Status: Retired 11/12/1937 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/12/1981 Last Flight: 8/30/1983 Richard Harrison Truly is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot, former astronaut for both the United States Air Force and NASA, and was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) […]
Status: Retired 9/21/1955 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/28/1991 Last Flight: 7/8/1994 Richard James Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65.
Status: Retired 9/19/1957 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/20/1996 Last Flight: 3/11/2008 Richard Michael Linnehan is an American veterinarian and a former NASA astronaut.
Status: Retired 2/11/1960 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/8/2000 Last Flight: 11/7/2013 Richard Alan “Rick” Mastracchio is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/Expedition 39) long […]
Status: Retired 8/24/1946 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/8/1989 Last Flight: 9/9/1994 Richard Noel “Dick” Richards is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.
Status: Retired 8/1/1946 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/27/1985 Last Flight: 12/2/1993 Richard Oswalt Covey is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut.
Status: Active 11/26/1963 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/15/2009 Last Flight: 3/21/2018 Richard Robert “Ricky” Arnold II is an American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched March 15, 2009 and delivered the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. He launched again […]
Status: Lost In Flight 7/12/1957 – 2/1/2003 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/27/1999 Last Flight: 1/16/2003 Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107. He and the rest of the […]
Status: Active – Nationality: Earthling Type: Non-Human First Flight: 3/2/2019 Last Flight: 3/2/2019 Ripley is an Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD), named as a homage to Sigourney Weaver’s character in the Alien movies franchise, launched aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon for its inaugural flight to the International Space Station and back.
Status: Resigned during Training 12/7/1983 – Nationality: American Type: Government Robb Michael Kulin is a former NASA astronaut candidate of the class of 2017. He resigned from NASA, effective August 31, 2018, before completing astronaut training.
Status: Retired 12/14/1936 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/28/1983 Last Flight: 12/2/1990 Robert Allan Ridley Parker is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a Mission Specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35. […]
Status: Deceased 10/9/1924 – 3/18/1993 Nationality: American Type: Unknown First Flight: 6/27/1963 Last Flight: 6/27/1963 Robert Aitken “Bob” Rushworth was an American United States Air Force major general, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War pilot, mechanical and aeronautical engineer, test pilot and astronaut. He flew the X-15 experimental spaceplane to over 50 miles […]
Status: Retired 5/21/1942 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/13/1989 Last Flight: 11/15/1990 Robert Clyde “Bob” Springer is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a Mission Specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990. A decorated aviator in the United States Marine Corps, Springer also flew more […]
Status: Retired 9/11/1937 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1981 Last Flight: 10/5/1984 Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut. He traveled into space four times: as Pilot of STS-1 in April 1981, the first Space Shuttle mission; and as Commander of STS-7 […]
Status: Retired 3/5/1962 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/7/1997 Last Flight: 12/10/2006 Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy. Curbeam graduated from Woodlawn High School, Baltimore County, Maryland in 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United […]
