List of fictional astronauts (exploration of outer Solar System)

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The following is a list of fictional astronauts exploring the outer Solar System.

Jupiter

Name(s) Appeared in Program / Mission / Spacecraft Fictional date
K. "Fuj" Fuji (Japan)
F. Glenn (USA)		 Invasion of Astro-Monster (a.k.a. Monster Zero) (1965), film World Space Agency[lower-alpha 1] (WSA):
Spaceship P-1		 196X [sic]
Astronauts on mission to "Planet X", newly discovered satellite of Jupiter.[1][2][3]
Bramley, Capt.
Weeke (F/O)
Rand, Cmdr.
38 unnamed astronauts		 Plague from Space (1965), novel Pericles Near Future?
Crew of the first mission to land on Jupiter. The sole survivor returns to Earth carrying a deadly disease. Revised as The Jupiter Plague (1982).[4]
David "Dave" Bowman, Dr. (Commander)
Frank Poole, Dr. (Co-Pilot)
Charles Hunter, Dr.
Jack R. Kimball, Dr.
Victor F. Kaminsky, Dr.		 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), film/novel National Council of Astronautics (US):
Discovery One		 1999 – 2001[lower-alpha 2]
Astronauts on a mission to find an alien artifact near Jupiter (on Iapetus in the book, and Kimball was renamed Whitehead).[5][6][7][8]
Guy Crayford, Cmdr. Doctor Who
The Android Invasion (1975), TV (1978 novel)		 XK-5 Space Raider Contemporary/Near Future
UK Senior Space Defence astronaut vanished, presumed dead, on Jupiter mission. Saved by Kraal alien race who use him in their plans for invasion of Earth.[9]
Alexei Leonov:
Tanya Kirbuk (Soviet Air Force) (Commander)
Vladimir Rudenko
Vasili Orlov, Dr.
Maxim "Max" Brailovsky
Irina Yakunina
Heywood R. Floyd, Dr.
R. Chandra, Dr.
Walter Curnow, Dr. (Engineer)

Tsien:
Chang, Professor (First name not given)
Lee, Dr. (First name not given)
Three unnamed astronauts		 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), novel
2010 (1984), film		 Alexei Leonov

Tsien (China)		 2010
Astronauts on a follow-up mission to Jupiter to investigate the loss of Discovery One. Tsien makes disastrous first manned landing on Europa.[10][11]
Amity:
Mac McGuire
Marjorie "Marj" Aubuchon (Surgeon)
Ed Iseminger

Greenswallow:
Herman Selma (Mission commander)
Catherine "Cathie" Perth (Journalist)
Rob Sawyer

Tolstoi:
Victor Landolfi
Esther Crowley
Unnamed astronaut

Catherine Perth:
Ed Iseminger
Unnamed crew		 Promises to Keep (1984), short story The Program:
Amity
Greenswallow
Tolstoi (three Athena vehicles)

