Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Joan Higginbotham

Astronomy; Astronaut

Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission ...

Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and ...

John Herrington

Astronomy; Astronaut

John Bennett Herrington (born September 14, 1958) is a former naval aviator with the United States Navy and former NASA astronaut. With his single Space Shuttle mission in late 2002 Herrrington ...

José Hernández

Astronomy; Astronaut

José Moreno Hernández (born on August 7, 1962), is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. His ...

Mirosław Hermaszewski

Astronomy; Astronaut

Mirosław Hermaszewski (born September 15, 1941), is a retired Polish Air Force officer. He became the first (and to this day remains the only, except Polish-American astronauts) Pole in space when he ...

Terence T. Henricks

Astronomy; Astronaut

Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. He served on four Space Shuttle missions.