Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (June 19, 1933 – June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a ...

Julie Payette

Astronomy; Astronaut

Julie Payette, OC, CQ (born October 20, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian engineer and a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, ...

James A. Pawelczyk

Astronomy; Astronaut

James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk (born September 20, 1960) is an American researcher of physiology and Kinesiology who flew aboard the NASA STS-90 Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.

Nicholas Patrick

Astronomy; Astronaut

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D., is a British-born engineer and a NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fifth Briton to go into space.

Richard Hieb

Astronomy; Astronaut

Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and ...

David C. Hilmers

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Carl Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut. Hilmers was born January 28, 1950, in Clinton, Iowa, but considers DeWitt, Iowa, to be his hometown. He is married to Angela Cayotopa Escalante of Lima, ...

Joan Higginbotham

Astronomy; Astronaut

Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission ...