The Association of Space Explorers was founded in 1985. It is an international nonprofit organization of over 400 astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts from 37 different nations:
Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam.
Its members completed at least one orbit of the Earth in spacecraft.