Astronaut celebrities
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Lodewijk van den Berg (born March 24, 1932) is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930), Major General, USAF, Ret., is an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10,
Miguel López-Alegría (born 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 spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding
Muhammed Ahmed Faris (Arabic: محمد أحمد فارس; born 26 May 1951) is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space.
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh was born in Berezkiny, Kirov Oblast, Russian SFSR on March 7, 1940. Married with one child. Selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. Retired on February 9, 1989.
Catherine Grace “Cady” Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on Ma
Colonel Aidyn Akanovich Aimbetov (Айдын Аимбетов, born July 27, 1972 in the Kolkhoz “Zarya Kommunisma”, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh cosmonaut. He is a member of the first, and as of 2015, only Kazakh cosmonaut class, and the first of the cla
Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi’s travel, Farkas is no longer the only Hungarian who has been
Maksim Vladimirovich Ponomaryov (Russian: М.В. Пономарев), born on February 20, 1980, captain of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.
Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. She was the commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa (Mongolian: Жүгдэрдэмидийн Гүррагчаа; Russian: Жугдэрдэмидийн Гуррагча, born December 5, 1947) was the first Mongolian in space. He was Mongolia’s defense minister from 2000 to
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and So