Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. As of 2004, with the entry of the ...

Thomas Reiter

Astronomy; Astronaut

Thomas Arthur Reiter (born May 23, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a retired European astronaut and is a Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe currently working as Director of Human Spaceflight and ...

James F. Reilly

Astronomy; Astronaut

James Francis Reilly, II, Ph.D. (born March 18, 1954) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut who has flown on three space shuttle missions: STS-89, STS-104 and STS-117. He was born at ...

Wubbo Ockels

Astronomy; Astronaut

Wubbo Johannes Ockels (born March 28, 1946) is a Dutch physicist and a former astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 1985 he participated in a flight on a space shuttle (STS-61-A), making ...

Brian O'Leary

Astronomy; Astronaut

Brian Todd O'Leary (January 27, 1940 – July 28, 2011) was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in August 1967. ...

John D. Olivas

Astronomy; Astronaut

John Daniel "Danny" Olivas (born May 25, 1965 in North Hollywood, California) is an American engineer of Mexican descent and a former NASA astronaut. Olivas has flown on two space shuttle missions, ...

William Oefelein

Astronomy; Astronaut

William Anthony "Bill" Oefelein (born March 29, 1965) is an American businessman and a former test pilot instructor, naval officer and NASA astronaut who, on his only spaceflight, piloted the STS-116 ...