Astronaut celebrities
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James Shelton Voss (born March 3, 1949) is a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and In
Michael Winston “Mike” Melvill (born November 30, 1940 Johannesburg ) is a world-record-breaking pilot and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first
Béla Magyari (born 8 August 1949 in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary) was Colonel of the Hungarian Air Force. He graduated from the Hungarian Airforce Academy “György Kilián” in 1969.
Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (Russian: Анатолий Яковлевич Соловьёв; born January 16, 1948 in Riga – alternate spelling “Solovyov”) is a retired Russian and Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev holds the world record on the
Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is an American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick.
Takuya Onishi (大西 卓哉, Ōnishi Takuya, born 1975) is a Japanese astronaut from JAXA, who was selected in 2009.
Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German pilot, who on 1978 became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union’s Interkosmos programme.
Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Дежу́ров; born July 30, 1962) is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space S
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hans Walter (born February 9, 1954) is a German physicist/engineer and a former DFVLR astronaut.
Vladimir Alekseyevich Solovyov (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Соловьёв; born 11 November 1946) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; born 2 August 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup
Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov is a former cosmonaut who commanded two Soyuz flights.