# List of fictional astronauts (modern period, works released 2010–2029)

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 from recent times, using the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and other spaceflight technologies, as depicted in works released between 2010 and 2029.

## 2010–2019

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| (2010–2019) ||||
| Astronaut Audrey | The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (2010–2019), TV series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Space! (2017), TV special | Space Station | Contemporary |
| Recurring character and friend of The Cat in the Hat. |||
| Keith Palmer (Founder/CEO) Beau Lendell (Pilot) Dominic Cross (Passenger) Sam Gardner (Passenger) | CSI: Miami Miami, We Have a Problem (2010), TV | Prime Mover Aerospace: Orbiter | Contemporary |
| Gardner is murdered aboard commercial spacecraft in low Earth orbit and his body dumped from helicopter. |||
| International Space Station: Krashinsky Space Eagle: Oleg Olesky (Captain) Tyler Kirkpatrick (Co-Pilot) Vladimir Fedorov Delia Chase (Passenger) | Endgame Huxley, We Have a Problem (2011), TV | International Space Station Chase Galactic: Space Eagle | Contemporary |
| ISS veteran Olesky, slated to captain first commercial space carrier, is accused of murder. Kirkpatrick is a former NASA astronaut. |||
| Shenzhou 10: Chaoyang Xie, Lt. Col. Wu Changfeng, Maj. Xue Yimeng, Lt. Shenzhou 11: Zhang Tiancong, Col. Wang Guan San, Lt. Col. Zhou Xiaosu, Lt. | 《飞天》 (2011) (English title Flying), Chinese film | Shenzhou program | 2008 – 2014 |
| Chinese dramatization of a series of the crewed spaceflights, following the "real" Shenzhou 7, to China's space station. Col. Zhang is a veteran taikonaut, passed over for the earlier crewed missions, while Lieutenants Xue and Zhou are female fighter pilots, competing for the honor of being the first Chinese woman to be launched into space. |||
| Eric Johnson (USN) | Launch (2011), short film | NASA | Contemporary |
| Pilot selected for NASA Astronaut Group 21 learns his wife has cancer. |||
| Lee James Miller, Capt. | Love (2011), film | Space Shuttle International Space Station | 2039 – 2045 |
| First astronaut in space in almost twenty years is stranded aboard ISS. Miller loses contact with Mission Control on July 7, 2039; he remains on ISS until at least 2045. |||
| Makarand "Mac" Joshi (India) Five unnamed astronauts | Nothingness (2011), short film | NASA: Ralford 11 (space probe) | November 11, 2011 |
| Astronauts on mission to learn what happens after death. |||
| Sergei Kushnirov Three unnamed astronauts/cosmonauts | Phineas and Ferb Mommy Can You Hear Me? (2011), TV | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Cosmonaut trying to prove existence of wormholes. |||
| SCP-1959 | SCP-1959 - The Lost Cosmonaut (2011), SCP Foundation, online collaborative-writing | Vostok | 1971 – Present |
| An unidentified cosmonaut in an unmarked SK-1 spacesuit stuck alternating between Low and High Earth orbit. SCP-1959's invulnerability renders it unimpeded by collisions with other objects and unable to shatter its own visor, and it emits considerable amounts of gamma radiation. Implied to be either Alexei Ledowsky, Andrei Mitkow, or Sergei Shiborin. |||
| NASA: Jeff Clark, Maj. Colin "Mac" MacAffie Endeavour: Deacon "Deke" Stockard, Cmdr. (USN) (Commander) Kurt Muir, Capt. (Pilot) Janine Harmon, Dr. (Heart surgeon) Two unnamed mission specialists International Space Station: Micah Petrenko (Russia) | Space in His Heart (2011), novel | Space Shuttle Endeavour International Space Station | November 1999 – January 2000 July 8–21, 2011 |
| Stockard is promoted as a sex symbol to enhance NASA's image. |||
| James Shepard (Navigation) Yuri Hayys (Bioscientist) Jerrie Cobb (Botanist) Thomas Lovell (Commander) Joe Engle (Solar Tech) Alan Brahm (Engineer) Robert Crippen (Engineer) | Vacuity (2011), short film | XOEH: Space station Intrepid (spacecraft) | Near Future |
| Brahm, trapped in space station airlock, must choose between his own survival and that of his crewmates. |||
| Four unnamed American astronauts Two unnamed Russian cosmonauts | The Age of Miracles (2012), novel | International Space Station Orion | Near Future |
| Astronauts stranded aboard space station when Earth's rotation mysteriously slows. |||
