Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Yevgeni Khrunov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (September 10, 1933 – May 19, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission.

Joseph Peter Kerwin, M.D. (born February 19, 1932) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who served as science pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25–June 22, 1973. He was the first ...

Scott Kelly

Astronomy; Astronaut

Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American astronaut. Kelly was commander of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 26. Kelly's identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, is also ...

Mark Kelly

Astronomy; Astronaut

Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is a retired American astronaut, U.S. Navy captain and naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Gulf War. He was selected to become a NASA space ...

Janet L. Kavandi

Astronomy; Astronaut

Janet Lynn Kavandi, a native of Carthage, Missouri, is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has served as NASA's Deputy Chief of the ...

Aleksandr Kaleri

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksandr Yuriyevich "Sasha" Kaleri is a Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station (ISS). Kaleri has recently been in space aboard ...

Leonid Kadenyuk

Astronomy; Astronaut

Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk, born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in ...