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Donn Fulton Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 2, 1987) ( Colonel USAF ) was a United States Air Force officer , test pilot , and later a NASA astronaut . He occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force in 1972, he became
Gregory Harold "Box" Johnson (born May 12, 1962) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired colonel in the United States Air Force . Johnson is a veteran of two space flights, STS-123 and STS-134 . He served as pilot on his first mission, which delivered the Kibo logistics module and the Dextre robot
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 Taylor Wang
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang ( simplified Chinese : 王赣骏 ; traditional Chinese : 王贛駿 ; pinyin : Wáng Gànjùn ; born June 16, 1940) is a Chinese-born American scientist and in 1985, became the first person of Chinese origin to go into space. While an employee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Wang was a payloa
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky ( Russian : Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Доброво́льский ; 1 June 1928 – 29 June 1971) [1] was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1 , but died of asphyxiation because
Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck (pronounced "Howk"; born April 11, 1941) is a retired captain in the United States Navy , a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut . He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26 . Frederick H. Hauck Born Frederick Hamilton Hauck ( 1941-04-
Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is an American former Air Force officer , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , and one of 24 people who flew to the Moon . He also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1969 to 1971. United States astronaut (born 1930) Thomas P. Stafford Stafford
Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD ( French pronunciation: [ʒyli pajɛt] ; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada , the 29th since Canadian Confederation . [1] [2] [3] 29th governor general of Canada, fo
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer , and the first person to walk on the Moon . He was also a naval aviator , test pilot , and university professor. American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012) For other uses, see Neil A
#10 Gennady Manakov
Gennady Mikhailovich Manakov ( Russian : Геннадий Михайлович Манаков ; 1 June 1950 – 26 September 2019) [3] was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who commanded two Soyuz flights to the Mir space station. Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (1950–2019) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming convention
#11 Nicole Stott
Nicole Marie Passonno Stott (born November 19, 1962) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut . She served as a Flight Engineer on ISS Expedition 20 and Expedition 21 and was a Mission Specialist on STS-128 and STS-133 . [2] After 27 years of working at NASA, the space agency announced h
Michael James "Mike" McCulley (born August 4, 1943), ( Capt , USN , Ret.), is a retired American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , metallurgical engineer , and former NASA astronaut , and was the first submariner in space . This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss t
Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel ( / ˈ f ɔɪ s t əl / ; born August 25, 1965) is an American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist . Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the veteran of 3 space flights with NASA. [3]
Robert Aitken "Bob" Rushworth (October 9, 1924 – March 18, 1993 [1] ) was an American United States Air Force major general , World War II , Korean War and Vietnam War pilot , mechanical and aeronautical engineer , test pilot and astronaut . He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-
#15 Peggy Whitson
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut , [4] and former NASA Chief Astronaut . American biochemistry researcher and NASA astronaut Peggy Annette Whitson Born ( 1960-02-09 ) February 9, 1960 (age 62) Beaconsfield, IA , U.S. Statu
Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin ( Russian : Фёдор Николаевич Юрчихин, Greek : Θεόδωρος Γιουρτσίχιν του Νικόλαου; born 3 January 1959 ) is a Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on five spaceflights . His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mis
#17 Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist , retired NASA astronaut , university professor , former U.S. senator from New Mexico , and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon. American politi
Ronald John Garan Jr. (born October 30, 1961) [1] [2] is a retired NASA astronaut . After graduating from State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1982, he joined the Air Force , becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1984. He became an F-16 pilot, and flew combat missions in Desert Shield and De
#19 Joseph M. Acaba
Joseph Michael "Joe" Acabá (born May 17, 1967) is a Puerto Rican educator , hydrogeologist , and NASA astronaut . [1] [2] In May 2004 he became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19. [
#20 Charles Duke
Charles Moss Duke Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is an American former astronaut , United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot . As lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon , at age 36 years and 201 days. [note 1] For the British Labo
The Queensland Air Museum is a not-for-profit community-owned aviation museum located at Caloundra Airport in Queensland , Australia . Its mission is to collect and preserve all aspects of aviation heritage with an emphasis on Australia and Queensland. The museum has the largest collection of histor
The Finnish Air Force Museum ( Finnish : Suomen Ilmavoimamuseo ), formerly the Aviation Museum of Central Finland ( Finnish : Keski-Suomen ilmailumuseo ), is an aviation museum located near Jyväskylä Airport in Tikkakoski , Jyväskylä , Finland . The museum exhibits the aviation history of Finland, f
#3 North Carolina Aviation Museum
The North Carolina Aviation Museum and North Carolina Aviation Hall of Fame displays a collection across two hangars of static aircraft, uniforms and memorabilia, and an extensive collection of aircraft models. Nearly all aircraft on display are privately owned and on loan. All aircraft on display a
#4 National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution , also called the Air and Space Museum , is a museum in Washington, D.C. , US. It was established in 1946 as the National Air Museum and opened its main building on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976. In 2018, the museum saw
