List of fictional astronauts (early period)

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The following is a list of fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age. The astronauts on this list appear in stories released prior to or shortly after the inception of Project Mercury in 1958.

* Marina (actress Ksenia Moskalenko) in Cosmic Voyage (1936 Soviet silent film)

* Cold War romance on the Moon in "Honeymoon in Hell" (1950 short story by Fredric Brown)

* Col. Floyd Graham (actor Lloyd Bridges) in Rocketship X-M (1950 film)

* Bust of Dan Dare in Lord Street, Southport

* Dr. Iris Ryan (actress Naura Hayden) screams in The Angry Red Planet (1959 film)

* Mike Ferris (actor Earl Holliman), unaware he is an astronaut trainee in Where Is Everybody? (1959 episode of The Twilight Zone)

## Early period

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Name(s)  | Appeared in  | Program / Mission / Spacecraft  | Fictional date

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Wan Hu | Scientific American (1909)  | N/A  | 2000 BC
Wan Hu was a legendary Chinese official who was said to have become the first astronaut by reaching space using a chair affixed with several dozen rockets. The earliest known version of the story comes from a 1909 edition of Scientific American, which names the official as "Wang Tu" and dates his voyage to "about 2,000 years B.C.", more than 3,000 years before the invention of gunpowder rockets in China.[1]

A more popular version of the tale widely disseminated by Herbert Zim in 1945 dates Wan Hu's flight to the less anachronistic time of the sixteenth century.[2]

Georg Manfeldt, Prof.
Walter Turner
Wolf Helius (Engineer)
Friede Velten (Student Astronomer)
Hans Windegger (Engineer)  | Woman in the Moon (1929), silent film  | Friede | Contemporary?
First film depiction of a Moon rocket and of a countdown. Checkerboard design and Frau-im-Mond logo later to appear on A4 rockets.[3][4][5][6]
Selenite:
Roger Colt
Phil Gershom
Edmond Beverly

Holdane expedition:
Holdane (leader) (no first name given)
Unnamed crewmembers  | "Master of the Asteroid" (1932), short story  | Selenite

Holdane expedition  | 1980

2010
Colt, Gershom and Beverly, three of the fifteen scientists at the Syrtis Major rocket base on Mars, steal the Selenite in an attempt to reach Jupiter when they begin to find Mars too crowded. Thirty years later, the Holdane expedition finds the wreckage of the Selenite on the asteroid Phocea.[7][8]
Harrison (US) (Captain/Astronomer)
Dick Jarvis (US) (Chemist)
Pierre Leroy (France) (Biologist)
Karl Putz (Germany) (Engineer)  | "A Martian Odyssey" (1934), "Valley of Dreams" (1934), short stories  | Ares | 21st century
First men on Mars; landing site in Mare Cimmerium. Cardoza made first voyage to Moon ten years earlier; "de Lancey flight" to Venus was unsuccessful.[9][10][11][12]
Gloria Mundi:
Dale Curtance (Commander/Pilot)
Geoffrey Dugan (Assistant Pilot/Navigator)
James Burns (Engineer)
Froud (Journalist) (no first name given)
"Doc" Grayson, Dr. (Physician/Biologist) (no first name given)
Joan Shirning (Stowaway)

Tovaritch:
Karaminoff, Commissar (Commander) (no first name given)
Vasiloff (no first name given)
Six unnamed crewmembers

US spacecraft:
Unnamed crewmembers  | Planet Plane (a.k.a. Stowaway to Mars, The Space Machine) (1935), novel  | Gloria Mundi (UK)

Tovaritch (Soviet Union)

Unnamed spacecraft (Keuntz company, US)  | March 9, 1981 – October 1982
Space travelers compete for "Keuntz Prize" for first successful interplanetary journey. Duncan, K. K. Smith and Sudden were first to reach the Moon but crashed fatally on lunar surface. Richard Drivers flew around the Moon and returned to Earth in 1969, but later died with unnamed crewmate in attempt to reach Venus. Jornsen crashed in Pacific Ocean; Simpson piloted Keuntz company rocket which exploded near Chicago with great loss of life on the ground. Launch of Gloria Mundi from Salisbury Plain on October 12, 1981; landing south of Martian equator; return to Earth in North Africa on April 7, 1982. Gloria II later disappeared with Curtance, Froud and unnamed crewmates while attempting to reach Venus.[13]
Pavel Ivanovich Sedikh, Prof. (Scientist)
Marina, Prof. (Assistant)  | Cosmic Voyage (a.k.a. Cosmic Journey, The Space Ship, The Space Voyage) (1936), film  | Soviet Union | 1946
Scientist and assistant are joined by young stowaway on first voyage to Moon.[14][15]
Burns, Prof. (no first name given)
Lee Baron (Balloonist)  | "Once Around the Moon" (1937), short story  | N/A  | Contemporary
Professor and balloonist are launched by space gun to circumnavigate the Moon.[16]
Unnamed (President/Secretary/Treasurer)
Ivan Schnitzel (Photographer)
Isaac Guzzbaum (Auditor)
Eric Wobblewit (Humourist)
Two unnamed crewmembers  | "How We Went to Mars" (1938), short story  | Snoring-in-the-Hay Rocket Society (UK):
Pride of the Galaxy | April 1952
Amateur crew of first manned spaceflight accidentally reach Mars. Landing near Solis Lacus.[17]
Luna Spaceport:
DeWitt, Maj. (Commander) (no first name given)
John Tallentyre, Maj. (Second-in-command)
Noel Crispin (File clerk)
Ernie Moessner (Mechanic)

Ship Number Six:
Waddell (Spacehand, first-class, acting skipper) (no first name given)
Unnamed crewmember

Ship Number Forty-Two:
O'Hara (Spacehand) (no first name given)
Unnamed crewmembers

Ship Number Forty-Five:
Dague (Engineer) (no first name given)
Ethel (Stowaway) (no last name given)
Unnamed crewmembers

Ship Number Sixty-One:
Sturgis Riser, Capt. (Skipper)
Joe Moessner
Three unnamed crewmembers

World League Police:
Baynes, Inspector
Dunlap, Constable (no first names given)

Mars base:
Grayson (Commander)
Hudson (no first names given)  | "Men Against the Stars" (1938), short story  | World League
Rocket Service:
Luna Spaceport
Ships Number One to Sixty-One
Mars base  | 1998
Rockets to Mars repeatedly explode due to unstable atomic hydrogen fuel developed by scientist Joseph Moessner. Moessner's younger brother was killed in 1961 trying to reach the Moon; Luna Port was built in 1996, with launches to Mars commencing in 1997. Only four of first fifty-six ships landed safely on Mars. Joe Moessner replaces Riser as skipper of Number Sixty-One.[18][19]
Matsugawa

Venus Crystal Company:
Wesley P. Miller (Superintendent, Group A)
Koenig[a]
Kenton J. Stanfield (US) (Operative A-49)
Frederick N. Dwight (Operative B-9)
Anderson
Markheim
Bailey
Unnamed personnel  | "In the Walls of Eryx" (1939), short story  | Venus Crystal Company:
Terra Nova (post)
Scouting Plane FR-58[b]
Repair Plane PG-7  | Future (from March 18)
Crystal prospectors on Venus, 72 years after humans first reached that planet. Matsugawa mapped Venus from the air 50 years earlier.[20][21]
Farley (last name not given)  | "The Rocket of 1955" (1939), short short story | Unknown  | 1955
Mars-bound astronaut, who discovers too late that his spacecraft is the product of a gigantic confidence trick; killed when it explodes during liftoff.[22][23][24]
John Harman  | "Trends" (1939), short story  | Prometheus

