Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Millie Hughes-Fulford

Astronomy; Astronaut

Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford is an American medical investigator and molecular biologist who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.

Akihiko Hoshide

Astronomy; Astronaut

Akihiko Hoshide (born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International ...

Scott J. Horowitz

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitz (born March 24, 1957) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions. After earning his undergraduate degree in engineering from California ...

Donald Holmquest

Astronomy; Astronaut

Donald Lee Holmquest (born April 7, 1939, Dallas) is a former NASA Astronaut. He is currently the CEO of the California Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO).

Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Charles Owen "Scorch" Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961, in Bar Harbor, Maine) is a NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He has had three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle ...

Timothy Kopra

Astronomy; Astronaut

Timothy Lennart Kopra (born April 9, 1963, in Austin, Texas) is a colonel in the United States Army and a NASA astronaut. Kopra deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Storm as a ...