Soyuz TM	1999
	TV reporter Marina Potaski travels to Mir Mir Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...  to persuade a cosmonaut to return to earth when he is unwilling to abandon the space station.
Robert Parker NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... , Yuri Andropov FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... , Hideki Kawahara JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency The , or JAXA, is Japan's national aerospace agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on October 1, 2003, as an Independent Administrative Institution administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the... .	The Day After Tomorrow The Day After Tomorrow The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling which leads to a new ice age. The film did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally... (2004), film/novel	International Space Station International Space Station The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...	2004
	ISS crew observes Earth entering an Ice Age Ice age An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers... .
Musa Khiromanovich Ivanov, Cmdr, FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... , Anatole Konstantinovich Krivalapov, Flight Engineer, FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... , Sable Jones, NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...	Times Eye Time's Eye (novel) Time's Eye is a 2003 science fiction novel co-written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It is the first book in the A Time Odyssey series... (2004), novel	Soyuz-TMA Soyuz-TMA The Soyuz-TMA is a recent revision of the Soyuz spacecraft, superseded in 2010 by the Soyuz TMA-M..It is used by the Russian Federal Space Agency for human spaceflight...	2037
	Personnel returning from the International Space Station International Space Station The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...  pass through a temporal discontinuity Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...  shortly after undocking.
Lei Dongjin, Lt. Col., Lin Xi, Maj.	Shenzhou Shenzhou Shenzhou may refer to:*Shenzhou , or "Divine Land", name of China*Shenzhou City, in Hebei, China*Shenzhou , an album by ambient musician Biosphere*Shenzhou program, a manned spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China... (2005), Chinese TV	Shenzhou Shenzhou Shenzhou may refer to:*Shenzhou , or "Divine Land", name of China*Shenzhou City, in Hebei, China*Shenzhou , an album by ambient musician Biosphere*Shenzhou program, a manned spaceflight initiative by the People's Republic of China...	2003
	30-part TV dramatisation about the events leading up to China's first manned spaceflight, Shenzhou V, in 2003. Two PLAAF pilots, a man and a woman, are the leading contenders to become the first Chinese nationals to be sent into space.
Charles Farmer Doug Masterson, Col, USAF	The Astronaut Farmer The Astronaut Farmer The Astronaut Farmer is a 2006 American drama film directed by Michael Polish, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Mark. The story focuses on a Texas rancher who constructs a rocket in his barn and, against all odds, launches himself into outer space.-Plot:Charles Farmer is a former... (2007), film	Mercury Project Mercury In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,... The Dreamer	Contemporary
	Ex-USAF pilot with degree in aerospace engineering builds his own Mercury capsule and Atlas Atlas (missile) The SM-65 Atlas was the first intercontinental ballistic missile developed and deployed by the United States. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by Convair Division of General Dynamics at the Kearny Mesa assembly plant north of San Diego, California...  launch vehicle for a self-funded flight in Earth orbit. Masterson is a friend of Farmer and a shuttle astronaut.
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... , Ruth Goldman Dr, Bill Wallace, Derek Mills, FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located...  Nikola Ulinov Cmdr.	Plague Year: A Novel, (2007), novel	International Space Station International Space Station The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes... Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States. Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger...	Near Future
	Astronauts trapped in orbit when a nanotech Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...  plague renders large parts of the Earths surface uninhabitable.
Yukari Morita, Cmdr Matsuri Mortia, Backup Cmdr Akane Miura, Specialist	Rocket Girls Rocket Girls is a light novel written by Hōsuke Nojiri. Set in the Solomon Islands, it follows the exploits of high-school girl Yukari Morita, who is pressed into service as an astronaut by the Solomon Space Association when it is unable to build a rocket that can lift the weight of an adult male.Rocket Girls... (2007), anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  (based on the 1995 light novel Light novel A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short...  of the same name)	Spacecraft Spacecraft A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo....  Tanpopo, Coconut and Mangosteen	2007
	Teenage pilots of the fictional Solomon Space Agency (SSA), trained to perform orbital repairs on satellites, who later assist the Space Shuttle Atlantis Space Shuttle Atlantis The Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States...  in launching the unmanned Orpheus probe to Pluto.

