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Human Spaceflights

Every human spaceflight from Gagarin to the present: 411 flights (385 orbital, 26 suborbital X-15 and commercial hops) rebuilt from Wikipedia's seven decade lists, whose rowspanned crew sub-rows merge into one row per flight. ISO launch and return dates, launch and return craft, full crew roster with crew size, habitation (ISS, Mir, Skylab...), and from each mission's own article the operator (mapped to a country), launch site, and precise mission duration in days, preferring the achieved figure when a disaster cut a mission short. The five fatal flights are flagged from their mission summaries.
411 rows 1 file last pulled 2026-09-02
Human Spaceflights 411 rows × 16 columns
Flight_NumberTypeCrewCrew_SizeLaunch_DateLaunch_CraftReturn_DateReturn_CraftDuration_DaysHabitationOperatorCountryLaunch_SiteFatalSummaryMission_URL

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What is the Human Spaceflights dataset?

Every human spaceflight from Gagarin to the present: 411 flights (385 orbital, 26 suborbital X-15 and commercial hops) rebuilt from Wikipedia's seven decade lists, whose rowspanned crew sub-rows merge into one row per flight. ISO launch and return dates, launch and return craft, full crew roster with crew size, habitation (ISS, Mir, Skylab...), and from each mission's own article the operator (mapped to a country), launch site, and precise mission duration in days, preferring the achieved figure when a disaster cut a mission short. The five fatal flights are flagged from their mission summaries.

How big is the Human Spaceflights dataset?

411 rows in one CSV file, with 16 columns in total: Flight_Number, Type, Crew, Crew_Size, Launch_Date, Launch_Craft, Return_Date, Return_Craft, Duration_Days, Habitation, Operator, Country, Launch_Site, Fatal, Summary, Mission_URL.

Where does the data come from?

It is built by programmatically scraping en.wikipedia.org, last pulled on 2026-09-02. Datasets are versioned; older versions stay downloadable.

Is the dataset free to download?

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Can I see the code that built this dataset?

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Can the data contain errors?

Automated scraping leaves room for error and the underlying sources change over time, so no version is guaranteed accurate or complete. If a number matters, verify it against the original source.

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