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Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Astronaut

Jack R. Lousma

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station and also commanded the third space shuttle ...

Shannon Lucid

Astronomy; Astronaut

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American, as ...

Ed Lu

Astronomy; Astronaut

Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and an extended stay aboard the International Space ...

Fyodor Yurchikhin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (born 3 January 1959), is a Russian cosmonaut and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on three spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission ...

Kimiya Yui

Astronomy; Astronaut

Kimiya Yui (born 1970) is a Japanese astronaut candidate from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. He was selected in 2009. Yui, from Nagano Prefecture, enrolled in the Japan Air Self-Defense ...

Yi So-yeon

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yi So-yeon (born June 2, 1978) is a South Korean scientist and Ph.D. graduate of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). On April 8, 2008, she became the first Korean and the ...

Yáng Lìwěi

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yáng Lìwěi (born June 21, 1965 in Suizhong, Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space programme ...

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