Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Terrence Wade Wilcutt (born 31 October 1949) is an United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions. Wilcutt is currently the Deputy Director, ...

Donald Williams

Astronomy; Astronaut

Captain Donald Edward Williams (United States Navy, Retired) (born February 13, 1942) is a former NASA astronaut. He has logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space.

Jeffrey Williams

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jeffrey Nels Williams (born January 18, 1958) is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three space flights.

Brewster H. Shaw

Astronomy; Astronaut

Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. (born May 16, 1945) is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on ...

Oleg Skripochka

Astronomy; Astronaut

Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka (born 24 December 1969 in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. In 2011 he was in space serving as an Expedition 25/26 crewmember. On April 12, 2011, ...

Georgy Shonin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space ...

Alan Shepard

Astronomy; Astronaut

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first ...