List of fictional astronauts (Project Apollo era)

The following is a list of fictional astronauts from the era of the Apollo program and the early history of the Soyuz spacecraft, during the "Golden Age" of space travel.

Project Apollo era

Name(s)Appeared inProgram / mission / spacecraftFictional date Apollo (1967–1975)John Mason (Pilot)Larry Carter (Co-Pilot)First Men to the Moon (1960), novelUnknownNear futureSpaceflight veterans Mason and Carter make first human Moon landing near lunar north pole, using direct ascent mission mode and spaceplane fifth stage. Launch and landing on Pacific atoll.Abner Evans, Lt. Cmdr.Marco GarciaJohnny Ingraham"A Man for the Moon" (1960), short storyUnited States NavyScreaming MimiNear futureCandidates for first Moon flight.William BloodLeoTwo other astronautsMan in the Moon (1960), filmUnited Kingdom:National Atomic Research Studies [?] and Technological Development (NARSTI)Near futureBritish astronaut Blood makes failed Moon flight.Richmond D. "Rich" Talbot, Capt. (USAF)Starfire (1960), novelMoon Pilot (1962), filmUnited States Air ForceProject StarfireMay 22–29, 1960 (novel)Contemporary (film)First American human lunar orbit mission.Unnamed female cosmonaut"Hate" (a.k.a. "At the End of Orbit") (1961), short storyUnknownContemporary/near futureFirst human to orbit Moon crashes in Pacific Ocean near Thursday Island; dies when Hungarian refugee pearl diver prevents her from being rescued before her air runs out.Paul Davenport, Capt. (United States)"Control Somnambule" (1962), short storyApolloNear futureAstronaut sent on a solo round-the-Moon mission who is subjected to a mysterious temporal discontinuity, subsequently revealed to have been caused by aliens.Apollo:Joseph Faulk, Lt. Col. (USMC) (CDR)Lester "Les" Mallon, Lt. Cmdr. (USN) (CMP)Max Kovac, Maj. (USAF) (LMP)CAPCOMs:Whitey BurkeGary "Dad" MyersJohnny WacoApollo at Go (1963), novelApolloUnnamed CSM/LMJuly 1969Crew of first Apollo Moon mission, launched on July 5, 1969; landing in Ocean of Storms. Faulk is a veteran of five previous Apollo missions, including an aborted solo suborbital flight.MartinX-20:Mel Lockhart, Capt.The Crawling Hand (a.k.a. Tomorrow You Die) (1963), filmUnited States:X-20November 1963While returning from second human Moon mission, astronaut Lockhart asks for his spacecraft to be destroyed, but returns to Earth as animate severed arm.Danton "Dan" Coye, Col. (USAF) (CDR/CMP)Giovanni "Gino" Lombardi, Maj. (USAF)Eddie Glazer"Down to Earth" (1963), short storyFirst American Earth-Moon Expedition:ApolloUnnamed CSM/LMSeptember 1971Crew of first Moon landing mission shifts into alternate reality while in lunar orbit.Ivan Kragoff (USSR)Marvel Comics (1963– )Unnamed spacecraftContemporaryKragoff makes first human flight to Moon, deliberately exposing himself to cosmic rays in order to gain superpowers and becoming the Red Ghost.Grand Fenwick:Alfred Kokintz, Prof.Vincent MountjoyUnited States:Two unnamed astronautsSoviet Union:Two unnamed cosmonautsThe Mouse on the Moon (1963), filmGrand FenwickUnited StatesSoviet UnionContemporary (Summer)Tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick reaches Moon with American financial assistance and leftover Russian Vostok rocket. Launch from Grand Fenwick on August 11; American and Russian launches in late August; Moon landings by all three countries on September 1.Francis Spender, Col."A Question of Re-Entry" (1963), short storyUnited Nations Space DepartmentGoliath 7Early 1970sFirst man to land on the Moon is eaten by cannibals after crash landing in Brazilian jungle.Kanashima, Dr. (no personal name given)Le jardin de Kanashima (a.k.a. Garden on the Moon) (1964), novelJapanOctober 3, 1942 – October 1970Physicist Kanashima makes one-way flight to become first man on Moon. Landing at west edge of Sea of Serenity.Apollo 3:Charles "Chiz" Stewart Jr., Col. (USAF) (CDR) (unnamed in novel)Rick Lincoln, Lt. (USN) (Navigator)Lee Stegler (Co-Pilot) (named Steven James Lawrence in novel)Pilgrim One:Lee Stegler/Steve