2010–2019

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Stan Arsenievich	The Cosmonaut The Cosmonaut The Cosmonaut is an upcoming Spanish science-fiction feature film directed by Nicolas Alcala and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor. The first feature-length project of Riot Cinema Collective, it is notable for its use of crowdfunding techniques and Creative Commons license in its... (2011?), film	Soviet Moonshot Soviet Moonshot The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961...  program Kolibri module (fictional)	c.1970–1975
	Only member of the first Soviet manned mission to the moon. He gets lost during the trip to the Moon; upon his return, he has been inexplicably transported to an alternate Earth.

Futuristic

Astronauts on lunar bases, performing interplanetary travel, and other feats not yet achieved.

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Moon
Edward McCauley, Col.	Men Into Space Men Into Space Men Into Space is an American sci-fi television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col... (1959–60), TV	Various missions	c. 1970–1980
	Future astronauts go to the moon, build a space station and go on to Mars.
Major Perry Rhodan Captain Reginald Bell Captain Clark G. Fletcher Lieutenant Eric Manoli (names from the US-English translation)	Perry Rhodan Perry Rhodan Perry Rhodan is the name of a science fiction series published since 1961 in Germany, as well as the name of the main character. It is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Having sold over one billion copies worldwide, it is the most successful science fiction book series... series (1961–present), novellas, comics, audiobooks, film	Enterprise Stardust	1971
	The astronauts are members of the United States Space Force (USSF) and their mission is the first moon-landing – where they find a marooned alien space ship and its crew.
Multi-national astronauts; Joseph Cavor Katherine 'Kate' Callender Arnold Bedford	First Men in the Moon First Men in the Moon First Men in the Moon, also known as H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon, is a 1964 science fiction film directed by Nathan Juran. It is an adaptation by the noted science-fiction scriptwriter Nigel Kneale of the H. G... (1964), film	UN United Nations The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...  spacecraft; Cavorite sphere	1960s; flashback to 1899
	UN crew on Moon discover evidence of 19th century British lunar expedition. Aged survivor Bedford tells what occurred.
Sirius;(USAF United States Air Force The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of... ) Davis, Acton (Last names not given) Space Station One: 'Santa Fe' ; Dr Felix Coulter, Director, Unnamed US Astronauts Little Bear; (V-POTUS Vice President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term... ) Melvin K. Green	Hunter-Killer Geoffrey Jenkins -Early life:Jenkins was born Pretoria. At the age of 17 he wrote and had published A Century of History which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the centenary of Potchefstroom.... (1966), novel	Sirius Space Station One: Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Santa Fe Little Bear UGM-27 Polaris The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy....	Alternate 1970s
	After the Air Force sends two men to the moon but fails to bring them back safely, the Navy decides to upstage them by sending the Vice-President into orbit using an uprated Polaris missile.
Peter Lattemore, US Eileen Forbes, US; Igor Baklenikov, USSR Anna Soblova, USSR	Way...Way Out Way...Way Out Way...Way Out is a 1966 American film comedy starring Jerry Lewis and released by 20th Century Fox on October 21, 1966.-Plot:The year is 1989, and the United States decides to send a married couple to live on the moon and operate a U.S. weather station... (1966), film	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".
