# List of fictional astronauts (exploration of outer Solar System)

Lists of fictional astronauts :
| Early period | Project Mercury | Project Gemini |
| Project Apollo | 1975–1989 | 1990–1999 |
| 2000–2009 | 2010–2029 | Moon |
| Inner Solar System | Outer Solar System | Other |
| Far future |||
The following is a list of fictional astronauts exploring the outer Solar System.

## Jupiter

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| K. "Fuj" Fuji (Japan) F. Glenn (United States) | Invasion of Astro-Monster (a.k.a. Monster Zero, Battle of the Astros, Godzilla Vs Monster Zero) (1965), film | World Space Agency (WSA): Spaceship P-1 | 196X [sic] |
| Astronauts on mission to "Planet X", newly discovered satellite of 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. Revised as The Jupiter Plague (1982). |||
| David Bowman, Dr. (Commander) Frank Poole, Dr. (Co-Pilot) Charles Hunter, Dr. Jack R. Kimball, Dr. Victor F. Kaminsky, Dr. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), film/novel | National Council of Astronautics (US): Discovery One | 1999 – 2001 |
| Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near Jupiter (on Iapetus in the book, and Kimball was renamed Whitehead). |||
| Guy Crayford, Cmdr. | Doctor Who The Android Invasion (1975), TV (1978 novel) | XK-5 Space Raider | Contemporary/Near Future |
| 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. |||
| 30 unnamed astronauts (15 men, 15 women) | The Better Angels (1979), novel | United States: Humanity (mother ship) Landing craft | c. 1992 – 1996 |
| Astronauts who arrive on Ganymede after four-year voyage. |||
| Alexei Leonov: Tanya Kirbuk (Soviet Air Force) (Commander) Vladimir Rudenko Vasili Orlov, Dr. Maxim "Max" Brailovsky Irina Yakunina Heywood R. Floyd, Dr. (US) R. Chandra, Dr. (US) Walter Curnow, Dr. (Engineer) (US) Tsien: Chang, Professor (First name not given) Lee, Dr. (First name not given) Three unnamed astronauts | 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), novel 2010 (a.k.a. 2010: The Year We Make Contact) (1984), film | Alexei Leonov Tsien (China) | 2010 |
| Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One. Tsien makes disastrous first crewed landing on Europa. |||
| Amity: Mac McGuire Marjorie "Marj" Aubuchon (Surgeon) Ed Iseminger Greenswallow: Herman Selma (Mission commander) Catherine "Cathie" Perth (Journalist) Rob Sawyer Tolstoi: Victor Landolfi Esther Crowley Unnamed astronaut Catherine Perth: Ed Iseminger Unnamed crew | Promises to Keep (1984), short story | The Program: Amity Greenswallow Tolstoi (three Athena vehicles) Catherine Perth | Future (December) |
| Expedition to Jovian system in three linked vehicles. Catherine Perth, equipped with fusion engine, is built for rescue mission to be launched six years later. Frank Steinitz is named as commander of first Saturn expedition aboard five Athena vehicles (including Amity, Greenswallow and Tolstoi) fifteen years earlier. |||
| Jacob Hols Juliet "Julie" Burton Martha Kivelsen | The Very Pulse of The Machine (1998), short story | First Galilean Satellites Exploratory Mission | Future (Late 21st century?) |
| First crewed landing on Io leads to major discoveries and tragedy. Landing site near Daedalus. |||
| Hachirota Hoshino Werner Locksmith Hakim Ashmead Kho Cheng-Shin Goro Hoshino | Planetes (2003), anime | Von Braun | 2075 |
| First crewed space mission to Jupiter. |||
| Matthew David (Commander) (no last name given) Kara Elizabeth (Exobiologist) (no last name given) Jeff "Wink" Winkermann | The Constellation of Sylvie (2005), novel | NASA: Heartland (CSM/LEM) | Near Future (2032 – 2040?) |
| First crewed mission to Jupiter gathers ice containing biomorphing microbes from Jovian moon, causing crew to revert to childhood. Landing near Mount Pwyll. |||
| Kim Kronotska, Cmdr. Tom Braudy Samuel (no last name given) | Doctor Who Memory Lane (2006), audio play | Led Zeppelin IV | 2010s (?) |
| Commonwealth Space Programme mission to Jupiter that goes wrong. |||
| Yuri Lennon, Capt. | Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (2010), short film | Little Girl (lander) | Future |
| Astronaut lands on moon of Jupiter to investigate mysterious signal. Mission control in Houston. |||
| Michael Forrest (Commander/Pilot) Nathaniel "Nathan" Miller (Biologist/Geologist/Oceanographer/Doctor) | Astronaut: The Last Push (aka The Last Push) (2012), film | Moffitt Industries: Life One "Little Ahab" (submersible) | 2017 – 2022 |
| Mission to Europa with Venus gravity assist goes wrong when micrometeoroid strikes spacecraft. |||
| Dun "William" Xu (Commander) Rosa Dasque (Pilot/Archivist) Daniel Luxembourg, Dr. (Chief Science Officer) Katya Petrovna, Dr. (Science Officer) Andrei Blok (Chief Engineer) James Corrigan (Engineer) | Europa Report (2013), film | Europa Ventures: Europa One | Near Future |
| First crewed mission to Europa discovers life under the ice. Landing in Conamara Chaos, near Thera Macula and Thrace Macula. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Voice Over (2013), short film | Unknown | Future |
| Astronaut trying to reach oxygen supply after crash landing, possibly on one of Jupiter's moons. |||
| Gordon Harper, Ph.D. (Commander) (USAF) Tal (Pilot/Physicist) Nisha T. Devi (Engineer) (India) Ivanov (Astrogeologist/Physician) (Russia) "Sully" Sullivan, Ph.D. (Mission Specialist) Thebes (Engineer) (South Africa) | Good Morning, Midnight (2016), novel | Shuttle Aether Landing modules International Space Station Soyuz | Future (21st century) |
| Astronauts returning to Earth from Jupiter after losing contact with Mission Control; made landings on Ganymede and Callisto. Harper and Sullivan are ISS veterans; Harper holds world record for greatest number of spaceflights. |||
| Quebec Space Agency: Luc Côté, OQ (CEO) Projet-M: Vincent Köhler, OQ (Commander) Andréa Sakedaris, OQ (Dr.) (Scientific Officer) Jonathan "Jo" Leforest, OQ (Mission Specialist) Justine Roberval, OQ (Flight Specialist) German National Station: Philip Dreker (Commander) Russian National Station: Kelvin Ivanovitch Droski (Commander) Two unnamed cosmonauts | 1000 Days in Space (a.k.a. Project-M) (2018), film | Agence Spatiale Québécoise/Quebec Space Agency Projet-M (Project-M): M-Station (space station) Escape capsule German National Station Russian National Station Soyuz | Future |
| Astronauts spending 1000 days on space station to prove viability of mission to Europa when nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Köhler was the second man on Mars. Côté previously flew in Earth orbit with Sky Xplorer Industries, an American company. |||
| Amy Michaels (NASA) (Commander) Francesca Rossi (ESA) (Mission Pilot) Hayato Masukoshi (JAXA) (Engineer) Martin Neumayer (ESA) (Engineer) Jiaying Lin (CNSA) (Exobiologist/Geologist) | The Io Encounter (2018), novel | ILSE Landing modules | 2046 – 2049 |
| Crewed mission to Jupiter's moon Io to search for life. The ILSE return to Earth from Saturn Moon's Enceladus and Titan |||