| Intrepid: Tony Drake (ISA) (Commander) Malory Archer (ISIS) Sterling Malory Archer (ISIS) Cyril Figgis (ISIS) Raymond Q. Gillette (ISIS) Lana Anthony Kane (ISIS) Pamela Poovey (ISIS) Cheryl Tunt (ISIS) Horizon: Kellogg, Capt. (Commander) Dave Trish Unnamed astronauts | Archer Space Race: Part I, Space Race: Part II (2012), TV | International Space Agency (ISA): Space Station Horizon Space Shuttle Intrepid | Contemporary |
| Agents of International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) are hired to take back Horizon from mutineers, but are actually required for a different purpose. |||
| Nicholas Rice, Cmdr. | The Astro Outlaw (2012), chapter book | NASA | Contemporary |
| Moon rock is stolen from astronaut during appearance at Houston Astros game. |||
| Dimitri Rezinov Howard Joel "Froot Loops" Wolowitz (Payload Specialist) | The Big Bang Theory The Countdown Reflection, The Date Night Variable, The Decoupling Fluctuation, The Higgs Boson Observation, The Re-Entry Minimization (2012), TV | Soyuz (possibly Soyuz TMA-04M) International Space Station (Expedition 31) | Summer 2012 |
| Astronauts on mission to ISS with Mike Massimino. |||
| Zach, Cmdr. (no last name given) | Blast Off (2012), short film | International Space Station | 20XX [sic] |
| NASA astronaut launches from ISS into thermospheric orbit. Story is probably, but not certainly, a daydream. |||
| Roger McMillan | The Final Breaths of Astronaut Roger McMillan on the US Glory (2012), web video | U.S. Glory (geosynchronous space station) Orion CM (shown on Glory's computer screens) | Near Future |
| NASA astronaut monitoring orbit of meteor named "Vanessa". |||
| Chuck Bradshaw, Col. (CDR) Jeremy Wren, Maj. (PLT) Ed Scanlan (CAPCOM) | The Finder Little Green Men (2012), TV | Space Shuttle | Contemporary |
| Wren dies in apparent car accident after sighting UFO during Shuttle reentry. |||
| International Space Station: Bill Eriksson (Mission commander) Keith "Chip" Corcoran, Capt. (Ph.D.) (USAF) Tim Fisher Petra Gutierrez Mort Stevens (MS-2) International Space Station: Yoshida Eichhorn Jones Collins (no first names given) Unnamed astronaut | The Infinite Tides (2012), novel | Space Shuttle International Space Station | Contemporary |
| NASA astronaut Corcoran tries to adjust to suburban life after his daughter dies while he is on ISS. |||
| Spektr: Vasily Konstantin (FKA) Other unnamed cosmonauts | Juggernaut (2012), novel | Russian Federal Space Agency (FKA): Space Station Spaceplane Spektr | c. 1990s and 2005 |
| Cosmonaut launched on a secret mission to a high-orbit space station covertly constructed at the same time as the Mir space station, returns to Earth years later contaminated with a bio-mechanical parasite. |||
| Yuri (no last name given) (impersonating Nikolay Anatolyevich "Kolya" Tamantsev) Sergey Sanin (Commander of cosmonaut corps) Grechko Unnamed cosmonaut trainees | Kosmonavtika (aka Cosmonautics) (2012), film | Rocketspace Corporation International Space Expedition | c. 2013 |
| Businessman Yuri assumes identity of alcoholic military pilot to train as a cosmonaut. |||
| Unnamed commander Unnamed astronauts | Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story (2012), picture book | Space Shuttle Atlantis | Recent Past |
| Mouse named Meteor saves space shuttle mission. |||
| Fiona MacLeod Starr | Once Upon a Toad (2012), novel | Soyuz International Space Station | Contemporary |
| NASA astronaut's daughter has weird experiences while her mother is in space. |||
| James Ford | Pantheon (2012), short film | Pantheon (space station) (UK?) | Near Future |
| Astronaut alone on space station at time of catastrophe on Earth. |||
| Allegra (NASA) Gio (Italy) (no last names given) | Touch Zone of Exclusion (2012), TV | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Italian astronaut loses communications with colleague and Houston during EVA. |||
| Pete Seabrook, Col. (USMC) | Blue Bloods No Regrets (2013), TV | Space Shuttle | Contemporary |
| Retired astronaut who flew on every shuttle except Endeavour is drinking too much after divorce. He is wearing an STS-72 patch on his shirt. |||
| Gordon McClintock, Cmdr. (NASA) A. Borovsky (Russia) Unnamed astronauts | Defiance I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (2013), TV | International Space Station Bravery Nine Soyuz | 2013 2046 |
| In 2013, aliens kill space station crew and create double of McClintock with implanted memories. McClintock was a mission specialist on STS-124 in May 2008. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Echoes (2013), short film | Unknown | Contemporary |
