Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five ...

Arnaldo T. Méndez

Astronomy; Astronaut

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was ...

Norman Thagard

Astronomy; Astronaut

Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first ...

Russell L. Rogers

Astronomy; Astronaut

Russell Lee Rogers was an astronaut assigned to the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. He was born on April 12, 1928 in Lawrence, Kansas. He was married with five children. Rogers was killed when the engine of ...

Yury Romanenko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yury Viktorovich Romanenko (born August 1, 1944, USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yury Romanenko spent a ...

Stuart Roosa

Astronomy; Astronaut

Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971 and ...

Kent Rominger

Astronomy; Astronaut

Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger (born August 7, 1956) is a former American astronaut, former Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a Captain in the United States Navy. He ...