Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Lev Dyomin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Lev Stepanovich Dyomin (December 18, 1998, in Zvyozdny Gorodok) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This spaceflight was intended to dock with the space station ...

James Dutton

Astronomy; Astronaut

James Patrick "Mash" Dutton Jr. (20 November 1968, Eugene, Oregon) is a NASA astronaut pilot of the Class of 2004 (NASA Group 19), and a test pilot in the US Air Force with the rank of Colonel.

Samuel T. Durrance

Astronomy; Astronaut

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions. Duque earned a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) ...

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Astronomy; Astronaut

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005. She then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. She is now a consultant.

Charles Duke

Astronomy; Astronaut

Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut and aerospace engineer for NASA. As lunar module pilot for Apollo 16 in ...

Brian Duffy

Astronomy; Astronaut

Brian Duffy (born June 20, 1953, Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.