Status: Retired 8/20/1938 – Nationality: French Type: Government First Flight: 6/24/1982 Last Flight: 9/26/1997 Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien (born 20 August 1938) is a French retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) in the Armée de l’Air (French air force), and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space […]
Status: Retired 5/19/1948 – Nationality: French Type: Government First Flight: 7/1/1993 Last Flight: 2/20/1999 Jean-Pierre Haigneré (born 19 May 1948) is a French Air Force officer and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two missions to the Mir space station in 1993 and 1999. The Mir Altair long-duration mission (186 days) in 1993 […]
Status: Active 11/3/1970 – Nationality: American Type: Government Jeanette Jo Epps is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut.
Status: Retired 1/12/1964 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 7/20/2021 Last Flight: 7/20/2021 Jeff Bezos is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor known for being the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000.
Status: Retired 6/16/1954 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 7/23/1999 Last Flight: 10/7/2002 Jeffrey Shears “Bones” Ashby is an American mechanical engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut, a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. He is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy. He currently works for Blue […]
Status: Retired 11/2/1944 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 2/22/1996 Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when […]
Status: Active 1/18/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/19/2000 Last Flight: 3/18/2016 Jeffrey Nels Williams is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space flights and formerly held the American record for most days spent in space, which was surpassed in April 2017 by […]
Status: Active 8/3/1988 – Nationality: Canadian Type: Government Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons hails from Calgary, Alberta. She holds an honors bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Montreal and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Cambridge. While at McGill, she conducted research on flame propagation in microgravity, in collaboration with CSA and the […]
Status: Active 1/27/1976 – Nationality: Canadian Type: Government Jeremy Roger Hansen is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection.
Status: Retired 4/28/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/5/1991 Last Flight: 9/16/1996 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 […]
Status: Retired 1/20/1948 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/27/1985 Last Flight: 4/8/2002 Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer 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). […]
Status: Retired 1/9/1955 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/9/1994 Last Flight: 1/12/1997 Jerry Michael Linenger 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.
Status: Active 7/1/1977 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/25/2019 Last Flight: 9/25/2019 Jessica Ulrika Meir is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, […]
Status: Active 5/14/1988 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/27/2022 Last Flight: 4/27/2022 Jessica Andrea Watkins is an American geologist, former international rugby player, and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2017.
Status: In-Training 1/1/1983 – Nationality: American Type: Government Jessica Wittner is a US Navy commander from California with a distinguished career serving on active duty as a naval aviator and test pilot. She holds a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from […]
