Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Sergei Treshchov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sergei Yevgenyevich Treshchov (born 18 August 1958) is a former cosmonaut of the RSC Energia. He spent 184 days in space as a flight engineer of the International Space Station long duration ...

Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko is a Soviet cosmonaut. He was born in Olginka, North-Kazakhstan Oblast, Kazakh SSR on March 29, 1947. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut ...

Richard H. Truly

Astronomy; Astronaut

Richard Harrison Truly (born November 12, 1937) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, Naval Aviator, former astronaut, and was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and ...

Yury Usachov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yury Vladimirovich Usachov (born October 9, 1957 in Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. Usachov is a veteran of four spaceflights, including two ...

Eugene H. Trinh

Astronomy; Astronaut

Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh (Vietnamese: Trịnh Hữu Châu, born September 14, 1950) is a Vietnamese-American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist. He is ...

Bjarni Tryggvason

Astronomy; Astronaut

Bjarni V. Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a ...

Franz Viehböck

Astronomy; Astronaut

Franz Artur Viehböck (born August 24, 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first astronaut. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning ...