Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Lodewijk van den Berg

Astronomy; Astronaut

Lodewijk van den Berg (born March 24, 1932) is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specialising in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Samokutyayev ( born March 13, 1970 in Penza / Penza Oblast / Russian SFSR) is a Russian cosmonaut. Samokutyayev served as a Flight Engineer for the International Space Station ...

Stephen Robinson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Stephen Kern Robinson is a NASA astronaut. He was born October 26, 1955, in Sacramento, California. He enjoys flying, antique aircraft, swimming, canoeing, hiking, music, art, and stereo photography. ...

Pham Tuan

Astronomy; Astronaut

Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian (outside of Russia) in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 ...

Timothy Peake

Astronomy; Astronaut

Timothy Nigel Peake (born April 7, 1972 in Chichester, Sussex) is a former British Army Air Corps officer and a current European Space Agency astronaut. He is the first British citizen to be selected ...

Thomas Pesquet

Astronomy; Astronaut

Thomas Pesquet (born 27 February 1978) is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and he successfully ...

Donald H. Peterson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Donald Herod Peterson is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former USAF and NASA astronaut. He was born in Winona, Mississippi, on October 22, 1933. Peterson is married, and has three ...