Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Dmitri Kondrat'yev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Dmitri Yur'yevich Kondrat'yev (born 25 May 1969 in Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian cosmonaut. He served as a crewmember on the International Space Station long duration mission Expedition 27 as ...

Yelena Kondakova

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (born March 30, 1957 in Mytishchi, Soviet Union) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration ...

Vladimir Komarov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in the first group of cosmonauts selected in 1960. He was one of the most ...

Pyotr Kolodin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin (born September 23, 1930) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. Although he retired in 1983 without flying in space, Kolodin served non-flying assignments on several spaceflights.

Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (born July 10, 1942 in Kamaroŭka, Brest Voblast, Byelorussian SSR), is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into ...

Leonid Kizim

Astronomy; Astronaut

Leonid Denisovich Kizim (August 5, 1941 – June 14, 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who was twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union (December 10, 1980 and October 2, 1984). Kizim was born in Krasnyi ...

Robert S. Kimbrough

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a U.S. Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle ...