Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Claude Nicollier (born 2 September 1944 in Vevey, Switzerland) is the first astronaut from Switzerland, and has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and ...

Paolo A. Nespoli

Astronomy; Astronaut

Paolo Angelo Nespoli (Milan April 6, 1957) is an Italian astronaut. In 2007, he first travelled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In the December of ...

Rodolfo Neri Vela

Astronomy; Astronaut

Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1985. He is the first and only Mexican, and the second Latin-American to ...

Grigori Nelyubov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov (March 31, 1934 – February 18, 1966) was a Soviet cosmonaut who was likely to have been the third or fourth person in space before his dismissal from the Soviet space ...

Fred Haise

Astronomy; Astronaut

Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth ...

Bernard A. Harris

Astronomy; Astronaut

Bernard Anthony Harris, Jr. (born June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas) is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perform an extra-vehicular activity ...

Jeremy Hansen

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jeremy Roger Hansen, CD (born January 27, 1976 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection along with ...