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NASA | STS-44 | 76,915 min |
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American doctor and a retired NASA astronaut. He is currently a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California.
He was born in Boston,...
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| x Buzz Aldrin |
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NASA | Apollo 11 |
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930) is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969, he was the...
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| x Neil Armstrong |
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NASA | Apollo 11 | 12,372 min |
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8...
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| x Alan Shepard |
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NASA | Mercury-Redstone 3 |
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) (Rear Admiral, United States Navy, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon....
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| x Gus Grissom |
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NASA | Mercury-Redstone 4 | 307 min |
Virgil Ivan Grissom, more widely known as Gus Grissom, (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space. Grissom was killed...
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| x John Glenn |
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NASA | STS-95 |
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, a former astronaut and United States Senator who was the first American and third person to orbit the Earth. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before...
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| x Jon McBride |
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NASA | STS-41-G |
Jon Andrew McBride is retired United States naval officer and a former NASA astronaut.
McBride was born August 14, 1943, in Charleston, West Virginia, but considers Beckley, West Virginia, to be his hometown. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High...
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| x Jeffrey Ashby |
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NASA | STS-93 |
Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June, 1954) is an engineer, former American naval aviator and astronaut, a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy
Jeff Ashby grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, southwest of...
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| x Jeffrey Williams |
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Expedition 13 |
Jeffrey Nels Williams (born 18 January 1958) is an American astronaut and veteran of three space flights.
Williams was raised in Winter, Wisconsin and was a Star Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He earned an engineering degree from the U.S....
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| x Jeffrey A. Hoffman |
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NASA | STS-75 | 72,714 min |
Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.
Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair...
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| x Michael Foreman |
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NASA | STS-123 |
Michael James Foreman (born March 29, 1957) is an American astronaut.
Foreman was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Wadsworth, Ohio. He is married to Lorrie Dancer of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They have three children.
Association of Naval...
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| x Wally Schirra |
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NASA | Apollo 7 | 17,715 min |
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space. He was the only person to fly in all of America's first three space...
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| x Scott Carpenter |
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NASA | Mercury-Atlas 7 |
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado) is an engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959.
Scott Carpenter...
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| x Oleg Makarov | Soyuz 12 |
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (Russian: Оле́г Григо́рьевич Мака́ров) (January 6, 1933 – May 28, 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Makarov was born in Udomlya, Tver Oblast, USSR. He graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1957 and started...
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| x Jerome Apt |
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STS-47 |
Jerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project.
Apt...
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| x Doug Shane |
Douglas B. Shane was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in...
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| x Vitali Sevastyanov | Soyuz 9 |
Vitali Ivanovich Sevastyanov, (Russian: Виталий Иванович Севастьянов; born July 8, 1935 in Krasnouralsk) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after...
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| x Musa Manarov |
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Soyuz TM-11 |
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Azeri: Musa Manarov) (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров) was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on March 22, 1951.
He was a colonel at the Soviet Air Force and graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering...
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| x John M. Grunsfeld |
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NASA | STS-67 |
John Mace Grunsfeld (Ph.D.) (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five spaceflights and has also served as NASA Chief Scientist.
Born in Chicago, Illinois to Ernest Alton 'Tony' Grunsfeld III, an...
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| x Joseph P. Allen |
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STS-51-A |
Joseph Percival Allen, Ph.D. (born June 27, 1937) is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Their children are David Christopher,...
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| x Fernando Caldeiro |
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Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro (June 12, 1958, Buenos Aires, Argentina – died October 3, 2009) was an American astronaut with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the University of Central Florida.
Caldeiro was named a...
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| x James Buchli |
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STS-48 |
James Frederick Buchli (born June 20, 1945, in New Rockford, North Dakota) is an engineer, retired United States Marine aviator and former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space shuttle missions.
Buchli graduated from Fargo Central High School, Fargo...