New Prometheus | July 14, 1973 – April 1978[c]
Harman makes the first circumnavigation of the Moon in the face of intense religious and governmental opposition.[26][27]
James "Mac" McIntyre, Capt. (Pilot)
Charles Cummings (Engineer)
Delos David "D. D." Harriman[d] (Passenger)  | "Requiem" (1940), short story  | Lunatic | c. 1980s/1990s
The elderly Harriman, the man whose company made space travel possible, makes one last attempt to fulfill his lifelong dream of traveling to the Moon. Part of Robert Heinlein's "Future History" series.[28][29] Adapted into 1955 X Minus One episode.
Erik Vane
Michael (no last name given)
Lida (no last name given)  | "Space Episode" (1941), short story  | Ares | Future
Attempt to reach Mars is aborted by meteor impact.[30][31][32][33]
Chamberlain, Dr. (Atomic scientist)
Russell, Maj. (US Army)
Reynolds, Maj. (Communications)  | Arch Oboler's Plays
Rocket from Manhattan (1945), radio play  | XR-1  | September 20, 2000
Crew returning from first manned Moon expedition witnesses atomic war break out on Earth. Chamberlain is a former Manhattan Project scientist. Adapted into 1956 play Night of the Auk (q.v.).[34][35]
R. S. Goshawk:
Hicks (Captain)
"Noisy" Rhysling (Jetman, Second Class)
Unnamed personnel

Falcon:
Unnamed captain
Unnamed Master-at-Arms
Archie Macdougal (Chief Jetman)
Unnamed personnel  | "The Green Hills of Earth" (1947), short story  | Harriman Company/Trust (Hawk-class):
R. S. Goshawk
Falcon (passenger vessel)  | c. 1980s – 2000s
After losing his sight in shipboard accident, Rhysling becomes the "Blind Singer of the Spaceways". Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series. Adapted into 1950 Dimension X episode, featuring additional Goshawk crewmen named Mike Hertzmann (a wiper, later Chief Jetman on the Falcon) and "Jimmy Legs" Casey (the bosun),[36][37][38] and into 1955 X Minus One episode.
David (no last name given)  | "Inheritance" (1947), short story  | A.15
A.20 (David/Goliath)
A.21  | Near Future
Welsh test pilot on suborbital rocket flights from Atlas Mountains in Africa.[39]
Galileo:
Donald Morris "Doc" Cargraves, Sc.D. (Captain)
Maurice "Morrie" Abrams (Second-in-command/co-pilot)
Ross Jenkins (Flight engineer)
Arthur Mueller (Medical officer/radar/radio)

Wotan/Moonbase:
Helmut von Hartwick, Lt. Col. ("Elite Guard") (Executive Officer)
Unnamed lieutenant (Utility rocket commander)
Friedrich Lenz (Sergeant-Technician, 2nd Class) (Utility rocket pilot)
49 unnamed crewmembers  | Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), novel  | Galileo

"New Reich":
Wotan (later renamed City of Detroit)
Thor
Utility rocket
Moonbase  | Near Future[e]
Scientist Cargraves and his teenaged crew discover Nazi moonbase west of Oceanus Procellarum.[40]
Hicks (Pilot)

Supra-New York:
Shorty Weinstein (Computer)
Unnamed psychiatrist

Flying Dutchman:
Kelly (Captain)
Jake Pemberton (First Pilot)
Unnamed personnel

Space Terminal:
Soames (Commodore-Pilot)

Gremlin:
Jake Pemberton (Pilot)  | "Space Jockey" (1947), short story  | Trans-Lunar Transit:
Supra-New York (Satellite station)
Space Terminal (Moon orbiting station)

Earth-to-Moon spacecraft:
Flying Dutchman (Flight 27)
Philip Nolan

Winged rockets:
Skysprite
Firefly

Moon landing rockets:
Gremlin
Moonbat | c. 1980s
While piloting passengers and freight to Moon, Pemberton is distracted by marital troubles and an unruly child passenger. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[41][42]
Sam Houston Adams
Thomas Dooley
Maurice Feinstein
Hazel Hayakawa
Kurt Schaeffer
G. Washington Slappey  | "The Black Pits of Luna" (1948), short story  | Unknown  | August 11, 1984 / c. 2000
In backstory, scientists are killed in 1984 explosion of atomic lab on lunar farside near Rutherford. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[43][44]
Rocket number seventeen (Russia):
Mikichenko (no first name given)

Rocket number nineteen (US):
George Vincent Quinn
Rocket number twenty (US):
John J. Armstrong  | Dreadful Sanctuary (1948), serial; (1951), novel  | Unknown (Russia, United States)  | 1972
Pilot Quinn and inventor Armstrong commandeer Moon-rockets to prevent third world war. Quinn makes first manned Moon landing in Copernicus.[45] Significantly revised for 1963 paperback edition.
Unnamed captain
William Cole (a.k.a. William Saunders) (Chief Communications Officer/Relief pilot)
Tom Sandburg (Junior communications officer)  | "Ordeal in Space" (1948), short story  | Valkyrie | c. 2000
Traumatized by spacewalk accident during passenger run to Mars, Cole becomes acrophobic and changes his name in an attempt to start a new life on Earth. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[46][47]
Wilson
Louis Garnett  | "The Sentinel" (1948), short story  | Unknown  | 1996
Explorers who discover something remarkable on the shores of the Sea of Crises.[48]
Unnamed crewman  | "Cold War" (1949), short story  | United States:
Space Stations | Near Future
With the United States operating nine atomic-armed Space Stations to enforce world peace, the U.S. President visits a former Space Station crewman in a holding cell, one of five who became criminally insane after returning home on leave.[49][50]
Space Station One:
"Tiny" Larsen (Superintendent)
"Dad" Witherspoon (Assistant superintendent)
Gloria Brooks "Brooksie" McNye (Chief Communications Engineer)
Robert Dalrymple (Chief Inspector)
Hammond (Radioman)
Jimmie (Timekeeper) (no last name given)
McAndrews (Shipfitter)
O'Connor (Metalsmith)
Peters (Radioman)
Unnamed personnel

R. S. Half Moon:
Don Shields (Captain)  | "Delilah and the Space-Rigger" (1949), short story  | Harriman Enterprises (owner)/Five Companies, Incorporated (contractor):
Space Station One

R. S. Half Moon (supply ship)
Pole Star (supply ship)  | c. 1980s
Construction crew of first space station is surprised by arrival of female communications engineer. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[51][52]
Destiny I:
Korby (no first name given)
Sweeny (no first name given)

Destiny II:
Korby
Sweeny
Anthony Marinetta
Johnny Pritchard (Air Corps)  | "Flaw" (1949), short story  | Destiny I

Destiny II

Destiny III | 1959 – 1964
"Atomic drive" is perfected in 1960. Destiny I makes first circumnavigation of Moon c. 1960; Destiny II launches from Arizona rocket station in February for 14-month Mars flyby mission.[53][54]
Unnamed captain
Applegate
Barkley
Hollis
Lespere
Smith
Stimson
Stone
Turner
Underwood
Woode
Unnamed crewman  | "Kaleidoscope" (1949), short story  | Rocket Company  | Future
Crew hurled apart into space when rocket explodes.[55]
Moon Base:
Unnamed Commodore (Commanding Officer)
Towers, Col. (Executive Officer)
Morgan, Maj. (Senior Bomb Officer)
John Ezra Dahlquist, Lt. (Ph.D.) (Junior Bomb Officer)
Kelly
Smitty (Marine) (Lockmaster)
Lopez (Guard)
Unnamed personnel  | "The Long Watch" (a.k.a. "Rebellion on the Moon") (1949), short story  | The Patrol:
Moon Base

United Nations?:
Trygve Lie
Lafayette | June 1999
Dahlquist sacrifices himself to prevent world coup d'état by Towers. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[56][57]
Mel Robbins, Col.  | "Operation Pumice" (1949), short story  | Moon Rocket One (MR-1)  | 1959
Pilot of first crewed circumlunar mission aboard five-stage rocket launched from New Mexico.[58]
David Mannen  | "Over the Top" (1949), short story  | United Technical Foundation (Unitech)  | Near Future (April or May)[f]
Three-foot-tall little person is first human on Mars.[59][60]
Daniel MacGregor Dare, Col.
Albert Fitzwilliam Digby  | Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future (1950–1967), comic  | Anastasia | 1996+
Astronaut in Earth's Interplanetary Spacefleet; travelled to Venus, Mercury, Saturn.
Jim Barnes (Pilot)
Charles "Doc" Cargraves, Dr. (Propulsion Expert)
Thayer, Gen. (Co-Pilot)
Joe Sweeney (Radio Operator)  | Destination Moon (a.k.a. Journey to the Moon, Operation Moon) (1950), film  | Luna | Near Future (June)
Astronauts on a nuclear rocket to the Moon. Landing in crater Harpalus.[61][62][63][64][65][66][67]
Lewis Thorson (Captain)
"Smitty" Smithson, Dr. (Physician/Morale Officer)
Hollison, Lt.
Sparks (Communications)
Carpenter
Robinson
Haley
Richardson (Gunnery)
Unnamed crew members  | Dimension X
No Contact (1950), radio play  | Starcloud | June 2, 1987[g]
Sixth crew attempting to breach "Great Galactic Barrier" and reach planet Volta. Commander Collier, a navigation officer, and men named Prentiss and Margitson were lost on previous missions.[68]
Cornelius Otterbyrne, Prof. (Atomic physicist)
Paul Aarons, Dr. (Astromathematician)
Robert Simons (Electronic engineer)
Carl Parker (Mining specialist)
Watson
Gibbs
Henry Timkin (Federal Bureau of Missing Persons)
Jefferson Philo (Science journalist)  | Dimension X
The Man in the Moon (1950), radio play  | Unknown  | 1950
"Federal Bureau of Missing Persons" receives radio message from the Moon, leading to discovery of moonbase built in 1938 by "renegade scientists and criminals" on lunar farside. Otterbyrne and others were kidnapped as slave labor for colony.[69]
R-46:
Raymond F. Carmody, Capt. (U.S.S.F.)

Russia:
Anna Borisovna Carmody  | "Honeymoon in Hell" (1950), short story  | United States Space Service:
R-46 rocket

Russia:
Unnamed rocket  | September 16, 1962 – February 1963
American and Russian pilots marry and travel to Moon in attempt to escape unknown effect preventing conception of male humans on Earth. Landings in Hell crater. Carmody previously landed R-24 rocket on the Moon, one of eighteen American pilots to attempt the round trip and only five to return alive.[70] Adapted into 1956 X Minus One episode.
Power satellite:
Unnamed personnel

Charon:
Unnamed pilot
Leslie LeCroix, Capt. (Relief pilot)

Pioneer:
Les LeCroix, Capt.

Mayflower:
Les LeCroix, Capt. (Pilot)
Bob Coster (Engineer)
Janet (Scientist) (no last name given)
Three unnamed scientists  | The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), novella  | Power satellite
Charon (shuttle rocket)

Harriman and Strong:
Pioneer
Mayflower
Colonial | c. 1978
Commercially funded initial Moon expeditions. LeCroix makes first Moon landing in Pioneer west of Archimedes; Mayflower establishes first Moon colony. Part of Heinlein's "Future History" series.[71]
Floyd Graham, Col. (Pilot)
Harry Chamberlain (Navigator/Astronomer)
William Corrigan, Maj. (Engineer)
Karl Eckstrom, Dr.
Lisa Van Horn, Dr. (Chemist)  | Rocketship X-M (1950), film  | X-M ("eXpedition Moon")  | Near Future
Astronauts on a Moon rocket that "accidentally" lands on Mars.[72][73][74][75][76][77][78]
Robert Maynard  | "Unwelcome Tenant" (1950), short story  | Unknown (Scientific foundation)  | Future
First man to travel to Mars realizes that all humans on Earth are the hosts of parasitic intelligences.[79]
Jim Barker, Dr. (Commander/Engineer)
Steve Abbott (Journalist)
William Jackson, Prof. (Scientist)
Lane, Dr. (Physicist)
Carol Stafford (Physicist)  | Flight to Mars (1951), film  | The Pentagon:
Rocketship M.A.R.S.  | c. 2001
First crewed Mars mission encounters dying Martian civilization.[80][81][82][83][84][85]
Crandall (Captain)
Killian (Executive Officer)
Wilbur
Lavinia Pickerell[h]

Haggerty (Navigator)  | Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (1951), novel  | Unknown  | Contemporary/Near Future
Secret expedition to Mars. Haggerty is accidentally left behind on Earth due to Miss Pickerell unexpectedly boarding rocket.[86]
Roger Wilson, Capt. (US)

Garner Lunar Expedition:
James Harwood Garner, Dr. (Leader/Engineer/Astrophysicist)
Thomas Ridgely Duncan, Ph.D. (Physicist/Second-in-command)
Eustace M. Hughey, Dr. (Surgeon)
Robert Kenneth Moore, Dr. (Chemist)
Warren P. Tolman, Dr. (Chemist)
Arthur W. Kendall (Photographer)
David H. King (Mineralogist)
Hampden S. Reed (Mineralogist)
Anthony T. Melville (Astrophysicist)
Carl Jewell Long (Astronomer/Navigator)
George W. Rice (Electrician/Mechanic)
Joseph T. Whisler (Cook/Mechanic)
Frederick L. Bender (Mechanic)
Morrison
Wilcott (no first names given for last two)

Relief ship:
Two unnamed pilots  | The Moon Is Hell (1951), novelette  | United States
Garner Lunar Expedition:
Rocket
Fort Washington (moonbase)
Relief ship  | June 15, 1979 – 1981
Garner Lunar Expedition spends 23 months near the center of the far side of the Moon before becoming stranded when their relief ship crashes on arrival. In 1974, Wilson orbited the Moon twice and landed on the near side for two days. Garner Expedition launches from Inyokern, California, on June 10, 1979; relief ship launches from Mojave, California, around May 10, 1981.[87][88]
Henderson (no first name given)  | "Old Man Henderson" (1951, revised 1970), short story  | Unknown  | Future (21st century?)
Now an old man, Henderson reminisces about being the first man on the Moon.[89]
Lewis Taine (US)
Pierre Leduc (France)
James Richards (UK)
Victor Hassell (UK)
Arnold Clinton (Australia)  | Prelude to Space (a.k.a. Master of Space, The Space Dreamers) (1951), novel  | Prometheus Alpha/Beta | 1978
Candidates for the first manned mission to the Moon.[90][91]
First group:
Joel "Chap" Chapman (Pilot/Mechanic)
Dixon
Driesbach
Unnamed group members

Second group:
Bening (Astronomer)
Joel "Chap" Chapman
Robert Dahl (Mathematician)
Dick Donley (Geologist)
Dowden (Astronomer)
Julius Klein (Botanist)

Third group:
Joel "Chap" Chapman
Williams
Unnamed group members

Eberlein (Relief ship captain)  | "The Reluctant Heroes" (1951), short story  | The Commission:
Research bunker
Relief ship  | Future
Members of research groups at outpost on Moon (possibly in Tycho).[92]
Unnamed rocket pilot  | "The Rocket Man" (1951), short story  | Unknown  | Early 21st century (August)
Pilot visits his wife and 14-year-old son between trips to space.[93]
Wayne Crowder  | "Vital Factor" (1951), short story

Tales of Tomorrow
Test Flight (1951), TV  | Wayne Crowder Enterprises  | Near Future
Spacecraft on privately financed test flight is redirected to Mars.[94][95][96]
Crenshaw
Reese Bitner  | "The Brain-Bats of Venus" (1952), comic  | N/A  | Future
Crew of spacecraft that crashes on Venus; Bitner dies on impact and is taken over by a Venusian creature called a Brain-Bat.[97][98]
Robert Jaffe (Captain)
John Crawford, Dr. (Ship's Doctor)
Jensen (Chief Hospitalman) (no first name given)
Scotty McIntire (Navigation)
Donald Shaver (Navigation)
Roger Wescott (Navigation)
"Boats" (Boatswain)
Unnamed ship's barber
73 unnamed crewmembers  | "Counterfeit" (aka "The Counterfeit Man") (1952), novelet  | Exploratory Command  | Future
Crew of exploratory vessel returning to Los Alamos Spaceport from Venus (Ganymede in later editions) with shapeshifting alien imposter aboard.[99] Adapted into 1965 Out of the Unknown episode.
Denby (no first name given)  | "The Dreamer" (1952), short story  | N/A  | Near Future
Trainee astronaut Denby discovers that space travel is not what he had expected.[100][101]
Space station officers:
Benson
Baker
Colin Ord

