The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Spain
This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 2 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 19th most number of Astronauts behind Vietnam and Belgium.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Spanish Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pedro Duque (1963 - )
With an HPI of 44.36, Pedro Duque is the most famous Spanish Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as minister of Science from 2018 to 2021 and member of the Congress of Deputies, representing Alicante, from May 2019 until February 2020. Since December 2023, he is the chair of Hispasat.
2. Michael López-Alegría (1958 - )
With an HPI of 43.66, Michael López-Alegría is the 2nd most famous Spanish Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages.
Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006, to April 21, 2007. López-Alegría commanded Axiom-1, the first ever all-private team of commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station, which launched on April 8, 2022, and spent just over 17 days in Earth's orbit.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as astronauts born between 1958 and 1963. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Pedro Duque and Michael López-Alegría.
