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Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born March 3, 1949) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut . She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station. Since leaving NASA, she has worked in museums and STEM leadership, and as a professor of ae
Henry Warren Hartsfield Jr. (21 November 1933 – 17 July 2014) was a United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006. American astronaut and test pilot Henry W. Hartsfield Jr. Born ( 1933-11-2
#3 Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot , and businessman. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon . American astronaut (1923–1998), first Ameri
Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy ( Russian : Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Берегово́й , Ukrainian : Гео́ргій Тимофі́йович Берегови́й ; 15 April 1921 – 30 June 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. [1] At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the ea
#5 Lance Bass
James Lance Bass [3] ( / b æ s / ; born May 4, 1979) [4] is an American singer, dancer, actor, film, and television producer. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band NSYNC . NSYNC's success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the
Sandra Hall Magnus (born October 30, 1964) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut . [2] She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in orbit. [3] She was assigned to the crew of STS-135 , the final mission of the Space Shuttle
Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin ( Russian : Александр Иванович Лазуткин ; born October 30, 1957) [1] is a Russian cosmonaut . Russian cosmonaut This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian . (February 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructio
Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg , Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut . He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout ). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21 . ES
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) [2] is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate . [3] [4] [5] In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group , which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. [6] British entrepreneur and business magnate Not to be c
#10 Andrey Borisenko
Andrey Ivanovich Borisenko ( Russian : Андрей Иванович Борисенко ; born 17 April 1964) is a Russian cosmonaut . [1] He was selected as a cosmonaut in May 2003, and is a veteran of two long duration missions to the International Space Station . Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko Born ( 1964-04-17 ) 1
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Poleshchuk ( Russian : Александр Фёдорович Полещук , born October 30, 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut . Russian cosmonaut (born 1953) This article is about the Russian cosmonaut. For the Russian conductor, see Alexander Polishchuk . This biography of a living person needs addition
#12 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 )
#13 Steven R. Nagel
Steven Ray Nagel (October 27, 1946 – August 21, 2014), ( Col , USAF ), was an American astronaut , aeronautical and mechanical engineer , test pilot , and a United States Air Force pilot . [1] In total, he logged 723 hours in space. [2] After NASA, he worked at the University of Missouri College of
#14 Wubbo Ockels
Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later became professor of aerospace engineering at Delft University of T
#15 Kathleen Rubins
Kathleen Hallisey Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut . [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3] She returned to Earth in Kazakhstan on Octob
#16 James Buchli
James Frederick Buchli (born June 20, 1945, in New Rockford, North Dakota ) is a retired United States Marine aviator and former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. NASA astronaut James F. Buchli Born ( 1945-06-20 ) June 20, 1945 (age 77) New Rockford, North Dakota , U.S. Statu
#17 Stuart Roosa
Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer , smokejumper , United States Air Force pilot , test pilot , and NASA astronaut , who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was
#18 Robert L. Gibson
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946), ( Capt , USN , Ret.), is a former American naval officer and aviator , test pilot , and aeronautical engineer . A retired NASA astronaut , he also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1994. Today Gibson is active as a professional pil
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
#20 Guion Bluford
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer , retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot , and former NASA astronaut in which capacity he became the second person of African descent to go to space . [1] [2] [lower-alpha 1] Before becoming an astronaut,
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole [3] ( IATA : KOA , ICAO : PHKO , FAA LID : KOA ) is the busiest airport on the Island of Hawai ʻ i . It is located in Kalaoa CDP , Hawai ʻ i County , Hawai ʻ i , United States, [4] near the town of Kailua-Kona . The airport serves leeward (wester
USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41) is an aircraft carrier , formerly of the United States Navy , the lead ship of her class . Commissioned 8 days after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, as well as the first U.S. aircraft carrier too big to transit the Panama Canal
The Solway Aviation Museum is an independently-run aircraft museum located at Carlisle Lake District Airport in Cumbria . Aviation Museum in Irthington, Cumbria Solway Aviation Museum Established 1961 Location Carlisle Lake District Airport Irthington Cumbria Type Aviation Museum Website www.solway-
#1 PANSAT
