Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Thomas David Jones

Astronomy; Astronaut

Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He ...

Gregory Harold "Box" Johnson is a NASA astronaut and a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. Johnson is a veteran of two space flights, STS-123 and STS-134. He served as pilot on his first ...

Gregory C. Johnson

Astronomy; Astronaut

Gregory Carl "Ray J" Johnson (born July 30, 1954, in Seattle, Washington), is a NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy who spent his military career in both the Regular United ...

Jing Haipeng

Astronomy; Astronaut

Jing Haipeng (born October 24, 1966) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be a CNSA astronaut in ...

Tamara E. Jernigan

Astronomy; Astronaut

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

Mae Jemison

Astronomy; Astronaut

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour ...

Sigmund Jähn

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German pilot who became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.