| Spacewalking astronaut catches pink balloon. |||
| STS-157: Matthew Kowalsky, Lt. (Commander) Ryan Stone, Dr. (Mission Specialist) Shariff Dasari (Mission Specialist) Evans Thomas | Gravity (2013), film | Space Shuttle Explorer (STS-157) International Space Station Soyuz TMA-14M Tiangong Shenzhou | Near Future |
| Astronauts stranded in orbit after Kessler syndrome-inspired collision during spacewalk. |||
| Pysters Corsi, Col. (no first names given) Keith Clone (Mechanic) | Happy Talk (2013), novel | Skylab | 1975 |
| Novel's penultimate epilogue involves NASA mission to repair Skylab's gyroscopes. |||
| Jerry Martinez | Kickin' It Seaford, We Have a Problem (2013), TV | Seaford Aeronautics and Space Administration (SASA): Space Shuttle | Contemporary |
| Teenager Martinez accidentally launches himself into space; returns to Earth by space diving. |||
| Unnamed commander Unnamed pilot | SKYN Condoms Presents: Naked Astronaut – The Closest Thing To Wearing Nothing (2013), web video | Space Shuttle | Contemporary |
| Shuttle astronaut chooses not to wear clothes during lift-off. |||
| Garrison Sterling | Space in the Heart (2013), novel | Space Shuttle | 1999, 2010 |
| STS-107 shuttle mission specialist whose wife is murdered prior to his flight. |||
| NASA: Andy Hawkins Roy Manley, Capt. (USN) International Space Station: Yuri Koslov, Cmdr. Michael Molly (no last names given) 3 unnamed astronauts Soyuz rescue vehicle: Unnamed cosmonaut | Space Warriors (2013), TV movie | International Space Station Soyuz Soyuz rescue vehicle | Contemporary |
| United States Space Camp participants, including former astronaut Hawkins' son, compete for ride to space aboard Orion II, but must intervene when crisis strikes ISS. |||
| Bairn (US) Straus (US) (no first names given) | Superman Unchained #1 (2013), comic book | US/Russia/Japan: The Lighthouse (Space station) | Contemporary/Near Future (June) |
| Crew of secret space station is rescued by Superman. |||
| Chet Minor, Maj. | George Brown, Class Clown How Do You Pee in Space? (2014), chapter book | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Astronaut interviewed by fourth-grader on school TV station. |||
| Unnamed janitor Unnamed night watchman Unnamed astronauts | "The Janitor in Space" (2014), short story | Space station | Future |
| Female ex-convict works as janitor on space station. |||
| Cash Maddux (Mission Specialist) Herbert Swanschbaum (Mission Specialist) | Life on Mars (2014), novel | NASA | Contemporary (Summer – April) |
| Rival astronauts from the Space Shuttle era. Maddux never flew in space due to high blood pressure. |||
| Edmund (no last name given) | Once Upon an Alphabet (2014), picture book | Unknown | Contemporary? |
| Astronaut who is afraid of heights. |||
| Yergey (Maintenance Engineer) (no last name given) | Russian Roulette (2014), short film | Zvybrovnik 188 (sp?) (Deep Space Telescope) | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Lone cosmonaut on space telescope encounters London woman on video chat website. |||
| Commander Flight Engineer Two Science Officers Unnamed doctor (Russian) Unnamed Russian cosmonauts Harrison (Technical Mission Specialist) Wallace (Technical Mission Specialist) Unnamed Technical Mission Specialist | "The Serial Killer's Astronaut Daughter" (2014), short story | Private space station | Future |
| Unnamed Technical Mission Specialist learns her blological father is on Death Row. |||
| Carol Elizabeth Hall, Ph.D. | "A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star" (2014), novelette | International Space Station | 1955 – 2000 |
| Hall spends 60 days on ISS, bringing her father's Communist Party membership card with her. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Uprooted (2014), short film | Space Shuttle | Unknown |
| Female astronaut on one-way journey into space. |||
| Kev Paciorek (USN) | Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014), novel | NASA | Contemporary |
| Astronaut kidnapped and questioned by college acquaintance. |||
| Yuri (no last name given) | Z Nation Zunami (2014), TV | Soviet Union: International Space Station Soyuz escape pod | Near Future |
| Mysterious cosmonaut arrives at Citizen Z's outpost, but turns out to be an asphyxia-induced hallucination. |||