Catherine Perth		 Future (December)
Expedition to Jovian system in three linked vehicles. Catherine Perth, equipped with fusion engine, is built for rescue mission to be launched six years later. Frank Steinitz is named as commander of first Saturn expedition aboard five Athena vehicles (including Amity, Greenswallow and Tolstoi) fifteen years earlier.[12][13]
Jacob Hols
Juliet "Julie" Burton
Martha Kivelsen		 The Very Pulse of The Machine (1998), short story First Galilean Satellites Exploratory Mission Future (Late 21st century?)
First manned landing on Io leads to major discoveries and tragedy. Landing site near Daedalus.[14][15]
Hachirota Hoshino
Werner Locksmith
Hakim Ashmead
Kho Cheng-Shin
Goro Hoshino		 Planetes (2003), anime Von Braun 2075
First manned space mission to Jupiter.
Matthew David "Matt" (Commander) (no last name given)
Kara Elizabeth (Exobiologist) (no last name given)
Jeff "Wink" Winkermann		 The Constellation of Sylvie (2005), novel NASA:
Heartland (CSM/LEM)		 Near Future (2032 – 2040?)[lower-alpha 3]
First manned mission to Jupiter gathers ice containing biomorphing microbes from Jovian moon, causing crew to revert to childhood. Landing near Mount Pwyll.[16]
Kim Kronotska, Cmdr.
Tom Braudy
Samuel (no last name given)		 Doctor Who
Memory Lane (2006), audio play		 Led Zeppelin IV 2010s (?)
Commonwealth Space Programme mission to Jupiter that goes wrong.
Michael Forrest (Commander/Pilot)
Nathaniel "Nathan" Miller (Biologist/Geologist/Oceanographer/Doctor)		 Astronaut: The Last Push (2012), film Moffitt Industries:
Life One
"Little Ahab" (submersible)		 2017–2022
Mission to Europa with Venus gravity assist goes wrong when micrometeoroid strikes spacecraft.[17]
Dun "William" Xu (Commander)
Rosa Dasque (Pilot/Archivist)
Daniel "Dan" Luxembourg, Dr. (Chief Science Officer)
Katya Petrovna, Dr. (Science Officer)
Andrei Blok (Chief Engineer)
James Corrigan (Engineer)		 Europa Report (2013), film Europa Ventures:
Europa One		 Near Future
First manned mission to Europa discovers life under the ice. Landing in Conamara Chaos, near Thera Macula and Thrace Macula.[18]
Unnamed astronaut Voice Over (2013), short film Unknown Future
Astronaut trying to reach oxygen supply after crash landing, possibly on one of Jupiter's moons.[lower-alpha 4][19]
Gordon Harper, Ph.D. (Commander) (USAF)
Tal (Pilot/Physicist)
Nisha T. Devi (Engineer) (India)
Ivanov (Astrogeologist/Physician) (Russia)
"Sully" Sullivan, Ph.D. (Mission Specialist)
Thebes (Engineer) (South Africa)		 Good Morning, Midnight (2016), novel Shuttle

Aether
Landing modules

International Space Station
Soyuz		 Future (21st century)
Astronauts returning to Earth from Jupiter after losing contact with Mission Control; made landings on Ganymede and Callisto. Harper and Sullivan are ISS veterans; Harper holds world record for greatest number of spaceflights.[20]

Saturn

Name(s) Appeared in Program / Mission / Spacecraft Fictional date
Renaissance:
Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (a.k.a. Sean Geoffrey, Sean Jeffrey, Sean Jeoffrey), Col. (Commander)
Shirin Ludden, Cmdr. (Pilot)

Lewis & Clark:
Shaun Geoffrey Christopher (Commander)
Alice Fontana, Capt. (Canada) (Co-Pilot)
Marcus O'Herlihy, Dr.		 Star Trek
Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967), TV

Star Trek
The Rings of Time (2012), novel		 Space Shuttle
Renaissance

U.S.S. Lewis & Clark		 June 2020 – January 2021
The first "probe" to travel from Earth to Saturn.[21][22][23][24]
Stan Brandon, Maj. (New Zealand) (Pilot)
Nissim Ben-Haim, Dr. (Israel) (Physicist)
Aldo Gabrielli, Dr. (US) (Electronic Engineer)		 "Pressure" (1969), short story C. Huygens (aka "the Ball") Future
First manned attempt to reach surface of Saturn. C. Huygens is a ball-shaped craft assembled at Saturn One satellite station.[25]
Steve West, Col. The Incredible Melting Man (1977), film Scorpio V Future
Astronaut whose physiology is horribly altered due to radiation exposure during the first mission to Saturn.[26]
Cirocco "Rocky" Jones, Capt. (Mission Commander)
Bill (Chief Engineer) (no last name given)
Calvin Greene, Dr. (Surgeon/Biologist/Ecologist)
Gaby Plauget (Astronomer)
April 15/02 Polo (Physicist)
August 3/02 Polo (Physicist)
Eugene "Gene" Springfield (Satellite Excursion Module Pilot)		 Titan (1979), novel NASA
DSV Ringmaster		 2025
NASA astronauts who discover alien artifact in orbit around Saturn. The Polo sisters are clones.[27]
Jean Broberg (Physicist)
Mark Danzig (Chemist)
Luis Garcilaso (Pilot)
Colin Scobie (Geologist)		 The Saturn Game (1981), novella Moon lander c. 2057
Expedition from colony-size ship Chronos makes first manned landing on Iapetus, but is endangered by expedition members' absorption in a fantasy role-playing game.[28][29]
Unnamed cosmonaut Glory to the Conquerors of Space (2008), short film Soviet Union (Soyuz?) Unknown
Female cosmonaut meets purple-skinned humanoids on Titan.[30]
Unnamed astronaut The Forgotten Astronaut (2013), short film Space Shuttle
Voyager 6		 2012
Astronaut returns from secret mission to Saturn, but no one on Earth remembers him. Mission launched c. early 1980s.[31]
Unnamed astronauts What If You Fell Into Saturn? (2018), short film NASA Future
Educational cartoon about what would happen if spacewalking astronaut fell into Saturn.