Lioness:
Marilyn Lynn, Dr. (Physician)
Fifty unnamed crewmembers  | "Hallucination Orbit" (aka "The Bliss of Solitude") (1952), short story  | Station Two

Four Star Lines:
Lioness (relief ship)  | Future
Lone officers manning space station in Pluto's orbit are afflicted by "solitosis".[102] Adapted into 1956 X Minus One episode.
Mercury expedition:
R. Doyle
Borrell (Navigator)
Glynne (Radio Operator) (no first names given)
Unnamed crewmembers

Inner Station:
R. Doyle, Cmdr. (Training)
Apprentices:
Tim Benton (Senior apprentice)
Ronnie Jordan
Norman Powell
Karl Hasse
Peter van Holberg
Five unnamed apprentices
Unnamed crewmembers

Space Hospital:
Hawkins, Dr. (no first name given) (Biologist)
Unnamed scientist
Unnamed crewmembers

Sirius:
Jones, Capt. (Pilot) (no first name given)

Inter-orbit ferry:
Unnamed pilots  | Islands in the Sky (1952), novel  | Mercury expedition

Space stations:
Inner Station (Space Station One/Residential Station)
Space Hospital
Relay Station Two

Spacecraft:
Sirius
Morning Star
The Skylark of Space (ferry)
Inter-orbit ferry
Earth ferry (spaceplane)  | Late 21st century
16-year-old Roy Malcolm wins trip to Inner Station on television quiz. Doyle took part in first expedition to Mercury years earlier; Morning Star made first circumnavigation of Venus in 1985.[103]
Jeff Foldingchair

Eros:
Miles Vance, Capt.
Nat Rothman (Pilot/Geologist)
Richard Steele (Engineer)
Paul Sokolsky, Dr. (Physician/Biologist)
Lewis "Lew" Wong (Radar Operator)
Ginger Parsons (Cook/Photographer)
Charles Svensen  | Marooned on Mars (1952), novel  | United States / Space Commission (under United Nations charter):

Eros | Future
First manned Mars mission, launched from Moon base. 18-year-old Svensen stows away after being replaced on crew by Wong due to his age. Foldingchair is a long-time rocket pilot who stowed away on the second manned Moon mission 25 years earlier.[104]
Connors (Captain)
Barton (Tube chief)
Griffith
Purdy
Withington (Fuel man) (no first names given)  | "The Missing Symbol" (1952), short story  | Rachel II | Future
Crew of first manned Moon mission is affected by space madness.[105]
Burney, Dr. (Commander)
Emil Wohl (Head geologist/Second-in-command)
"M.D." McLeod (Physician)
Sherman, Dr. (Chief astronomer)
Louise Hansen (Astronomer)
Bucky O'Neil (Rocket pilot)
Johnny Pierce (Map section)
Mike Ramirez (Radio operator)
Joey Friedman (Radio operator)
Jean (Nurse) (no last name given)
Edna (no last name given)
36 unnamed personnel

Tractor Two:
Paul E. Hansen (Spare photographer/Tractor driver)
Fernandez (Geologist)
Groswald (Mechanic)
Van Ness (Astronomer)  | Moonwalk (1952), novelette  | Moonbase
Tractor One
Tractor Two
Rocket  | Future
On excursion from first major moonbase (in Archimedes crater), Tractor Two plummets over ringwall of crater Plato, leaving Hansen to find his way back to base alone.[106][107]
ZQX-1:
Frederick Stone, Capt.

Halley:
Fred Stone, Col.

Einstein:
Fred Stone, Col. (Commander)
Bill Parks  | Space Cat (1952), Space Cat Visits Venus (1955), Space Cat Meets Mars (1957), Space Cat and the Kittens (1958), chapter books  | United States Air Force:
ZQX-1[i]
Halley
Einstein | Near Future
Cat named Flyball accompanies Stone on suborbital flight and first manned Moon flight in ZQX-1, journey to Venus and Mars in Halley, and flight to Alpha Centauri aboard hyperdrive-powered Einstein.[108][109][110][111][112]
Robert Malcolm (Captain)
Bart (Scientist)
Jack  | Tales of Tomorrow
Appointment on Mars (1952), TV  | Standard Motors (sponsor)  | Future
Three men on first expedition to Mars turn on each other.[96][113]
Paula Martin Bennett  | Tales of Tomorrow
Flight Overdue (1952), TV  | Unknown  | Near Future
Ambitious aviatrix joins Moon mission.[114][115]
Allen Rice, Maj.  | "Thanasphere" (1952), short story  | United States Air Force
Project Cyclops  | Contemporary
First man in outer space discovers that it is inhabited by ghosts.[116][117]
Rayen, Gen. (Commanding Officer)
Nichols, Col. (Commanding Officer)
Wall, Capt.
Weiler, Maj.
Unnamed personnel

Rocket Four (Squad Fourteen):
Breck Jergen, Sgt./M.P. (Squad leader)
Jim Clymer
Frank Haddon, Sgt.
Lassen (no first name given)
Walter Millis
Joe Valinez
Unnamed personnel  | "What's It Like Out There?" (1952), novelet  | United Nations
Expedition Two:
Rockets One – Twenty  | 1960s (June)
On his return to Earth, Haddon finds himself unable to tell people of the true horrors of Mars expedition.[118][119][120]
Hal Barlow (D-716)  | "By Earthlight" (1953), short story  | The Brotherhood  | Near Future
Member of secret society placed aboard uncrewed US moon rocket to delay atomic war. Landing in Albategnius.[121]
Laird Grainger (Commander)
Kip Reissner, Lt. (USN) (Co-Pilot)
Helen Salinger (Navigator)
Douglas Smith (Radio Operator)
Walter Walters (Engineer)  | Cat-Women of the Moon (a.k.a. Rocket to the Moon) (1953), film  | Atomic Rocket Group 4:
Moon Rocket 4[j] | Near Future
First crewed Moon mission encounters female lunar inhabitants.[122][123][124][125][126]
Brown
Cellini

DFC-3:
Garrard (no first names given)  | "Common Time" (1953), short story  | The Project:
DFC-3 (starship)  | Future
After first two pilots to attempt to reach Alpha Centauri system fail to return, Garrard experiences severe time variations and a mysterious alien encounter on the third attempt.[127][128][129]
Andrew "Jet" Morgan, Captain
Lemuel Barnet
Stephen Mitchell
"Doc" Matthews  | Journey into Space (1953–5), radio  | Operation Luna  | 1965+
British Commonwealth astronauts on a trip to the Moon and beyond.
Martin Dearborn, Capt.
George Beebe
Unnamed colonists  | Missing Men of Saturn (1953), novel  | Unknown  | Future
Dearborn and his colonists, the first humans to reach the Saturn system, are captured on Titan by Saturnians, resulting in their descendants spending the next hundred years on Saturn.[130]
Robert Cox  | "Nightmare Brother" (1953), short story  | Unknown  | Future
After the first starships return to Earth with their crews driven mad by their experiences, Cox undergoes rigorous training to follow them.[131]
Greene, Gen.

