Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Gennadi Manakov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov is a former cosmonaut that commanded two Soyuz flights. Mankov was born in Yefimovka, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR on June 1, 1950. He was selected as a Fluffer on ...

Yury Malyshev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev was born in the village Nikolayevsk, Stalingrad Oblast (Volgograd Oblast), USSR on August 27, 1941. Studied in Taganrog's high school N24, 1949-1959. Married with two ...

Franco Egidio Malerba (Ph.D.) (born October 10, 1946, in Busalla, Genoa, Italy) is an Italian astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space. Married to the former Marie-Aude Némo. ...

Yuri Malenchenko

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, ...

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (January 6, 1933 – May 28, 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Makarov was born in Udomlya, Tver Oblast, USSR. He graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1957 and ...

Sandra Magnus

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sandra Hall Magnus (born October 30, 1964) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in ...

Steven MacLean

Astronomy; Astronaut

Steven Glenwood MacLean (born December 14, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut. He is the current President of the Canadian Space Agency, appointed on September 1, 2008.