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Boris Andreyev Facts

Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev (Russian: Борис Дмитриевич Андреев; October 6, 1940- ) is a former Russian Cosmonaut. He retired in 1983 for medical reasons and subsequently did not fly on any missions into space. He was, however, g

Stephen Robinson Facts

Stephen Kern Robinson (born October 26, 1955, in Sacramento, California) is a former NASA astronaut.

Steve Bales Facts

Koichi Wakata Facts

Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission and a long-duration stay on the International Space Statio

Grigori Nelyubov Facts

Grigori Grigoryevich Nelyubov (Russian: Григо́рий Григо́рьевич Нелю́бов; March 31, 1934 – February 18, 1966) was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drun

Thomas J. Hennen Facts

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Thomas John Hennen (born August 17, 1952) is a United States Army warrant officer and NASA astronaut who flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-44 as a Payload Specialist.

Richard H. Truly Facts

Richard Harrison Truly (born November 12, 1937) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot, former astronaut for both the United States Air Force and NASA, and was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics

Anatoly Artsebarsky Facts

Anatoly Pavlovich Artsebarsky (Ukrainian: Анатолій Павлович Арцебарський) (Russian: Анатолий Павлович Арцебарский; born September 9, 1956) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.

Peggy Whitson Facts

Charles Conrad Facts

Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon. He s

Valeri Kubasov Facts

Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (th

Leonid Kadeniuk Facts

Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк), born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NAS