| Cal Bennett, Cmdr. (USN) | "Excalibur" (2015), short story | NASA | Late 2000s |
| Retired astronaut discusses secret NASA program with journalist. |||
| Theo Cooper, Capt. (Commander) Cole Dvorak (Engineer) Bug Kieslowski (Life Systems) Emily McTeer, Dr. (Physician) | 400 Days (2015), film | Kepler Industries: 400 Days | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Astronaut hopefuls on simulated 400-day mission. |||
| International Space Station: Vitaly Simakov Gennady (no last name given) Rick Farmer, Col. (Ph.D.) (USAF) Tiangong-3: Huan Zhou, Lt. Col./Col. (Commander) Chang Lu, Maj. (Chinese Air Force) Sheng Hu Two unnamed taikonauts Tallyho: Sir Aeric K. Cavendish (call sign Zorro) (Captain) Aaron Best (Commando) Hook (Commando) Hugger (Commando) Tick (Commando) | Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (2015), novel | International Space Station Tiangong-3 Tallyho (formerly named Virgin Galactic 3) (single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane) | Near Future (c. 2020s) |
| Space station crews are in orbit at outbreak of World War III between China, Russia and United States. Tallyho crew captures Tiangong-3 on privateer mission. |||
| Clarence "Biff" Barnes, Capt./Maj. (USAF) (Mission Commander) Ray McConnell (Flight Engineer/Second-in-command) Jim Scarelli (Pilot) Steve Skeldon, Capt. (USMC) (Navigator/Co-pilot) Andre Baker, Capt. (USAF) (Weapons Officer) Sue Tillman, Lt. (USN) (Sensor Officer) | Lash-Up (2015), novel | U.S. Space Force: USS Defender (modified VentureStar) (single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane) | September 16, 2017 – March 15, 2018 |
| Expansion of 2001 novella (q.v.). Defender launches on December 15, 2017. |||
| Miller | The Last Man on Earth Screw the Moon (2015), TV | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Phil Miller's brother, a NASA astronaut, is stranded on space station. |||
| Tom Major Matt Mason Stylo, Lt. Col. Caissier, Maj. Independence: Gilbert Grayson Shepard, Col. Finley Alan "Fin" Shepard April Dawn Wexler Shepard | Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015), TV movie Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016), TV movie | NASA: Space Shuttle Independence Astro-X | Contemporary Near Future |
| Col. Shepard, a former astronaut who never flew in space, takes secret military shuttle into orbit with his son and daughter-in-law to destroy sharknados. He is later rescued from the Moon by unnamed Astro-X astronauts. |||
| Miller (Ph.D.) International Space Station: Unnamed commander Meg (Ph.D.) Unnamed Russian cosmonauts | "Space" (2015), short story | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| "Manager astronaut" Miller cheats on Meg, his wife, while she is in space. |||
| Abacha Tunde, Maj. (Nigerian Air Force) | "Afrofuturist 419" (2016), short story | Salyut 6 Soyuz T-16Z/Salyut 8T Spaceflight Services Inc.: Space station | Contemporary |
| Tunde, the first African in space, flew to Soviet space station in 1980 and flew on subsequent secret Soviet flights. Stranded aboard private company's space station, he becomes subject of 419 scam. |||
| Mikhail "Misha" Yurgevich (Retired cosmonaut) NASA: Philippa "Phil" Carson, Ph.D. Unnamed ASCANs | All Fixed Up (2016), novel | International Space Station | Contemporary (December) |
| Carson is slated for mission to conceive a child in space. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | The Astronaut Dreamer (2016), short film | United States | Contemporary? |
| Astronaut dreams of life on Earth. |||
| Nate (Canada) | An Astronaut's Tale (2016), short film | NASA | Near Future |
| Astronaut prepares for spaceflight with the support of Aster, his partner. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Before Mars (2016), short film | International Space Station | 2016 (August – September) |
| Female astronaut speaks by ham radio to future astronaut Hana Seung. Prequel to Mars (2016–2018) (q.v.). |||
| Space Shuttle: Jenny Chen Kim (no last names given) Space station: Two unnamed astronauts | Busy People: Astronaut (2016), picture book | Space Shuttle Space station | Contemporary |
| Typical space-station mission. |||
| Infinity: Ruth Christmas, Dr. (US) (Chief of biomedical problems) Cosmonaut X Jane Uree Three unnamed crewmembers Self-sufficient mission: Ruth Christmas, Dr. Two unnamed astronauts | Cosmic Hotel (2016), novel | Infinity (space station) Emergency pod Self-sufficient mission | Near Future |
