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#1 Deke Slayton

Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was a United States Air Force pilot , aeronautical engineer , and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts . He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Cre

#2 Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold (born 1971) is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. [1] He is their Director of Flight Operations, [2] and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo , the experimental spaceplanes developed by the company. [3] On April 8, 2004, Siebold piloted the second

#3 Valeri Tokarev

Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev ( Russian : Валерий Иванович Токарев ; born 29 October 1952) is a Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center . Tokarev traveled to space twice, and has performed two career spacewalks , before retiring in June 2008. [1] Vale

#4 David Saint-Jacques

David Saint-Jacques OQ FRCGS ( in Quebec : [davɪd sẽɪ̯̃nʒã(ŋ)k̚] , French pronunciation:   ​ [david sɛ̃ʒak] ; born January 6, 1970) [2] is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist , engineer , and a physician . Canadian engineer, astrophysicist, physici

#5 William S. McArthur

William Surles McArthur Jr. (born July 26, 1951) is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule. [1] For other people with this name, see William McArthur (di

#6 Donald A. Thomas

Donald Alan Thomas , Ph.D. (born May 6, 1955) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut . Donald Alan Thomas Born ( 1955-05-06 ) May 6, 1955 (age   67) Cleveland, Ohio Status Retired Nationality American Occupation Engineer Space career NASA astronaut Time in space 43d 08h 13m Selection 19

#7 Michael López-Alegría

Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría on May 30, 1958) is an astronaut , test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; [2] a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten

#8 Michael Fincke

Edward Michael " Mike "/" Spanky " Fincke [1] (born March 14, 1967) is an American astronaut who formerly held the American record for the most time in space (381.6 days). His record was broken by Scott Kelly on October 16, 2015. United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut E. Michael Fincke F

#9 Mark Pathy

Mark Pathy (born July 1969) [1] is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and spaceflight participant . He is the CEO of Mavrik, a privately owned Canadian investment company. He is also the chairman of Stingray Group [2] and the former co-CEO of Fednav , [3] a private shipping company co-founded by

#10 Space tourism

Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. [1] There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Space travel for recreational purposes This article is about paying space travellers. For other commercial spacefarers, see Co

#11 Yury Lonchakov

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov ( Russian: Юрий Валентинович Лончаков ; born 4 March 1965) is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions . [1] He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks. Russian cosmonaut Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov Born ( 1965-03-04 )

#12 Georgy Grechko

Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko ( Russian : Георгий Михайлович Гречко ; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut . He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station. [1] Soyuz 17 was the first crewed vehicle to visit Salyut 4 , Soyuz 26 was the

#13 Jerry L. Ross

Jerry Lynn Ross (born January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana ) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and a former NASA astronaut . He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the joint record holder for most spaceflights (a record he shares with Franklin Chang-Diaz )

#14 Kenneth Cockrell

Kenneth Dale " Taco " Cockrell (born April 9, 1950) is a retired American astronaut , engineer and a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1997 to 1998. [1] For the similarly named interim mayor of Detroit, see Kenneth Cockrel, Jr. This article has m

#15 Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [lower-alpha 1] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space . Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space

#16 Lee Morin

Lee Miller Emile Morin (born September 9, 1952) is a United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut . He flew on STS-110 in 2002. Lee Miller Emile Morin Born ( 1952-09-09 ) September 9, 1952 (age   70) Manchester, New Hampshire Nationality American Occupation Medical Doctor Space career NASA Astronau

#17 Jerome Apt

Jerome "Jay" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts ) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University . Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to st

#18 Sergey Volkov (cosmonaut)

Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov ( Russian : Сергей Александрович Волков ; born April 1, 1973, in Chuhuiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and engineer . He was a member of three missions to the International Space Station , spending more than a year in total in space. Dur

#19 Anne McClain

Anne Charlotte McClain (born June 7, 1979) is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army , engineer and a NASA astronaut. [2] Her call sign , "Annimal", dates back to her bruising rugby days; [3] she also uses the call sign in her Twitter handle, AstroAnnimal. She was a Flight Engineer for Expedition 58

#20 Larry Connor

Larry Connor (January 7, 1950) is an American real estate, technology business person, and private astronaut [1] on Axiom Mission 1 . Connor is the head of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm located in Dayton, Ohio . American real estate and technology entrepreneur Larry Connor Larry Co


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Museum / Museum


#1 Volandia

Volandia Park and Flight Museum is the largest Italian aeronautical museum, as well as one of the largest in Europe. Volandia displays over 100 aircraft. The museum covers an area of ca. 60,000 m 2 (645,000 sq ft ) [1] of which 20,000 m 2 (215,000 sq ft) are indoors. [2] It opened in 2010, after a 1

#2 Kjeller Airport

Kjeller Airport ( Norwegian : Kjeller flyplass ; ICAO : ENKJ ) is a military and general aviation airport located in Kjeller in Skedsmo in Viken county , Norway. Situated in the outskirts of Lillestrøm , it is 9 nautical miles (17   km; 10   mi) east northeast of Oslo , making it the airport located


