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Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Astronaut

Gherman Titov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов) (September 11, 1935–September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on August 6, 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard ...

Valeri Tokarev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev, Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Oblast and ...

Kathryn C. Thornton

Astronomy; Astronaut

Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (Ph.D.) (born August 17, 1952 in Montgomery, Alabama) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of ...

Vladimir Titov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Colonel, Russian Air Force, Ret., and former Russian cosmonaut was born January 1, 1947, in Sretensk, in the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Russia. He is married to the ...

William E. Thornton

Astronomy; Astronaut

William Edgar Thornton (M.D.) (born April 14, 1929) is a former NASA Astronaut. Thornton was born in Faison, North Carolina, and is married with two sons to the former Elizabeth Jennifer Fowler of ...

Storey Musgrave

Astronomy; Astronaut

Franklin storey Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is currently a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied ...

C. Gordon Fullerton

Astronomy; Astronaut

Charles Gordon Fullerton (born October 11, 1936) is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and retired research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, ...

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