LawrenceVostok/Voskhod:Alexis PlekhanovVostok/Voskhod:3 unnamed cosmonauts (1 unnamed cosmonaut in novel)The Pilgrim Project (1964), novelCountdown (a.k.a. Moonshot) (1968), filmNASA:Apollo 3 (simulation in film)Gemini (Pilgrim One) (Mercury in novel)Soviet Union:2 Voskhods (2 Vostoks in novel)Near futureNASA astronaut using modified Gemini craft (Mercury in novel) to beat the Russians to the Moon. Landing near Surveyor 6 in Oceanus Procellarum.Roberts, Col.Simms, Maj.Doctor Who"Moon Landing" (1965), comic stripUnknown (rocket marked "MS")July 1970First men on the Moon. Country of origin not specified. Mission launches on July 20, 1970.O. K. Deadhead, Sgt.Sergeant Dead Head (a.k.a. Sergeant Deadhead, Sergeant Deadhead the Astronut!) (1965), filmUnited States Air Force (964th Aero-Space Division)Project Moon Monkey:Hercules 3c. 1968Deadhead accidentally stows away aboard spacecraft carrying chimpanzee around the Moon. A planned sequel, Sergeant Deadhead Goes to Mars, was never made.Gavin Lewis, Sgt.Clifford Banks, Maj.Howell, Lt. Col. (no first name given)Apollo:Tony LaCava, Lt. Col. (CDR)Martin Daniels, Lt. Col. (USMC) (CMP)Hardy Smith, Cmdr. (USN) (LMP)The InvadersMoonshot (1967), TVF.S.A.:ApolloUnnamed CSM/LMContemporary/near futureAfter Banks and Howell are killed by mysterious red fog, they are replaced on Moon landing mission by their backups, one of whom is an alien imposter. Lewis was one of the first astronauts, but washed out of Moon program due to fluctuating blood pressure.NASA:Frank Lewis, Dr. (Physiologist) (UK)Stern (Pilot-Astronaut) (no first name given)Roy Villiers, Capt. (Pilot-Astronaut)Apollo:Bill Sanders (CDR)Thomas (Co-Pilot) (no first name given)Unnamed astronautApollo?:Karl Simmonds (Command Pilot)Bob Mitchell (Co-Pilot)Mike Gransome, Maj. (USAF) (Third Pilot)Zenno Fillipini, Dr. (Italy) (Scientific Observer)Ulysses:Don Hart (Command Pilot)Roger Cope (Co-Pilot)Joseph (Pilot) (no first name given)Jean Romain, Prof. (France) (Scientific Observer)Kings of Infinite Space (1967), novelNASA:ApolloUnnamed CSM/LMUnnamed CSM/LMProject UlyssesAutumn 1969 – c. 1970New group of NASA astronauts selected in 1969 combines pilots and scientists and includes international component. Sanders commands lunar mission aborted when Thomas falls ill in flight. Spaceflight veterans Simmonds and Hart join new astronauts on missions using "Saturn VI" rocket (Saturn V with booster rockets added): four-man lunar mission with expanded spacecraft and Project Ulysses deep-space mission.KM III:CAP (Expedition Leader)DOC (Documenter/Photographer)MEC (Mechanic/Navigator)PHY (Physician)RNT (Radio/TV Engineer)GEO (Geologist)AST (Astrophysicist)SEL (Selenologist) (no names given)Die Mondexpedition (Log of a Moon Expedition) (1967 (German), 1969 (English)), novelProject Alpha:KM IKM IIKM IIINear FutureAfter crewed lunar orbital missions KM I and KM II, the first crewed landing, KM III, is beset with problems. KM III lands in Sinus Medii (near Réaumur and Flammarion), preceded by three cargo landers., cited in Mikhail Andreievich Karkhov"Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism" (1967), short storySoviet UnionContemporary (Winter)First cosmonaut on Moon awaits death after malfunction. Landing in Ptolemaeus crater.Daddy (unnamed)My Daddy the Astronaut (1967), short filmUnited StatesContemporary/near futureFormer jet pilot lands on Moon, then breaks both legs falling off carousel horse.Tsiolkovskii A:Lev Alexandrovich Barkagan, Col. (Commandant)Pyotr Sachuk (Subcommandant)Sergei Vinogradov (Commandant's aide)Georgi Zolotarev, Capt.Igor K. Yefremov, Capt.Nikolai "Niki" Urazova, Lt. (Quartermaster)22 unnamed cosmonautsTsiolkovskii B:Nikolai Dorodnitsyn, Lt. Col.Dmitri Alexandrov, Maj.Up to six technicians (rotating)Sedov Base:Mikhail Grek, Lt. Col. (Commander)Three unnamed cosmonautsLenin Base:Pavel K. Shtapova, Lt. Col. (Commandant)Yuri S. Kalganova, Capt. (Subcommandant)Leonid Protsenko, Capt. (Specialist)Alexis Tvardovskii, Capt. (Specialist)NASA:Norm CramerVic