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Belgian Dirk Frimout flew to space in 1992.

Latest comment: 25 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Is there a reason that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Frimout is not in the Country list? He is the first Belgian in space, flew to the ISS in 1992. Cobbaut (talk) 10:08, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done, thanks, good find. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:33, 8 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Several outdated figures need current sources

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A few numbers in the article are out of date and I couldn't find single reliable sources to update them without doing my own counting:

Shenzhou: "As of March 2025, there have been 14 crewed orbital flights". Xinhua (23 May 2026) calls Shenzhou-23 the 40th flight mission of China's crewed programme, but that total includes uncrewed flights.
Soyuz: "153 crewed flights" (as of March 2025).
Commercial private spaceflight: Blue Origin "8 crewed flights" (as of November 2024). The section has been tagged for updating since September 2024.
"As of 2010, citizens from 38 nations" have flown in space.

Does anyone have a current, single source for any of these (e.g. Space.com, SpaceNews, Reuters, or an agency statistic)? Happy to make the updates once there's something solid to cite. WikiGK16 (talk) 10:40, 24 October 2026 (UTC)Reply