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Richard Mastracchio

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 […]

Richard N. Richards

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.

Richard O. Covey

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.

Richard R. Arnold

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 […]

Rick Husband

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 […]

Ripley

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.

Robb Kulin

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.

Robert A. Parker

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. […]

Robert A. Rushworth

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 […]

Robert C. Springer

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 […]

Robert Crippen

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 […]

Robert Curbeam

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 […]

Robert D. Cabana

Status: Retired 1/23/1949 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/6/1990 Last Flight: 12/4/1998 Robert Donald Cabana is the director of NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine […]

Robert F. Overmyer

Status: Deceased 7/14/1936 – 3/22/1996 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/11/1982 Last Flight: 4/29/1985 Robert Franklyn “Bob” Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. He was born in Lorain, Ohio, but considered Westlake, Ohio his hometown. Overmyer was selected by the United […]

Robert Hines

Status: Active 1/11/1975 – Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/27/2022 Last Flight: 4/27/2022 Robert “Bob” Thomas Hines, Jr. is an American fighter pilot and NASA astronaut of the class of 2017.