Magellan:
"Bright Eyes" Briteis, Col. (Commander)
Bill Moore, Maj.[k]
Wernher, Dr. (imposter)  | Project Moonbase (1953), film  | United States Space Force Command (USSF SPACOM)
Space station
Project Moon Base:
Magellan (renamed Moon Base #1)  | 1970
First lunar orbital mission turns into Moon landing when Wernher is unmasked as an impostor. The female Col. Briteis was the first human in Earth orbit in 1966.[133][132][134][135][136]
Ludwig Rechenheim, Dr.
Charles Greene
Victor Carroon  | The Quatermass Experiment (1953), TV  | Experimental Rocket  | Unknown
Astronauts of the British Experimental Rocket Group. Crew of the first manned space mission; only Victor Carroon survives the flight.[137][138]
Rocket ship:
Jason
McCloud

Space Platform:
Unnamed garrison members  | Robot Monster (a.k.a. Monster from Mars, Monsters from the Moon) (1953), film  | Rocket ship
Space Platform | Contemporary
Alien invader Ro-Man destroys space platform and rocket carrying Jason and McCloud, two of the last eight humans on Earth. The story turns out to be a little boy's dream.[139][140][141][142]
Space Station:
Pepper, Gen. (USAF) (Commanding Officer) (no first name given)
Unnamed space taxi pilot
Unnamed personnel

Moon rocket:
George Merola, Capt. (USAF) (Pilot/Navigator)
Dan Forbes, 1st Lt. (USAF) (Engineer)
Fred Gehardt, Dr. (Geologist)
Peter Phelps, M.D. (Physician)
Ted Baker  | Rocket to Luna (1953), novel  | United States Air Force | September 1983
17-year-old Space Academy cadet Baker, an accidental addition to the crew, crashes first manned Moon rocket in Mare Crisium, forcing him and Forbes to make 1000-mile trek to supply dump in Mare Imbrium near Archimedes.[143]
Pelican One:
Joe Kenmore (Skipper)
Chief Bender (Engine room)
Thomas Haney (Bos'n)
Mike Scandia

Space Platform:
Sanford (Senior scientist/Commander)
Brent (Crew psychologist)
Corey (Crewman)
Brown, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (Replacement commander)

Moonship:
Brown, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (Commander)
Unnamed crewmembers  | Space Tug (1953), novel  | United States
Space Exploration Project:
Space Platform (space station)
Pelican One (supply ship)
Unnamed supply ship
Moonship  | Near Future
Pelican One flies first resupply mission to American space station armed with atomic missiles and assists Moonship in making first manned Moon landing.[144]
Stephen Mitchell, Dr. (Engineer)
Lisa Frank, Dr. (Mathematician)  | Spaceways (1953), film  | AS-2  | Near Future
American rocket scientist Mitchell, an adviser to British space program, makes first manned spaceflight to prove himself innocent of murder.[145][146][147][148]
Jock Kruger  | "Dead Center" (1954), novelet  | United States:
KIM-VII  | Near Future
Veteran of two circumlunar lights is first human to land on the Moon, but becomes stranded five degrees of arc onto the lunar farside.[149][150]
Hugh Allenby (Commander/Astronomer)
Burton (Pilot)
Janus (Photographer)
Gonzales (Botanist)
Randolph (Biologist)
Peters (Mineralogist)  | "The Holes Around Mars" (1954), short story  | Mars I | Unknown
Crew of the first manned expedition to Mars. They discover that the planet is orbited at very low altitude by a micro black hole.[151]
Rocket 1:
Richard Donald Stanton, Dr. (USN)

Rocket 2:
Jerome "Jerry" Lockwood, Dr. (Prof.)

Rocket 3:
Walter J. Gordon  | Riders to the Stars (1954), film  | United States
Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI):
Rocket 1
Rocket 2
Rocket 3  | Near Future (July – August 10)
Astronauts make suborbital flights to capture meteors.[152][153][154][155][156]
Reverdy L. "Rev" McMillen, III, 1st Lt. (USAF)

Rescue ship:
Frank Pickrell, Capt.
Four unnamed crewmembers  | "The Cave of Night" (1955), short story  | Unknown (US)  | Near Future
Efforts to rescue McMillen from orbit inspire humanity to explore space. Pickrell later commands orbital platform Doughnut.[157][158][159] Adapted into 1956 X Minus One episode.
Samuel T. Merritt, Col./Gen.
Barney Merritt, Capt.
André Fodor, Sgt.
Imoto, Sgt. (Japan)
Mahoney, Sgt.
Jackie Siegle, Sgt.  | Conquest of Space (1955), film  | Unknown  | Near Future (late 20th century)
Astronauts on a mission to Mars.[160][161][162][163][164][165][166]
1 (Captain)
2 (Navigator)
3 (Astrophysicist)
4 (Meteorologist)

6 (no names given)  | Disneyland
Man in Space (1955), TV  | Operation Space Flight:
XR-1 (spaceplane)  | Near Future
Crew of first manned spaceflight. Crewmember #6 conducts spacewalk.[167]
RM-1:
Unnamed captain
Frank (Navigator)
Bill (Radio Operator)
Joe (Engineer) (no last names given)  | Disneyland
Man and the Moon (a.k.a. Tomorrow the Moon) (1955), TV  | Space Station Number One (S-1)
RM-1 (Moonship)  | Near Future
Crew of first manned voyage around the Moon.[168][169][170]
Richard Gordon, Dr. (Zoogeographer)
Nora Pierce, Dr. (Mineralogist)
Ralph Martin, Dr. (Physician)
Patricia Bennett, Dr. (Chemist)[l] | King Dinosaur (1955), film  | United States  | Near Future (from April 23)
Travelers to planet Nova, which recently entered Earth's solar system. Launch on October 2.[171][172][173][174]
SV-1:
Grinnell (no first name given)
Hal Gascoigne, Col.

Civilian Intelligence Group (CIG):
Peter Harris  | "King of the Hill" (1955), short story  | United States Air Force:
Satellite Vehicle 1 (SV-1)

Ferry rocket  | Near Future
Left too long without being relieved aboard one-man satellite armed with three hydrogen bombs, Gascoigne hallucinates that he has received orders to bomb Washington, D.C.[129][175]
Tim

Rocket ship:
Frank
Doc (Physician)
Roger
Fred

Moonbeam III:
Frank
Doc (Physician)
Roger
Fred
Bill
Unnamed crewmembers

Moonbeam IV:
Rusty
Unnamed crewmembers

The Cow:
Tom (Captain)
Four unnamed crewmembers

Moon Ship I:
Roger
Unnamed crewmembers

Moon Ship II:
Frank
Unnamed crewmembers

Moon Ship III:
Tom (Captain)
Doc (Physician) (no last names given)
Unnamed crewmembers (Bill and Fred also on expedition)  | Peter and the Rocket Ship (1955), Peter and the Two-Hour Moon (1956), Peter and the Moon Trip (1957), chapter books  | United States Army:
Unnamed rocket ship

Moonbeam III (rocket)
Moonbeam IV (rocket)
Two-Hour Moon (Space Station)

The Cow
Moon Ship I
Moon Ship II
Moon Ship III  | Near Future
Young Peter Sills accompanies crews of first manned spaceflight, Moonbeam III mission to build humanity's first space station, and first manned lunar landing. The Cow flies around Moon; Moon Ships I, II and III land in Bay of Rainbows near Sea of Rains, where crews build moon base.[176][177][178]
Bernard Quatermass, Prof.
Leo Pugh, Dr.  | Quatermass II (1955), TV  | Experimental Rocket  | Near Future
Scientists of the British Experimental Rocket Group go into space in an attempt to use a faulty nuclear rocket to blow up an alien asteroid/spacecraft directing a covert invasion of Earth.[179][180][181]
Valier:
Carl Logan, Maj. (Pilot)
Johnny Ruiz, Capt. (Co-Pilot)
Edward "Mac" MacNamara, Maj. (USAF) (Flight Engineer)  | "Tight Squeeze" (1955), short story  | Operation Doughnut (US)

Valier
Wyld
Space Station | Near Future
Astronauts on a space station resupply mission who find themselves dealing with mechanical issues after reaching orbit.[182]
Cadets:
Cohen "the Wire-haired Terror"
Beerbelly Flacker
"Mickey Mouse" Gindes
Harris
Kraków
Pete
Shank
"Walky" Walkinok
"Bendover" Wendover

Long Haul:
Scampy (Cadet) (nickname; no real name given)  | "Who?" (a.k.a. "Bulkhead") (1955), novelette  | Space Service  | Future (post-20th century)
Cadet training for starship command whose crewmate on round-trip training voyage is a 15-year-old boy.[183][184][185]
"Ridge" Ridging (Geophysicist)
"Shan" Shandara (Cartographer)
Tazewell (No first names given)
Unnamed crewmembers  | "Dust Rag" (1956), short story  | The Project:
Albireo | Future (20th century)
On first Moon expedition, Ridging and Shandara are endangered by dust in Plato crater.[186][187]
Two-man teams:
Tilton
Beck

