2006
March 30 – Virgin Galactic Astronaut Pilots Group – UK
- Steve Johnson, Alistair Hoy, David MacKay
September 4 – Angkasawan Group – Malaysia
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Faiz Khaleed, Siva Vanajah, Mohammed Faiz Kamaludin
- Note: In 2006, four Malaysians were chosen to train for a flight to the International Space Station through the Angkasawan program. Sheikh Muszaphar became the first Malaysian in space when he flew aboard Soyuz TMA-11.
October 11 – TsPK-14/RKKE-16 Cosmonaut Group – Russia
- TsPK: Aleksandr Misurkin, Oleg Novitskiy, Aleksey Ovchinin, Maksim Ponomaryov, Sergey Ryzhikov
- RKKE: Yelena Serova, Nikolai Tikhonov
December 25 – Korean Astronaut Program Group
- Yi So-yeon, Ko San
- Note: Ko San was chosen as the prime candidate over Yi So-yeon in September 2007. Yi So-yeon became prime candidate in March 2008.
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