The Museum of Life and Science — previously known as the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science and the NC Children's Museum — is an 84-acre (340,000 m 2 ) science museum located in Durham , North Carolina , United States. Science museum, children's museum, and zoo in Durham, North Carolina Mus
#6 Museum für Luftfahrt und Technik
The Museum für Luftfahrt und Technik Wernigerode is an aviation museum located in the German town of Wernigerode near Halberstadt . Many aerospace exhibits are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines . The main display is contained within two buildings with some ai
#7 Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection
Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection ( Forsvarets flysamling Gardermoen ) is a military aviation museum located at Gardermoen , north of Oslo in Viken county , Norway . The founding of the Norwegian Aviation Historical Society in 1967, gave the first boost to the idea of preserving aircraft in
#8 CAF Rocky Mountain Wing Museum
CAF Rocky Mountain Wing (RMW) Museum [1] is one of 75 local detachments of the national Commemorative Air Force (CAF) non-profit aviation association dedicated to Honoring American Military Aviation through Flight, Exhibit and Remembrance. Aviation museum in Grand Junction, Colorado CAF Rocky Mounta
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
#1 Nilesat 101
Nilesat 101 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was decommissioned in February 2013. Egyptian communication satellite Nilesat 101 Mission type Communications Operator Nilesat COSPAR ID 1998-024A SATCAT no. 25311 Mission duration 18 years Spacecraft properties Bus Euro
Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII ) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA 's Goddard Space Flight Center to probe high energy X-ray sources, such as supernova explosions , black holes and galactic clusters . It was launched on
#3 Intelsat 19
Intelsat 19 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by Intelsat . It was constructed by Space Systems/Loral , [1] based on the LS-1300 satellite bus . It was successfully launched by Sea Launch using a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle on 1 June 2012 at 05:22:59 UTC . [2] Upon entering service i
#4 Kosmos 4
Kosmos 4 ( Russian : Космос 4 meaning Kosmos 4 ), also known as Zenit-2 No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 14 was the first Soviet reconnaissance satellite to successfully reach orbit. Kosmos 4 Names Zenit-2 No.2 Sputnik-14 Mission type Optical imaging reconnaissance Operator OKB-1 Harvard
Eutelsat 172B is a French communications satellite built by Airbus Defence and Space and operated by Eutelsat Communications . Launched on June 1, 2017, it has an expected service life of 15 years. Its orbit along with Eutelsat 172A allows it to cover the Asia-Pacific region, providing enhanced broa
#6 Cygnus OA-7
OA-7 , previously known as Orbital-7 , is the eighth flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA . [5] The mission launched on 18 April 2017 at 15:11:26 UTC . O
#7 AS-101
AS-101 (also designated SA-6 ) was the sixth flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle, which carried the first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth orbit. [2] [3] The test took place on May 28, 1964, lasting for four orbits (about six hours). The spacecraft and its upper stage completed a total
#8 Progress M-8
Progress M-8 ( Russian : Прогресс М-8 ) was a Soviet uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the Mir space station. [2] The twenty-sixth of sixty four Progress spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the Progress-M 11F615A55 configuration, [3] and had the serial number 207. [4] It
#9 Kosmos 31
Kosmos 31 ( Russian : Космос 31 meaning Cosmos 31 ), also known as DS-MT No.2 was a technology demonstration satellite which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1964 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. Its primary mission was to demonstrate an electric gyrodyne orientation system . [3]
#10 Soyuz 9
Soyuz 9 ( Russian : Союз 9 , Union 9 ) was a June, 1970, Soviet crewed space flight. The two-man crew of Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the five-year-old space endurance record held by Gemini 7 , with their nearly 18-day flight. The mission paved the way for the Salyut space station
#11 STS-7
STS-7 was NASA 's seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger . During the mission, Challenger deployed several satellites into orbit. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24, 1983. ST
#12 Mir
Mir ( Russian : Мир , IPA: [ˈmʲir] ; lit. ' peace ' or ' world ' ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia . Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater
#13 Explorer 10
Explorer 10 (also known as Explorer X or P14 ) was a NASA satellite that investigated Earth's magnetic field and nearby plasma . Launched on 25 March 1961, it was an early mission in the Explorer program and was the first satellite to measure the "shock wave" generated by a solar flare . [3] NASA sa
#14 STS-135
STS-135 ( ISS assembly flight ULF7 ) [4] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program . [5] [6] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed on 21 July 201
#15 Soyuz TMA-04M
Soyuz TMA-04M was a spaceflight to Low Earth orbit that transported three members of the Expedition 31 crew to the International Space Station (ISS), which was launched on 15 May 2012 and landed on 17 September 2012. [3] TMA-04M was the Soyuz spacecraft 's 113th flight since its initial launch in 19
The DC-3 was one of several early design proposals for the NASA Space Shuttle designed by Maxime Faget at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. It was nominally developed by North American Aviation (NAA), although it was a purely NASA-internal design. Unlike the design that eventually emerg
#17 Nigeria EduSat-1
Nigeria EduSat-1 was a Nigerian nanosatellite built by the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), created in conjunction with the Japanese Birds-1 program. It was Nigeria's first satellite built by a university. It was launched from the Japanese Kibō module of the International Space Station
#18 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
#19 Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ( SWAS , also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3 ) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). It was launched on 6 December 1998, at 00:57:54 UTC , from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL launc
#20 STS-134
STS-134 ( ISS assembly flight ULF6 ) [9] was the penultimate mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour . [10] This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station . [11] M