ASPA is a comprehensive dataset of astronauts and spaceflight participants from 1959 to 2023. It includes biographical data, mission records, and structured fields relevant to aerospace medicine and space epidemiology.
This database was constructed and validated through a formal process described in the following publication:
Kanikkannan L, Hogan K, Reynolds RJ. The Astronaut and Spaceflight Participant Archive: A Database for Human Health Research in Spaceflight. Submitted to Scientific Data. 2025. DOI:
If you use ASPA in your work, please cite both the dataset and the methods paper:
- Primary citation (for academic use):
Kanikkannan L, Hogan K, Reynolds RJ. The Astronaut and Spaceflight Participant Archive: A Database for Human Health Research in Spaceflight. Submitted to Scientific Data. 2025. DOI:
- Supplemental citation (for data use):
Kanikkannan L, Hogan K, Reynolds RJ. Astronaut and Spaceflight Participant Archive (ASPA) [dataset]. 2025. Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By 1.0). DOI:
This dataset is licensed under the Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0. You are free to use, share, and modify the data as long as attribution is provided.