Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Kathryn C. Thornton

Astronomy; Astronaut

Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (Ph.D.) (born August 17, 1952 in Montgomery, Alabama) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of ...

Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas (born 18 December 1951 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian-born American aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut. He became a U.S. citizen in December ...

Robert Thirsk

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian records for the longest space flight (187 ...

Norman Thagard

Astronomy; Astronaut

Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first ...

Valentina Tereshkova

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. She was selected out of more than four hundred applicants, and then out of five ...

Joseph R. Tanner

Astronomy; Astronaut

Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner (born January 21, 1950) is an American instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a former military jet pilot, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in ...

Daniel Tani

Astronomy; Astronaut

Daniel Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Although born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, he considers Lombard, Illinois, to be his hometown. With Peggy Whitson, ...