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| x Aleksandr Balandin |
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Soyuz TM-9 |
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (Александр Николаевич Баландин) (born July 30, 1953 in Fryazino, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on...
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| x F. Drew Gaffney | NASA | STS-40 |
Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney, M.D. is an American doctor who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission.
Gaffney was born June 9, 1946, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He is married to Elizabeth Sims of Berkeley, California. He has two daughters.
Gaffney...
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| x Aleksandr Laveykin | Soyuz TM-2 |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin (born April 21, 1951) was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Born in Moscow, Laveykin was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz TM-2, spending 174 days 3 hours 25 minutes in space. Married...
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| x Gregory T. Linteris | STS-83 |
Gregory Thomas Linteris, Ph.D. (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.
Linteris grew up in Demarest, New Jersey, where he attended Northern...
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| x James McDivitt |
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NASA | Gemini 4 |
James Alton McDivitt (Brig Gen, USAF Ret.) (born June 10, 1929) is a former NASA astronaut and engineer.
McDivitt graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Jackson Junior College, Jackson, Michigan, and received a bachelor...
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| x Daisuke Enomoto |
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Daisuke Enomoto (榎本大輔 Enomoto Daisuke, born April 22, 1971, nicknamed Dice-K) is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members...
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| x Pedro Duque |
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European Space Agency | Soyuz TMA-3 |
Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions.
Duque earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1986. He worked for GMV and for the European...
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| x Albert H. Crews |
Albert Hanlin Crews, Jr. (born March 23, 1929) is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former USAF astronaut. He was born on in El Dorado, Arkansas and is married with three children.
He graduated in 1950 from the University of...
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| x Ronald J. Grabe | STS-51-J |
Ronald John Grabe (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) (born June 13, 1945 in New York, New York) is a former NASA astronaut.
He has earned the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 7 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal,...
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| x John S. Bull |
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NASA |
John Sumter Bull (September 25, 1934 - August 11, 2008) was a retired U.S. Navy test pilot and a former NASA astronaut.
Bull was a Navy fighter pilot with the VF-114 squadron aboard the carriers USS Ranger, USS Hancock, and USS Kitty Hawk. He...
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| x Léopold Eyharts |
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European Space Agency | Soyuz TM-27 |
Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA spationaut.
Eyharts was born April 28, 1957, in Biarritz, Northern Basque Country, France. He graduated as an engineer from the French Air Force Academy of Salon-de-Provence...
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| x Georgi Shonin | Soyuz 6 |
Georgi Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.
Shonin was part...
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| x Charles Walker |
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STS-61-B |
Charles David Walker (born August 29, 1948) is a American engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985 as a Payload Specialist for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. With his rookie flight in 1984, he gained the distinction of...
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| x Yvonne Cagle |
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Yvonne Darlene Cagle (b. April 24, 1959 in West Point, New York) Yvonne Cagle received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from San Francisco State University in 1981, and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington in 1985. She...
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| x Jean-Loup Chrétien |
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CNES | Soyuz TM-6 |
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien, is an engineer, retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) of the Armée de l'Air (French air force) and a former CNES spationaut who flew on several Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission....
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| x Yuri Onufrienko |
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Soyuz TM-23 |
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко, Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Онуфрієнко) (born 6 February 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and...
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| x Rakesh Sharma |
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Soyuz T-11 |
Rakesh Sharma (born January 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab, India) was a Squadron Leader in the Indian Air Force, was the first Indian and 138th person to travel in space. He retired from the Air force as Wing Commander.
Rakesh Sharma was born in...
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| x Roberta Bondar |
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STS-42 |
Roberta Lynn Bondar, OC, O.Ont, FRCP(C), FRSC (born December 4, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a...
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| x John M. Lounge | STS-35 |
John Michael "Mike" Lounge is a former NASA astronaut.
Lounge was born June 28, 1946, in Denver, Colorado, but considers Burlington, Colorado, to be his hometown. He graduated from Burlington High School, Burlington, Colorado, in 1964, then received...
