Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is a physician and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women, she flew on three Space Shuttle ...

Paul Scully-Power

Astronomy; Astronaut

Paul Desmond Scully-Power AM (born May 28, 1944) is an American oceanographer. While a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission ...

David Saint-Jacques

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Saint-Jacques (born January 6, 1970 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection along with ...

Albert Sacco

Astronomy; Astronaut

Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.

Valery Ryumin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valery Victorovich Ryumin, born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. In 1958, he was graduated from the Kaliningrad Mechanical Engineering Technical College with the ...

Nikolay Rukavishnikov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (September 18, 1932, Tomsk – October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of ...

Jerry L. Ross

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jerry Lynn Ross (January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana) is a United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record ...