| Pregnant astronaut Christmas makes emergency reentry after space station crew begins experiencing panic attacks. Christmas later joins private mission of indefinite duration aboard "self-sufficient craft". |||
| Five unnamed astronauts | Goodnight Spaceman (2016), picture book | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| While their father is on the space station, two children dream about joining him in space. |||
| Garry Freeman Mike (no last name given) | Lone Wolves (2016), film | Space Shuttle Polaris Space station | Near Future ("date 19") |
| Freeman and soldier James Conroy are stranded in parallel dimension. |||
| James (US) (Station Commander) (no last name given) Unnamed American astronaut Unnamed Japanese astronaut Lev Krupin (Russia) Two unnamed Russian cosmonauts | Madam Secretary Unity Node (2016), TV | International Space Station Soyuz | Contemporary (December) |
| ISS is damaged by exploding North Korean satellite, trapping three astronauts in Kibo module. |||
| Svetlana Petrova, Capt. Ekaterina Solovyeva, Capt. | Matryoshka (2016), short film | Soyuz Soyuz-Matryoshka | 1983 |
| In 1983, the Soviet Union launches a routine Soyuz mission, crewed by two female cosmonauts. Once in orbit, the mission runs into serious problems which leave the crew facing a series of life or death decisions and the possibility that they may not be able to return to Earth. |||
| Wilson (no first name given) (US) Unnamed astronauts (US) | Milo Murphy's Law The Note (2016), TV | Space station | Contemporary (May) |
| Wilson has flashback of EVA emergency while riding in ticker-tape parade. |||
| Walter O'Brien (Scorpion) | Scorpion It Isn't the Fall That Kills You (2016), TV | Richard Elia Aerospace Division: Vessel XA42p | Contemporary |
| Computer genius is accidentally launched into space due to lightning strike. |||
| Test flights Crew #1: Joseph Kess, Ph.D. (Pilot) Yuri Pelsin, Dr. (Russia) (Pilot) Crew #2: Turner Walker (USAF) (Pilot) Max Biggs (USAF) (Pilot) Trainees: James (United States Navy SEAL) Wallace (United States Navy SEAL) Jonah Melo (United States Navy SEAL) Nyambi (mononym) (unnamed African country) Six unnamed candidates Orbital flight: Bennett Oscar "Boss" Sheraton, Capt. (United States Navy SEAL) (Pilot) | The Soul of a SEAL (2016), novel | Warren Shuttle (spaceplane) | Contemporary |
| Sheraton pilots secret shuttle to deploy communications satellite and laser array. |||
| Four unnamed astronauts | Take My Heart Away (2016), music video | South African Aerospace Corporation: Space Shuttle | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Child plans to stow away on first African space shuttle. |||
| Benjamin Stokes (Commander) Unnamed astronauts | "Atlantic Deeps" (2017), short story | NASA: USS Frontier | Near Future |
| Astronauts crewing the replacement for the Space Shuttle. Killed when the vehicle explodes during launch. |||
| Buzz Caldwell | Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon (2017), novel | Space Shuttle | c. 2017 (late January) |
| Original Space Shuttle astronaut who flew in space six times runs aerospace company that sponsors paper airplane contest. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | Descending (2017), short film | Space Shuttle | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Astronaut adrift in space after escaping exploding Space Shuttle. |||
| Byakuya Ishigami, Prof. (JAXA) Shamil Volkov (Russia) (Soyuz Captain) Connie Lee (US/NASA) Yakov Nikitin, Dr. (Russia) Darya Nikitina, Dr. (Russia) Lillian Weinberg (US) (Spaceflight participant) | Dr. Stone (2017), manga | International Space Station Two Soyuz spacecraft | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Astronauts aboard ISS when all humans on Earth are turned to stone. |||
| Ellie (US) (no last name given) | Ellie the Astronaut (2017), short film | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Astronaut aboard ISS reminisces about her childhood adventures. |||
| Kim Gonzalez (Mission Specialist) Max Karen (no last names given for last two) | Escape Velocity (2017), short film | United States: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) | Contemporary |
| Karen chokes out fellow astronaut Max to let her escape training exercise. Film originated as a scene in a longer film, Space Bitch, which was only screened once in 2016. |||
