Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Kathryn P. Hire

Astronomy; Astronaut

Captain Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire of the U.S. Navy Reserve (born August 26, 1959, Mobile, Alabama) is a NASA astronaut who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions.

Dmitri Kondrat'yev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev (born 25 May 1969 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. He served as a crewmember on the International Space Station long duration mission Expedition 27 as ...

Timothy Lennart Kopra (born April 9, 1963, in Austin, Texas) is a colonel in the United States Army and a NASA astronaut. Kopra deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Storm as a ...

Boris Morukov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Boris Vladimirovich Morukov (b. October 1, 1950, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian physician at the State Research centre RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian ...

Barbara Morgan

Astronomy; Astronaut

Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space programme as the backup to Christa McAuliffe for the ...

Talgat Musabayev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev (born January 7, 1951, Kargaly, Kazakhstan), is a Kazakh test pilot and former cosmonaut who flew on three spaceflights. His first two spaceflights were long-duration ...

Chiaki Mukai

Astronomy; Astronaut

Chiaki Mukai (born May 6, 1952, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese doctor, and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two ...