Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Andrew J. Feustel

Astronomy; Astronaut

Andrew J. Feustel (born August 25, 1965, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American Geophysicist and a NASA astronaut. His first spaceflight in May 2009, named STS-125, lasted just under 13 days. ...

Christopher J. Ferguson (born September 1, 1961) is a retired United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which ...

Bertalan Farkas

Astronomy; Astronaut

Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi's travel, ...

Konstantin Feoktistov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (7 February 1926 – 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The ...

Martin J. Fettman

Astronomy; Astronaut

Martin Joseph Fettman (B.S., D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D., Diplomate, ACVP) is an American pathologist and researcher who flew on NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-58 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a ...

Anatoly Filipchenko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (born February 26, 1928 in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions.