Who is in space right now (grouped by spacecraft) API

Live roster of every human currently in space from Open-Notify, grouped by spacecraft (ISS, Tiangong, ...) with per-craft crew lists and counts and a global total. Answers 'how many people are in space', 'who is on the ISS right now', 'crew aboard Tiangong'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/science/people-in-space

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache21600s public

sciencespaceastronautsisstiangongcrewopen-notifyspaceflight

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/science/people-in-space

Integration docs

Example request

{}

Example response

{
  "totalInSpace": 12,
  "craftCount": 2,
  "crafts": [
    {
      "craft": "ISS",
      "crew": [
        "Oleg Kononenko",
        "Nikolai Chub",
        "Tracy Caldwell Dyson",
        "Matthew Dominick",
        "Michael Barratt",
        "Jeanette Epps"
      ],
      "count": 9
    },
    {
      "craft": "Tiangong",
      "crew": [
        "Li Guangsu",
        "Li Cong",
        "Ye Guangfu"
      ],
      "count": 3
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}