Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Douglas Harry "Wheels" Wheelock (born May 5, 1960, in Binghamton, New York) is an American astronaut. He has flown in space twice logging 178 days on the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, ...

James Wetherbee

Astronomy; Astronaut

James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee (born 27 November 1952) is an American Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and is the only American to have commanded ...

David M. Walker

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Mathieson Walker (May 20, 1944 - April 23, 2001), was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.

Gennadi Sarafanov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (b. January 1, 1942 in Sinenkiye, Saratov Oblast, Russia – d. September 29, 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This ...

Viktor Savinykh

Astronomy; Astronaut

Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Retired on February 9, 1989.

Harrison Schmitt

Astronomy; Astronaut

Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.

Svetlana Savitskaya

Astronomy; Astronaut

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (August 8, 1948) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina ...