Astronaut
Also known as
- Add other possible names for this type
There is no user-contributed description yet.
-
Results: 1 – 30 of 578
| close name | close image | close Also Typed With | close Space Agency | close Space Missions | close article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story Musgrave |
|
Person | NASA | STS-44 |
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American doctor and a retired NASA astronaut. He is currently a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California.
He was born in Boston,...
|
| STS-51-F | |||||
| STS-61 | |||||
| STS-80 | |||||
| STS-6 | |||||
| more | |||||
| Buzz Aldrin |
|
Person | NASA | Apollo 11 |
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American aviator and astronaut, who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He was the second man to set foot on the Moon, after...
|
| Film actor | Gemini 12 | ||||
| TV Actor | |||||
| Neil Armstrong |
|
Person | NASA | Apollo 11 |
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for...
|
| Gemini 8 | |||||
| Alan Shepard |
|
Person | NASA | Mercury-Redstone 3 |
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. He was also one...
|
| Deceased Person | Apollo 14 | ||||
| TV Character | |||||
| TV Actor | |||||
| Gus Grissom |
|
Person | NASA | Mercury-Redstone 4 |
Virgil Ivan Grissom, more widely known as Gus Grissom, (3 April 1926 – 27 January 1967) was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronaut and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space. Grissom was killed along...
|
| Deceased Person | Apollo 1 | ||||
| Gemini 3 | |||||
| John Glenn |
|
Person | NASA | STS-95 |
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio) is a former United States Senato who first rose to fame as the first American to orbit the Earth as an astronaut in NASA's Mercury program. Glenn began his career as a Marine Corps...
|
| Convention Speaker | Mercury-Atlas 6 | ||||
| Jon McBride |
|
Person | NASA | STS-41-G |
Jon Andrew McBride is retired United States naval officer and a former NASA astronaut.
McBride was born August 14, 1943, in Charleston, West Virginia, but considers Beckley, West Virginia, to be his hometown. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High...
|
| Jeffrey Ashby |
|
Person | NASA | STS-93 |
Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June, 1954) is a former American naval aviator and astronaut, a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy
Jeff Ashby grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, southwest of Denver, and...
|
| STS-112 | |||||
| STS-100 | |||||
| Jeffrey Williams |
|
Person | Expedition 13 |
Jeffrey Nels Williams (born 18 January 1958) is an American astronaut and veteran of two space flights.
Williams was raised in Winter, Wisconsin and earned an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy, receiving his commission in the United...
|
|
| STS-101 | |||||
| Soyuz TMA-8 | |||||
| Jeffrey A. Hoffman |
|
Person | NASA | STS-75 |
Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is a former NASA astronaut.
Hoffman was born November 2, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, but considers Scarsdale, New York, to be his hometown. He graduated from Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New...
|
| Award Winner | STS-51-D | ||||
| STS-46 | |||||
| STS-61 | |||||
| STS-35 | |||||
| Michael Foreman |
|
Person | NASA | STS-123 |
Michael James Foreman (born March 29, 1957) is an American astronaut.
Foreman was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up Wadsworth, Ohio. He is married to the former Lorrie Dancer of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They have three children. His recreational...
|
| Military Person | |||||
| Wally Schirra |
|
Person | NASA | Apollo 7 |
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put men in space. He was the only person to fly in all of America's first three space...
|
| Deceased Person | Mercury-Atlas 8 | ||||
| Gemini 6A | |||||
| Scott Carpenter |
|
Person | NASA | Mercury-Atlas 7 |
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado) is a former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for Project Mercury in April 1959. Created by the newly formed NASA,...
|
| Military Person | |||||
| Author | |||||
| Oleg Makarov | Person | Soyuz 12 |
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (January 6, 1933 – May 28, 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Makarov was born in Udomlya, Tver Oblast, USSR. He graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1957 and started working at the Special Design Bureau...
|
||
| Deceased Person | Soyuz 27 | ||||
| Soyuz T-3 | |||||
| Jerome Apt | Person | STS-47 |
Jerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project.
Apt graduated from Shady Side Academy and Harvard College....
|
||
| STS-59 | |||||
| STS-37 | |||||
| STS-79 | |||||
| Doug Shane | Person |
Douglas B. Shane was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in...
|
|||
| Vitali Sevastyanov | Person | Soyuz 9 |
Vitali Ivanovich Sevastyanov, (; born July 8, 1935 in Krasnouralsk) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey...
|
||
| Soyuz 18 | |||||
| Musa Manarov | Person | Soyuz TM-11 |
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Azeri: Мusa Мanarov) (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров) was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on March 22, 1951. He was a colonel at the Soviet Air Force and graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering...
|
||
| Soyuz TM-4 | |||||
| John M. Grunsfeld |
|
Person | NASA | STS-67 |
John Mace Grunsfeld (Ph.D.) (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four spaceflights and has also served as NASA Chief Scientist.
Born in Chicago, Illinois. Married to the former Carol E. Schiff....
|
| STS-81 | |||||
| STS-103 | |||||
| STS-109 | |||||
| STS-125 | |||||
| Joseph P. Allen |
|
Person | STS-51-A |
Joseph Percival Allen, Ph.D. (born June 27, 1937) is a NASA astronaut. He has logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Their children are David Christopher, born...
|
|
| STS-5 | |||||
| Fernando Caldeiro |
|
Person |
Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro (b. June 12, 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an American astronaut (Class XVI) with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University Arizona and the University of Central Florida.
Caldeiro, whose ancestors are...
|
||
| James Buchli |
|
Person | STS-48 |
James Frederick Buchli (Colonel, USMC, Ret.) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space shuttle missions.
Born June 20, 1945, in New Rockford, North Dakota, but also considers Fargo, North Dakota, as his hometown. Buchli is married and has...
|
|
| STS-29 | |||||
| STS-51-C | |||||
| STS-61-A | |||||
| Aleksandr Balandin |
|
Person | Soyuz TM-9 |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (Александр Николаевич Баландин) (born July 30, 1953 in Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Russia cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on...
|
|
| F. Drew Gaffney | Person | NASA | STS-40 |
Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney, M.D. is an American doctor who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission.
Gaffney was born June 9, 1946, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He is married to Elizabeth Sims of Berkeley, California. He has two daughters.
Gaffney...
|
|
| Aleksandr Laveykin | Person | Soyuz TM-2 |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin (born April 21 1951) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Born in Moscow, Laveykin was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz TM-2, spending 174 days 3 hours 25 minutes in space. Married...
|
||
| Gregory T. Linteris | Person | STS-83 |
Gregory Thomas Linteris, Ph.D. (born October 4, 1957 in Demarest, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.
Linteris grew up in Demarest, New Jersey, where he attended Northern...
|
||
| STS-94 | |||||
| James McDivitt |
|
Person | Gemini 4 |
James Alton McDivitt (Brig Gen, USAF Ret.) (born June 10, 1929) is a former NASA astronaut.
McDivitt was born June 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Mrs. James McDivitt, resides in Jackson, Michigan. He is married, with four children and...
|
|
| Board Member | Apollo 9 | ||||
| Daisuke Enomoto |
|
Person |
Daisuke Enomoto ( Enomoto Daisuke, born April 22, 1971, nicknamed Dice-K) is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members of...
|
||
| Pedro Duque |
|
Person | European Space Agency | Soyuz TMA-3 |
Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.
Duque earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986. He worked for GMV and for the European...
|
| STS-95 | |||||
| Soyuz TMA-2 | |||||
| Albert H. Crews | Person |
Albert Hanlin Crews, Jr. (b. March 23, 1929) is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former USAF astronaut. He was born on in El Dorado, Arkansas and is married with three children.
He graduated in 1950 from the University of...
|
|||
