Astronauts
Jim Kitchen
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/31/2022
- Last Flight: 03/31/2022
Jim Kitchen is a teacher, entrepreneur, and world explorer who has visited all 193 U.N.-recognized countries.
Jim Lovell
- Date of Birth: 03/25/1928
- Date of Death: 08/07/2025
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 12/04/1965
- Last Flight: 04/11/1970
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 ...
Jim Sitkin
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/29/2025
- Last Flight: 06/29/2025
Retired law expert specalized on employment class actions on behalf of non-unionized employees, challenging industries that traditionally had rejected...
Jim Wetherbee
- Date of Birth: 11/27/1952
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 01/09/1990
- Last Flight: 11/24/2002
James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and NASA astronaut. He is a ve...
Jing Haipeng
- Date of Birth: 10/24/1966
- Nationality: China
- First Flight: 09/25/2008
- Last Flight: 05/30/2023
Jing Haipeng (simplified Chinese: 景海鹏; traditional Chinese: 景海鵬; pinyin: Jǐng Hǎipéng; born October 24, 1966) is a Chinese pilot and as...
Joan Higginbotham
- Date of Birth: 08/03/1964
- Nationality: United States of America
- 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 ...
Joe Engle
- Date of Birth: 08/26/1932
- Date of Death: 07/10/2024
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/29/1965
- Last Flight: 08/27/1985
Joe Henry Engle was an American pilot who served in the United States Air Force, test pilot for the North American X-15 program, aeronautical engineer...
Joe F. Edwards Jr.
- Date of Birth: 02/03/1958
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 01/23/1998
- Last Flight: 01/23/1998
Joe Frank Edwards Jr. is an American aerospace engineer, and former naval officer and aviator, test pilot and NASA astronaut.
Joey Hyde
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 12/20/2025
- Last Flight: 12/20/2025
Retired physicist and quantitative investor.
Johanna Maislinger
- Date of Birth: 10/23/1985
- Nationality: Austria
Johanna Maislinger is an Austrian aviator and engineer, currently employed by with the German cargo carrier Aerologic. She will go to the Internationa...
John B. McKay
- Date of Birth: 12/08/1922
- Date of Death: 04/27/1975
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 09/28/1965
- Last Flight: 09/28/1965
John Barron McKay was an American naval officer, World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and astronaut. He flew the X-15 experimental s...
John Casper
- Date of Birth: 07/09/1943
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 02/28/1990
- Last Flight: 05/19/1996
John Howard Casper is an American astronaut and United States Air Force pilot.
John D. Olivas
- Date of Birth: 05/25/1966
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/08/2007
- Last Flight: 08/29/2009
John Daniel "Danny" Olivas is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. Olivas has flown on two space shuttle missions, STS-117 and ...
John E. Blaha
- Date of Birth: 08/26/1942
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/13/1989
- Last Flight: 09/16/1996
John Elmer Blaha is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shu...
John Glenn
- Date of Birth: 07/18/1921
- Date of Death: 12/08/2016
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 02/20/1962
- Last Flight: 10/29/1998
Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American ...