Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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George D. Zamka

Astronomy; Astronaut

George David "Zambo" Zamka (born 1962) is an American NASA astronaut and United States Marine Corps pilot with over 3500 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. Zamka piloted the Space ...

Vyacheslav Zudov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov (born January 8, 1942 in Bor, Gorky Oblast, Russian SFSR) was a USSR cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965, flew as Commander on Soyuz 23 on ...

Zhai Zhigang (born October 10, 1966) is an officer in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. During the Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, he became the first Chinese citizen to carry ...

Vitaly Zholobov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vitaly Mikhaylovich Zholobov (born June 18, 1937 in Zburyivka, Kherson Oblast Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 21 space flight as the flight engineer.

Joseph R. Tanner

Astronomy; Astronaut

Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner (born January 21, 1950) is an American instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a former military jet pilot, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in ...

Robert Thirsk

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian records for the longest space flight (187 ...

Daniel Tani

Astronomy; Astronaut

Daniel Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Although born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, he considers Lombard, Illinois, to be his hometown. With Peggy Whitson, ...