Booker
Whitman

Don[m] Fowler
Al "Mac" MacIntosh

Unnamed astronauts

Moon rocket/Shuttle:
Unnamed pilots  | "The Far Look" (1956), novelette  | United States:
Moon Station
Moon rocket
Space Station Number One
Shuttle | Future
Two-man teams return to Earth from twenty-eight-day stays in mobile dome on Mare Imbrium transformed into superior human beings. Tilton and Beck were second team on Moon.[188][189]
Luther Blair (US) (Nuclear scientist/Expedition leader)
Larson, Capt.
Anderson (Communications specialist)
Doc Higgins (UK) (Scientist)
Sydney Stanhope (Geologist)  | Fire Maidens from Outer Space (a.k.a. Fire Maidens of Outer Space, Fire Maidens of Space) (1956), film  | Expedition 13 (US/UK)  | Future
Mission to the thirteenth moon of Jupiter discovers survivors of Atlantean civilization.[190][191][192]
Lewis Rohnen (Albert Rohnen Foundation) (Expedition Leader)
Thomas Russell, Col./Gen. (USAF) (Operational Officer)
Bruner, Dr. (No first name given) (Atomic scientist)
Franklin Lormer, Maj. (Engineer)
Jan Kephart, 1st Lt. (Jet Expert)
Maximillian "Mac" Hartman, Lt. (US Army) (Communications Officer)  | Night of the Auk (1956), play  | First Moon Expedition:
Rocket One  | Near Future ("The day after some tomorrow")
First crewed Moon landing triggers nuclear war on Earth.[193]
M 76:
Stephen Maxwell, Prof. (Commander/Navigator)
Petifer (Pilot)
Bertram Hapton
Gordon Holder (Fuel Consumption Engineer)
Unnamed crewmember

US spacecraft:
Stilwell, Gen.
Vanburg, Capt.
Boles, Lt.
John DeLut (Biologist)
Jaeger (Mathematician)
Unnamed crewmembers  | No Man Friday (a.k.a. First on Mars) (1956), novel  | M 76 (UK)

Unnamed spacecraft (United States Air Force)  | c. 1957 – 1972
Holder is stranded on Mars after his crewmates die in decompression accident. American spacecraft lands at latitude −35.[194][195]
Robin Carew  | One Against the Moon (1956), novel  | United States Air Force | c. 1958
Carew accidentally stows away aboard uncrewed atomic rocket launched to Moon from New Mexico.[196]
Michael Haydon, Cmdr.
"Lefty" Blake
Merrity, Prof. (Scientist)
Larry Noble
Kim Hamilton (Reporter/Stowaway)  | Satellite in the Sky (1956), film  | Project Stardust (UK)
Stardust (spaceplane)  | Near Future
Spaceplane carries atomic bomb into orbit.[197][198][199]
Cologne:
Ralph C. Pigeon, Cmdr.
Acuff, Lt.
Unnamed astronauts

Titan Expedition:
Crawford, Cdre.

Stranger Station:
Paul Wesson, Sgt.  | "Stranger Station" (1956), short story  | Cologne

Titan Expedition

Stranger Station  | July 1, 1987

1997

c. 2087
A century after Pigeon's emergency landing on Titan leads to first contact with non-humanoid alien race, Wesson is sent to Stranger Station in high Earth orbit for a visit by one of the aliens.[200][201]
Endeavour:
Unnamed (Commander)
Trevor Williams, Prof. (Astronomer)
Henderson (Geophysicist)
Dave Bolton (Navigator)
Unnamed crewmembers

Goddard:
"Van" Vandenburg, Capt. (Commander)
Paynter, Dr (Geophysicist)
Anderson, Dr (Astronomer)
Unnamed crewmembers

Ziolkovski:
Krasnin (Commander)
Vladimir Surov (Botanist)
Unnamed crewmembers  | Venture to the Moon (1956), series of short stories  | Endeavour (UK)
Goddard (USA)
Ziolkovski (USSR)  | Near Future (after 1972)
First crewed expedition to the Moon, joint UK/US/Russian project; landing in Mare Imbrium. Richards and Shannon named as discoverers of life in Eratosthenes five years later. Vandenburg later travels to Mars, Krasnin to the inner Solar System.[202]
Eldon Galbraithe, Dr. (Commander)
Herbert Ellis (Radio Operator)
John Borden, Dr. (Scientist)
Henry Jaffe (Engineer)  | World Without End (a.k.a. Flight to the Future) (1956), film  | United States:
MRX  | March 1957
Astronauts returning from Mars orbital mission travel forward in time to the year 2508.[203][204][205]
Jonathan Bork, Capt.
Jenkins (no first name given)
Unnamed pilots  | "Captain Bedlam" (1957), short story  | Unknown  | Future
Pilots with induced multiple personalities fly spacecraft carrying cargo and hibernating passengers to the Moon, Mars and Jupiter 8.[206]
Chris Godfrey (UK)
Serge Smyslov (USSR)
Morrey Kant (USA)
Tony Hale (UK)  | Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series (1957–1979), juvenile novels  | Numerous, including Luna 1, Columbus, Lenin and Phoenix | Near Contemporary
British astronaut who makes the first crewed spaceflight, launching from Woomera, and international colleagues who later join him in the "United Nations Exploration Agency" for missions to the Moon and all planets in the Solar System.[citation needed]
Caldicott
Paul Bresh
McGuire
Stefano
Emanuel "Mannie" Mengild

George Johnstown Graves, Col. (Commandant, Arizona Research Station)  | "The Dark Star" (1957), short story  | Unknown  | Future
Candidates for first flight to the Moon. Bresh makes flight and is later a member of the Second Exploratory Party to Mars. Graves was a rocket pilot in the early days of crewed spaceflight.[207]
"Mighty" Maxon (Captain)
29 unnamed women  | "Expedition" (1957), short short story  | Unknown  | Future
Captain of first major Mars expedition quickly impregnates all 29 of his crewmates.[208]
Norris Caird, Cmdr. (Pilot)
Kerry (Medical Officer/Deputy Pilot/Navigator)
John Patterson (US) (Electronics Officer)
Robert Vaughan (Engineer/Geologist)
Janet Ross (Stowaway)  | High Vacuum (1957), novel  | Ministry of Astronautics (M.O.A.) (UK):
Alpha  | Near Future
First crewed Moon rocket crash-lands in Mare Imbrium due to added weight of stowaway.[209]
Bruce G. Davis, Jr.
Marvin Oldbury  | "Ideas Die Hard" (1957), short story  | Project Deep Space (US)  | Near Future
Astronauts attempt to learn why three uncrewed spacecraft failed on way to the Moon.[210][211]
Dave Woodbury
John Hansen  | "Insert Knob A in Hole B" (1957), short short story  | Space Station A5  | Future
Astronauts plagued by ambiguous assembly instructions for equipment.[212][213]
Harper (Captain)
Jantz, Prof. (Mathematician/Astronomer)
Jackson, Dr. (Geologist)
Holt, Dr. (Chemist)
Pegram (Navigator)
Davis (Engineer) (no first names given)  | "Intruders" (1957), short story  | Executive Council, Expedition H.Q. (a.k.a. Organization Headquarters)
Advance Expedition:
Lunar Base One  | Future
First expedition to the Moon establishes underground base near Tycho, but must fight unexpected enemies.[214]
Baird (Skipper/Pilot) (no first name given)
Hernandez (Engineer) (no first name given)
Unnamed instrument man  | "The Light" (1957), short story  | United States:
Benjamin Franklin | Near Future
First Americans on the Moon explore the crater Plato and discover outgassing of water vapor and evidence that someone has been there before them. Benjamin Franklin launches to Moon from space station in Earth orbit. Adapted into X Minus One episode in October 1957.[215][216][217]
Communications Satellite Two:
Unnamed (Narrator)
Sven Olsen (Construction)
Jock Duncan (Cook/Doctor)
Jim (no last name given) (Engineer)
Gregory "Gregg" Wendell (Junior station announcer)
Unnamed (Head of transport section)
Unnamed crewmembers

Solar Observatory:
Julie (no last name given) (Solar physicist)
Unnamed crewmembers

Starfire:
Stevens (Captain)
Unnamed crewmembers  | The Other Side of the Sky (1957), series of short stories  | Space Service:

