GordonD Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 There was a mention of the order in which various countries have had people go into space. This is the order: 1 USSR 12 Apr 1961 Yuri Gagarin Vostok 1 2 USA 5 May 1961 Alan Shepard Mercury 3 (Freedom 7) (This was a sub-orbital flight. The first American in orbit was John Glenn) 3 Czechoslovakia 2 Mar 1978 Vladimir Remek Soyuz 28 4 Poland 27 Jun 1978 Miroslaw Hermaszewski Soyuz 30 5 East Germany 26 Aug 1978 Sigmund Jähn Soyuz 31 6 Bulgaria 10 Apr 1979 Georgi Ivanov Soyuz 33 7 Hungary 26 May 1980 Bertalan Farkas Soyuz 36 8 Vietnam 23 Jul 1980 Pham Tuan Soyuz 37 9 Cuba 18 Sep 1980 Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez Soyuz 38 10 Mongolia 22 Mar 1981 Zhugderdemidyin Gurragcha Soyuz 39 11 Rumania 14 May 1981 Dumitru Prunariu Soyuz 40 12 France 24 Jun 1982 Jean-Loup Chrétien Soyuz T-6 13 West Germany 28 Nov 1983 Ulf Merbold STS-9/Spacelab 1 14 India 3 Apr 1984 Rakesh Sharma Soyuz T-11 15 Canada 5 Oct 1984 Marc Garneau STS-41G 16 Saudi Arabia 17 Jun 1985 Prince Sultan Salman Abdul Aziz Al-Saud STS-51G 17 Netherlands 30 Oct 1985 Wubbo Ockels STS-61A/Spacelab D-1 18 Mexico 26 Nov 1985 Rodolfo Neri STS-61B 19 Syria 22 Jul 1987 Muhammed Faris Soyuz TM-3 20 Afghanistan 29 Aug 1988 Abdulahad Mohmand Soyuz TM-6 21 Japan 2 Dec 1990 Toyohiro Akiyama Soyuz TM-11 22 United Kingdom 18 May 1991 Helen Sharman Soyuz TM-12 (The UK is the first country whose first astronaut is female) = 23 Kazakhstan 2 Oct 1991 Toktar Aubarikov Soyuz TM-13 = 23 Austria 2 Oct 1991 Franz Viehboeck Soyuz TM-13 25 Belgium 24 Mar 1992 Dirk Firmout STS-45 = 26 Italy 31 Jul 1992 Franco Malerba STS-46 = 26 Switzerland 31 Jul 1992 Claude Nicollier STS-46 28 Ukraine 19 Nov 1997 Leonid Kadenyuk STS-87 29 Spain 29 Oct 1998 Pedro Duque STS-95 30 Slovakia 20 Feb 1999 Ivan Bella Soyuz TM-29 31 South Africa 25 Apr 2002 Mark Shuttleworth Soyuz TM-34 32 Israel 16 Jan 2003 Ilan Ramon STS-107 (died when spacecraft broke up during re-entry) 33 China 15 Oct 2003 Yang Liwei Shenzhou 5 34 Brazil 30 Mar 2006 Marcos Pontes Soyuz TMA-8 35 Sweden 10 December 2006 Christer Fuglesang STS-116 36 Malaysia 10 October 2007 Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Soyuz TMA-11 37 South Korea 8 Apr 2008 Yi So-yeon Soyuz TMA-12 38 Denmark 2 September 2015 Andreas Mogensen Soyuz TMA-18M 39 United Arab Emirates 25 September 2019 Hazzaa Al Mansoori Soyuz MS-15 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 go Great Britain! China being 33rd was a surprise. Thought they'd be further up the pecking order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 3 hours ago, Mike said: go Great Britain! China being 33rd was a surprise. Thought they'd be further up the pecking order. Well, if you count countries who launched their own people rather than hitching a lift, they're third! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 1 hour ago, GordonD said: Well, if you count countries who launched their own people rather than hitching a lift, they're third! That explains a lot actually. It's been a weird day and I'm not very thinky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 BTW apologies for the layout of the original post - I tried to post in the form of a table but couldn't get it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 9 minutes ago, Rob G said: Australia should be on the list somewhere too. Paul Scully-Power, from Sydney, was an oceanographer who flew as a shuttle payload specialist in 1984 (STS-41-G). He had to become a US citizen to do it, but even so... That's why he's not on the list! Bjarni Tryggvason was born in Iceland but was a Canadian citizen when he flew on STS-85. And if you really want to get picky, Italy should be third on the list because Mike Collins was born in Rome! It goes by citizenship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 3 hours ago, GordonD said: That's why he's not on the list! Bjarni Tryggvason was born in Iceland but was a Canadian citizen when he flew on STS-85. And if you really want to get picky, Italy should be third on the list because