Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

John Michael "Mike" Lounge (June 28, 1946 – March 1, 2011) was an American engineer, a US Navy officer, a Vietnam war veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three space shuttle flights, Lounge ...

Christopher Loria

Astronomy; Astronaut

Christopher Joseph "Gus" Loria (b. July 9, 1960 in Newton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and a medically retired NASA astronaut. He was originally scheduled to fly on ...

Gregory T. Linteris

Astronomy; Astronaut

Gregory Thomas Linteris, Ph.D. (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.

Yury Lonchakov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (born 4 March 1965) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks.

Liu Boming

Astronomy; Astronaut

Liu Boming (born September 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 an CNSA member in 1998.

Michel Tognini

Astronomy; Astronaut

Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born September 30, 1949, in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, officer in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who currently serves as Head ...

Andrew Thomas

Astronomy; Astronaut

Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas (born 18 December 1951 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian-born American aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut. He became a U.S. citizen in December ...