The following is a list of persons from Spanish-speaking countries or of Hispanic descent who have travelled into space, sorted by date of first flight.
The first country listed is that of citizenship; the second, if any, is that of the Spanish-speaking country of birth or ancestry.
| # | Image | Name Birth date |
Country | Comment | Missions (Launch date) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Arnaldo-tamayo.jpg | Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez January 29, 1942 |
Template:CUB | First person from Latin America to fly in space. First black person to fly in space. | Soyuz 38 (September 18, 1980) |
| 2 | 
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Rodolfo Neri Vela February 19, 1952 |
Template:Flag/core | First Mexican in space. | STS-61-B (November 26, 1985) |
| 3 | 
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Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 |
United States (Template:CRI) |
First Costa Rican Hispanic astronaut | STS-61-C (January 12, 1986) STS-34 (October 18, 1989) STS-46 (July 31, 1992) STS-60 (February 3, 1994) STS-75 (February 22, 1996) STS-91 (June 2, 1998) STS-111 (June 5, 2002) |
| 4 | 
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Sidney M. Gutierrez June 27, 1951 |
United States | First U.S.-born Hispanic astronaut | STS-40 (June 5, 1991) STS-59 (April 9, 1994) |
| 5 | 
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Ellen Ochoa May 10, 1958 |
United States (Template:Flag/core) |
First female Hispanic astronaut | STS-56 (April 8, 1993) STS-66 (November 3, 1994) STS-96 (May 27, 1999) STS-110 (April 8, 2002) |
| 6 | 
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Michael Lopez-Alegria May 30, 1958 |
United States (Template:ESP) |
First Spanish-born astronaut | STS-73 (October 20, 1995) STS-92 (October 11, 2000) STS-113 (November 24, 2002) Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18, 2006) |
| 7 | 
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Carlos I. Noriega October 8, 1959 |
United States (Template:PER) |
First Peruvian-born astronaut | STS-84 (May 15, 1997) STS-97 (November 30, 2000) |
| 8 | 
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Pedro Duque March 14, 1963 |
Template:ESP | First Spanish astronaut | STS-95 (October 29, 1998) Soyuz TMA-3/2 (October 18, 2003) |
| 9 | 
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John D. Olivas May 25, 1965 |
United States (Template:Flag/core) |
STS-117 (June 8, 2007) STS-128 (August 28, 2009) | |
| 10 | 
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George D. Zamka June 29, 1962 |
United States (Template:COL) |
STS-120 (October 23, 2007) STS-130 (February 8, 2010) | |
| 11 | 
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Joseph M. Acaba May 17, 1967 |
United States (Template:PRI) |
First Puerto Rican astronaut | STS-119 (March 15, 2009) Soyuz TMA-04M (May 15, 2012) |
| 12 | 
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Jose Hernández August 7, 1962 |
United States (Template:Flag/core) |
STS-128 (August 28, 2009) |
Other Hispanic astronauts[]
| Image | Name Birth date |
Country | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Serena M. Auñón Apr. 9, 1976 |
United States (Template:CUB) |
Astronaut candidate. |
| Jose Lopez Falcon February 8, 1950 |
Template:CUB | Backup for Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez on Soyuz 38 | |
| Ricardo Peralta y Fabi |
Template:Flag/core | Backup for Rodolfo Neri Vela on STS-61-B | |
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Fernando Caldeiro June 12, 1958 |
United States (Template:Flag/core) |
Died October 3, 2009. |
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Christopher Loria July 9, 1960 |
United States | Retired as astronaut 2005. |
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