Notable Asian Americans include:
See also: List of Asian-American writers.
See also: Military History of Asian Americans.
See main article: Asian Americans in politics.
This section is a list of astronauts of Asian ancestry who are, by birth or naturalization, American citizens. Sorted by first space flight, then by NASA Astronaut Group (if applicable).
| No. | Image | Name Birth date | Ancestry | Birth | Comment | Missions (Launch date) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellison Onizuka June 24, 1946 |  Japan |  United States | Selected in 1978 to NASA Astronaut Group 8. First Asian American and first Japanese American in space. Died on the Challenger. | STS-51-C (January 24, 1985) STS-51-L (January 28, 1986) | ||
| 2 | Taylor Gun-Jin Wang June 16, 1940 | Republic of China | First person of Chinese ancestry and first Chinese American in space. | STS-51-B (April 29, 1985) | |||
| 3 | Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 | Selected in 1980 to NASA Astronaut Group 9. Joint record holder, since 2002 (with Jerry L. Ross, set two months earlier that year), for most spaceflights by a human. | STS-61-C (January 12, 1986) STS-34 (October 18, 1989) STS-46 (July 31, 1992) STS-60 (February 3, 1994) STS-75 (February 22, 1996) STS-91 (June 2, 1998) STS-111 (June 5, 2002) | ||||
| 4 | Eugene Trinh September 14, 1950 | First Vietnamese American in space. | STS-50 (June 25, 1992) | ||||
| 5 | Leroy Chiao August 28, 1960 | Taiwan | Selected in 1990 to NASA Astronaut Group 13. Served on ISS Expedition 10. | STS-65 (July 8, 1994) STS-72 (January 11, 1996) STS-92 (October 11, 2000) Soyuz TMA-5 (October 14, 2004) | |||
| 6 | Ed Lu July 1, 1963 | Republic of China | Selected in 1994 to NASA Astronaut Group 15. Served on ISS Expedition 7. | STS-84 (May 15, 1997) STS-106 (September 8, 2000) Soyuz TMA-2 (April 6, 2003) | |||
| 7 | Kalpana Chawla March 17, 1962 | Selected in 1994 to NASA Astronaut Group 15. First Indian American in space. Died on the Columbia. | STS-87 (November 19, 1997) STS-107 (January 16, 2003) | ||||
| 8 | Mark L. Polansky June 2, 1956 | Selected in 1996 to NASA Astronaut Group 16. First Korean American in space. | STS-98 (February 7, 2001) STS-116 (December 9, 2006) STS-127 (July 15, 2009) | ||||
| 9 | Daniel M. Tani February 1, 1961 | Selected in 1996 to NASA Astronaut Group 16. Served on ISS Expedition 16. | STS-108 (December 5, 2001) STS-120 (October 23, 2007) STS-122 (February 7, 2008) | ||||
| 10 | Sunita Williams September 19, 1965 | Selected in 1998 to NASA Astronaut Group 17. Served on ISS Expedition 14/15 and Expedition 32/33. Second female commander of ISS. First female astronaut to fly on a orbital spacecraft's maiden flight, i.e., Boeing Starliner. | STS-116/117 (December 9, 2006) Soyuz TMA-05M (July 15, 2012) Starliner Crewed Flight Test (June 5, 2024) | ||||
| 11 | Kjell N. Lindgren January 23, 1973 | Taiwan | Taiwan | Selected in 2009 to NASA Astronaut Group 20. Served on ISS Expedition 44. | Soyuz TMA-17M (July 22, 2015) SpaceX Crew-4 (April 27, 2022) | ||
| 12 | Sirisha Bandla 1988 | Indian American sub-orbital, sub-Kármán line, space tourist. | Virgin Galactic Unity 22 (July 11, 2021) | ||||
| 13 | Raja Chari June 24, 1977 | Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22. | SpaceX Crew-3 (November 11, 2021) | ||||
| 14 | Gopichand Thotakura 1993 | Entrepreneur and an accomplished pilot. | Blue Origin NS-25 (May 19, 2024)[41] | ||||
| 15 | Andy Sadhwani 1988 | Principal Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX | Galactic 07 (June 8, 2024)[42] [43] | ||||
| 16 | Jonny Kim February 5, 1984 | Selected in 2017 to NASA Astronaut Group 22. | |||||