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 […]
Status: Retired – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 3/31/2022 Last Flight: 3/31/2022 Jim Kitchen is a teacher, entrepreneur, and world explorer who has visited all 193 U.N.-recognized countries.
Status: Retired 3/25/1928 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/4/1965 Last Flight: 4/11/1970 James Arthur Lovell Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain. Lovell is known for being the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought […]
Status: Retired 11/27/1952 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/9/1990 Last Flight: 11/23/2002 James Donald “Wxb” Wetherbee is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and is the only American to have commanded five spaceflight missions.
Status: Active 10/24/1966 – Nationality: Chinese Type: Government First Flight: 9/25/2008 Last Flight: 5/30/2023 Jing Haipeng (simplified Chinese: 景海鹏; traditional Chinese: 景海鵬; pinyin: Jǐng Hǎipéng; born October 24, 1966) is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected […]
Status: Retired 8/3/1964 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/10/2006 Last Flight: 12/10/2006 Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.
Status: Retired 8/26/1932 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/29/1965 Last Flight: 8/27/1985 Joe Henry Engle is an American pilot who served in the United States Air Force, test pilot for the North American X-15 program, aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. As of 2018, he is the last living pilot of the […]
Status: Retired 2/3/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/23/1998 Last Flight: 1/23/1998 Joe Frank Edwards Jr. is an American aerospace engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.
Status: In-Training 10/23/1985 – Nationality: Austrian Type: Private Johanna Maislinger is an Austrian aviator and engineer, currently employed by with the German cargo carrier Aerologic. She will go to the International Space Station as a space tourist on Soyuz MS-20.
Status: Deceased 12/8/1922 – 4/27/1975 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/28/1965 Last Flight: 9/28/1965 John Barron McKay was an American naval officer, World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and astronaut. He flew the X-15 experimental spaceplane to over 50 miles in altitude on Flight 150.
Status: Retired 7/9/1943 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 2/28/1990 Last Flight: 5/19/1996 John Howard Casper is an American astronaut and United States Air Force pilot.
Status: Retired 5/25/1966 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/8/2007 Last Flight: 8/29/2009 John Daniel “Danny” Olivas is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Olivas has flown on two space shuttle missions, STS-117 and STS-128. He performed EVAs on both missions, totaling 34hrs 28min. In 2013 Olivas joined the University of […]
