Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

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.