Astronaut

Astronaut

Person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

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Sergei Zalyotin

Astronomy; Astronaut

Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin (born 21 April 1962) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of a two space missions.

Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin (born 3 January 1959), is a Russian cosmonaut and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on three spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission ...

Kimiya Yui

Astronomy; Astronaut

Kimiya Yui (born 1970) is a Japanese astronaut candidate from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. He was selected in 2009. Yui, from Nagano Prefecture, enrolled in the Japan Air Self-Defense ...

John Young

Astronomy; Astronaut

John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a retired American astronaut, test pilot, naval officer, and aeronautical engineer who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the ...

Yi So-yeon

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yi So-yeon (born June 2, 1978) is a South Korean scientist and Ph.D. graduate of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). On April 8, 2008, she became the first Korean and the ...

Aleksei Yeliseyev

Astronomy; Astronaut

Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.

Yáng Lìwěi

Astronomy; Astronaut

Yáng Lìwěi (born June 21, 1965 in Suizhong, Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program ...