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| x Susan J. Helms |
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NASA | STS-105 |
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a United States Air Force Major General and a former NASA astronaut. She is currently the Director, Plans and Policy, Headquarters U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Helms was a crew...
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| x Yuri Gidzenko |
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Soyuz TM-34 |
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born March 26, 1962) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. He is a Colonel of the Russian Air Force, and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married to Olga...
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| x Edward Higgins White |
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NASA | Gemini 4 |
Edward Higgins White, II (Lt.Col , USAF) (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an engineer, United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. White was killed along with...
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| x Gerald P. Carr |
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NASA | Skylab 4 |
Gerald Paul Carr (born August 22, 1932) is an engineer, retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.
Born in Denver, Colorado, on August 22, 1932, but raised in Santa Ana, California, which he considers his home town....
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| x Sidney M. Gutierrez |
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STS-59 |
Sidney McNeill "Sid" Gutierrez (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) (born June 27, 1951), is a former NASA astronaut.
Gutierrez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Married to the former Marianne Sue Cremer of Jefferson City, Missouri. They have three children:...
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| x Stephen S. Oswald | STS-67 |
Stephen Scot Oswald, a NASA Astronaut.
Born June 30, 1951, in Seattle, Washington, but considers Bellingham, Washington, to be his hometown. Married to the former Diane K. Kalklosch of Fullerton, California. They have three children, Monique, Janna,...
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| x Ronald McNair |
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NASA | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster |
Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an African-American physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.
Ronald Ervin McNair, the second African...
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| x Ulf Merbold |
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European Space Agency | STS-9 |
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is the first West German and second German astronaut as well as the first ESA astronaut to fly in space. He holds the distinction of being the first non-US citizen to reach orbit in a US spacecraft. In 1983,...
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| x Sally Ride |
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NASA | STS-41-G |
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who, in 1983, became the first American woman and then-youngest American to enter space.
Ride was born in Encino, part of Los Angeles, California, the eldest...
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| x William A. Pailes |
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STS-51-J |
William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis (October 3-7, 1985).
Pailes was born in...
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| x Michael Lopez-Alegria |
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NASA | STS-73 |
Miguel Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Michael López-Alegría born on May 30, 1958) is a Spanish American astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission.
Lopez-Alegria was born in Madrid,...
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| x Janet L. Kavandi |
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NASA | STS-99 |
Janet Lynn Kavandi, a native of Carthage, Missouri, is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has served as NASA's Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office.
Kavandi graduated Valedictorian in...
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| x Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov |
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Soyuz TM-5 |
Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov (Bulgarian: Александър Панайотов Александров) (born December 1, 1951, Omurtag,Targovishte Oblast,Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian cosmonaut.
Aleksandrov graduated from Airforce Academy (with a doctorate degree) and reached...
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| x Paul Lockhart |
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NASA | STS-111 |
Paul Scott "Paco" Lockhart, Colonel U.S.Air Force, (born 28 April 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
Lockhart, born and raised in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering...
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| x Brewster H. Shaw |
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STS-61-B |
Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. (born May 16, 1945 in Cass City, Michigan) is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut. He is married and has grown children. Shaw is a descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower.
Graduated from...
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| x Robert Crippen |
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NASA | STS-41-C |
Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937 in Beaumont, Texas) is an engineer, retired United States Navy Captain and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including three as commander. Crippen is a recipient of the...
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| x Michael Foale |
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NASA | STS-56 |
Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton...
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| x William S. McArthur |
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NASA | STS-74 |
William Surles McArthur, Jr. (born 26 July 1951) is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a NASA astronaut, and a veteran of three space shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule.
Born and raised in...
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| x Ellen Ochoa |
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STS-56 |
Ellen Lauri Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is a former astronaut and engineer, and current Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center.
Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, but considers La Mesa, California to be her hometown....
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