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Spacecraft / Spacecraft


#1 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ( FGST , [3] also FGRST ), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope ( GLAST ), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit . Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with which as

#2 Soyuz TMA-7

Soyuz TMA-7 ( Russian : Союз ТМА-7 ) was a transport mission for portions of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 12 crew launched October 1, 2005. The flight delivered ISS Commander William McArthur and ISS Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev to the station to replace Expedition 11 crew memb

#3 SpaceX CRS-8

SpaceX CRS-8 , also known as SpX-8 , [5] was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was launched on April 8, 2016, at 20:43   UTC. It was the 23rd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, the tenth flight of a Dragon cargo spacecraft and the eighth operational missi

#4 CryoSat-2

CryoSat-2 is a European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Explorer Mission that launched on April 8th 2010. [3] CryoSat-2 is dedicated to measuring polar sea ice thickness and monitoring changes in ice sheets. [4] Its primary objective is to measure the thinning of Arctic sea ice, but has applications to oth

#5 STS-83

STS-83 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission flown by Columbia . It was a science research mission that achieved orbit successfully, but the planned duration was a failure due to a technical problem with a fuel cell that resulted in the abort of the 15 day duration. Columbia returned to Earth just shy of

#6 USA-212

USA-212 [1] was the first flight of the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1 ( X-37B OTV-1 ), an American robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) spaceplane . It was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on 22 April 2010, and operated in low Earth orbit . Its designation i

#7 Astra 1F

Astra 1F is one of the Astra communications satellites in geostationary orbit owned and operated by SES . It was launched in April 1996 to the Astra 19.2°E orbital slot initially to provide digital television and radio for direct-to-home (DTH) across Europe. Communications satellite Astra 1F Mission

#8 Progress M-29M

Progress M-29M ( Russian : Прогресс М-29М ), identified by NASA as Progress 61P was a Progress spaceflight by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. It was launched on 1 October 2015, to deliver cargo to the ISS. Progress M-29M is the final vehicle in Progress-M series,

#9 Axiom Mission 1

Axiom Mission 1 (or Ax-1 ) [3] was a privately funded and operated crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was operated by Axiom Space out of Axiom's Mission Control Center MCC-A [4] in Houston, Texas. The flight launched on 8 April 2022 from Kennedy Space Center in Flor

#10 Discoverer 23

Discoverer 23 , also known as KH-5 9016A , was a USAF photographic reconnaissance satellite under the supervision of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) which was launched in 1961. It was a KH-5 ARGON satellite, based on an Agena-B . [1] It was the second KH-5 mission to be launched, and the se

#11 Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3

Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 ( Korean :   광명성 3호 ; Hanja :   光明星3號 ; lit.   Bright Star-3 [2] or Lode Star-3 [3] ) was a North Korean Earth observation satellite which, according to the DPRK , was for weather forecast purposes, and whose launch was widely portrayed in the West to be a veiled ballistic missile t

#12 Envisat

Envisat (" Environmental Satellite ") is a large inactive Earth-observing satellite which is still in orbit and now considered space debris. Operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was the world's largest civilian Earth observation satellite. [2] ESA Earth observation satellite (2002–2012) E

#13 Soyuz TMA-12

Soyuz TMA-12 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was launched by a Soyuz FG rocket at 11:16 UTC on 8 April 2008. It docked to the Pirs module of the station on 10 April 2008. [2] Landing occurred at 03:37 on 24 October. It was the first nominal landing in three mission

#14 Kosmos 725

Kosmos 725 ( Russian : Космос 725 meaning Cosmos 725 ), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.77 , was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1975 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 400-kilogram (880   lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau , and was used as a rad

#15 Nimbus 4

Nimbus 4 (also called Nimbus D ) was a meteorological satellite . It was the fourth in a series of the Nimbus program . Nimbus 4 Artist rendering of the Nimbus 4. Mission type Weather satellite Operator NASA COSPAR ID 1970-025A SATCAT no. 4362 Mission duration 10 years and 5 months Spacecraft proper

#16 Kosmos 1867

Kosmos 1867 ( Russian : Космос 1867 ) is a nuclear powered radar ocean reconnaissance satellite (RORSAT) that was launched by the Soviet Union on July 10, 1987. It was put into an orbit of about 800   km (500   mi) . Its mission was to monitor the oceans for naval and merchant vessels, and had a mis

#17 Progress M-34

Progress M-34 ( Russian : Прогресс М-34 ) was a Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1997 to resupply the Mir space station, [1] and which subsequently collided with Mir during a docking attempt, resulting in significant damage to the space station. Progress M-34 Mission type Mir

#18 Lunokhod 1

Lunokhod 1 ( Russian: Луноход-1 ("Moonwalker 1"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203")) was the first of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program . The Luna 17 spacecraft carried Lunokhod 1 to the Moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was t

#19 Infrared Space Observatory

The Infrared Space Observatory ( ISO ) was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation with ISAS (now part of JAXA ) and NASA . The ISO was designed to study infrared light at wavelengths of 2.5 to 240 micrometres and operated from 19

#20 Vostok 1

Vostok 1 ( Russian: Восток , East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first h


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