Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Georgy Grechko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (born May 25, 1931 in Leningrad) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on several space flights among which Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14.

Richard F. Gordon

Astronomy; Astronaut

Richard Francis Gordon, Jr., Captain, USN, Ret. (born October 5, 1929) is a retired NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.

Viktor Gorbatko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (born December 3, 1934 in Ventsy-Zarya) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.

Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. (born on May 15, 1949) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy. He served as the commander of the International Space Station for almost ...

Walter Cunningham

Astronomy; Astronaut

Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian ...

Lawrence J. DeLucas

Astronomy; Astronaut

James "Larry" DeLucas (O. D., Ph.D.) is an American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist. He was born on July 11, 1950 in Syracuse, New York, and is ...

Robert Curbeam

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr. (born March 5, 1962) is a former American astronaut, and Captain in the United States Navy. Curbeam graduated from Woodlawn High School, Baltimore County, Maryland in 1980. He ...