Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Joseph Peter Kerwin, M.D. (born February 19, 1932) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who served as science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25–June 22, 1973. He was the first ...

Scott Kelly

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American astronaut. Kelly was commander of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 26. Kelly's identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also ...

Robert S. Kimbrough

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a U.S. Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle ...

Pyotr Kolodin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin (born September 23, 1930) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. Although he retired in 1983 without flying in space, Kolodin served non-flying assignments on several spaceflights.

Yevgeni Khrunov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (September 10, 1933 – May 19, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission.

Yuri Malenchenko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, ...

Yury Malyshev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev was born in the village Nikolayevsk, Stalingrad Oblast (Volgograd Oblast), USSR on August 27, 1941. Studied in Taganrog's high school N24, 1949-1959. Married with two ...