Moonbase Sinus Medii; Ed Speedwell, Capt (Commander). Ivan Flyenov, Capt (2nd in Command). Jerry Owyee, Lt (3rd in Command). Rocky Rhodes, Lt. Harold Cummings, Dr. Irene Stone, Dr. Lois White, Dr. Mike O'Riley Unnamed Astronauts. Moon Orbiting Space Station 1; Six Unnamed Astronauts Moon Orbiting Space Station 2; Yuri Chisodva, Capt. Five Unnamed Astronauts Aristotle; Dick Peterson, Capt. Unnamed Astronauts Agamemnon; Ed Speedwell, Capt. Jean Chelsea-Smith, Lt. (RAF Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world... ), Peter Chorosous.	Class G-Zero, (1976?), novel	Moonbase Colonization of the Moon The colonization of the Moon is the proposed establishment of permanent human communities on the Moon. Advocates of space exploration have seen settlement of the Moon as a logical step in the expansion of humanity beyond the Earth. Recent indication that water might be present in noteworthy... Sinus Medii Sinus Medii Sinus Medii is a small lunar mare that is located at the intersection of the Moon's equator and prime meridian. As seen from the Earth, this feature is located in the central part of the Moon's near side, and it is the point closest to the Earth... Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Skylab V Moon Orbiting Space Station 1 Moon Orbiting Space Station 2 Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... s Orbiter 8, Orbiter 10 Nuclear Lunar Shuttles Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology... , Agamemnon Agamemnon In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area...	Near Future (Alternate 1990s?)
	Astronauts of the International Space Agency (ISA) who find themselves dealing with a first contact situation.
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... ; Douglas Cummings, Don Wayne Wehrmacht Wehrmacht The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:... ; Franz Bethwig	Vengeance 10 Joe Poyer Joseph John Poyer is a thriller novelist from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s who has shifted his attention to military-related, non-fiction books under his own publishing company, North Cape Publications.- Novels :Operation Malacca... , (1980), novel	Unknown, V-10 Vergeltungswaffe V-weapons also, known in the original German as Vergeltungswaffen , were a particular set of long range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly terror bombing and/or aerial bombing of cities. They comprised the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 rocket and the V-3...	2009, flashback to 1938–45.
	Two American astronauts stumble across the final remnants of Nazi Germany's Moon Program.
Douglas Morgan, Lisa Morgan, Fred Simpson, Martin Kobol, William Demain, Catherine Demain, Larry LaStrande, Sylvia Dortman, Blair, Marrett, Haley (First names not given for the last three.) Other unnamed astronauts.	Trial By Fire (1982), novel	Unknown Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons...	Near Future
	Personnel at a moonbase in the crater Alphonsus Alphonsus (crater) Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the immediate post-Nectarian era. It is located on the lunar highlands on the eastern end of Mare Nubium, west of the Imbrian Highlands, and slightly overlaps the crater Ptolemaeus to the north. The surface is broken and irregular...  which becomes the last outpost of civilization when the Earth is devastated by a massive solar flare Solar flare A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy . The flare ejects clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona into space. These clouds typically reach Earth a day...  and the nuclear strikes it triggers.
USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Jersey Colony; Eli Steinmetz, Willie Shea, Kurt Perry Dr, Dawson (First name not given), Gallagher (First name not given), Cooper (First name not given), Snyder (First name not given), Russell (First name not given), Two unnamed astronauts Columbus; Jack Sherman, Cmdr. Unnamed Astronauts Gettysberg Dave Jurgens, Cmdr Carl Burkhart, Co-Pilot. Unnamed Mission Specialists USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... Selenos 4; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 5; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 6; Three Unnamed Cosmonauts Selenos 8; (FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... ); Two Unnamed Cosmonauts, (Soviet Army Soviet Army The Soviet Army is the name given to the main part of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1992. Previously, it had been known as the Red Army. Informally, Армия referred to all the MOD armed forces, except, in some cases, the Soviet Navy.This article covers the Soviet Ground... ); Grigory Leuchenko, Maj. Dmitry Petrov, Lt. Ivan Ostrovski, Sgt. Mikhail Yuschuk, Cpl. Unnamed corporal.	Cyclops (1986), novel	Cosmos Luna Soviet Moonshot The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961... Selenos 4-6 & 8 Moonbase Colonization of the Moon The colonization of the Moon is the proposed establishment of permanent human communities on the Moon. Advocates of space exploration have seen settlement of the Moon as a logical step in the expansion of humanity beyond the Earth. Recent indication that water might be present in noteworthy... Jersey Colony Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Columbus Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... Gettysberg	Near Future
	The actions of members of an illegal lunar colony cause a crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union. Mention is made in the novel of Salyuts 9 & 10.
