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People in space
From Yuri Gagarin to Alper Gezeravcı, the story of the people who have gone to space. See live who is in orbit right now, meet Türkiye’s astronauts and follow the pioneers and the records.
Live
Who is in orbit right now?
The crews on the space stations, with the days spent on this mission and their total time in space. The list refreshes every hour.
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Türkiye
Turkish astronauts
Two astronauts selected under the Turkish Space Agency’s National Space Programme flew to space in 2024.
Alper Gezeravcı
A Turkish Air Force pilot. He flew to the International Space Station on SpaceX Crew Dragon in Axiom Space’s Ax-3 mission and ran 13 science experiments prepared by Turkish universities and institutions.
- Mission
- Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3)
- Launch
- 18 January 2024 · Falcon 9
- Return
- 9 February 2024
- Crew
- Michael López-Alegría, Walter Villadei, Marcus Wandt
Tuva Cihangir Atasever
The backup astronaut for Ax-3. On a suborbital flight aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane he crossed the edge of space and carried out experiments prepared by Turkish scientists.
- Mission
- Galactic 07
- Flight
- 8 June 2024 · suborbital
- Vehicle
- VSS Unity (Virgin Galactic)
History
Pioneers
The first human in space and in orbit, aboard Vostok 1.
The first woman in space; three days in orbit alone.
The first spacewalk; he had to vent his ballooning suit to get back inside.
The first humans to walk on the Moon (Apollo 11).
The first American woman in space.
The first Arab and first Muslim astronaut.
The longest single spaceflight: 437 days on Mir.
China’s first astronaut, making China the third nation to launch a human.
The first woman to command the space station; the most spacewalks by a woman (10).
The first person to spend more than 1,000 days in space; 1,111 days in total.
The longest single flight by a woman (328 days); in 2026 the first woman to travel to the Moon, on Artemis II.
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen: the first people to the Moon since 1972 and the farthest any crew has travelled from Earth.
Records
Records of humans in space
Valeri Polyakov, Mir station (1994–95)
Oleg Kononenko, over five missions (2024)
Artemis II, April 2026
Anatoly Solovyev
Frank Rubio (2022–23)
Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, Polaris Dawn
Watch the Space Station on the live stream, spot it in tonight’s sky with the ISS pass finder, and read about the future of crewed flight in Human spaceflight and stations.
- People in space now: The Space Devs, Launch Library 2 (updated hourly).
- Turkish astronauts: Turkish Space Agency, Axiom Space and Virgin Galactic announcements.
- Pioneers and records: NASA, Roscosmos, ESA and CNSA records; Artemis II: NASA, April 2026.
Last updated: 2 November 2026