| James (no last name given) | Followed Back (2017), short film | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| NASA astronaut suffering from apparent PTSD. |||
| Michael Stanton Robert (no last name given) | "I Was an Astronaut, and I experienced something terrifying" (2017), creepypasta | Rising Dawn | c. 1997 |
| Astronauts on two-year mission. |||
| Joseph Neumann | Inhumanwich! (2017), film | United States National Space Command Center: Argo 1 | Near Future |
| Astronaut on Earth-orbital mission is transformed by radiation accident into carnivorous Sloppy Joe sandwich. |||
| Hayley Collins (UK) ISS: Dan Drake (RAF/ESA) (Commander) Unnamed astronauts | The Jamie Drake Equation (2017), novel | International Space Station Soyuz Lux Aeterna (orbital launch platform) | c. 2017 (October 31 – November 3) |
| Commander Drake spacewalks from ISS to Lux Aeterna platform in higher orbit to launch Light Swarm nano-spacecraft to Tau Ceti. Collins was the first British astronaut to walk in space. |||
| Ekaterina "Kat" Golovkina (Russia) (Mission Commander) Rory Adams (US) (Flight Engineer) Hugh Derry, Dr. (UK) (Exobiologist) David A. Jordan, Dr. (US) (Crew Medical Officer) Sho Murakami (Japan) (Systems Engineer) Miranda North, Dr. (UK) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) (Quarantine Officer) | Life (2017), film | International Space Station (Mars Pilgrim 7 Mission) Soyuz Lifeboat A Lifeboat B | c. 2030 |
| ISS astronauts analyze life-form brought back by Mars sample return mission. |||
| Samuel Johnson (Commander) Candice (Medic Officer) Darren Jerry Shona | The Pull (2017), The Pull Expanse (2017), short films | Space Shuttle Voyager 707 International Space Station Soyuz | Contemporary |
| Astronaut Candice vanishes, then reappears, during spacewalk outside ISS. The same crew later returns to orbit when constellation Cassiopeia and nebula begin moving towards Earth. |||
| Yuri Cvetko (NASA) (Commander) Laura Ann Hill (NASA) (Mission Specialist) Rodrigo Vargas (USAF/NASA) (Flight Engineer) | Rosewood Radiation & Rough Landings (2017), TV | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| ISS repair specialist Hill, a three-time space mission veteran, is found dead in an orange tree. |||
| Valery Shubin (based on Valery Ryumin) Igor Zaytsev Salyut 7: Vladimir Fyodorov (based on Vladimir Dzhanibekov) Svetlana Lazareva (based on Svetlana Savitskaya) Ivanov (no first name given) Salyut 7/Soyuz T-13: Vladimir Fyodorov (Commander) Viktor Alyokhin (Flight Engineer) (based on Viktor Savinykh) Challenger: Patrick de Bonnet (based on Jean-Loup Chrétien) | Salyut 7 (2017), film | Salyut 7 Soyuz T-13 Space Shuttle Challenger | 1985 |
| Russian docudrama film, based on real events but featuring fictional and fictionalized cosmonauts. |||
| Thomas Lester Musselbaum Six unnamed astronauts | Superstar (2017), novel | Space Shuttle? | Contemporary |
| Five years after Musselbaum died when spacecraft disintegrated on reentry, his son, who is on the autism spectrum, attends school for the first time. |||
| Logan Masterson Mizuki Katayama (JAXA) (Mission Specialist) Anton Vitaly (Roscosmos) Three unnamed astronauts/cosmonauts | "We can't go back into space until Logan Masterson dies." (2017), creepypasta | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Masterson murders his crewmates and begins broadcasting to Earth. |||
| Sandy (no last name given) | Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader (2018), chapter book | International Space Station | Contemporary |
| Astronaut talks to children in San Francisco by ham radio. |||
| Kerry Atkins, Dr. Unnamed astronauts | Rampage (2018), film | Energyne Industries: Athena-1 (space station) Escape capsule | Contemporary/Near Future |
| Space station crew conducting secret genetic experiments. |||
| Hall (no first name given) Johnathan Vance White (no first name given) David Lovelace Gena Presscot, Dr. | Rumor from Ground Control (2018), film | Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-27A) | 1989 / Contemporary (September – October, April) |
| Crew of classified shuttle mission never launched; were instead subjected to radiation experiments simulating solar flare effects. |||
| Andre "Duracell" Williams (US) (Commander) Mariana Ivanova (Russia) Carla Mendes (US) Hiro Yamamura (Japan) | The Watchers (2018), Can She See Us, Daddy? (2018), short films | International Space Station | Near Future |
