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=== National spacefaring attempts === : ''This section lists all nations which have attempted human spaceflight programs. This is not to be confused with [[List of space travelers by nationality|nations with citizens who have traveled into space]], including space tourists, flown or intending to fly by a foreign country's or non-domestic private company's space systems – who are not counted in this list toward their country's national spacefaring attempts.'' <!-- : Successfully executed programs are in '''bold'''. : [[Sub-orbital spaceflight|Suborbital]] spaceflights are in ''italics''. --> {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; font-size: 90%" ! Nation/Organization ! Space agency ! Term(s) for space traveler ! First launched astronaut ! Date ! Spacecraft ! Launcher ! Type |- | {{Flag|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}}<br />(1922–1991) | [[Soviet space program]]<br />([[OKB-1|OKB-1 Design Bureau]]) | космонавт (same word in:) {{in lang|ru|uk}}<br />''kosmonavt''<br />cosmonaut<br />Ғарышкер{{in lang|kk}} | [[Yuri Gagarin]] | 12 April 1961 | [[Vostok spacecraft]] | [[Vostok rocket|Vostok]] | Orbital |- | {{US}} | [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]] | astronaut<br />spaceflight participant | [[Alan Shepard]] (suborbital) | 5 May 1961 | [[Mercury spacecraft#Spacecraft|Mercury spacecraft]] | [[Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle|Redstone]] | Suborbital |- | {{US}} | [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]] | astronaut<br />spaceflight participant | [[John Glenn]] (orbital) | 20 February 1962 | [[Mercury spacecraft#Spacecraft|Mercury spacecraft]] | [[Atlas LV-3B]] | Orbital |- | {{PRC}} | [[Chinese space program|Space program of the People's Republic of China]] | {{nativename|zh-Hans|宇航员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|yǔhángyuán}}<br />{{nativename|zh-Hans|航天员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|hángtiānyuán}} | — | 1973 (abandoned) | [[Shuguang spacecraft|Shuguang]] | [[Long March 2A]] | Orbital |- | {{PRC}} | [[Chinese space program|Space program of the People's Republic of China]] | {{nativename|zh-Hans|宇航员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|yǔhángyuán}}<br />{{nativename|zh-Hans|航天员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|hángtiānyuán}} | — | 1981 (abandoned) | [[Fanhui Shi Weixing|Piloted FSW]] | [[Long March 2]] | Orbital |- | [[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px]] [[European Space Agency]] | [[CNES]] / [[European Space Agency|European Space Agency (ESA)]] | ''spationaute'' {{in lang|fr}}<br />astronaut | — | 1992 (abandoned) | [[Hermes (spacecraft)|Hermes]] | [[Ariane V]] | Orbital |- | {{Flag|Russia}} | [[Roscosmos]] | космонавт {{in lang|ru}}<br />''kosmonavt''<br />cosmonaut | [[Alexander Viktorenko]], [[Alexander Kaleri]] | 17 March 1992 | [[Soyuz TM-14]] to MIR | [[Soyuz-U2]] | Orbital |- | {{Flagicon|Iraq|1991}} [[Ba'athist Iraq]]<br />(1968–2003){{NoteTag|According to a press release of Iraqi News Agency of 5 December 1989 about the first (and last) test of the [[Tammouz rocket|Tammouz]] space launcher, [[Iraq]] intended to develop crewed space facilities by the end of the century. These plans were put to an end by the [[Gulf War]] of 1991 and the economic hard times that followed.}} | — | {{nativename|ar|رجل فضاء }}<br />{{transliteration|ar|rajul faḍāʼ}}<br />{{nativename|ar|رائد فضاء }}<br />{{transliteration|ar|rāʼid faḍāʼ}}<br />{{nativename|ar|ملاح فضائي }}<br />''mallāḥ faḍāʼiy'' | — | 2001 (abandoned) | — | [[Tammouz rocket|Tammouz 2 or 3]] | {{n/a}} |- | {{flag|Japan}} | [[National Space Development Agency of Japan|National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)]] | {{nativename|ja|宇宙飛行士}}<br />{{transliteration|ja|uchūhikōshi}} or<br /> {{Nihongo2|アストロノート}}<br /> {{transliteration|ja|asutoronoto}} | — | 2003 (abandoned) | [[HOPE-X|HOPE]] | [[H-II]] | Orbital |- | {{PRC}} | [[China Manned Space Agency|China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)]] | {{nativename|zh-Hans|宇航员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|yǔhángyuán}}<br />{{nativename|zh-Hans|航天员}}<br />{{transliteration|zh|hángtiānyuán}}<br />taikonaut ({{lang-zh|labels=no|c=太空人 |p=tàikōng rén}}) | [[Yang Liwei]] | 15 October 2003 | [[Shenzhou (spacecraft)|Shenzhou spacecraft]] | [[Long March 2F]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|Japan}} | {{Interlanguage link|Japanese Rocket Society|ja|3=日本ロケット協会|vertical-align=sup}}, [[Kawasaki Heavy Industries]] and [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]] | {{nativename|ja|宇宙飛行士}}<br />{{transliteration|ja|uchūhikōshi}} or<br /> {{Nihongo2|アストロノート}}<br /> {{transliteration|ja|asutoronoto}} | — | 2000s (abandoned) | [[Kankoh-maru]] | [[Kankoh-maru]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|Japan}} | [[JAXA|Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)]] | {{nativename|ja|宇宙飛行士}}<br />{{transliteration|ja|uchūhikōshi}} or<br /> {{Nihongo2|アストロノート}}<br /> {{transliteration|ja|asutoronoto}} | — | 2003 (abandoned) | [[Fuji (spacecraft)|Fuji]] | [[H-II]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|India}} | [[Indian Space Research Organisation|Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)]] | Vyomanaut <br /> {{in lang|sa}} | — | 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/gaganyaan-manned-mission-not-before-2023-minister/articleshow/81013233.cms|title=Gaganyaan manned mission not before 2023: Minister |work=the Times of India|date=2021-02-17|author=Surendra Singh}}</ref> | [[Gaganyaan]] | [[LVM 3]] | Orbital <ref>{{cite news |url = https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/four-years-is-tight-but-can-achieve-the-human-spaceflight-isros-k-sivan/65411891 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180815164653/https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/four-years-is-tight-but-can-achieve-the-human-spaceflight-isros-k-sivan/65411891 |url-status = dead |archive-date = 15 August 2018 |title = Four years is tight, but can achieve the human spaceflight: ISRO's K Sivan - ETtech |author = ETtech.com |newspaper = The Economic Times |language = en |access-date = 2018-08-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/india-will-put-man-in-space-for-seven-days-isro-chairman-118081500485_1.html |title= India will put man in space for seven days: ISRO Chairman |author = IANS |date = 15 August 2018 |work = Business Standard India |access-date = 2018-08-15 }}</ref> |- | [[File:ESA logo simple.svg|20px]] [[European Space Agency]] | [[European Space Agency|European Space Agency (ESA)]] | astronaut | — | 2020 (concept approved in 2009; but full development not begun)<ref>{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8139347.stm |work=BBC News |title=Europe targets manned spaceship |date=7 July 2009 |access-date=27 March 2010 |first=Jonathan |last=Amos }}</ref><ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/05/22/223941/apollo-like-capsule-chosen-for-crew-space-transportation.html Apollo-like capsule chosen for Crew Space Transportation System], 22 May 2008</ref><ref>[http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/ATV/infokit/english/Complete_Infokit_ATVreentry.pdf "Jules Verne" Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Re-entry]. Information Kit (PDF). Updated September 2008. European Space Agency. Retrieved on 7 August 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7749761.stm |work = BBC News |title = Europe's 10bn-euro space vision |date=26 November 2008 |access-date = 27 March 2010 |first = Jonathan |last = Amos }}</ref> | [[CSTS]], [[Automated Transfer Vehicle|ARV phase-2]] | [[Ariane V]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|Japan}} | [[JAXA|Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)]] | {{nativename|ja|宇宙飛行士}}<br />{{transliteration|ja|uchūhikōshi}} or<br /> {{Nihongo2|アストロノート}}<br /> {{transliteration|ja|asutoronoto}} | — | TBD | [[H-II Transfer Vehicle|HTV-based spacecraft]] | [[H3 (rocket)|H3]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|Iran}} | [[Iranian Space Agency|Iranian Space Agency (ISA)]] | — | — | 2019 (on hold) | [[Iranian crewed spacecraft|ISA spacecraft]] | TBD | Orbital |- | {{flag|North Korea}} | [[National Aerospace Development Administration|National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA)]] | — | — | 2020s | [[National Aerospace Development Administration#Future projects|NADA spacecraft]] | [[Unha|Unha 9]] | Orbital |- | {{flag|Denmark}} | [[Copenhagen Suborbitals]] | astronaut | — | 2020s | [[HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe|Tycho Brahe]] | [[HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe|SPICA]] | Suborbital <!-- Removed ARCA for Romania. It was a sponsorship fraud system. --> |} <!-- Please, DO NOT INCLUDE Equador. Its human spaceflight program http://exa.ec/ESAA-PECE_files/frame.htm with first suborbital mission ESAA-01 is not based on indigenous technology. It will be one of the first paid client's missions aboard on foreign airplane-launched spacecraft [[Space Adventures Explorer|M55X+Explorer system]] that now is under development by Russian NPOM-Almaz company (former Myasishchev Bureau) according to order of British-US commercial space touristic company [[Space Adventures]]. --> {{Human spaceflight timeline}}
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