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76,915 min | NASA | STS-44 |
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician 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 and grew up in...
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| x Buzz Aldrin |
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NASA | Apollo 11 |
Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D. (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 manned lunar landing in history. On...
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| x Neil Armstrong |
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12,372 min | NASA | Apollo 11 |
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.
Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong...
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| x Alan Shepard |
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13,017 min | NASA | Mercury-Redstone 3 |
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and NASA astronaut who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, in space. This Mercury flight was designed to...
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| x Gus Grissom |
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307 min | NASA | Mercury-Redstone 4 |
Virgil Ivan Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967), (Lt Col, USAF), better known as Gus Grissom, 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, and the...
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| x John Glenn |
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NASA | STS-95 |
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was combat aviator in the Marine...
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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.
Jon McBride was born August 14, 1943, in Charleston, West Virginia, but considers Beckley, West Virginia, to be his hometown. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson...
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| x Jeffrey Ashby |
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NASA | STS-93 |
Jeffrey Shears "Bones" Ashby (born June 1, 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 January 18, 1958) is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three space flights.
Williams was born in Superior, Wisconsin, and raised in Winter, Wisconsin. As a child, Williams was a...
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| x Jeffrey A. Hoffman |
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72,714 min | NASA | STS-75 |
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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17,715 min | NASA | Apollo 7 |
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American test pilot, United States Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's effort to put humans in space. He is the only...
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| x Scott Carpenter |
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NASA | Mercury-Atlas 7 |
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925) is an American 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.
Carpenter was the second...
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| x Oleg Makarov |
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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 professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project, and used visible...
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Douglas B. Shane is an American test pilot and has trained as a commercial astronaut. He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites....
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| x Vitali Sevastyanov |
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Soyuz 9 |
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Виталий Иванович Севастьянов; 8 July 1935, Krasnouralsk, USSR – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and...
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| x Musa Manarov |
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Soyuz TM-11 |
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров, Azerbaijani: Musa Manarov) 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 (born October 10, 1958) is an American physicist and a former 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 Argentine-American astronaut with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the University of Central Florida.
Caldeiro was...
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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 |
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NASA | STS-40 |
Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney, M.D. is an American doctor who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.
Gaffney was born June 9, 1946, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He is married to Elizabeth (Lili) Burgo Sims of Berkeley,...
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| x Aleksandr Laveykin |
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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 on one spaceflight, for the first part of the long duration expedition Mir EO-2. He flew as...
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| x Gregory T. Linteris |
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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 who flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He commanded the Gemini 4 flight in which Edward H. White performed the first US space walk, and...
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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...
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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 U.S. Navy test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a NASA astronaut.
Bull attended primary and secondary schools in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated in 1952 from Central High School. 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 astronaut.
Eyharts was born April 28, 1957, in Biarritz, Basque Country, France. He graduated as an engineer from the French Air Force Academy of Salon-de-Provence in 1979.
He...
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| x Georgi Shonin |
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Soyuz 6 |
Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (Ukrainian: Гео́ргій Степа́нович Шо́нін) (August 3, 1935 – April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission....
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| x Charles Walker |
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STS-61-B |
Charles David "Charlie" Walker (born August 29, 1948) is an American engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985 as a Payload Specialist for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. He was the first non-government person to fly in...
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| x Yvonne Cagle |
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Yvonne Darlene Cagle (b. April 24, 1959 in West Point, New York) is a NASA astronaut.
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...
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| x Jean-Loup Chrétien |
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CNES | Soyuz TM-6 |
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien, is a French engineer, a retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l'Air (French air force), and a former CNES astronaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle...
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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 Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the...
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| x Rakesh Sharma |
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11,380 min | Soyuz T-11 |
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC, Hero of the Soviet Union, (born January 13, 1949) is a former Indian Air Force test pilot, and Cosmonaut aboard Soyuz T-11 as part of an Intercosmos Research Team. Sharma was the first Indian to travel in space....
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| x Roberta Bondar |
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STS-42 |
Roberta Bondar, OC, O.Ont, FRCP(C), FRSC (born December 4, 1945) 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 consultant and speaker in the...
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| x John M. Lounge |
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STS-35 |
John Michael "Mike" Lounge (June 28, 1946 – March 1, 2011) was an American engineer, a US Navy officer, a Vietnam war veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three space shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission...
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| x Susan J. Helms |
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NASA | STS-105 |
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. She is currently the Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command...
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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 Russian cosmonaut. He was a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (TsPK). Gidzenko has flown twice into space and has lived on board the Mir...
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| x Edward Higgins White |
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5,876 min | 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 NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to "walk" in space. White died along with fellow...
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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. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973 to...
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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 is a former NASA Astronaut.
Born 30 June 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...
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| x Ronald McNair |
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11,475 min | NASA | STS-41-B |
Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.
Born in Lake City, South Carolina. McNair graduated as...
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| x Ulf Merbold |
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European Space Agency | STS-9 |
Dr. Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is the first West German citizen and second German native (after Sigmund Jähn) to have flown in space. He is also the first member of the European Space Agency Astronaut Corps to participate in a...
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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. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman—and then-youngest American, at 32—to enter space. In 1987 she left NASA to work at...
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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 |
Michael Eladio "LA" López-Alegría (also known as Miguel López-Alegría) b. May 30, 1958, is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten EVAs...
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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 |
Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (Bulgarian: Александър Панайотов Александров) (born December 1, 1951, Omurtag, Targovishte Oblast, Bulgaria) is a retired Bulgarian cosmonaut. He is the second Bulgarian to have flown to space behind Georgi Ivanov....
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| x Paul Lockhart |
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NASA | STS-111 |
Colonel Paul Scott "Paco" Lockhart (born April 28, 1956) is a former American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
Lockhart, born and reared in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering from Texas...
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| x Brewster H. Shaw |
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STS-61-B |
Brewster Hopkinson Shaw, Jr. (born May 16, 1945) is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.
Shaw is a veteran of three space...
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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 a British-American astrophysicist with dual citizenship 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...
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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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58,776 min | NASA | STS-56 |
Ellen 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. Ellen...
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