AgronteSyd FranklinClint GoodmanApolloEarth orbital flight:Rance Allenby, Col. (USAF) (CDR)Gene Stanley (USN)Joe Kawolski (US Army) (Engineer)Earth orbital flight:Bill RobinsonJohn EnglandChris Wheatley (Geophysical scientist)Aborted circumlunar flight:Neil CarterWilliam R. QuartermainKevin WilsonEarth orbital flight:Unnamed astronautsCircumlunar flight:Three unnamed astronautsMoon landing:Rance Allenby (CDR)Gene Stanley, Cmdr. (USN) (CMP)Leigh "The Brain" Raymond (LMP/Scientist)Bart Rogers (CapCom)United NationsApollo 026:John England (CDR)Bill Quartermain (CMP)Stephen E. Johnson (LMP/Scientist)Air Force-NASAMoon landing:Rance Allenby (CDR)Joe Kawolski (CMP)Gene Stanley, Capt. (USAF) (LMP)Circumlunar flight:Two unnamed astronautsLunar farside landing:Three unnamed astronautsMoon landing:Richard FullerGary GarretUnnamed CMPShowboat I:Chuck Hewitt (CDR)Bill QuartermainShowboat II:Matt Jorgensen (CDR)Harold MonroeKevin WilsonBrian Joslyn (CMP)Lance/Goddard Lunar Base:Rance Allenby (CDR)Gene StanleyJoe KawolskiDick Spencer (US Army) (Engineer)Chris WheatleyEd Meyers (Systems)Gordon Baxter (Logistics)Jim "Paradox" Blessing (Medical technician/Armaments specialist)Circumlunar flight:Two unnamed astronautsChina:Approx. 48 unnamed astronautsNo Man's World (1967), novelUSSR Space Command:Tsiolkovskii A BaseTsiolkovskii B BaseSedov BaseLenin BaseNASAApollo:Two Earth orbital flightsAborted circumlunar flightEarth orbital flightCircumlunar flightMoon landing (CSM/LM)United Nations:Apollo 026 (CSM/LM)United States Air Force-NASA:Moon landing (CSM/LM)Circumlunar flight (CSM)Lunar farside landing (CSM/LM)Moon landing (CSM/LM)Operation Showboat:Showboat I (Modified Apollo CSM)Showboat II (CSM/Three-man LM)LanceGoddard Lunar BaseCircumlunar flight (CSM/cargo lander)People's Republic of China:Unnamed spacecraftc. 1968 – November 1972Three years after Soviets reach Moon, American astronauts attempt to follow them. Barkagan was the first man on the Moon, landing on August 22, 1968. Tsiolkovskii A Base located near southwest edge of Ptolemaeus crater, near ; Tsiolkovskii B south of Tsiolkovskii A in Alphonsus; Sedov Base north of Tsiolkovskii A, at ; Lenin Base near southwest edge of Sinus Iridum. Allenby, Stanley and Kawolski fly first Earth-orbital Apollo/Saturn V mission. Carter, Quartermain and Wilson's Saturn V explodes after liftoff; crew saved by escape tower. First American Moon landing at , north of Lassell crater. UN Moon landing in center of Davy Y. Allenby's second landing in Gassendi crater. Fuller and Garret land in southern Mare Humorum, north of Doppelmayer crater. Showboat II establishes decoy LeMay Base at , west of Fra Mauro E. Goddard Base established on southeast flank of central peak of Alphonsus; Goddard Base crew fly Lance spacecraft launched by Titan IIIE to reach lunar ferry with two lunar landers in Earth orbit. Twelve Chinese astronauts land in Sinus Aestuum, near Eratosthenes. Goodman is a former X-15 pilot.Roy FlemingFred Gifford, Maj.The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), filmApolloContemporaryRussia plans on sending a dentist into space, to show the safety of their space program. NASA launches Fleming, Cape Canaveral's newest janitor, upstaging Russian launch.McIntyre (no first name given)Epsilon:Michael Stevens Harder, Col. (USAF) (Station Commander)Page Alison, Dr. (US) (Life Sciences)Henri Guy-Michel, Col. (Dr.) (French Air Force) (Communications and Navigation Program Director)William Jordan (USAF) (First Engineer)Werner Koelbe, Dr. (born Hans Bayerlein) (West Germany) (Physician/Medical research)Luke Parsons (USMC) (Engineer)Timothy Pollard, Dr. (Professor of Astronomical Sciences) (UK)June Strond, Ph.D. (Norway) (Geophysics and Earth Sciences Expert)StatCom:Atkins (no first name given)Stubby DolanBandit One:Jack Dexter (Command Pilot)Ken Sanborne, Dr. (Physician)Hal Gunner, Dr. (Physician)Four Came Back (1968), novelSpace StationEpsilonBandit One (lifting body) (launched by Titan IIIC)September 1972International space station