Sam Bell	Moon Moon (film) Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film about a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Earth's moon. It is the feature debut of director Duncan Jones. Sam Rockwell stars as the employee Sam Bell, and... (2009), film	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut tending an automated mining facility on the Moon's far side.
"Counter-Earth"
John Kane, UK Glenn Ross, Col., US	Doppelgänger Doppelgänger (1969 film) Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science-fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring and Patrick Wymark. Outside Europe, it is known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, which is now the more popular title... (1969), film (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)	Phoenix / Dove (SSTO lifting body Lifting body A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. In contrast to a flying wing, which is a wing with minimal or no conventional fuselage, a lifting body can be thought of as a fuselage with little or no conventional wing... ); DOPPELGANGER lifting body	near-future
	EUROSEC mission to a newly discovered unknown planet Antichthon Antichthon is the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies. The focus of the journal is Greece and Rome, however, its scope is broadly defined so as to embrace the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean from the beginnings of civilisation to the Early Middle Ages....  orbiting exactly the opposite side of the Sun Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...  from Earth Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets... .
Neil Stryker	The Stranger The Stranger (1973 film) The Stranger, also known as Stranded in Space, is a television movie made in 1973 as a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network. It was directed by Lee H... (1973), TV	Patriot (3-man interplanetary craft)	Contemporary
	Astronaut who crash-lands on a duplicate of Earth ruled by a totalitarian regime.
Venus
Jefferson Barton, Brig. Gen.	The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories... , Cold Hands, Warm Heart Cold Hands, Warm Heart (episode) "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 26 September 1964, during the second season... (1964), TV	Unknown	Future
	Astronaut who succumbs to a mysterious disease after a mission to Venus.
Arthur Cory (last names not given)	I Am the Doorway I Am the Doorway "I Am the Doorway" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1971 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:... (1978), short story	Project Zeus	Contemporary
	Presumed NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  Crew on flight to Venus similar to cancelled Manned Venus Flyby Manned Venus Flyby A manned Venus flyby was considered by NASA in the mid 1960s as part of the Apollo Applications Program, using hardware derived from the Apollo program... . Arthur infected with alien organism during EVA; left paraplegic Paraplegia Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek: παραπληγίη "half-striking". It is usually the result of spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spina bifida that affects the neural elements of the spinal canal...  when parachutes malfunction. Cory dies in landing.
Mars
Dan McReady, Col. Christopher "Kit" Draper, Cdr.	Robinson Crusoe on Mars Robinson Crusoe on Mars Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 Techniscope science fiction film retelling of the classic novel by Daniel Defoe. It was directed by Byron Haskin, produced by Aubrey Schenck and starred Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin and Adam West... (1964), film	Mars Gravity Probe-1 (Elinor M)	Future
	Astronauts visiting Mars; one dies, the other is stranded.
Swenson Col.(Command Pilot), Witthoft, Reilly Dr. (First names not given)	Pioneer Trip (1967), short story	Unknown	1976
	Crew of the first manned US mission to Mars, faced with a critical medical emergency five weeks out from Earth.
Friedman Capt, Gulliver Lt, Haertel MS, Unnamed Astronauts	Welcome to Mars (1967), novel	Project Ares Von Braun Two unnamed sister ships	c. 1980s
	After two teenagers get stranded on Mars testing a home made anti-gravity Anti-gravity Anti-gravity is the idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to the lack of weight under gravity experienced in free fall or orbit, or to balancing the force of gravity with some other force, such as electromagnetism or aerodynamic lift...  device, NASA is forced to mount a rescue mission using more conventional means.
George Cosby Dr, Ralph Norton Maj, William O'Brien, Mack Sheldon, Irwin Trott, Allan Watts Dr, Briggs, Compton, Glennon, Gray, Jenkins, Lawrenson, McKinley, Morphy, Radcliffe, Thompson, Vaux, Wellgarth, Williams	The Earth is Near (1970 (German), 1973 (English)), novel	Project Alpha	Near Future
	Crew of the first manned expedition to Mars.
