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Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Astronaut

Byron K. Lichtenberg

Astronomy; Astronaut

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. (Born February 19, 1948 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American engineer and fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist. ...

William B. Lenoir

Astronomy; Astronaut

William Benjamin "Bill" Lenoir (March 14, 1939 – August 26, 2010) was an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Lenoir was born on March 14, 1939, in Miami, Florida. He was divorced and ...

Valentin Lebedev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev (born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which ...

Alexey Leonov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major General who, on 18 March 1965, became the first ...

Aleksandr Lazutkin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin (born October 30, 1957 in Moscow) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as cosmonaut on March 3, 1992. His first spaceflight was Soyuz TM-25, on which he was the flight ...

Mark C. Lee

Astronomy; Astronaut

Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, (born August 14, 1952) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001.

Steven Lindsey

Astronomy; Astronaut

Steven Wayne Lindsey (born August 24, 1960) is an American Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009.

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