Mike Collins was born in Rome! It goes by citizenship. Odd that my post was resurrected, I removed the text and hid it. Guess BM's still playing silly buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Interesting list. Britain should have been earlier in that list as well. RAF Squadron Leader Nigel Wood was chosen as a payload specialist to accompany the launch of the British military communications satellite Skynet 4 - which was scheduled for launch on a space shuttle mission in 1986. However, the Challenger accident caused this flight to be cancelled and the subsequent Skynet launches were all launched atop expendable, unmanned, rockets. So Wood never got to fly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 03/10/2019 at 14:25, GordonD said: That's why he's not on the list! Bjarni Tryggvason was born in Iceland but was a Canadian citizen when he flew on STS-85. And if you really want to get picky, Italy should be third on the list because Mike Collins was born in Rome! It goes by citizenship. A number of non US nationals obtained US citizenship so that they would be eligible to fly as NASA astronauts. Two Brits who did this were the late Piers Sellers and Michael Foale. However, I don't think Collins was ever an Italian citizen, despite being born in Rome. His dad was a high ranking US Army air attaché based in Italy at the time of Mike's birth so Collins was always a US citizen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted November 26, 2019 Author Share Posted November 26, 2019 15 hours ago, Eric Mc said: A number of non US nationals obtained US citizenship so that they would be eligible to fly as NASA astronauts. Two Brits who did this were the late Piers Sellers and Michael Foale. However, I don't think Collins was ever an Italian citizen, despite being born in Rome. His dad was a high ranking US Army air attaché based in Italy at the time of Mike's birth so Collins was always a US citizen. Oh, I wasn't being serious. I know citizenship and place of birth are two different things. But you can win bets by asking people who was the first man to win Wimbledon who was born in West Germany - the answer isn't Boris Becker, but John McEnroe, who was born in Wiesbaden. Like Collins, his dad was in the US Air Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I see Russia is still waiting to go! 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 On 02/10/2019 at 12:31, Mike said: go Great Britain! China being 33rd was a surprise. Thought they'd be further up the pecking order. Nobody wanted to give them a lift. They had to wait until they'd built and designed their own spacecraft and launcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Bandsaw Steve said: I see Russia is still waiting to go! 🤪 Russia is the only country to have citizens landing before any were launched! Sergei Krikalev and Aleksandr Volkov were aboard Mir as Expedition 10 when the USSR broke up. So they were launched as Soviets and landed as Russians. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, GordonD said: Russia is the only country to have citizens landing before any were launched! What an interesting fact! That’s really cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circloy Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 On 02/10/2019 at 11:53, GordonD said: 22 United Kingdom 18 May 1991 Helen Sharman Soyuz TM-12 (The UK is the first country whose first astronaut is female) Helen Sharmen's most infamous moment happened less than two months later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O2DlC_zxMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 In a John F Kennedy style voice - "And the torch is passed on to a new generation ....... oh fiddlesticks". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 10 hours ago, Circloy said: Helen Sharmen's most infamous moment happened less than two months later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O2DlC_zxMs I've never seen that before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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