Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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K. Megan McArthur

Astronomy; Astronaut

Katherine Megan McArthur is an American oceanographer and a NASA astronaut. She has served as a CAPCOM for both the space shuttle and space station. Megan McArthur has flown one space shuttle ...

Richard Mastracchio

Astronomy; Astronaut

Richard Alan "Rick" Mastracchio (born February 11, 1960) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist. Mastracchio is ...

Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (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 diploma in ...

Michael J. Massimino

Astronomy; Astronaut

Michael James Massimino (born August 19, 1962) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Mike is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, both of which serviced the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), ...

Thomas Marshburn

Astronomy; Astronaut

Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina. He served as a Mission Specialist on STS-127.

Paul Lockhart

Astronomy; Astronaut

Colonel Paul Scott "Paco" Lockhart (born April 28, 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Lockhart, born and reared in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in ...

Michael López-Alegría

Astronomy; Astronaut

Michael Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Miguel López-Alegría) b. May 30, 1958, is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station ...