Carrington, Maj. Jim Daniels Joe Lefee Frank Michaels Charles Van Lyden	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... The Ambassadors of Death The Ambassadors of Death The Ambassadors of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from March 21 to May 2, 1970.-Plot:... (1970), TV	Mars Probe Project	Contemporary
	Crews of Mars Probe Six, Mars Probe Seven and Recovery Seven. Daniels was killed on Mars by non-Martian aliens, driving Carrington insane; Van Lyden attempts recovery of Lefee and Michaels.
Brice Randolph, Col.	The Astronaut (1972), TV	Unknown	Near Future
	NASA delays disclosure of death of astronaut on a mission to Mars; another man is surgically altered to deceive the wife and the public.
Phoenix One; Tadell Hansard (US), Anoshi Wantanabe (Japan), Bapti Lal Bose (India) Phoenix Two; Feodore Aleksandrovitch Asturnov (Russia), Dirk Welles (UK), Bern Callieux (Pan-European Community of Nations EEC EEC is an abbreviation that usually refers to the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European Union.It may also refer to;* The East Erie Commercial Railroad, a shortline in Pennsylvania... ) Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... s; Unnamed US astronauts.	The Far Call Gordon R. Dickson Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author.- Biography :Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1937... (1973), serial, (1978), novel	Phoenix Program Phoenix One Phoenix Two	1983
	International crew of the first manned mission to Mars.
Charles Brubaker, Col. Peter Willis, Lt. Col. John Walker, Cmdr.	Capricorn One Capricorn One Capricorn One is a 1977 science fiction thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It stars James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O. J... (1978), film/novel	Capricorn One, (Apollo-like)	Contemporary/Near Future
	Astronauts secretly removed from a NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  mission to Mars – aboard a faulty ship – that goes terribly wrong.
Prometheus One; Steve West, Mike (Last name not given), McManus (First name not given), Prometheus Two; Three Unnamed Astronauts	The Incredible Melting Man, (1978), novelization Novelization A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays...	Prometheus Program Prometheus One Prometheus Two	Near Future
	Crews of the first American manned missions to Mars, attacked by an unknown force once they land. (Plotline is very heavily influenced by The Quatermass Experiment The Quatermass Experiment The Quatermass Experiment is a British science-fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first manned flight into space, overseen by...  & Who Goes There? Who Goes There? Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written, and published with... )
Tom Easton Bill Frager Michael McKendrick	Meteor Meteor (film) Meteor is a 1979 science fiction Technicolor disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.It was directed by Ronald Neame... (1979), film/novel	Challenger-2	Near Future
	Astronauts on a spacecraft traveling to Mars Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...  that happens to look exactly like Skylab Skylab Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA, the space agency of the United States. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a mass of... .
NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... Ed Christophers, Rokby, Sylvester, Patterson, Dwyer (First names not given for the last four US crew). FKA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... Mikhail Aleksander, Vassili Karklin, Anatole Kuznetzov, Tchigorin, Ilyashenko (First names not given for the last two Russian crew). ESA European Space Agency The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states... Thomas Cavendish, Cesare Montuori, Kristian Niskanen, Axel Lorenz	The Olympus Gambit (1983), novel	Eris (renamed Pallas Athene)	Near Future
	International crew of the first manned mission to Mars.
John Mark Kelly, Lt. Rose Kumagawa Andrei Novakovich	Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while... , One Small Step (1999), TV	Ares IV	2032
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts on an early mission to Mars
Luke Graham Renée Coté Nicholas Willis Sergei Kirov Woodrow "Woody" Blake Jim McConnell Terri Fisher Phil Ohlmyer	Mission to Mars Mission to Mars Mission to Mars is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma from an original screenplay written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost. The film's story details a fictional portrayal of a manned Mars exploration mission gone awry in the year 2020... (2000), film	Unknown	c. 2020
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars and a follow-up mission to rescue them.
Lee Forbes, Cmdr. Susan Roberts Tanya Webster Paul Webster	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... Red Dawn (2000), audio play	Ares One	2000s
	Crew of privately funded NASA mission. Tanya turns out to be part-Martian.
