List of fictional astronauts (early period)

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Lists of fictional astronauts
Early period Project Mercury Project Gemini
Project Apollo 1975–1989 1990–1999
2000–2009 2010–2029 Moon
Inner Solar System Outer Solar System Other
Far future
Marina (actress Ksenia Moskalenko) in Cosmic Voyage (1936 Soviet silent film)
Crystal prospector Kenton J. Stanfield in "In the Walls of Eryx" (1939 short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling)
Cold War romance on the Moon in "Honeymoon in Hell" (1950 short story by Fredric Brown)
Col. Floyd Graham (actor Lloyd Bridges) in Rocketship X-M (1950 film)
Bust of Dan Dare in Lord Street, Southport
Dr. Iris Ryan (actress Naura Hayden) screams in The Angry Red Planet (1959 film)
Mike Ferris (actor Earl Holliman), unaware he is an astronaut trainee in Where Is Everybody? (1959 episode of The Twilight Zone)

The following is a list of fictional astronauts as imagined before the Space Age. The astronauts on this list appear in stories released prior to or shortly after the inception of Project Mercury in 1958.