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#1 John Glenn

John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921   – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator , engineer , astronaut , businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth , circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA

#2 Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut and mechanical engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. [3] [4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. American astronau

#3 Gene Cernan

Eugene Andrew Cernan ( / ˈ s ɜːr n ə n / ; March 14, 1934   – January 16, 2017) was an American astronaut , naval aviator , electrical engineer , aeronautical engineer , and fighter pilot . During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh human being to walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the

#4 Eileen Collins

Eileen Marie Collins (born November 19, 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel . A former flight instructor and test pilot , Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission. American astronaut and pilot (bo

#5 L. Blaine Hammond

Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr. (born January 16, 1952) is a Gulfstream test pilot , a former United States Air Force officer, and a former NASA astronaut . He flew on two Space Shuttle missions. US Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these

#6 Kathryn D. Sullivan

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist and oceanographer , and a former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions. "Kathryn Sullivan" redirects here. For other uses, see Kathryn Sullivan (disambiguation) . American geolo

#7 Jerry M. Linenger

Jerry Michael Linenger (born January 16, 1955) is a retired Captain in the United States Navy Medical Corps , and a former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir . American astronaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( Februar

#8 David M. Brown

David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut . He died on his first spaceflight , when the Space Shuttle Columbia ( STS-107 ) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996 but had

#9 Michael Coats

Michael Lloyd Coats (born January 16, 1946) is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California . From December 2005 to December 2012, he served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas . [1] American aerospace engineer, test pilot, and astronaut Michael

#10 Boris Volynov

Boris Valentinovich Volynov ( Russian : Бори́с Валенти́нович Волы́нов ; born 18 December 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme : Soyuz 5 , and Soyuz 21 . Following the death of Alexei Leonov in October 2019, he is the last surviving member of the original gro

#11 Bruce McCandless II

Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless ; [1] June 8, 1937   – December 21, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and aviator , electrical engineer , and NASA astronaut . In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the

#12 Rhea Seddon

Margaret Rhea Seddon (born November 8, 1947) is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut . After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40 , and as payload commander fo

#13 Shannon Lucid

Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut . At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian Mir space stati

#14 Vladimír Remek

Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech, formerly Czechoslovakian, politician and diplomat , as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot . He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first cosmonaut from a country other t

#15 Rick Husband

Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957   – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot . He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107 . He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosp

#16 Ilan Ramon

Ilan Ramon ( Hebrew : אילן רמון ; pronounced   [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon] , born Ilan Wolfferman אילן וולפרמן ; June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) [1] was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut . Ramon was a Space Shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 , the fatal mission of Columbia ,

#17 Jeanette Epps

Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut . [1] [2] [3] Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland , where she was part of the rotor-craft research group and was a NASA GSRP Fellow. [4] [5

#18 William C. McCool

William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003) ( Cmdr , USN ) was an American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , aeronautical engineer , and NASA astronaut , who was the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107 . He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were kille

#19 Sally Ride

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951   – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist . Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space , after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

#20 Michael P. Anderson

Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut . Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere . [1] An


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#1 Telstar 401

Telstar 401 is a communications satellite owned by AT&T Corporation , which was launched in 1993, to replace Telstar 301 . It was rendered inoperable by a magnetic storm in 1997. Communications satellite Telstar 401 Mission type Communication Operator AT&T Corporation COSPAR ID 1993-077A SATCAT no.

#2 Poisk (ISS module)

Poisk ( Russian : Поиск , lit.   ' Search ' ), also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 ( MRM 2 ), Малый исследовательский модуль 2 , or МИМ 2 , is a docking module of the International Space Station . Its original name was Docking Module 2 ( Stykovochniy Otsek 2 , SO-2 ), as it is almost identical

#3 Mercury-Atlas 6

Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight , which took place on February 20, 1962. [4] Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury , it was the fifth human spaceflight , preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American

#4 INSAT-4A

INSAT-4A was the first one in the INSAT -4 Satellites series, providing services in the K u and C band frequency bands. At the time of launch, it was the heaviest satellite India had produced. The K u transponders cover the Indian main land and C-Band transponders cover an extended area. It has a do

#5 Kosmos 1629

Kosmos 1629 ( Russian : Космос 1629 meaning Cosmos 1629 ) is a Soviet US-KS missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1985 as part of the Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [1] Kosmos 1629 Mission type Ear

#6 Soyuz 17

Soyuz 17 ( Russian : Союз 17 , Union 17 ) was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union 's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight by cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Georgy Grechko set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated

#7 Lunokhod 2

Lunokhod 2 ( Russian : Луноход-2 ("Moonwalker 2"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 204 ("Device 8EL No. 204")) was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers that landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod programme . Second robotic Moon rover (1973) Lunokhod 2 Model of Lunokhod 2 rover

#8 TechEdSat

Technology Education Satellite ( TechEdSat ) is a successful nano-sat flight series conducted from the NASA Ames Research Center in collaboration with numerous universities (San Jose State University, University of Idaho, University of California, University of Minnesota, Smith College). While one o

#9 Luna 21

Luna 21 (Ye-8 series) was an unmanned space mission , and its spacecraft, of the Luna program , also called Lunik 21 , in 1973. The spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2 . The primary objectives of the mission were to collect images of the lunar surface

#10 Astra 5A

Astra 5A was one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES at the Astra 31.5°E . Launched in 1997 to the 5° East position by NSAB (Nordiska Satelit AB) (later SES Sirius , and now a non-autonomous part of SES) as Sirius 2 , operation of the satellite was transferred to SES in

#11 STS-61-C

STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program , and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia . It was the first time that Columbia , the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9 . The mission launched from Florida 's Kennedy Space Center

#12 Helios (spacecraft)

Helios-A and Helios-B (after launch renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2 ) are a pair of probes that were launched into heliocentric orbit to study solar processes. As a joint venture between German Aerospace Center (DLR) and NASA , the probes were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , Florida ,

#13 Shenzhou 2

Shenzhou 2 ( Chinese : 神舟二号 ) launched on January 9, 2001, was the second unmanned launch of the Shenzhou spacecraft . Inside the reentry capsule were a monkey , a dog and a rabbit in a test of the spaceship's life support systems. The reentry module separated from the rest of the spacecraft after j

#14 Soyuz 5

Soyuz 5 ( Russian : Союз 5 , Union 5 ) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any nation, and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to a

#15 Mercury-Atlas 8

Mercury-Atlas 8 ( MA-8 ) was the fifth United States crewed space mission , part of NASA 's Mercury program . Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. , orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scient

#16 Tele-X

Tele-X was the first communications satellite serving the Nordic countries . It was launched with an Ariane 2 launch vehicle from Kourou , French Guiana , on 2 April 1989. On 16 January 1998, its fuel was exhausted and it was moved into graveyard orbit . The project was managed and operated by the S

#17 STS-107

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program , and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia . The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003, and during its 15 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds in orbit conducted a multitude of internationa

#18 Salyut 6

Salyut 6 ( Russian : Салют-6 ; lit. Salute 6 ), DOS-5 , was a Soviet orbital space station , the eighth station of the Salyut programme . It was launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket . Salyut 6 was the first space station to receive large numbers of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft for huma

#19 Universitetsky-Tatyana-2

Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 [4] was a small research and educational satellite mainly developed by Taiwan ( National Cheng Kung University and National Central University ) [5] and Russia Moscow State University and launched on 17 September 2009 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. [6] This

#20 XMM-Newton

XMM-Newton , also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission , is an X-ray space observatory launched by the European Space Agency in December 1999 on an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the second cornerstone mission of ESA's Horizon 2000 programme. Named after


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