Astronaut celebrities
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Yang Liwei (simplified Chinese: 杨利伟; traditional Chinese: 楊利偉; pinyin: Yáng Lìwěi ); born June 21, 1965) is a major general and military pilot and China National Space Administration astronaut. In 2003, he became the first person sent
Colonel Fei Junlong (simplified Chinese: 费俊龙; traditional Chinese: 費俊龍; pinyin: Fèi Jùnlóng; born 1965) is a Chinese military pilot and an astronaut. He flew on the second manned spaceflight of the Shenzhou program.
Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova (Russian: Валентина Леонидовна Пономарёва, born 18 September 1933) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, pilot and scientist.
Maksim Viktorovich Surayev (Russian: Максим Викторович Сураев, born May 24, 1972) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Major general Georgi Ivanov Kakalov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Какалов; born July 2, 1940) is a retired Bulgarian military officer and the first Bulgarian cosmonaut. He was a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1990.
Laurel Blair Salton Clark (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist. Clark died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Co
Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova (Татьяна Дмитриевна Кузнецова, born 14 July 1941) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. She is the youngest person ever selected by a government human spaceflight program.
Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov (Russian: Генна́дий Миха́йлович Стрека́лов; October 26, 1940 – December 25, 2004) was an engineer, cosmonaut, and administrator at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He flew into space f
Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Овчинин) born 28 September 1971 in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR is a Russian Air Force major and cosmonaut, selected in 2006.
Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev (Russian: Константин Мирович Козеев) is a Russian cosmonaut.
Norishige Kanai (金井 宣茂, Kanai Norishige, born December 1976) (M.D.) is a Japanese doctor and a JAXA astronaut candidate.
Joseph Peter Kerwin, M.D. (born February 19, 1932), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American physician and former NASA astronaut, who served as Science Pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25–June 22, 1973. He was the first physician to be selected for