| Astronauts on ISS when Earth is struck by extinction-level asteroid. |||
| SCP-1233 | SCP-1233 - The Lunatic (2018), SCP Foundation, online collaborative-writing | Unknown | February 6, 1986 – Present |
| An Extravehicular Mobility Unit capable of entering space unassisted by a vehicle, which makes brief and infrequent visits to Earth, with sightings occurring only once per 4-5 years. SCP-1233 identifies itself as "Moon Champion, champion of the Moon, defender of space justice, and destroyer of evil", and is erratic, unpredictable, and occasionally destructive in its proclaimed heroism. |||
| Mama Two unnamed astronauts | Astro Girl (2019), picture book | Unknown | Contemporary |
| Astronaut's daughter wants to be an astronaut herself when she grows up. |||
| Six unnamed astronauts | Dark Phoenix (a.k.a. X-Men: Dark Phoenix) (2019), film | Space Shuttle Endeavour | 1992 |
| Seven of the X-Men — Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Mystique, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver and Storm — fly the X-Jet to rescue crew of disabled space shuttle prior to its destruction. Adaptation of the X-Men comics "Dark Phoenix Saga" story arc. |||
| Apollo 10: Edward Baldwin Gordo Stevens Fred Talmadge Unspecified LK mission: Anastasia Belikova Apollo 15: Edward Baldwin Molly Cobb Frank Sedgewick Apollo 22: Edward Baldwin Gordo Stevens Danielle Poole Apollo 24: Ellen Wilson (née Waverly) Harrison Liu Apollo 25: Molly Cobb Tracy Stevens Dennis Lambert Zvezda Base: Mikhail Vasiliev | For All Mankind Season 1 (2019), TV | United States: Apollo 10 Charlie Brown (CSM)/Snoopy (LM) Apollo 15 Endeavour (CSM)/Seahawk (LM) Jamestown Base LSAM (reusable lunar lander) Apollo 22 Excalibur (CSM) Apollo 24 Osprey (CSM) Apollo 25 Unnamed CSM Soviet Union: LK (lunar lander) Zvezda (moonbase) | 1969 – 1974 (Alternate History) |
| In this alternate history timeline, the Soviet Union performs the first crewed landing on the Moon in June 1969 with Alexei Leonov, followed by the first woman on the Moon, pressuring NASA to do the same. Apollo 15 lands near Shackleton Crater, where ice deposits are discovered. A few years later, Jamestown Base and Zvezda Base are built and landed near the same crater. Apollo 22 is the second expedition to Jamestown. Apollo 24 (including Deke Slayton) is a crew rotation mission to Jamestown that has a S-IVB ignition failure. Apollo 25 is sent to repair the flight control computer of that stage. |||
| Unnamed astronauts | "Houston, We Have a Problem" (2019), creepypasta | International Space Station | July 18, 2019 |
| Meteor shower approaches ISS. |||
| Nova Celeste | Miss Bunsen's School for Brilliant Girls Light as a Feather (2019), novel | Star Village Space Center: Shuttle | Contemporary (June) |
| Celeste, the chief commander of Star Village Space Center, sponsors flying machine contest for science school students. Celeste is a veteran of 17 spaceflights, including 12 orbital flights, and is a former record-holder as the youngest person in space. |||
| Neil Strongarm | My FANGtastically Evil Vampire Pet Space Cat-astrophe (2019), novel | Transport shuttle Space ark Secret Space Station Homebase (SSSH) | Contemporary? |
| Evil astronaut, who was allegedly NASA's original choice to be first man on Moon, plots to kidnap students and counselors at Evil Scientist Summer Camp. |||
| Two unnamed astronauts | A Space Apart (2019), short film | United Kingdom | Future |
| Male and female British astronauts fall in love from their respective spacecraft in Earth orbit. |||
| Randolph Witherspoon | The Space Walk (2019), picture book | Unknown | Unknown (Future?) |
| Astronaut who fails to hear Ground Control's order not to talk to strangers during EVA, leading to his befriending an alien. |||

## 2020–2029

| Name(s) | Appeared in | Program / Mission / Spacecraft | Fictional date |
| (2020–2029) ||||
| Unnamed astronaut | Breathe (2020), short film | Unknown (single-person spacecraft) | Contemporary/Near Future? |
| Astronaut has surreal encounter in Earth orbit. |||
| United States Space Force: Drake Jordon X-37C: Curt Branson, Maj. (USSF) Russian Space Agency: Toporov, Maj. Osinov, Maj. | Whiskey Kilo One Is Down (2020), novel | X-37C (call sign Whiskey Kilo One) | 2022 |
| Branson makes emergency landing in Russia after mission to investigate the Black Knight, an extraterrestrial satellite in polar orbit. X-37C launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Jordon is training to fly "the XB-3 prototype". A lost cosmonaut is mentioned as having died on a pre-Gagarin flight to investigate the Black Knight. |||