Kate Bowman, Cmdr. Dr. Quinn Burchenal Dr. Bud Chantillas Robby Gallagher Chip Pettengill Ted Santen, Lt.	Red Planet Red Planet (film) Red Planet is a 2000 Technicolor science fiction film directed by Antony Hoffman, starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss. It was released on November 10, 2000.-Plot:... (2000), film	Mars-1	2057
	Commercially sponsored crew investigates reported oxygen reduction of automated terraforming Terraforming Terraforming of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth, in order to make it habitable by terrestrial organisms.The term is sometimes used more generally as a...  of Mars. Solar flare complicates mission and landing crew are at mercy of rogue robot.
Annie Norris, Col. (cmdr.) Tom Tyler, Maj. Sam Tyler Sam Tyler DCI/DI Sam Tyler is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars.In the original British version of Life on Mars, Tyler is played by John Simm and in the American version he is played by Jason O'Mara.... Ray Carling Ray Carling DC/DS/DI Raymond Milton "Ray" Carling is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes.-Life on Mars:... Chris Skelton Chris Skelton PC/DC Christopher "Chris" Skelton is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes.- Life on Mars :...	Life on Mars Life on Mars (U.S. TV series) Life on Mars was a science fiction crime drama television series which originally aired on ABC from October 9, 2008 to April 1, 2009. It is an adaptation of the BAFTA-winning original UK series of the same name produced by the BBC... "Life is a Rock" (2009), TV	Aries Project Hyde 1-2-5	2035
	Crew travels to Mars in suspended animation, using "neural-stims" to keep brains occupied; as a result, Sam Tyler believes he is time-traveling NYPD detective.
Adelaide Brooke, Cmdr. Ed Gold Tarak Ital Andy Stone Margaret Cain Mia Bennett Yuri Kerenski Steffi Ehrlich Roman Groom	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... The Waters of Mars The Waters of Mars "The Waters of Mars" is the second 2009 special of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, broadcast on BBC One on 15 November 2009. It aired on BBC America on 19 December 2009 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 11 January 2010 and in the US on 2 February 2010... (2009), TV	Bowie Base One	2059
	First humans on Mars (contradicting other Doctor Who stories), menaced by a water-based Martian lifeform and destined by history to die.
Jupiter
Bramley Capt, Weeke F/O, Rand Cmdr, 38 unnamed astronauts.	Plague from Space (1965), novel	Pericles	Near Future?
	Crew of the first mission to land on Jupiter. The sole survivor returns to Earth carrying a deadly disease.
Dr. David Bowman Dr. Frank Poole Frank Poole Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood.... Dr. Hunter Dr. Kimball Dr. Kaminsky	2001: A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel... (1968) film/novel	Discovery One Discovery One United States Spacecraft Discovery One is a fictional spacecraft appearing in The Space Odyssey series, including the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Discovery One is a large, nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship.-History:...	2001
	Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...  (on Iapetus Iapetus (moon) Iapetus ), occasionally Japetus , is the third-largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the Solar System. It was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671...  in the book, and Kimball was renamed Whitehead).
Guy Crayford	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... The Android Invasion The Android Invasion The Android Invasion is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 22 November to 13 December 1975. It marks the last appearance of UNIT Character Sergeant Benton... (1975), TV	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.
Tanya Kirbuk Vladimir Rudenko Vasili Orlov Heywood Floyd R. Chandra Dr. Chandra Doctor Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series of novels.... Walter Curnow Walter Curnow Walter Curnow is a fictional book character.He appears in the book and movie versions of 2010: Odyssey Two which is part of the Space Odyssey series. There, he is the American engineer who designed Discovery and was helping to build Discovery II to go back to Jupiter...	2010: Odyssey Two 2010: Odyssey Two 2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, but continues the story of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation with the same title and not Clarke's original novel. The book is a part of Clarke's... (1982), novel 2010 (1984), film	Alexei Leonov	2010
	Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One.
Hachirota Hoshino, Werner Locksmith, Hakim Ashmead, Kho Cheng-Shin, Goro Hoshino	Planetes Planetes is a Japanese hard science fiction manga by Makoto Yukimura. It was adapted as a 26-episode television anime by Sunrise, which was broadcast on NHK from October 2003 through April 2004... (2003), anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....	Von Braun	2075
	First manned space mission to Jupiter.