Communications Satellite Two (a.k.a. Relay Two)
Solar Observatory

Starfire | Late 1970s

January 1, 2001
Workers building communications relay satellite and studying Sun in late 1970s. In 2001 narrator's son departs aboard Starfire, flagship of ten-ship Mars expedition.[218]
Harry Ross (Flight Commander)
Brainerd (First Astrogator)
Lon Curtis (Second Astrogator)
"Doc" Spangler (Psych Officer)
Krinsky (Accumulator Tech)
Llewellyn
Fallbridge[n]
Dominic  | "Sunrise On Mercury" (1957), short story  | Second Mercury Expedition:
Leverrier | Future
Second crew to land on Mercury encounters telepathic lifeform.[219][220][221]
Robert Calder, Col. (Commander)
Sharman, Dr. (Chief scientist)
15 unnamed crewmembers  | 20 Million Miles to Earth (a.k.a. The Giant Ymir, The Beast from Space) (1957), film  | United States Air Force
Project 5:
XY-21 (single-stage rocket)  | Near Future
13-month round-trip mission to Venus brings back egg of dinosaur-like creature.[222][223][224][225][226]
Argus II:
Moran (Captain)
Sinkley (Pilot)
Beckett (Chief Engineer)
Kranolsky, Dr. (Medical Officer)
"Sparks" (Radio Operator)
Unnamed crewmembers  | "Welcoming Committee" (1957), short story  | Argus
Argus II | Future
Crew of second Mars mission searches for missing crew of first mission.[227]
Ferranti
Smith

MR-1:
Hank Williams, Lt.
Bill, Lt. (Navigator) (no last name given)  | "Critical Angle" (1958), short story  | Rocket Service (US):
MR-1  | Near Future
First crewed spacecraft on the Moon is trapped by dust in Copernicus, but breaks free with unexpected consequences.[228]
John McLaren, Prof. (US)  | The Day the Sky Exploded (a.k.a. Death Comes from Outer Space) (1958), film  | US/Russia/UK:
X-Z atomic rocket  | Near Future
First attempted circumnavigation of Moon results in Earth being threatened with meteorite bombardment.[229][230]
Max Canning  | "First Man in a Satellite" (1958), short story  | United States  | Near Future
Three-foot-tall dancer and tumbler, a test subject rather than a pilot, becomes first human in space aboard spherical capsule within blunt-winged spacecraft.[231][232]
Romer
Temple

S-2:
Ken Pickering (USAF)

Aztec:
Adam Philip Crag (Commander)
Max Edward Prochaska (Electronics Chief)
Gordon Wells Nagel (Oxygen systems)
Igor Malin (impersonating Martin LeRoy Larkwell) (Mechanical maintenance/construction)

Astronaut:
Michael Gotch, Col. (USAF)
Fredrick Gunter (Secretary-General of the United Nations)
Unnamed pilot
Two unnamed crewmembers

"Bandit":
Otto Richter (East Germany) (Scientist)
Two unnamed crewmembers

"Red Dog":
Four unnamed crewmembers  | First on the Moon (1958), novel  | United States Air Force
Step One:

S-2 (Satelloid)
Aztec
Astronaut (atomic spacecraft)

"Eastern World":
"Bandit"
"Red Dog"  | Near Future
American mission to establish moonbase in Arzachel crater is opposed by unnamed "enemy" power from behind Iron Curtain, and complicated by presence of ringer in crew. Pickering is first human in space aboard "satelloid", a spaceplane with small wings.[233]
Van Wyck (Captain)
Byron
Pat Gilvey, Dr.
Marvin T. "Chowderhead" Roebuck
Sam
Wally  | "The Hated" (1958), short story  | Unknown  | Future
Crew of Mars mission returns to Earth wanting to kill each other.[234][235]
Challenge 141:
Edward Carruthers, Col.
Nine unnamed crewmembers

Challenge 142:
Van Heusen, Col. (Commander)
Ann Anderson (Geologist/Archeologist)
James Calder, Lt.
Bob Finelli
Gino Finelli
Joseph Kienholz (Biologist)
John Purdue, Maj.
Eric Royce, Dr.
Mary Royce, Dr. (Physician)  | It! The Terror from Beyond Space (a.k.a. It, The Vampire from Outer Space) (1958), film  | United States Space Commission:
Challenge 141
Challenge 142  | July 1973
Carruthers, the sole survivor of the first expedition to Mars, is accused of murdering his fellow crewmembers.[236][237][238][239][240][241]
Joan Jones  | Joan of Arkansas (1958), TV  | United States  | Contemporary/Near Future
Unsold sitcom pilot about dental technician chosen to become first human on Moon.[242]
Stepan Mikhailovich Ivankov, Maj.[o]

Bryant "Bud" Ashland, Capt. (USAF)  | "The Manned Missiles" (1958), short story  | Soviet Union

United States  | Contemporary/Near Future
Ivankov, the first man in space, and Ashland, the first American in space, die when their spacecraft collide in orbit.[243][244]
Steve Dayton
June Saxton
Gary Fennell (Convict)
Lon (Convict)  | Missile to the Moon (1958), film  | Unknown  | Near Future
Rocket researchers and escaped convicts encounter female lunar inhabitants. Loose remake of Cat-Women of the Moon (q.v.).[245][246][247]
Junius Robb, Capt. (USAF)
Anderson (First Officer)
Hamston (Rocket expert)
Kingsley (US Army) (Radio operator)
Farnsworth (Astrogator)  | "Moon Glow" (1958), short story  | Project Ajax (?)
Ajax XX | Near Future
First Americans to land on the moon.[248]
John Corcoran, Maj.  | Night of the Blood Beast (a.k.a. Creature from Galaxy 27) (1958), film  | X-100  | Contemporary/Near Future
First man launched into orbit; seemingly dies on reentry.[249][250][251][252]
British Satellite Station:
Unnamed commander
George Montgomery "Ticker" Troon, Flt Lt, VC
Nobby
Dobbin
Unnamed crewmembers

British Moon-Station:
Michael Troon (Station-Commander)
Reeves (Sub-Commander)
Calmore (Sub-Commander)
Ellen (Physician) (no last name given)
Hughes
Witley, Sgt.
Unnamed crewmembers

Soviet Moon-Station:
Alexei Goudenkovitch Budorieff, Gen. (Red Army) (Commander)
Zinochek, Col.
354 unnamed crewmembers

Figurão:
Raul Campaneiro (Commander)
Geoffrey Montgomery Trunho, Capt. (Navigator)
Camilo Botoes, Lt. (Electronics Officer/Geologist)  | The Outward Urge (1958), novel  | British Satellite Station

British Moon-Station
Soviet Moon-Station

Skyforce, Space Division (Estados Unidos do Brasil):
E.U.B. Spacevessel Figurão | November 1994

2044

December 9, 2093 – June 24, 2094
In 1994, Ticker Troon sacrifices himself to save British Satellite Station from enemy missile. Fifty years later, his son Michael commands British Moon-Station in Archimedes crater during nuclear war on Earth which results in destruction of American Moon-Station in Copernicus and Soviet Moon-Station in Ptolemy. In 2094, Michael's great-grandson Geoff is fatally stranded on Mars after first crewed landing when Figurão becomes disabled. Landing on April 18, 2094, in Isidis-Syrtis Major area at 48°N 275°E﻿ / ﻿48°N 275°E﻿ / 48; 275.[253]
Starfire:
Neil[p] Patterson, Capt. (Commander)
Michael Cruze, Lt.
Larry Turner, Lt. (USAF) (Navigator)
Konrad, Prof. (Dr.) (Passenger) (no first name given)

Space Station A:
Berger (no first name given)
Unnamed crewmembers  | Queen of Outer Space (a.k.a. Queen of the Universe) (1958), film  | United States:
Starfire (TF-5)
Space Station A  | 1985
Rays from Venus destroy space station and send ferry rocket Starfire off course to that planet. Patterson and his crew were the first men to orbit the Moon.[254][255][256][257]
Holt, Maj. Gen. (Commander of space station)
Kelly, Capt. (later promoted to Major)
Unnamed sergeant
Unnamed technician
Other unnamed crewmembers  | Race for the Moon
"The Thing on Sputnik 4!" (1958), comic  | United States:
Rotating wheel space station | Near Future
Military astronaut Kelly encounters alien creature clinging to Sputnik 4.[258]
American satellite:
Morgan (Commander)
"Shorty" Kaufman (Astronomer)
"Mac" McNary (Meteorologist)

