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Kevin A. Ford

Kevin A. Ford

  • Date of Birth: 07/07/1960
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 08/29/2009
  • Last Flight: 10/23/2012

Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and a NASA astronaut. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of...

Kevin P. Chilton

Kevin P. Chilton

  • Date of Birth: 11/03/1954
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 05/07/1992
  • Last Flight: 03/22/1996

Kevin Patrick "Chilli" Chilton is an American mechanical engineer, and former United States Air Force four-star General and test pilot. His ...

Kevin R. Kregel

Kevin R. Kregel

  • Date of Birth: 09/16/1956
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/13/1995
  • Last Flight: 02/11/2000

Kevin Richard Kregel is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Kimiya Yui

Kimiya Yui

  • Date of Birth: 01/30/1970
  • Nationality: Japan
  • First Flight: 07/22/2015
  • Last Flight: 08/01/2025

Kimiya Yui is a Japanese astronaut from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He was selected for the agency in 2009.

Kirill Peskov

Kirill Peskov

  • Date of Birth: 05/01/1990
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 03/14/2025
  • Last Flight: 03/14/2025

Russian group 17 cosmonaut and former airline pilot.

Kjell N. Lindgren

Kjell N. Lindgren

  • Date of Birth: 01/23/1973
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 07/22/2015
  • Last Flight: 04/27/2022

Kjell Norwood Lindgren is a current NASA astronaut. Lindgren was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He launched to the ...

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

Klaus-Dietrich Flade

  • Date of Birth: 08/21/1952
  • Nationality: Germany
  • First Flight: 03/17/1992
  • Last Flight: 03/17/1992

Klaus-Dietrich Flade (born August 23, 1952) is a German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut who visited the Mir space station in 1992 a...

Klim Shipenko

Klim Shipenko

  • Date of Birth: 06/16/1983
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/05/2021
  • Last Flight: 10/05/2021

Klim Shipenko is a Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.

Koichi Wakata

Koichi Wakata

  • Date of Birth: 08/01/1963
  • Nationality: Japan
  • First Flight: 01/11/1996
  • Last Flight: 10/05/2022

Koichi Wakata (若田 光一 Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space S...

Konstantin Borisov

Konstantin Borisov

  • Date of Birth: 08/14/1984
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 08/26/2023
  • Last Flight: 08/26/2023

Konstantin Borisov is a Russian cosmonaut with a background in life support systems engineering and economics.

Konstantin Feoktistov

Konstantin Feoktistov

  • Date of Birth: 02/07/1926
  • Date of Death: 11/21/2009
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/12/1964
  • Last Flight: 10/12/1964

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (Russian: Константин Петрович Феоктистов; 7 February 1926 – 21 November 2009) was a Sovi...

Konstantin Kozeyev

Konstantin Kozeyev

  • Date of Birth: 12/01/1967
  • Nationality: Russia
  • First Flight: 10/21/2001
  • Last Flight: 10/21/2001

Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev (Russian: Константин Мирович Козеев) is a retired Russian cosmonaut.
He flew as Flight Engi...

Lane Bess

Lane Bess

  • Date of Birth: 01/01/1960
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 12/11/2021
  • Last Flight: 02/25/2025

Lane is the Principal and Founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, a family fund supporting technology firms that innovate and disrupt across multiple m...

Larry Connor

Larry Connor

  • Date of Birth: 01/07/1950
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 04/08/2022
  • Last Flight: 04/08/2022

Larry Connor is an American real estate and technology entrepreneur.

Laura Shepard Churchley

Laura Shepard Churchley

  • Date of Birth: 07/01/1947
  • Nationality: United States of America
  • First Flight: 12/11/2021
  • Last Flight: 12/11/2021

Daughter of Alan Shepard, first American in space and fifth human to walk on the Moon. She serves as Chair of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Boa...