Kim Kronotska, Cmdr. Tom Braudy Samuel (no last name given)	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... Memory Lane (2006), audio play	Led Zeppelin IV	2010s (?)
	Commonwealth Space Programme mission to Jupiter that goes wrong.
Saturn
Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (aka Sean Geoffrey, Sean Jeffrey)	Star Trek Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969... , Tomorrow Is Yesterday Tomorrow Is Yesterday (TOS episode) "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episode #19, production #21, first broadcast on January 26, 1967, repeated July 13, 1967, and was remastered in 2006 for syndication broadcast on May 5, 2007. The teleplay was written by D.C... (1967), TV	Unknown	Early 21st century
	Leader of the first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,... .
Steve West, Col.	The Incredible Melting Man The Incredible Melting Man The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction horror film about an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to Saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive... (1977), film	Scorpio V	Future
	Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to Saturn Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,... .
Other
Sky Masters, Maj.	Sky Masters Sky Masters Sky Masters of the Space Force was an American, syndicated newspaper comic strip created by writer Dave Wood and penciler Jack Kirby, featuring the adventures of an American astronaut.-Conception:...  of the Space Force (1958–61), comic	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronaut in the United States Space Force.
Zeus IV Glyn Williams Dan Schultz Zeus V Terry Cutler	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... The Tenth Planet The Tenth Planet The Tenth Planet is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 October to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell's last regular appearance as the First Doctor, and the first story to feature the Cybermen... (1966), TV	Zeus IV Zeus V	1986 (2000 in some sources)
	International Space Command astronauts in Zeus spacecraft (similar to Gemini). Zeus IV explodes, killing Williams and Schultz; Zeus V had already been launched for rescue attempt.
Andros V Unnamed American Astronauts Zond 19 Unnamed Soviet Cosmonauts	The Andromeda Strain The Andromeda Strain The Andromeda Strain , by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity... (1969), novel	Andros Project Manned mission to Mars A manned mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction, engineering, and scientific proposals throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century... Andros V Zond Project Soviet Moonshot The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land a man on the Moon in competition with the United States Apollo program to achieve the same goal set publicly by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961... Zond 19 Soyuz 7K-L3 The Soyuz 7K-LOK, or simply LOK was a Soviet spacecraft designed to launch men from Earth to circle the moon and developed in parallel to the 7K-L1. The LOK would carry two cosmonauts into orbit around the Moon, acting as "mother" spacecraft for the LK Lander, which would land one member of the...	Near Future
	Astronauts killed when the Andromeda organism destroys the heat shields of their spacecraft on re-entry.
William "Buck" Rogers Buck Rogers Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue.... , Capt.	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired.... (1979–81), TV	Ranger 3	1987
	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...  astronaut whose voyage in a Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... -like "deep space probe" results in suspended animation
Wayfarer 1; Theodore Ludendorff Cmdr, Five unnamed astronauts Wayfarer 2; Jake Ryder, Speed Spencer, Faye McFarland, Boris Mechanov, Ada Lin, Irwin Rote Von Braun; Ki Susato, Unnamed astronauts.	Reach (1989), novel	Wayfarer Program Wayfarer 1 Wayfarer 2 Space Station Space station A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing... Von Braun	2037–2040
	When the first expedition to a mysterious cluster of objects passing outside the orbit of Pluto meets trouble a second expedition is sent to investigate.

To Infinity and Beyond

Astronauts performing or attempting feats beyond the capabilities of the present or near future, such as interstellar travel.

