Status: In-Training – Nationality: American Type: Private Pete Davidson joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2014. In 2020, he co-wrote and starred in the semi-autobiographical film The King of Staten Island, which also earned a nomination for The Comedy Movie Star of 2020 at the 46th People’s Choice Awards. Pete also appeared in […]
Status: Active 1/1/1971 – Nationality: American Type: Private First Flight: 10/10/2010 Last Flight: 10/31/2014 Peter Siebold is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Director of Flight Operations was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo. On October 31, 2014, Peter Siebold and Michael Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo […]
Status: Retired 8/16/1958 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/21/1993 Last Flight: 10/11/2000 Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four manned Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000.
Status: Retired 2/14/1947 – Nationality: Vietnamese Type: Government First Flight: 7/23/1980 Last Flight: 7/23/1980 Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. Tuân reached the […]
Status: Deceased 3/5/1935 – 4/5/2021 Nationality: American Type: Government Philip Kenyon Chapman was the first Australian-born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).
Status: Retired 1/6/1963 – Nationality: French Type: Government First Flight: 6/5/2002 Last Flight: 6/5/2002 Philippe Perrin (Colonel, French Air Force) (born January 6, 1963) is a French test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut. He served as a mission specialist on the STS-111 mission in 2002 and logged over 332 hours in […]
Status: Retired 5/19/1955 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 2/28/1990 Last Flight: 3/4/1994 Pierre Joseph Thuot is a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He went into space three times, spending over 650 hours in space, including over 15 hours in three space walks. He is a former U.S. record holder for […]
Status: Died While In Active Service 4/11/1955 – 12/23/2016 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/7/2002 Last Flight: 5/14/2010 Piers John Sellers OBE was a British-American meteorologist, NASA astronaut[1] and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC. He was a veteran of three space shuttle missions. Sellers attended Cranbrook School, Cranbrook, Kent, United Kingdom, […]
Status: Active 1/30/1978 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 4/9/2021 Last Flight: 4/9/2021 Dubrov was selected by Roscosmos as a cosmonaut on 8 October 2012, as one of eight cosmonauts selected as part of Roscosmos’s 2012 selection group. In 2020 he was assigned to the backup crew of Soyuz MS-17, backing up Russian cosmonaut […]
Status: Retired 7/10/1942 – Nationality: Belarusian Type: Government First Flight: 12/18/1973 Last Flight: 6/27/1978 Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk (Belarusian: Пётр Ільіч Кліму́к; Russian: Пётр Ильич Климу́к; born 10 July 1942) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space. Klimuk attended the Leninski Komsomol Chernigov […]
Status: Retired 9/23/1930 – Nationality: Ukrainian Type: Government Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin (Russian: Пётр Иванович Колодин; (born September 23, 1930) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. Although he retired in 1983 without flying in space, Kolodin served non-flying assignments on several spaceflights.
Status: Active 6/24/1977 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/11/2021 Last Flight: 11/11/2021 Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut of the class of 2017. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, MIT, and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, and has over 2,000 flying hours.
Status: Retired 1/13/1949 – Nationality: Indian Type: Government First Flight: 4/3/1984 Last Flight: 4/3/1984 Rakesh Sharma (born 13 January 1949) is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11, launched on 2 April 1984, as part of the Interkosmos programme. Sharma is the first Indian citizen to travel in space.
Status: Active 9/11/1967 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/16/2009 Last Flight: 7/28/2017 Randolph James “Komrade” Bresnik is an officer in the United States Marine Corps and a NASA astronaut. A Marine Aviator by trade, Bresnik was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 19 in May 2004.[5] First launched to space on […]
Status: In-Training – Nationality: Belgian Type: Government Raphaël studied biomedical engineering at the University of Liège, Belgium, from 2005 to 2011. He also became Ingénieur Centralien as part of a double degree exchange programme with the École Centrale Paris, France, in 2009 and earned a master’s degree in fundamental physics from the University Paris-Sud Orsay, France, […]
