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Astronaut database

The data this week comes from Mariya Stavnichuk and Tatsuya Corlett.

This article talks about the data set in greater detail.

This database contains publically available information about all astronauts who participated in space missions before 15 January 2020 collected from NASA, Roscosmos, and fun-made websites. The provided information includes full astronaut name, sex, date of birth, nationality, military status, a title and year of a selection program, and information about each mission completed by a particular astronaut such as a year, ascend and descend shuttle names, mission and extravehicular activity (EVAs) durations.

Credit: Georgios Karamanis

Data dictionary

variable	class	description
id	double	ID
number	double	Number
nationwide_number	double	Number within country
name	character	Full name
original_name	character	Name in original language
sex	character	Sex
year_of_birth	double	Year of birth
nationality	character	Nationality
military_civilian	character	Military status
selection	character	Name of selection program
year_of_selection	double	Year of selection program
mission_number	double	Mission number
total_number_of_missions	double	Total number of missions
occupation	character	Occupation
year_of_mission	double	Mission year
mission_title	character	Mission title
ascend_shuttle	character	Name of ascent shuttle
in_orbit	character	Name of spacecraft used in orbit
descend_shuttle	character	Name of descent shuttle
hours_mission	double	Duration of mission in hours
total_hrs_sum	double	Total duration of all missions in hours
field21	double	?
eva_hrs_mission	double	Duration of extravehicular activities during the mission
total_eva_hrs	double	Total duration of all extravehicular activities in hours