Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Naoko Yamazaki

Astronomy; Astronaut

Naoko Yamazaki (born December 27, 1970) is a former Japanese female astronaut at JAXA, the second Japanese woman to qualify. The first was Chiaki Mukai.

Alfred Worden

Astronomy; Astronaut

Alfred Merrill Worden (born February 7, 1932) is an American astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.

David Wolf

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Alexander Wolf (born 23 August 1956) is an American astronaut, medical doctor, electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space ...

Stephanie Wilson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Stephanie Diana Wilson (born September 27, 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew on her first mission in space on board the Space Shuttle mission ...

Yury Viktorovich Romanenko (born August 1, 1944, USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yury Romanenko spent a ...

Russell L. Rogers

Astronomy; Astronaut

Russell Lee Rogers was an astronaut assigned to the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. He was born on April 12, 1928 in Lawrence, Kansas. He was married with five children. Rogers was killed when the engine of ...

Stephen Robinson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Stephen Kern Robinson is a NASA astronaut. He was born October 26, 1955, in Sacramento, California. He enjoys flying, antique aircraft, swimming, canoeing, hiking, music, art, and stereo photography. ...