Name(s)	Appeared in	Program / Mission / Spaceship	Fictional date
Reed Richards Mister Fantastic Mr. Fantastic is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero and a member of the Fantastic Four. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 .... , Susan Storm Invisible Woman Susan "Sue" Storm Richards is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961, and was the first female superhero created by Marvel in the Silver Age of Comics... , Johnny Storm Human Torch The Human Torch is a fictional character and superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, he is a member of the superhero team the Fantastic Four, debuting in The Fantastic Four #1... , Benjamin Grimm Thing (comics) The Thing is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1...	Fantastic Four Fantastic Four The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium... (1961–present), comic	Experimental interstellar spacecraft	Contemporary
	Private space venture, astronauts bizarrely affected by cosmic ray Cosmic ray Cosmic rays are energetic charged subatomic particles, originating from outer space. They may produce secondary particles that penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and surface. The term ray is historical as cosmic rays were thought to be electromagnetic radiation... s.
Col. Steve Zodiac, Professor Matthew Matic, Venus	Fireball XL5 Fireball XL5 Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol... (1962), TV	Fireball XL5 Fireball XL5 Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol...	2062
	Commander of the Fireball XL5 of the World Space Patrol.
Cap. Larry Dart, Slim, Husky	Space Patrol Space Patrol (1962 TV series) Space Patrol is a science-fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in the United Kingdom in 1962. It was written and produced by Roberta Leigh in association with the Associated British Corporation.-Summary:... (1963), TV	Space Patrol Space Patrol (1962 TV series) Space Patrol is a science-fiction television series featuring marionettes that was produced in the United Kingdom in 1962. It was written and produced by Roberta Leigh in association with the Associated British Corporation.-Summary:...	2100
	Commander of Galasphere 347 of the Space Patrol.
Zefram Cochrane Zefram Cochrane Zefram Cochrane is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett. James Cromwell later played Cochrane in the 1996 feature film Star Trek: First...	Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek: The Original Series Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...  (Metamorphosis) (1967), TV Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: First Contact is the eighth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, released in November 1996, by Paramount Pictures. First Contact is the first film in the franchise to feature no cast members from the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s... (1996), film	Phoenix	2063
	First use of warp drive Warp drive (Star Trek) Warp drive is a faster-than-light propulsion system in the setting of many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek. A spacecraft equipped with a warp drive may travel at velocities greater than that of light by many orders of magnitude, while circumventing the relativistic problem of time...  by an Earth vessel in the Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...  timeline.
George Taylor, Col. Dodge, Landon, Stewart	Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes (1968 film) Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison... (1968), film	Icarus	1972
	ANSA astronauts on an interstellar mission, perhaps to Bellatrix.
Robert O'Bannion, Andrei Voronov, Carlos Pascual, May Connearney, Sidney Lee, Doris McNerty, Aaron Hatfield, Jerry Grote, Chen Shu Li, Alicia Montiverdi, Lou D'Orazio, Marlene Ettinger, and other unnamed astronauts	As On A Darkling Plain (1972), novel	Unknown	Near Future
	Astronauts on missions to Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...  & Sirius Sirius Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...
John Cope, Five unnamed astronauts	Cold Fusion (1999), novel	Argos Program Argos 2	Near Future
	Crew of the first manned expedition to another solar system.

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 and Jane Apollo, 1968 plastic toys with accessories including a "Moon Rover".
• Barbie
  Barbie
  Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration....
  
  , the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume, in the 1960s.
• Billy Blastoff
  Billy Blastoff
  The toyline known as Billy Blastoff incorporated several versions of a four-inch tall, plastic, child-faced adventurer produced by Eldon in the late 60's and early 70's. The concept appears to have been licensed from Tomy by Eldon for distribution in the US, Canada and Europe...
  
  , an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s.
• The Major Matt Mason
  Major Matt Mason
  Major Matt Mason was an action figure created by Mattel, an astronaut who lived and worked on the moon. When introduced in 1966, the figures were initially based on design information found in Life Magazine, Air Force Magazine, Jane's, and other aviation- and space-interest periodicals...
  
   line of toys from 1968, including Major Mason himself, Lt. Jeff Long, Sgt. Storm, and Doug Davis.
• Moon McDare
  Moon McDare
  Moon McDare was a A. C. Gilbert Company toy line featuring a fictional male astronaut, released in response to the then current interest in outer space and the US/Soviet Space Race...
  
  , a generic astronaut figure from 1965, packaged with various accessories.