Uranus

Name(s) Appeared in Program / Mission / Spacecraft Fictional date
Eric Nilsson, Cmdr. (Denmark)
Donald "Don" Graham, Capt.
Karl Heinrich, Lt. Cmdr. (Astrogator)
Barry O'Neill (Ireland) (Communications Officer)
Svend Viltoft (Chief Engineer)		 Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), film United Nations:
Explorer 12		 2001
Astronauts on Uranus encounter dangers drawn from their own minds.[32][33][34]
Unnamed astronaut The Old Astronaut (2014), short film NASA Future
Elderly veteran of missions to Mercury, Venus and Mars plots to crash spacecraft into Uranus.[35]

Neptune

Name(s) Appeared in Program / Mission / Spacecraft Fictional date
Event Horizon:
John Kilpack (Captain)
Chris Chambers
Ben Fender
Janice Reuben
Dick Smith

Lewis & Clark:
S.J. Miller, Capt.
M.I. Starck, Lt. (Executive Officer)
T.F. "Coop" Cooper (Rescue Technician)
D.J. (EMS/Trauma) (no last name given)
F.M. "Baby Bear" Justin (Engineering)
Peters (Medical Technician) (no first name given)
W.F. "Smitty" Smith (Pilot)
William "Billy" Weir, Dr. (IASA)

Rescue 1:
Unnamed crewmembers		 Event Horizon (1997), film Daylight Station (space station)
Event Horizon

US Aerospace Command (U.S.A.C.):
Lewis & Clark
Rescue 1		 2047
Event Horizon launched in 2040 on mission to Proxima Centauri with experimental "gravity drive"; disappears on January 23, 2040. The ship reappears in Neptune space in 2047; Lewis & Clark is sent to investigate. Dr. Weir was the Event Horizon's designer. Edmund "Eddie" Corrick, a bosun, served with Miller on the Goliath and was killed in an onboard fire.[36]

Notes

  1. ↑ "World Space Authority" in American version.
  2. ↑ According to opening sequence of 2010 film.
  3. ↑ Pages 136 and 184 possibly imply that the book ends 123 years after 1917.
  4. ↑ One of the planets in the sky appears to be Ganymede.

References

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  2. ↑ Westfahl, Gary (2012). The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969. McFarland & Company. pp. 284–285. ISBN 978-0-7864-4267-6.
  3. ↑ Scheib, Richard. "Monster Zero (1965) aka Invasion of the Astro Monster". Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ Harrison, Harry (1991). Plague from Space. Orbit. ISBN 0-7221-4443-1.
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  16. ↑ Townley, Roderick (2005). The Constellation of Sylvie. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0-689-85713-3.
  17. ↑ "LIFE ONE mission info". Eric Hayden. 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  18. ↑ Scheib, Richard. "Europa Report (2013)". Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  19. ↑ Martin Rosete (Director) (2013). Voice Over (Motion picture) (in French and English). Retrieved June 17, 2015.
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  21. ↑ Fontana, D. C. (January 26, 1967). "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". Star Trek. Season 1. Episode 19. NBC.
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  25. ↑ Harrison, Harry (2001). "Pressure". 50 in 50. Tor Books. pp. 61–75. ISBN 0-312-87789-7.
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  28. ↑ Anderson, Poul (February 2, 1981). "The Saturn Game". Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact.
  29. ↑ Anderson, Poul (1986). "The Saturn Game". In Asimov, Isaac. The Hugo Winners. 5, 1980–1982. pp. 269–325. ISBN 0-385-18946-X.
  30. ↑ Ryan Suits (Writer/Director) (2008). Glory to the Conquerors of Space (Motion picture). Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  31. ↑ Bruce Gatward-Cook (Writer/Director/Producer) (2013). The Forgotten Astronaut (Motion picture). Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  32. ↑ Warren 2010, pp. 466–470
  33. ↑ Westfahl 2012, pp. 195–197
  34. ↑ Scheib, Richard. "Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)". Moria Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  35. ↑ Donn Weber (Writer/Director) (2014). The Old Astronaut (Motion picture). Retrieved May 15, 2017.
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