Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (June 19, 1933 – June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a ...

Nicholas Patrick

Astronomy; Astronaut

Nicholas James MacDonald Patrick, Ph.D., is a British-born engineer and a NASA astronaut. His flight on the 2006 Discovery STS-116 mission made him the fifth Briton to go into space.

Luca Parmitano

Astronomy; Astronaut

Luca Parmitano (born 27 September, 1976) is an astronaut in the European Astronaut Corps for the European Space Agency (ESA). The astronauts work on missions at the International Space Station. He ...

Robert A. Parker

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is the former director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a mission specialist on ...

Ronald A. Parise

Astronomy; Astronaut

Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Scott E. Parazynski

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Edward Parazynski, M.D. (b. July 28, 1961 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, ...

William Pailes

Astronomy; Astronaut

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 ...