Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Jerry L. Ross

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jerry Lynn Ross (January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana) is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record ...

Ronald A. Parise

Astronomy; Astronaut

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Scott E. Parazynski

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Edward Parazynski, M.D. (b. July 28, 1961 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, ...

Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is the former director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a mission specialist on ...

Luca Parmitano

Astronomy; Astronaut

Luca Parmitano (born 27 September, 1976) is an astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). The astronauts work on missions at the International Space Station. He ...

William Pailes

Astronomy; Astronaut

William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer programme during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J ...

Michael Fincke

Astronomy; Astronaut

Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke is the American Astronaut with the most time in space (381.6 days). He was born on 14 March 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but considers its suburb Emsworth, ...