## Saturn

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| Renaissance: Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (a.k.a. Sean Geoffrey, Sean Jeffrey, Sean Jeoffrey), Col. (Commander) Shirin Ludden, Cmdr. (Pilot) Lewis & Clark: Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (Commander) Alice Fontana, Capt. (Canada) (Co-Pilot) Marcus O'Herlihy, Dr. | Star Trek Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967), TV Star Trek The Rings of Time (2012), novel | Space Shuttle Renaissance U.S.S. Lewis & Clark | June 2020 – January 2021 |
| The first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn. |||
| Stan Brandon, Maj. (New Zealand) (Pilot) Nissim Ben-Haim, Dr. (Israel) (Physicist) Aldo Gabrielli, Dr. (US) (Electronic Engineer) | "Pressure" (1969), short story | C. Huygens (aka "the Ball") | Future |
| First crewed attempt to reach surface of Saturn. C. Huygens is a ball-shaped craft assembled at Saturn One satellite station. |||
| Steve West, Col. Two other astronauts | The Incredible Melting Man (1977), film | Scorpio V Scorpio VII | Future |
| Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to Saturn. |||
| Cirocco "Rocky" Jones, Capt. (Mission Commander) Bill (Chief Engineer) (no last name given) Calvin Greene, Dr. (Surgeon/Biologist/Ecologist) Gaby Plauget (Astronomer) April 15/02 Polo (Physicist) August 3/02 Polo (Physicist) Eugene Springfield (Satellite Excursion Module Pilot) | Titan (1979), novel | NASA DSV Ringmaster | 2025 |
| NASA astronauts who discover alien artifact in orbit around Saturn. The Polo sisters are clones. |||
| Jean Broberg (Physicist) Mark Danzig (Chemist) Luis Garcilaso (Pilot) Colin Scobie (Geologist) | The Saturn Game (1981), novella | Moon lander | c. 2057 |
| Expedition from colony-size ship Chronos makes first crewed landing on Iapetus, but is endangered by expedition members' absorption in a fantasy role-playing game. |||
| NTI geological research team: Ted Lonergan Howard Dunn Concorde: Unnamed mission coordinator Unnamed technicians Shenandoah: David Perkins (Mission Commander) Mike Davidson, Cmdr. (Captain) Melanie Bryce (Security Officer) Susan Delambre (Scientist) Beth Sladen (Engineer) Jon Fennel (Researcher) Wendy H. Oliver, Dr. (Biophysicist/Medic) Richter Dynamics spacecraft: Hans Rudy Hofner 21 unnamed personnel | Creature (a.k.a. The Titan Find) (1985), film | NTI Corporation (United States): Concorde (space station orbiting Earth's Moon) Shenandoah Richter Dynamics (West Germany) | Future (from April 5) |
| Personnel from rival companies searching for alien artifacts on Titan. |||
| Alan Greene (Expedition overseer) Consuelo Hong (Organic chemist) Elizabeth O'Brien | "Slow Life" (2002), novelette | NAFTASA: Clement Harry Stubbs (lander) | Future |
| Astronauts on expedition to Titan. |||
| Unnamed cosmonaut | Glory to the Conquerors of Space (2008), short film | Soviet Union (Soyuz?) | Unknown |
| Female cosmonaut meets purple-skinned humanoids on Titan. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | The Forgotten Astronaut (2013), short film | Space Shuttle Voyager 6 | 2012 |
| Astronaut returns from secret mission to Saturn, but no one on Earth remembers him. Mission launched c. early 1980s. |||
| Jack Harper (USA) (Mission Commander) Victoria "Vika" Olsen (UK) Yulia Rusakova (Russia) K. Ishioka (Japan) Five unnamed astronauts | Oblivion (2013), film | NASA: Odyssey | c. 2017 |
| Crewed mission to Saturn's moon Titan is diverted to investigate a strange extraterrestrial tetrahedral object. Harper and Olsen are abducted and cloned, while the other hibernating crew members automatically return to Earth. The Odyssey was launched in 2015 and encounters the object in 2017. |||
| Amy Michaels (NASA) (Mission Commander) Francesca Rossi (ESA) (Mission Pilot) Hayato Masukoshi (JAXA) (Engineer) Martin Neumayer (ESA) (Engineer) Jiaying Lin (CNSA) (Exobiologist/Geologist) Dmitri "Mytia" Marchenko (FKA) (Physician/Biochemist) | The Enceladus Mission (2017), novel The Titan Probe (2018), novel | ILSE Landing modules | 2046 – 2049 |
| International mission travels to Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan to search for life. |||
| Unnamed astronauts | What If You Fell Into Saturn? (2018), short film | NASA | Future |
| Educational cartoon about what would happen if spacewalking astronaut fell into Saturn. |||
| Ashley Maverick, Dr. Chaser I: Tom (no last name given) | Titan (2019), short film | NASA: Chaser I | c. 2068 |
| NASA astronaut on solo mission to colonize Titan. Chaser spacecraft has FTL engines. Dr. Maverick pioneered commercial interplanetary exploration with flight to Karman Line. |||
| Franks, Capt. John Nash | Slingshot (2024), film | Odyssey 1 | Future |
| Mission to Titan (with gravity assist at Jupiter) which may or may not be what it seems. |||

## Uranus

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| Eric Nilsson, Cmdr. (Denmark) Donald Graham, Capt. Karl Heinrich, Lt. Cmdr. (Astrogator) Barry O'Sullivan (Ireland) (Communications Officer) Svend Viltoft (Chief Engineer) | Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), film | United Nations: Explorer 12 | 2001 |
| Astronauts on Uranus encounter dangers drawn from their own minds. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | The Old Astronaut (2014), short film | NASA | Future |
| Elderly veteran of missions to Mercury, Venus and Mars plots to crash spacecraft into Uranus. |||

## Neptune

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| Event Horizon: John Kilpack (Captain) Chris Chambers Ben Fender Janice Reuben Dick Smith Lewis & Clark: S.J. Miller, Capt. M.I. Starck, Lt. (Executive Officer) T.F. "Coop" Cooper (Rescue Technician) D.J. (EMS/Trauma) (no last name given) F.M. "Baby Bear" Justin (Engineering) Peters (Medical Technician) (no first name given) W.F. "Smitty" Smith (Pilot) William Weir, Dr. (IASA) Rescue 1: Unnamed crewmembers | Event Horizon (1997), film | Daylight Station (space station) Event Horizon US Aerospace Command (U.S.A.C.): Lewis & Clark Rescue 1 | 2047 |
| Event Horizon launched in 2040 on mission to Proxima Centauri with experimental "gravity drive"; disappears on January 23, 2040. The ship reappears in Neptune space in 2047; Lewis & Clark is sent to investigate. Dr. Weir was the Event Horizon's designer. Edmund "Eddie" Corrick, a bosun, served with Miller on the Goliath and was killed in an onboard fire. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Empsillnes (2015), short film | Unknown | Future |
| Lone astronaut confronts menacing spacecraft in orbit of planet that appears to be Neptune. |||
| Unnamed astronauts | Atlas (2016), short film | United Nations: Odyssey | 2066 – October 5, 2068 |
| Odyssey disappears 900 days into mission to outer Solar System to investigate Atlas-157, a mysterious object in Neptunian orbit. Odyssey traveled to Neptune via Jupiter and Saturn. Mission controlled from Houston. |||
| Thomas Pruitt, Col. Lima Project: H. Clifford McBride, Dr. (USAF) (Commander) Unnamed astronauts Cepheus: Lawrence Tanner, Capt. (Commander) Donald Stanford (Co-pilot) Lorraine Deavers Franklin Yoshida Roy R. McBride, Maj. | Ad Astra (2019), film | United States Space Command (SPACECOM): Lima Project Cepheus | Near Future |
| Lima Project spacecraft disappeared on mission to Neptune. Years later, Roy McBride travels to Mars to attempt contact with his father, H. Clifford McBride, when mysterious power surges from Lima Project threaten rest of Solar System. |||