Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Pham Tuan

Astronomy; Astronaut

Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian (outside of Russia) in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 ...

Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station and a six-week expedition to ...

Donald H. Peterson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Donald Herod Peterson is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former USAF and NASA astronaut. He was born in Winona, Mississippi, on October 22, 1933. Peterson is married, and has three ...

Thomas Pesquet

Astronomy; Astronaut

Thomas Pesquet (born 27 February 1978) is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and he successfully ...

Timothy Peake

Astronomy; Astronaut

Timothy Nigel Peake (born April 7, 1972 in Chichester, Sussex) is a former British Army Air Corps officer and a current European Space Agency astronaut. He is the first British citizen to be selected ...

Julie Payette

Astronomy; Astronaut

Julie Payette, OC, CQ (born October 20, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian engineer and a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, ...

James A. Pawelczyk

Astronomy; Astronaut

James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk (born September 20, 1960) is an American researcher of physiology and Kinesiology who flew aboard the NASA STS-90 Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.