Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Contributors in Astronaut

Astronaut

Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born December 18, 1934, in Irkutsk) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first halakhic (by mother) ...

Aleksandr Volkov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (born May 27, 1948) is a Russian cosmonaut. At the age of 13, Volkov witnessed Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space and this inspired him to become a cosmonaut. ...

Roberto Vittori

Astronomy; Astronaut

Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Air Force Academy in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. ...

Pavel Vinogradov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov (born August 31, 1953 in Magadan, Russia) is a cosmonaut. As of June 2010, he has flown into space twice and is one of the top 20 astronauts in terms of total time in ...

Aleksandr Viktorenko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko is a Soviet cosmonaut. He was born in Olginka, North-Kazakhstan Oblast, Kazakh SSR on March 29, 1947. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut ...

Franz Viehböck

Astronomy; Astronaut

Franz Artur Viehböck (born August 24, 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first astronaut. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning ...

Lodewijk van den Berg

Astronomy; Astronaut

Lodewijk van den Berg (born March 24, 1932) is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.