Russian satellite:
Three unnamed cosmonauts  | "Satellite Passage" (1958), short story  | American satellite

Russian satellite  | Near Future
American and Russian crews on near-collision course.[259][260]
Morley
Unnamed trainees

Mars mission:
Tony Bannerman, Lt.
Hal Mendoza  | "Simulated Trainer" (1958), short story  | Unknown (United States)  | Future
Military astronauts on simulated Mars mission which turns out not to be a simulation.[261]
David Boyer (Astronomer)
John Compo (Astronomical Engineer)
Sybil Carrington (Researcher)
Howard Lazar, Dr. (Physician)
Unnamed crewmembers  | War of the Satellites (1958), film  | United Nations:
Project Sigma  | Near Future
Crew launched aboard three spacecraft which merge into single satellite in attempt to breach alien quarantine of Earth.[262][263][264]
Unnamed (Space Station Supervisor)
Unnamed doctors  | "Who's There?" (1958), short story  | Space Station | Early 1980s
Spaceman hears mysterious noises during spacewalk. Bernie Summers named as earlier spacewalk casualty.[265]
Brice Rogers  | World's Finest Comics
"The Menace of the Moonman!" (1958), comic  | Unknown  | Contemporary/Near Future
Pilot of first crewed space rocket, hurled into lunar orbit by Superman; he flies through a comet's tail and becomes the super-powered Moonman.[266][267][268]
Thomas O'Bannion, Col. (USAF) (Pilot/Navigator)
Iris "Irish" Ryan, Dr. (Biologist/Zoologist)
Theodore Gettell, Prof. (Scientist)
Sam Jacobs, CWO (Electronics/Radar)  | The Angry Red Planet (a.k.a. Invasion of Mars) (1959), film  | MR-1  | Near Future
First crewed Mars mission encounters bizarre dangers.[269][270][271][272][273][274]
Space Station JSS3:
Unnamed personnel

SPIP
Ship 1:
Kenjiro Adachi, Dr. (Prof.) (Commander)
Ichiro Katsumiya, Maj. (Chief)
Araki
Yuichi Iwamura (Navigator)
Kogure
Okada
Pierce (Gunner)
Etsuko Shiraishi (Radio)

Ship 2:
Roger Richardson, Dr. (Prof.) (Commander)
Nomura (Chief)
Komeda
Sato
Sylvia (Radio) (no last name given)
3 other crewmembers

Fighter rockets:
Unnamed pilots  | Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a. The World of Space) (1959), film  | Space Station JSS3

United Nations (F.F.E.)
SPIP:
Ship 1
Ship 2

Fighter rockets  | 1965
Earth fights hostile aliens from planet Natal. Two SPIP ships fly to Moon to investigate alien base near Mare Marginis.[275][276][277]
Space station:
James Benedict, Dr. (Director of US space program)
"Matt" Matthews, Col. (Ship commander)
Kurt Easton, Dr. (Observer)
Unnamed astronauts

Lunar spacecraft:
Dave Reynolds (Commander)
Three unnamed astronauts  | Destination Space (1959), TV movie  | Space Station B.B. ("Benedict's Billions") (US)
Lunar spacecraft (US)  | Near Future
Failed attempts to launch first lunar orbit mission from space station.[278]
Stone, Capt.
Barton
Leon
Merriweather
Parkhurst
Vecchi (no first names given)  | "Explorers We" (1959), short story  | Earth-Mars Expedition  | Near Future (April 9 – Late July)
Six-man crew of 18-month round-trip Mars landing mission encounters fear and hostility upon landing near Burlingame, California.[279][280]
Moonship:
McRoberts, Maj. (Commander) (First name not given)
Brad Summers, Capt. (Copilot)

Space Station:
Anderson, Col. (Commander) (First name not given)
Milton, Dr. (Astronomer) (First name not given)
Unnamed crewmembers

Ferry rocket:
Unnamed pilot  | First Boy on the Moon (1959), novel  | United States Space Force:

Moonship
Space Station
Ferry rocket  | Near Future
Two boys and a frog stow away on the first crewed mission to the Moon.[281]
Dan Milton Prescott, Lt. (USN)  | First Man into Space (a.k.a. Satellite of Blood) (1959), film  | United States Navy:
Y-12 spaceplane
Y-13 spaceplane  | Near Future
Air Force Space Command pilot flies plane into space, returns as monster.[282][283][284][285]
Unnamed astronaut (US)  | "The Man Who Lost the Sea" (1959), short story  | Alpha (booster)
Beta (booster)
Gamma (Mars lander)
Delta (Earth return ship)  | Future (c. late 20th century)
Astronaut dying after crash-landing on Mars.[286][287][288]
Rodina/Mercury:
Eugene Kornev/Albert Gordon, Dr. (Scientist)
Andrei Gordienko/Craig Matthews

Typhoon:
Robert Klark/Torrance, Capt.
Erwin Verst/Dan Martin, Dr.

Meteor:
Gregory Somov/Paul Clinton  | Nebo Zovyot (1959), film

Battle Beyond the Sun (1962), film  | Space station
Rodina ("Homeland")/Mercury
Typhoon
Meteor | Future (Nebo Zovyot)

November 1997 (Battle Beyond the Sun)
Soviet film re-edited for American release with names changed. Rodina/Mercury and Typhoon (nations of origin unspecified in Soviet version; "South Hemis" and "North Hemis" in American version) both attempt first Mars flight, but an emergency rescue leads to a landing on the asteroid Icarus instead. The events in the Soviet version turn out to be a dream. South Hemis' Mars mission called "Project Red Planet" in American version.[289][290][291][292]
Unnamed (USSR) (Chief Co-ordinator of Project Ares)
Jim Hutchins (US) (Assistant)
Hutchins' wife (unnamed)  | "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..." (1959), short story  | Astronautics Authority:

First Lunar Base

Project Ares
Alpha
Beta
Gamma | 1977
First crewed Mars expedition in preparation at lunar base inside crater Plato; meanwhile, Hutchins' son is first human born off-Earth. References to past events include US Navy rescue of cosmonaut Dimitri Kalinin in South Pacific; Jerry Wingate making first crewed orbit of Moon; landing of Hermann Oberth in Bay of Rainbows with loss of crew members.[293]
Mike Ferris, Sgt. (USAF)  | The Twilight Zone
Where Is Everybody? (1959), TV  | United States Air Force | Contemporary
Air Force astronaut trainee hallucinates himself in empty town during isolation experiment.[294][295][296][297]
Stafford (no first name given)

Traill
Henderson (no first names given)

Trevor
Woodford
Fox (no first names given)

John Jenkin, Lt.  | "Forms of Things Unknown" (1966), short story  | High Command  | Near Future
In posthumously published story by C. S. Lewis, first four manned missions to the Moon all end with contact abruptly lost with crews.[298]

## Notes

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1. ^ Implied to be Superintendent, Group B.
2. ^ Also referred to as FH-58.
3. ^ The story ends a month after Easter, which fell on March 26 in 1978.[25]
4. ^ Middle name given in The Man Who Sold the Moon (q.v.).
5. ^ The year "1959" appears in an illustration on p. 19. The book definitely takes place after 1951 (p. 48).
6. ^ Israel Independence Day takes place during the story.
7. ^ Opening narration says Starcloud launches on June 2, 1987, but a later log entry by Thorson is dated June 2, 1987 and says Starcloud is "four weeks out from Earth".
8. ^ First name given in later books.
9. ^ Incorrectly named "ZOX-1" in Space Cat Meets Mars (p. 3).
10. ^ The numeral "63" appears on the rocket in exterior shots.
11. ^ Promoted to Brigadier General at the end of the film.[132]
12. ^ Westfahl (p. 185) and the AFI Catalog assign the wrong scientific specialties to the characters.
13. ^ Also referred to as "Walt" (pp. 131–132).
14. ^ Also spelled "Falbridge".
15. ^ Patronymic not given; deduced from father's name.
16. ^ Spelled "Neal" in DVD subtitles.

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