Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut. He was killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during ...

David Scott

Astronomy; Astronaut

Second seat on Gemini 8, flew as Command Module Pilot on Apollo 9, and commanded the Apollo 15 lunar landing.

Albert Sacco

Astronomy; Astronaut

Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.

Valery Ryumin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valery Victorovich Ryumin, born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. In 1958, he was graduated from the Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College with the ...

Nikolay Rukavishnikov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (September 18, 1932, Tomsk – October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of ...

David Saint-Jacques

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Saint-Jacques (born January 6, 1970 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection along with ...

Garrett Reisman

Astronomy; Astronaut

Garrett Erin Reisman (born February 10, 1968 ) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space ...