Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Aleksandr Yuriyevich "Sasha" Kaleri is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS). Kaleri has recently been in space aboard ...

Janet L. Kavandi

Astronomy; Astronaut

Janet Lynn Kavandi, a native of Carthage, Missouri, is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has served as NASA's Deputy Chief of the ...

Tamara E. Jernigan

Astronomy; Astronaut

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

Jing Haipeng

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jing Haipeng (born October 24, 1966) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be a CNSA astronaut in ...

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov

Astronomy; Astronaut

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 ...

Sandra Magnus

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sandra Hall Magnus (born October 30, 1964) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in ...

Vladimir Lyakhov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov (born in Antratsyt, Voroshilovgrad Oblast (now Luhansk Oblast), Ukrainian SSR), Soviet Union on July 20, 1941) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice named a Hero of the ...