Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Alvin Drew

Astronomy; Astronaut

Colonel Benjamin Alvin Drew (born 1962) is a United States Air Force officer and a NASA astronaut. He has been on two spaceflights; the first one was the Space Shuttle mission STS-118 to the ...

Takao Doi

Astronomy; Astronaut

Takao Doi (born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov is a former cosmonaut who resides in Star City, Moscow. He is a veteran of two spaceflights, to the Mir and International Space Stations. During his career, Duzhurov ...

Frank De Winne

Astronomy; Astronaut

Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961 in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the ...

Lawrence J. DeLucas

Astronomy; Astronaut

James "Larry" DeLucas (O. D., Ph.D.) is an American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist. He was born on July 11, 1950 in Syracuse, New York, and is ...

Kathryn P. Hire

Astronomy; Astronaut

Captain Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire of the U.S. Navy Reserve (born August 26, 1959, Mobile, Alabama) is a NASA astronaut who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions.

David C. Hilmers

Astronomy; Astronaut

David Carl Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut. Hilmers was born January 28, 1950, in Clinton, Iowa, but considers DeWitt, Iowa, to be his hometown. He is married to Angela Cayotopa Escalante of Lima, ...