PANSAT ( Petite Amateur Navy Satellite , also known as OSCAR 34 ) was an amateur radio satellite . It was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-95 mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) mission, on 30 October 1998 from Kennedy Space Center , Fl
#2 SpaceX CRS-1
SpaceX CRS-1 , also known as SpX-1 , [8] was SpaceX's first operational cargo mission to the International Space Station , under their Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA . It was the third flight for the uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft , and the fourth overall flight for the co
#3 STS-129
STS-129 ( ISS assembly flight ULF3 ) [2] was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009 at 14:28 EST , [3] [4] and landed at 09:44 EST on November 27, 2009 on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center 's Shuttle Landing Facility. It
#4 SDS-4
SDS-4 ( Small Demonstration Satellite 4 ) is a small satellite (50 cm cube with mass of 50 kg) developed by JAXA . It was launched as a secondary payload on the Shizuku mission on 17 May 2012 UTC. [4] SDS-4 Mission type Technology Operator JAXA COSPAR ID 2012-025C SATCAT no. 38339 Spacecraft pro
#5 Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer
DANDE (or Drag and Atmospheric Neutral Density Explorer ) is a 50 kg class spacecraft developed by the University of Colorado Boulder was the winner of the 5th iteration of the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosat Program . [5] This article needs additional citations for verification
#6 Venera 14
Venera 14 ( Russian : Венера-14 meaning Venus 14) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus . 1982 Soviet space probe which successfully landed on Venus Venera 14 Venera 14 postage stamp Mission type Venus flyby / lander Operator Soviet Academy of Sciences COSPAR ID 1981-
#7 STS-61-A
STS-61-A (also known as Spacelab D-1 ) was the 22nd mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program . It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed by West Germany – hence the non-NASA designation of D-1 (for Deutschland-1 ). STS-61-A was the ninth and last successful flight of Space Shuttle Ch
#8 Koreasat 5A
Koreasat 5A is a South Korean communications satellite operated by KT SAT, a subsidiary of KT Corporation . [2] On 30 October 2017, it was launched on Falcon 9 ( "Full Thrust" version ) rocket . [3] [4] Koreasat 5A Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A, carrying Koreasat 5A Mission type C
#9 BILSAT-1
BILSAT-1 (formerly just BILSAT ) was an earth observation satellite designed and developed by TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) and produced in Turkey as part of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) project in the context of a show-how program led by DMC Internation
#10 STS-120
STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on 23 October 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center , Florida. [5] The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program. STS-120 delivered the Harmony module and reconfigured a portion of the station in
#11 Progress M-05M
Progress M-05M ( Russian : Прогресс М-05М ), identified by NASA as Progress 37P , is a Progress spacecraft launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency in April 2010 to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). [1] [2] The spacecraft carried fresh food and supplies for the ISS crew. Progress M
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 ( COTS 2 ), also known as Dragon C2+ , was the second test-flight for SpaceX 's uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft. It launched in May 2012 on the third flight of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was performed under a funded agreement from NASA as t
#13 Soyuz TMA-22
Soyuz TMA-22 was a crewed spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS). TMA-22 was the 111th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft , and transported three members of the Expedition 29 crew to the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the ISS on 16 November 2011, [3] and remained docked to serve as an emergen
Kosmos 186 ( Russian : Космос-186 meaning Cosmos 186 ) and Kosmos 188 ( Russian : Космос-188 meaning Cosmos 188 ) were two uncrewed Soviet Union spacecraft that incorporated a Soyuz programme descent module for landing scientific instruments and test objects. [5] Kosmos 186 Mission type Uncrewed spa
#15 Soyuz 3
Soyuz 3 ( Russian : Союз 3 , Union 3 ) was a spaceflight mission launched by the Soviet Union on 26 October 1968. Flown by Georgy Beregovoy , the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft completed 81 orbits over four days. The 47-year-old Beregovoy was a decorated World War II flying ace and the oldest person to go i
#16 KhalifaSat
KhalifaSat ( Arabic : خليفة سات ), also known as DubaiSat-3 ( Arabic : دبي سات-3 ), is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite that was designed and built at the Space Technology Laboratories of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai . It is considered the first entirely Emirati-made sat
#17 Soyuz 29
Soyuz 29 ( Russian : Союз 29 , Union 29 ) was a 1978 crewed Soviet space mission to the Salyut 6 space station. [2] It was the fifth mission, the fourth successful docking, and the second long-duration crew for the orbiting station. Commander Vladimir Kovalyonok and flight engineer Aleksandr Ivanche
#18 UniCubeSat-GG
UniCubeSat-GG is a Miniaturized satellite built by the Sapienza University of Rome . It was launched into Low Earth Orbit on the maiden flight of Arianespace 's Vega rocket on 13 February 2012. The launch was a multi-payload mission shared with LARES , ALMASat-1 , Goliat , MaSat-1 , PW-Sat , ROBUSTA
#19 Nilesat 102
Nilesat 102 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was launched by an Ariane 44LP rocket from Kourou , French Guiana on August 17, 2000, at 23:16 UTC by the European Space Agency . It was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space ( Astrium ), and started off
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