Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Yuri Gagarin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Soviet cosmonaut and hero. On 12 April 1961 he became the first human in space, orbiting Earth in the satellite Vostok I.

Scott J. Horowitz

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitz (born March 24, 1957) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions. After earning his undergraduate degree in engineering from California ...

Akihiko Hoshide

Astronomy; Astronaut

Akihiko Hoshide (born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International ...

Charles Owen "Scorch" Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961, in Bar Harbor, Maine) is a NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He has had three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle ...

Donald Holmquest

Astronomy; Astronaut

Donald Lee Holmquest (born April 7, 1939, Dallas) is a former NASA Astronaut. He is currently the CEO of the California Regional Health Information organisation (RHIO).

Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Bruce McCandless

Astronomy; Astronaut

Bruce McCandless II (born June 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former naval aviator with the United States Navy and former NASA astronaut. During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he ...