Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Vasily Lazarev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (February 23, 1928 – December 31, 1990) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 12 spaceflight as well as the abortive Soyuz 18a launch.

Wendy Barrien Lawrence (born July 2, 1959) is a retired U.S. Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the US Naval Academy ...

Robert Lawrence

Astronomy; Astronaut

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. (October 2, 1935 - December 8, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut.

Aleksandr Laveykin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin (born April 21, 1951) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Born in Moscow, Laveykin was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978. He flew on one spaceflight, for the first part of ...

André Kuipers

Astronomy; Astronaut

André Kuipers (born in Amsterdam, 5 October 1958) is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He officially became the second Dutch, third Dutch-born and fifth(citation needed) Dutch Speaking astronaut ...

Valeri Kubasov

Astronomy; Astronaut

Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (born 7 January 1935 in Vyazniki) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz ...

Sergei Krikalev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (also transliterated as Sergei Krikalyov, born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he has been veteran of ...