| Ted Trammell MSE-Polyphemus: Howard (Captain) (no last name given) Beansy (USN) (Manned Spaceflight Engineer) Hollis (USN) (Manned Spaceflight Engineer) (no first names given for last two) | "The Astronaut" (2021), short story | Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program (MSEP): MSE-Polyphemus | 1970s – 1980s |
| Unflown Apollo astronaut Howard, implied to be the astronaut character from The Exorcist (1973) (q.v.), takes part in classified mission launched into retrograde orbit from Guiana Space Centre to deploy Lockheed Martin payload known as Charybdis. Howard and Trammell were members of Flight Group 13. |||
| Diaz, Cmdr. | Decommissioned (2021), short film | International Space Station | Contemporary/Near Future ("years" after 2006) |
| ISS astronaut has chilling encounter with SuitSat. |||
| Calista "Callie" Rodriguez, Cmdr. Dan Patel (USN) (Mission Specialist) | First Woman: NASA's promise for humanity (2021), graphic novel | Artemis program | Near Future (c. 2030?) |
| Rodriguez is the first woman on the Moon and the main character in the graphic novel published by NASA. She is apparently also the first Hispanic/Latina person on the Moon. At the start of the graphic novel, Rodriguez lives on the Moon base she built. |||
| Skylab: D. Campbell (ESA) Jamestown 81: Ellen Wilson (née Waverly) Young Murphy Lee Walker Jamestown 82: Allen Harris Heikkinen Stewart Jamestown 83: Molly Cobb Miller Rodriguez Cartwright Jamestown 84: Davis Johnson Pomepanz Taylor Jamestown 85: Garcia Hayes Reed Powell Jamestown 86: Howard Kouri Al Rossi Tremblay Williams Jamestown 87: Foster Jones Peterson Price Jamestown 88: Nick Corrado James Petersen Tuzell Jamestown 89: Cook Deweese Tracy Stevens Rogers Jamestown 90: Dubois Jacobs DeLeon O'Brien Smith Jamestown 91: Bishop Gatos Gordo Stevens Tremblay White Apollo 75: Danielle Poole (list not complete) | For All Mankind Season 2 (2021), TV | United States: Jamestown Colony LSAM (reusable lunar lander) Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) Beagle Challenger (OV-099) Columbia (OV-102) Constitution Discovery (OV-103) Endeavour (OV-105) Enterprise (OV-101) Kon-Tiki Victoria Pathfinder (OV-201) Skylab Soviet Union: Buran Zvezda (moonbase) | 1983 (Alternate History) |
| In the continuing alternate history, the lunar Jamestown Base has expanded into a colony with a population of about a dozen people. Space Shuttles are used for military and civilian missions, including crew rotation at Jamestown. Skylab provides an early warning of a solar flare. The US comes into dispute and conflict with the Soviet Union over lithium mining claims on the Moon, sending armed Marines to secure the site. Pathfinder is a next-generation air-launched single-stage to orbit shuttle using a NERVA engine. Apollo 75 is part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which takes place in 1983 in this timeline. |||
| Unnamed astronaut | "I perform autopsies on dead astronauts. My latest body brought something terrible to Earth." (2021), creepypasta "I perform autopsies on dead astronauts. After the last incident I've been trapped in a hospital." (2021), creepypasta | Unknown | Contemporary |
| Alien creature begins to grow inside pathologist who examines dead astronaut. |||
| X-20 Dyna-Soar/Phoenix: USAF Astronaut Corps: Howard MacArthur, Maj. (Mission commander) Unnamed (Orbital Base Pilot) United States Army Rangers: Jonathan Rogers, Capt. (Ranger commander) Gerald Newman, MSG Adrian Chamberlain, Spec. Andrew Reynolds, Spec. | "I was an Astronaut for the Air Force, and in 1979 we were sent to rescue a Soviet Space Station" (2021), creepypasta | United States Air Force: Blue Gemini 26 (1974) Blue Apollo 6 (1975) Blue Gemini 31 (1976) Blue Apollo 11 (1978) X-20 Dyna-Soar Orbital Space Barracks (OSB) (Phoenix) Moonbase Soviet Space Forces: Soviet Orbital Piloted Station-10 (Almaz 10) | 1979 |
| Secret military space programs. Phoenix crew responds to distress call from Almaz 10. Blue Apollo missions constructed moonbase on lunar farside; a serious 1985 incident on the moonbase is mentioned but not described. X-20 Dyna-Soar launches from Midway Launch Base and lands at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Crewed Mars mission is planned for 1980. |||