Membership in the organization is open to any person who has completed at least one orbit of the Earth in space (as defined by the FAI) in a spacecraft. ASE is currently comprised of over 300 flown individuals from 32 countries. A country which is the native-born country of a space flight participant and in which that person holds citizenship is qualified to become a member country of the Association of Space Explorers and gains membership by application or by hosting an annual Planetary Congress. Ratification requires support by two-thirds of the votes of the delegates at an annual Congress. |
Afghanistan Abdulahad Mohmand Austria Belgium Dirk Frimout Brazil Bulgaria Georgi Ivanov Canada Roberta Bondar Costa Rica Cuba Arnoldo Tamayo-Mendez Czech Republic Vladimir Remek France Claudie Andre-Deshays |
Germany Reinhold Ewald Hungary Bertalan Farkas India Rakesh Sharma Italy Maurizio Cheli Japan Toyohiro Akiyama Kazakhstan Tokhtar Aubakirov Malaysia Sheikh Muszaphar Mexico Rodolfo Neri-Vela Mongolia Jugderdemidyn Gurragchaa |
The Netherlands Wubbo Ockels Poland Miroslaw Hermaszewski Romania Russia Saudi Arabia HRH Sultan bin Salman al-Saud Slovakia Ivan Bella South Africa Spain Switzerland Syria Mohammed Faris United Kingdom Helen Sharman United States Viet Nam Pham Tuan
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† Deceased