Status: Lost In Flight 12/28/1959 – 2/1/2003 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/23/1998 Last Flight: 1/16/2003 Michael Phillip Anderson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s […]
Status: Retired 10/13/1952 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 12/2/1992 Last Flight: 3/22/1996 Michael Richard Uram “Rich” Clifford is a former United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford is considered a Master Army Aviator and has logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. Clifford retired […]
Status: Active 12/28/1968 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/25/2013 Last Flight: 11/16/2020 Michael Scott Hopkins (born December 28, 1968) is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and a current NASA astronaut. Hopkins was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He made his first spaceflight as […]
Status: Retired 11/21/1971 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 12/11/2021 Last Flight: 12/11/2021 Michael Strahan is a two-time Emmy award winner, Peabody award-winning journalist, and Super Bowl Champion, who currently serves as a co-anchor on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and host of the top-rated primetime game show “$100,000 Pyramid.” Strahan additionally serves as an […]
Status: Retired 10/13/1962 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/11/2009 Last Flight: 5/14/2010 Michael Timothy “Bueno” Good is a NASA astronaut and retired commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, holding the rank of Colonel. Mike Good flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis for its STS-125 mission. STS-125 was the final Hubble Space Telescope […]
Status: Retired 9/30/1949 – Nationality: French Type: Government First Flight: 7/27/1992 Last Flight: 7/23/1999 Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born September 30, 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, Brigadier General in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of […]
Status: Retired 8/19/1962 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/1/2002 Last Flight: 5/11/2009 Michael James Massimino is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut. He is the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Early life Massimino was born August […]
Status: Retired 9/10/1945 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/30/1984 Last Flight: 2/28/1990 Richard Michael “Mike” Mullane is an engineer and aircraft pilot, a retired USAF officer. and a former NASA astronaut. During his career, he flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-D, STS-27, and STS-36.
Status: Retired 4/15/1960 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 4/2/2010 Last Flight: 3/27/2015 Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko (Михаил Борисович Корниенко; born 15 April 1960) is a Russian cosmonaut. Kornienko served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station during Expedition 23/24 and was selected along with Scott Kelly for a year-long mission aboard the […]
Status: Retired 3/2/1960 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 8/10/2001 Last Flight: 11/7/2013 Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin (Russian: Михаил Владиславович Тюрин) (born March 2, 1960) is a former Russian cosmonaut who flew several missions to the International Space Station and completed four spacewalks during his career. He is called a hero of the Russian Federation […]
Status: Deceased 12/21/1945 – 2/4/2021 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/5/1991 Last Flight: 6/5/1991 Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist and former NASA astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.
Status: Retired 9/15/1941 – Nationality: Polish Type: Government First Flight: 6/27/1978 Last Flight: 6/27/1978 Mirosław Hermaszewski is a retired Polish Air Force officer and cosmonaut. He became the first (and to this day remains the only) Polish national in space, when he flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978.
Status: Retired 5/26/1951 – Nationality: Syrian Type: Government First Flight: 7/22/1987 Last Flight: 7/22/1987 Muhammed Ahmed Faris (Arabic: محمد أحمد فارس Muḥammad ʾAḥmad Fāris; born 26 May 1951) is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space.
Status: Retired 3/22/1951 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 12/21/1987 Last Flight: 12/2/1990 Musa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: Муса Хираманович Манаров; born March 22, 1951 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a former cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space. From December 21, 1987 to December 21, 1988 he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. […]
Status: Retired 12/29/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/21/1993 Last Flight: 3/1/2002 Nancy Jane Currie-Gregg is an engineer, United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. Currie-Gregg has served in the United States Army for over 22 years and holds the rank of colonel. With NASA, she has participated in four space shuttle […]
